TWO Love Island couples face the axe just hours before the finale in brutal vote
TWO Love Island couples face the axe hours before the 2023 summer finale.
And one of them will be sent home in the penultimate episode on Sunday night.
The islanders at risk are Whitney and Lochan, and Mitch and Ella B, after they received votes from their co-stars as the least compatible couple left in the villa.
Viewers were told the news at the end of Friday’s episode before narrator Iain Stirling revealed that Love Island phone lines were open for the public to vote to save one of the couples.
The pair with the fewest public votes will be dumped from the villa, with their exit announced in Sunday’s episode.
Despite receiving a vote from their co-stars, Whitney and Lochan are in fact the favourites to win the show in the eyes of viewers.
Fans of the ITV2 series want the wig shop owner and account manager, both 25 and from London, to take the crown.
Aesthetics nurse Jess Harding and recruiter Sammy Root, both 22, are hot on their heels in a poll conducted by The Sun.
And Tyrique Hyde and Ella Thomas are breathing down their necks in third place with 23.4 per cent of the vote.
If Sun readers are right, it will make for the closest run final ever.
Last year they correctly predicted Ekin-Su Culculoglu and Davide Sanclimenti would win with a landslide victory of 63.7 per cent.
Some viewers have named this series as a return to form after the Winter season in Cape Town fell flat.
Some 12 per cent of our readers said they had begun watching for the first time ever this year.
ITV also say the show has garnered the biggest 16-24 audience on any commercial channel since the World Cup last year and has been streamed 300million times online.
The series ends on Monday night at 9pm on ITV2.