{"id":10245,"date":"2026-06-03T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imgist.ru\/12-pravil-kotorym-dolzhny-sledovat-uchastniki-ostrova-lyubvi-ot-ustanovlennogo-vremeni-othoda-ko-snu-do-neznaniya-segodnyashnego-dnya\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:04:30","slug":"12-rules-that-participants-of-the-island-of-love-must-follow-from-the-established-time-of-bedtime-to-not-knowing-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/12-pravil-kotorym-dolzhny-sledovat-uchastniki-ostrova-lyubvi-ot-ustanovlennogo-vremeni-othoda-ko-snu-do-neznaniya-segodnyashnego-dnya\/","title":{"rendered":"12 rules that Love Island contestants must follow, from having a set bedtime to not knowing what day it is."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The essence<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> Participants of the show <em>Love Island<\/em> must follow a strict set of rules to find love in the villa.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> The island&#039;s inhabitants, for example, have no idea what day or time it is and do not have access to their mobile phones.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> They are also only allowed one drink per evening and are not allowed to wear branded clothing on camera.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <em>\u00abIsland of Love\u00bb<\/em> It&#039;s an objectively chaotic place to meet your soulmate, but when it comes to life in the villa, most former contestants agree on at least one thing: the rules governing the show are surprisingly strict. Obviously, cell phones are banned to prevent spoilers, and contestants are only allowed one drink per evening to avoid unnecessary drama (so far, so good on that last point). But the rules go far beyond those two points, regulating everything from who you can sit with at dinner to where you can go after you&#039;re eliminated from the villa.<\/p>\n<p> \u00abThere were moments when I thought, \u201eI need to get out of here, this is driving me crazy,\u201c\u201d he once said. <em>HuffPost<\/em> former participant <em>British show &quot;Love Island&quot;\u201e<\/em> Joni Mitchell: &quot;I&#039;d watch it and think, &#039;Oh my God, these people are so emotional, they&#039;ve only known each other for so many years&#039;... but when you&#039;re on the show, it&#039;s a whole different story.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> For those who don&#039;t know, <em>\u00abIsland of Love\u00bb<\/em> It&#039;s a show about meeting the love of your life on national television, but also about trying to win a $100,000 cash prize. Only one lucky couple wins, and contestants must pair up or risk being dumped. In other words, it&#039;s stressful from day one, and yes, you&#039;re constantly being filmed by about 74 cameras\u2014including while you&#039;re in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p> From luggage rules to watch bans, here are all the most unexpected rules governing the lives of the most eligible bachelors and single women on reality TV.<\/p>\n<h2> They must give up their personal mobile phones.<\/h2>\n<p> According to Siegel, the participants <em>Love Island<\/em> , essentially &quot;without access to the outside world.&quot; Each participant must hand over their personal cell phone to the producers. In exchange, they receive a temporary phone, but it&#039;s only for taking photos and receiving those infamous messages.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;You can&#039;t Google anything, watch TV, go on social media, or message anyone,&quot; Siegel said. A former participant <em>Love Island UK<\/em> Lucinda Strafford later explained that the participants <em>can<\/em> Send messages to each other on your phones, with one exception: producers can see these messages. You also can&#039;t lock your phone screen.<\/p>\n<h2> The island&#039;s inhabitants have no idea what day or time it is.<\/h2>\n<p> Siegel said the lack of internet access and phones that appeared to show &quot;fake&quot; time would make her and other participants &quot;go a little crazy&quot; from being so disconnected from real life.<\/p>\n<p> Participant <em>British show Love Island<\/em> Chloe Burrows expressed similar sentiments, joking that most of the time she &quot;didn&#039;t even know where she was going.&quot; In a YouTube video, Burrows explained that the show&#039;s contestants tried to guess the time of day based on the position of the sun.<\/p>\n<h2> Participants are allowed to bring only two suitcases with them. <\/h2>\n<p> Season six of the reality show &quot;Love Island USA.&quot; Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p> Even though the show lasts two months, contestants are prohibited from bringing too much luggage due to strict suitcase weight restrictions. A former contestant <em>Love Island UK<\/em> Sami Elishi explained the rule on her YouTube channel, saying that everyone can bring two suitcases, each weighing up to 50 pounds.<\/p>\n<h2> Island residents are prohibited from wearing branded clothing in front of the camera.<\/h2>\n<p> Participant of the show <em>Love Island USA<\/em> Phoebe Siegel explained the reason for the complete absence of T-shirts with logos on <em>Love Island<\/em> : Simply put, they are prohibited. The same applies to any brand names on cosmetic products, which are covered with black tape during the runway preparation stage.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;So if you bring in a Charlotte Tilbury foundation, it will have black tape on it that will cover the brand name, so everything you see on the show doesn&#039;t have the branding on it,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<h2> Participants are prohibited from listening to music or reading books. <\/h2>\n<p> Love Island USA season 7 contestants Austin Shepard and Hannah Fields. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p> Apparently, finding love requires complete silence and a complete lack of reading. According to Millie Court, a contestant (and winner) of Season 7. <em>British show &quot;Love Island&quot;\u00ab<\/em> , moments when one could enjoy music happened extremely rarely.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;If we took a taxi for a date or a walk, the driver would play music,&quot; she explained. Music might also play during the sound check or the heart rate test.<\/p>\n<h2> Cameras are installed everywhere, including in the bathroom.<\/h2>\n<p> Participant <em>British show Love Island<\/em> Rosie Seabrook explained the show&#039;s filming policy with a simple statement: the cameras &quot;never turn off.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;You&#039;re being filmed literally 24\/7,&quot; she continued. &quot;Even on a bad day, you&#039;ll still have a microphone, you&#039;ll still be filmed.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> The court calculated that there were <em>Love Island UK<\/em> 74 cameras were installed. What about the camera in the bathroom? It&#039;s only needed in case of a medical incident. According to Elisha, there wasn&#039;t a camera in the kitchen pantry before, but after &quot;something happened&quot; to one couple, they installed one.<\/p>\n<h2> Island residents are allowed to drink only one drink per evening. <\/h2>\n<p> Season seven of the reality show &quot;Love Island USA.&quot; Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p> You&#039;ve probably noticed that the contestants on &quot;Island of Islands&quot; never seem tipsy or drunk, and that&#039;s entirely thanks to the rule limiting each contestant to one drink per evening. Contestants can choose between wine and beer. &quot;It&#039;s impossible to get drunk on this show,&quot; Elishi said.<\/p>\n<p> Siegel confirmed this, telling her TikTok followers that the evening drink was &quot;not a very generous portion.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;I&#039;m of the opinion that you shouldn&#039;t drink too much because there have been so many fights in the villa that I can&#039;t even imagine what it&#039;s like to be drunk,&quot; season 5 contestant Amy Hart told the publication <em>The Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2> Smoking in front of the camera is prohibited.<\/h2>\n<p> After the first seasons <em>British show Love Island<\/em> , where smoking was ubiquitous, participants are now allowed to smoke only in a designated area, and smoking is not shown on camera, reports <em>Cosmopolitan UK<\/em> . The same rules apply to vaping, ITV reported. <em>Metro.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2> The villa has a set bedtime routine.<\/h2>\n<p> It&#039;s no coincidence that the show&#039;s contestants go to bed at the same time every night. In addition to the set bedtime, Kourt also stated that she had to go to the confessional room before bed.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;We should definitely go to the beach hut, you know, where we can talk about everything that happened before bed,&quot; she said. &quot;I&#039;ll be so tired. I don&#039;t want to go to the beach hut and talk about what happened last night!&quot;\u00bb<\/p>\n<h2> The island&#039;s residents have to use one shared bathroom. <\/h2>\n<p> Love Island USA Season 7 contestant Amaya Espinal. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p> Perhaps unsurprisingly, Elishi said that sharing a bathroom with so many people &quot;wasn&#039;t great&quot; during her time in the villa. She also said that the contestants often showered together because they &quot;had little time to get ready.&quot; Similarly, Kourt described the bathroom situation as &quot;awkward.&quot;.<\/p>\n<h2> During lunch, participants are divided by gender.<\/h2>\n<p> Lunch is one of the few activities at the villa <em>Love Island<\/em> , Where <em>Not<\/em> Shared meals are allowed. According to a former Season 10 participant <em>Love Island UK<\/em> Lohana Nowacki, girls and boys are not allowed to sit together during lunch.<\/p>\n<p> \u00abI understand why they do this, because they want to preserve the correspondence,\u00bb Nowacki said in a later deleted YouTube video, according to <em>People<\/em> . &quot;It was frustrating... When you&#039;re eating with people, that&#039;s when you really connect, get to know everyone, not just your girlfriend or partner. So it was frustrating.&quot;.<\/p>\n<h2> If you get dumped, you can&#039;t just go home. <\/h2>\n<p> Season two of &quot;Love Island Games.&quot; Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p> Regardless of how a contestant is eliminated from the show, they must immediately pack their suitcase and leave the villa. However, they don&#039;t actually go far. Instead of returning home to nurse a broken heart, they are sent to an &quot;isolated villa in the middle of nowhere.&quot; Former contestant Jonny Mitchell explained what happens in this mysterious second villa in an interview. <em>HuffPost<\/em> .<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;I still don&#039;t have a real idea of what happened, but I had a pretty good idea of what was going on because I had a good guide who kept filling me in on bits of information,&quot; he said. &quot;It was boring there, nothing to do. I&#039;d just spent five weeks sunbathing, so I didn&#039;t feel like doing anything else. I was going a little crazy.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Read the original article on InStyle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gist: Love Island contestants must adhere to a strict set of rules to find love in the villa. 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