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How original Love Island flopped - feuds, plummeting ratings and controversy

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Love Island was cancelled, the ITV reality show made its triumphant return to screens and it's safe to say that no one has looked back since.Since its re-release, the reality show has become one of the most successful and popular series on TV and has soared to international fame, with several countries, including America and Australia, launching their own version of the show.

The new and improved Love Island has gone through some major changes since the original series, Celebrity Love Island, launched back in 2005.

All those years ago, twelve single celebrities spent five weeks on an island in Fiji and the remaining couple took home a whopping £100,000 cash prize combined.What looked like a million-dollar idea turned into a show that was over before it properly began.Exactly 17 years later, Daily Star has looked into the original series and why it got cancelled after just two seasons.Celebrity Love Island - renamed Love Island after the first season - attracted controversy from the moment it was announced by ITV.It launched in May 2005 and featured names including TV personality Calum Best, Atomic Kitten star Liz McClarnon, Hollyoaks star Paul Danan and glamour model Rebecca Loos.The show was brought in to rival that of Big Brother - which had just returned for its sixth series, however, it failed to take off and couldn't match the ratings set by the popular Channel 4 reality show.

Following the show's launch, celebrities were criticised for being intensely boring and their status as celebrities was also brought into question.

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