Love Island stars’ families hit out at online abuse directed at their friends and family

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Love Island stars have taken to Instagram to hit out at the flood of online hate directed at the stars and their loved ones while they take part on the hugely popular ITV2 reality show.Each series, the family and friends of the contestants have taken control of their social media accounts while the Islanders are stripped of their electronic devices while in the Mallorcan villa.This year’s launch show broke TV ratings since the 2019 series after it raked in a whopping five million viewers for the saucy series.READ MORE:GMB's Andi Peters sets up Ed Balls and Love Island's Paige Thorne on airBut as more than one million viewers regularly tune into the daily reality show, the contestants have been hit with an onslaught of online abuse.Want all the last villa gossip straight to your inbox?

Sign up for our daily Love Island newsletter HERE.Now, friends and family members of the stars have come together to share a joint statement to online fan in an attempt to end the slew of online abuse.The lengthy statement was shared to the Instagram accounts of Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu , Tasha Ghouri, Andrew Le Page, Dami Hope, Indiyah Polack and Gemma Owen on Sunday (July 17).It read: “Joint statement form admins of current contestants of Love Island.“Love Island is an interactive TV show where opinions, discussions and debate are welcome in equal measure to displays of support, love and kindness.”Do you have a story about one of this year's Love Island stars?

Contact us at staronlineshowbiz@reachplc.comIt continued: “Although we have never met, we stand together today united against the hate messages and insults that some viewers seem to think is acceptable to throw at our friends, sons, daughters and family members.“Your hate has no place on.