Reality TV Gold has a new definition with three words: “Montoya, Por favors!”
If you were somewhere near the social media over the past two weeks, you will know the raw drama that sets up the internet that has intimidated, this award season has not arrived from Hollywood, but love tragedies played in clippings published from the Spanish Reality Show Temption Island
Competitor Jose Carlos Montoye spirally thawed, watching his girlfriend Anita cheat with another man, like an unheced island of love on steroids.
On the island of temptation, couples are taken to a tropical island, separated and sent to separate villas filled with attractive singles ready to test their loyalty. In the final turnaround, each move was recorded for the other half.
Forced to watch the graphic flow of real time, Montoya’s emotions swell until it cracks, violating all the rules of the show.
Blindly the infamous petitions of the host Sandra Barner (“Montoya, Por favorites!”), He rises down the beach to face a couple, dragging himself in short pants in anxiety while lightning in the sky.
Another clip shows the resulting conflict: Anita turns the script, urging Montoya’s own indiscretion before collapsing in tears, praying for forgiveness.
“This is a cinema,” one user X wrote, posting a clip on a platform watched the stunning 224m times from February 4th.
“Montoya. Tension … you don’t need to speak Spanish to understand, this is crazy.”
Yet those behind the Spanish island of temptation consider his success more than a shock value. Executive producer Juanra Gonzalo tells me that they are satisfied with the “completely unexpected” global reaction, and he believes that the attraction of the show lies in his relay.
“In love island, all people are free. There are real couples on the island of temptation, and they put their love in danger,” he says. “I mean [audiences] Know that too. These emotions and reactions cannot be faked. “
“Everyone wants to know what their boyfriend or girlfriend is doing when they are not with them. We can imagine, but we don’t know. The island testing enables the audience to ask,” What would I do in that situation? “
The magic ingredient for making this work is careful casting. “Montoya and Anita were perfect – they are very emotional and expressive,” he says.
Gonzalo calls Montoya, a singer by store with previous TV experience, a “special man”. At the age of 31, Casters said that “he had never experienced love like this before,” because he was with Anita “Every day for a year.”
“She’s a strong woman with a lot of character,” Gonzalo adds.
Sun’s senior showbiz Lottie Hulma says that the “authentic emotion” of the program allocates him from competitors like Love Iceland, love is blind, married at first sight and goes out naked.
Thus, seeing uninformed and raw emotions can be highlighted by British and American viewers, who are accustomed to great and well -worn formats of competitive reality such as Love Iceland and semi -cut reality shows like Made in Chelsea.
“It was refreshing and almost shocking to see something so raw, because it’s something we just don’t see today in real TV shows in Britain,” Hulma says.
“In an instant, we are with a reality TV culture in which we ask” what if ” – are the competitors really their authentic me … Or are they after monitoring and a brand agreement?”
In addition to constructed stories, they are commercialized Reality TV to affect the pipeline is that the existing formats feel “predictable” adds Hulma.
The audience data reflects it.
Love Island is currently broadcasting its edition All Stars on ITV2, which began last year. The 2024 finals attracted viewers of 1.3 million – A sharp fall with six million peaks its flourishing for 2019.
While this season they still remain solid, Even alignment of the audience of the BBC Two dinner of the launch dinnerThe show now usually dominates only non -Zadajal channels.
‘Never let’ on UK TV?
The curious strange phenomenon of Montoye is that the Spanish show is not available for watching in the UK – an irony that just encouraged its illegal attraction on social media.
The previous versions of the UK and the USA failed, and the Banijay manufacturing company says he is not currently planning to broadcast a Spanish version in the UK.
After Montoyin Meltdown captured the host of the island of Love Island Maya, she announced, “They would never allow it on TV in the UK. For so many reasons. But that’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen.”
When asked why, she simply answered, “People would complain.”
Like a big brother before him, The love island was the topic complaints ofcom.
Heated conflict between 2021. Love islanders Faye and Teddy due to Teddy’s behavior in Casa Amor (segment similar to the deceased test test) encouraged 25,000 complaints.
Despite the shocked reactions that Gonzal’s show has caused, he says it operates within strict limits, suitable for its income slot.
“It’s not all we recorded aired,” he says. “We are very careful – we only show a few seconds of sexual content.”
Allow Instagram content?
The island of temptation is only the latest in a series of particularly high octane Spanish shows.
For example, take Falso Amor (or deep false love). Currently streaming on Netflix, enhances the premise of the island of temptation by asking couples to decide whether videos are real or very convincing AIPFAKES from each other.
So, is the content that the British audience thinks is shocking in Spain?
When I raise Love Island’s Zara Holland being Downloaded from Miss UK title After having sex in the 2016 show, Gonzalo was shocked and welcomes more light reactions on the Internet to Anit’s sexual scene.
“As in other countries, things in Spain progress from the past – it is positive for our view of women and sexuality,” he says, adding that no gender should face double standards.
Montoya ‘gave the right help’
In the UK, the supervision and awareness of the influence that the TV can really can have on the mental health of the actors’ are increased, following the mental health of The death of several former competitors.
When I press Gonzal, given the intensity of Montoye and Anita experiences, he says that a psychologist supervises the contestants before, during and after filming.
Montoya received special support after the beach squad.
“We made sure he was not alone, that he had a safe space for all processing. It was important for us to give him the right help,” he says.
Looking in advance, Netflix will restart the American version of the show next month.
Gonzalo is ready to fight. He laughed with online playful proposals that the beach scene should be won by an Oscar, and then adds: “My team deserves all the awards. Oscar. And BAFTA!”
