LOVE Island fans furiously slammed the villa boys as they turned on Shakira Khan during last night's installment.
The ITV2 show came under fire following the show’s snog, marry, pie challenge, which saw Shakira, 22, targeted by multiple male islanders - including Ben Holbrough, 23.
After smearing a cream pie in her face, the taxi driver had told her: "So, I think you and your friends' attitude actually stinks.
"I think you always try and get yourself caught up in everyone else's business, shouting across the garden, being a mouthy when we called it on day one.
"I just think you're not the kind of girl I go for."
Shakira responded by calling him a "d******d".
Furious viewers described the scenes as "hard to watch", saying it felt like a coordinated attack on the marketing engineer.
Taking to a Reddit forum, one asked: "What are your opinions on Shakira getting pied today ? do you think it was deserved?
"I’m surprised Shakira sticking up for her friends has backfired on her so badly wheras there’s no backfire for Meg when she said 'it’d be funny if Harry goes back to helena so Shakira looks stupid.'"
Someone else added: “Men always turn on women they feel attracted to who’ve slightly rejected them. They cope with rejection by turning it into anger and disgust.”
Fans also questioned why Shakira was being singled out for speaking up, when other contestants like Meg faced no consequences for her comment.
Another said: “I’m surprised Shakira sticking up for her friends has backfired on her so badly, whereas there’s no backlash for Meg."
A fourth chimed in with: “The way she reacted is how people react when they’re being bullied. It was uncomfortable to watch.”
Ben, in particular, faced sharp criticism, with some labelling him “a prime example” of the behaviour they felt had made the moment feel unnecessarily cruel.
One more concluded: “It makes me question whether I should actually watch this show. When a principled, self-assured, intelligent woman gets beaten down by awful men for calling out bad behaviour - it’s genuinely upsetting.”
Gloucester-based Ben was originally paired with Mancunian beauty Shakira, but their relationship was rocky from the outset as she constantly questioned their chemistry.
Earlier in the series, she was accused of leading Ben on - but during a later installment, dumped him outright.
Shakira gave a range of reasons for her decision, including telling Ben that he "dulled my sparkle."
"We don't speak of anything of note," she told him as the pair argued.
Fans watching at home noticed that Ben looked devastated during the chat, but then thought it was bizarre that he outwardly agreed with Shakira's reasoning.
"Nah Ben looked like he was abt to cry when Shakira said he dulled her sparkle," one Love Island fan wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Another added with a meme of a someone wearing multiple masks: "Ben telling Shakira he’s on the same page as her."
And a third wrote alongside a skull emoji: "Ben pretending he felt the same way as Shakira."
A fourth person commented: "Talk about different pages… not sure Shakira and Ben are even in the same book."
Even though she's now flying solo in the Love Island casa, Shakira may be rekindling her fling with Harry after the pair had a conversation about their future.
"I wanted to see how you were feeling, I think initially you were number one and I f****d it," Harry told her.
They also discussed his romantic indecision as he is paired up with Helena, but also seems interested in Yasmin as well.
Shakira told Harry: "It was you, and still is you. But it's your behaviour for me that I can't tolerate."
And Harry pressed her for the potential for a second chance: "If that could possibly be arranged?"
He also told Shakira: "You're the one," despite his moves on Yasmin and Helena.
- Love Island continues tonight at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
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4She was targeted by multiple male islanders - including Ben Holbrough - in the snog, marry, pie challengeCredit: ITV2 ![Man playfully wiping a woman's face with a large sponge.]()
4The taxi driver slammer her after smearing a cream pie in her faceCredit: ITV2 ![Shakira and Ben talking on a patio couch.]()
4They were originally paired togetherCredit: Eroteme
