Vanessa, Movie star Large Brother and the Brit Awards additionally made the checklist
Love Island has been named essentially the most complained about TV programme of the yr by regulator Ofcom. The ITV actuality present and its All Stars spin-off had 5 episodes within the high 10 most complained about, with a lot of the complaints being concerning the bullying of contestant Shakira Khan.
An episode on July 24 topped the desk with 3,547 complaints over the bullying of Khan, whereas the second most complained about episode was Love Island’s July 22 episode, which had 2,509 complaints made up of bullying points and regarding the return of Megan Forte Clarke. The present’s episode on July 23 was third within the desk with 2,002 complaints of an identical nature, whereas its present on July 25 was the seventh most complained about for bullying and about the best way contestant Blu Chegini spoke to Toni Laites.
Eighth on the checklist was an episode of the present’s All Star model on February 12, which drew 1,240 complaints about alleged bullying between contestants. Additionally within the high 10 was an episode of Vanessa Feltz’s chat present, Vanessa, on 5, which aired on June 10, and noticed 1,866 complaints a couple of dialogue on breastfeeding and its advantages, which some stated was deceptive.
In fifth was GB Information’s Headliners present, which noticed 1,391 complaints over a presenter’s remark which complainants believed linked the LGBTQ+ group to paedophiles. The programme was discovered to have damaged Ofcom’s broadcasting guidelines, with the regulator calling the comment “extremely offensive”.
Along with the complaints submitted by the general public, the GB Information present additionally obtained 71,851 gathered by the Good Regulation Mission non-profit organisation. At this time With Samantha Washington on Sky Information on June 7 obtained the sixth most complaints, getting 1,302 for a section which coated the Madleen, a ship delivering help to Gaza, with complainants saying a remark by the presenter “misrepresented the mission’s peaceable nature”.
An episode of Movie star Large Brother on ITV2 on April 9 was the ninth most complained about present with 1,008 complaints over feedback made by actor Mickey Rourke to singer JoJo Siwa. Protection of the Brit Awards on ITV1 on March 1 obtained 938 complaints over singer Sabrina Carpenter’s opening dance routine, and Charli XCX’s gown.
In Ofcom’s report, a press release learn: “Criticism numbers have fallen from 2024, and whereas we’ve had fewer investigations opened and closed, these ranges are in keeping with what we noticed in 2021. “There are some genres that proceed to draw scrutiny, specifically actuality TV, which makes up greater than half of the ten most complained about programmes.
“This yr, round three in 10 complaints to Ofcom have been about Love Island, with the 2025 sequence totalling 14,121 complaints.”
ITV have been contacted for remark.
