{"id":132573,"date":"2020-02-17T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/17\/how-can-love-island-carry-on-as-normal\/"},"modified":"2020-02-17T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:42:28","slug":"how-can-love-island-carry-on-as-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132573","title":{"rendered":"How can Love Island carry on as normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITV\u2019s juggernaut is set to air again just two days after the tragic death of former presenter Caroline Flack. Surely a pause \u2013 and a lot of reflection \u2013 is requiredLast year, when a guest on The Jeremy Kyle Show killed themselves in the week following the show\u2019s filming, ITV acted swiftly. Kyle\u2019s show spent its entire 14-year existence weathering controversy \u2013 a judge once described it as \u201chuman bear-baiting\u201d \u2013 but when a person directly connected to the show had taken their own life, a quick decision was made. The show was taken off air, never to return.Love Island is not Jeremy Kyle. It may be manipulative, it may even cross a line at times, but it does not seize on and then amplify serious, complex and often tragic issues in people\u2019s lives in the same brazen way. Yet it has been associated with the suicides of two former contestants \u2013 Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis \u2013 and now its longstanding host, Caroline Flack. Gradon\u2019s partner, Aaron Armstrong, also killed himself shortly after her funeral. Rather than cancel the show following Flack\u2019s death, ITV2 plans to continue airing the current series tonight after only two nights off. Is that really something it should even consider? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/feb\/17\/how-can-love-island-carry-on-as-normal-caroline-flack-tragic-death-itv\" target=\"_blank\">How can Love Island carry on as normal?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV\u2019s juggernaut is set to air again just two days after the tragic death of former presenter Caroline Flack. Surely a pause \u2013 and a lot of reflection \u2013 is requiredLast year, when a guest on The Jeremy Kyle Show killed themselves in the week following the show\u2019s filming, ITV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}