Red Flag or Overthinking?

**Alex Cooper** (0:00)
Hello, Daddy Gang, welcome back to another Sunday session. We have so much to catch up on. It is going to be such a good, good Sunday. So I just recorded a full solo episode about my pregnancy journey, and that comes out very, very soon. Maybe even this week, I don't know, we'll see. But I'm really excited to share everything that has been going on in my life. Because girl, it's been a lot, okay? But one thing I can tell you about my pregnancy right now, it is giving me the most perfect excuse to lie down, kick my feet up, lean into my 12 different pregnancy pillows, and watch Love Island all summer long. Every single night, except for, of course, Wednesday because no new Love Island episodes on Wednesdays. And also Wednesday is Call Her Daddy Day, which kind of works out perfectly. But every other night of the week, you will find me on the couch with my heating pad, cranked up, surrounded by all of my pregnancy favorite snacks, getting hype the minute I hear, tonight, a hot new bombshell enters the villa. Boom! I'm like, yeah! Matt walks in the door, I'm like, get out. Get out. He's like, wait, Matt is low-key getting already invested, even though he said he wasn't gonna watch it with me this year, he's already invested. I love it so much, you guys, and I love it even more now that I am pregnant, because it's not like I am just watching TV, right? I am taking care of myself. This is self-care through and through. So let's talk a little Love Island season eight, shall we? Oh my God, okay.
Where do I begin? I feel like this season is already a lot, right? I mean, before episode one even dropped, the internet was being the internet, stalking the cast, canceling the cast. It was just like chaos before night one even aired. That's such a testament to the fandom.
I will say the past two seasons, and I think we can all collectively agree, the past two seasons of Love Island have been top tier reality television. There is no denying that. I don't care if you didn't like the cast or you didn't like certain, it was a cultural phenomenon, both seasons. And each season individually, they broke the internet, right? And so now I can't help but be so fascinated to see if this new season, season eight, will be able to not only maintain that level of hype and traction, but maybe even top it. Because I feel like last year everyone said like, oh, this isn't going to be season six. And then all of a sudden, it was as big, right? So let's see what season eight can do. Regardless, I'm going to be watching.
Wow. Okay. I just remember when I had, let's do a little throwback, when I had Rob and Leah on from season six, I will never forget Rob showing up in those overalls, his fresh tan. Leah coming straight from Fiji, showing up looking like the most gorgeous woman I'd ever seen in that black corset. Remember her like perfect posture the entire episode? That was incredible. And then fast forward a year later, and obviously I had on Amaya and Huda last season for season seven. And that was even more dramatic, I feel like, than the previous year. And I will say that was the first time, guys, that I had ever recorded two episodes of Call Her Daddy in one day back to back. Like, I wrote them both back to back, recorded them both back to back. My brain was mush, but I also loved it. The adrenaline was so high because that is the thrill and just the rush of it, right? Like everything moves so freaking fast on the internet. And to kind of give you like some behind the scenes of the thought process for Call Her Daddy, basically throughout each season of Love Island so far, my team and I tried to predict who we thought was going to be the noisiest and the most dramatic of that specific season. So I could invite them on the show and start prepping their interview. But last season was truly so up and down all the way until the very end. So this year, I am definitely without a doubt going to be following along on Polymarket. I am going to be refreshing and checking the Love Island Odds every single day. That's all I've been doing every single day. And it's only been a week. It's only been a week, but here I am. I'm going to be checking it multiple times a day just so that I can be up to date with what the public is feeling about this cast and this season.