Love Island promotes ‘unrealistic’ beauty

Almost one in 10 women who watch Love Island say they would have breast surgery or Botox, a survey revealed.

Plastic surgeons said such shows were “normalising unrealistic standards of beauty” and heaping pressures on the young.

The survey, by Yougov, shows four in 10 females aged 18 to 34 said they felt more self conscious about their bodies after watching the show. In total, eight per cent said that watching the reality programme had left them considering breast enhancement surgery, with as many saying it had increased the chance they would have anti-wrinkle treatments such as Botox.

Plastic surgeons today joined NHS chiefs in calling for a clampdown on advertising of cosmetic surgery during the programme.