Bachelorette star Georgia Love blasts ‘absolutely abhorrent’ Love Island

EX-Bachelorette Georgia Love had some harsh words to say about Love Island — but found herself accused of hypocrisy given her own reality TV past.

LOVE Island Australia host Sophie Monk has hit back at fellow Bachelorette Georgia Love, after Love blasted the new show as “absolutely abhorrent.”

Love slammed Nine’s new dating reality show via Twitter last night, making it clear that she would do anything for love — but she won’t do that.

“I am so appalled by #LoveIslandAU I’m not even going to justify a worthwhile tweet about it. Absolutely abhorrent,” Love tweeted, apparently not grasping the irony inherent in firing off a tweet declaring you hate a TV show much you refuse to tweet about it.

Her comments were met with a response from Monk this morning, who asked her fellow Bach graduate to “be kind”:

Sophie Monk vs. Georgia Love.

Love also tweeted Monk to admit that she’d only watched the first 10 minutes of the show.

“I certainly am not judging the people, I’m all about ‘You Do You’! Was just really disappointed by how it felt as if the girls were simply pieces of meat and up the taking. Full disclosure though I only watched the first 10 minutes so don’t know what happened after that!” she tweeted.

It didn’t take long for others to point out the Bach-sized hole in Love’s initial argument: “The actual irony of being on a TV show to find love and looking down on other people doing the same,” wrote one viewer in response to her tweet.

What a diverse cast!

Love was quick with a comeback.

“The ignorance of thinking my experience of being in control of who I wanted to date was in any way similar to being literally picked from a line-up of girls in bikinis and high heels by men cracking sexual innuendos in the first five minutes,” she responded.

Georgia Love (centre) dated 18 guys on national TV, but it was TOTALLY different from Love Island, OK?

In Love’s defence, Love Island episode one was total cringe on a level not yet seen in the Bachelor franchise. We met the five female singles first, all arriving at their Spanish villa clad only in bikinis and high heels (seems Nine could only spring for carry-on for the flight over?). Once settled in, the fivesome lined up on one side of the villa’s pool as Monk brought out five boardshort-clad boneheaded jocks, one by one, to decide who they’d like to choose as their ‘partner’ for the show, based on sight alone.

It was a spray tan-soaked, half-naked group arranged marriage: car crash television.

Still, reality TV fans didn’t seem to think Love had much cause to be up on her high horse.

“You literally picked from 22 guys who were presented to you on a platter and dated them all simultaneously ... double standards much?” wrote one in response to her tweets.

“Says the girl who was the Bachelorette dating several guys,” said another.

Elsewhere during last night’s premiere, a social media consensus formed: These people are terrible and this show is garbage ... Can’t wait for episode two.

We’re not even 60 seconds into this and it’s already a raging dumpster fire 🔥 #LoveIslandAU

— Matt Smithson (@mattsmithson) May 27, 2018

Fair to say that all contestants have failed at the adult film industry & are looking at their next best option #loveislandau

— Apolo (@PK_APOSTOLI) May 27, 2018

A TV show based entirely around white, heterosexual, horny famewhores. Groundbreaking..#LoveIslandAU pic.twitter.com/uox4AFHuR0

— Maddi (@MaddiMaie) May 27, 2018

Is it just me or does #LoveIslandAU seem really fake in every sense?! What’s with the constant zooming in on boobs and butts?! Plastic, fake, barbie and ken dolls? Tv is really getting desperate for new reality shows! Blah!

— Rie (@Shh_RieRie) May 27, 2018

“My type is what every girl’s type is, taller than me, neck tattoos” #LoveIslandAU

— Lauren Ingram (@laureningram) May 27, 2018

#LoveIslandAU To any young women watching this please rest assured - dumb is not fun, stupid is not cute and good looks don't last for ever.

— Gidgit VonLaRue (@GidgitVonLaRue) May 27, 2018

As always when I experience men on these shows I am... very grateful to be a lesbian #LoveIslandAU

— Katie K (@_katiekendall_) May 27, 2018

Love Island Australia is on five nights a week, which really does seem like an awful lot. It airs Sundays — Thursdays, 8:30pm on Go.