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Voices: Has The Traitors finally killed off outdated reality TV formats like Love Island?

Source: BBC/Studio Lambert/Mark Mainz

Last night, I heard something I hadn’t in a while. “So, I was watching Love Island…”

“Sorry, what?” I asked my friend, concerned she was spending her January nights alone watching reruns of reality TV.

“Not the old seasons,” she assured me. “The new one.”

It was the first I’d heard of the , an all-stars version featuring memorable castmates from seasons gone by who, still single, have been sent to South Africa fan in the past, the fact I didn’t even know about this series speaks volumes.

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