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Love Island Recap: Ace Shows His Cards


Ace reveals his mission to play his own twisted game with Amaya and Chelley and to break up Huda and Jeremiah.

It’s not any of the three’s fault that their mess fits so tidily into a sexist archetype — not that Nic is above boiling down his human relationships into their most simplistic numeric terms — but Belle-A does realize at last that playing the Jessica Simpson to Cierra’s Christina Aguilera isn’t doing her any favors. But then, not unlike the way he kissed Huda during the Blindfold Challenge for no reason whatsoever, Ace decides to pick Amaya at the recoupling, even though her awkward flirtation style is really a much better match for Austin. What follows is a series of painful-to-watch confrontations between the two, in which Ace reprimands Amaya for normal human behavior, like expecting the guy who chose her to show some romantic interest, in the low, measured tone of a psychopath.

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