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- Love Island's Luca Bish sees biggest increase out of current contestants and is 5/2 to be top male
- Liam Llewellyn has the overall biggest percentage increase, but left the show last week
- Gemma Owen is out to 4/1 to be top female despite having the most instagram followers
Love Island's Luca Bish sees biggest increase out of current contestants and is 5/2 to be top male
The latest series of Love Island is hotting up and it's Luca Bish who is seeing increasing popularity on Instagram.
Bookmakers make him the 5/2 favourite to be top male on the show and that coincides with a 2297% increase in followers on Instagram since he was announced as a contestant.
Bish was 11/4 to win the show this time last week, but has come in slightly after Liam Llewelyn's departure last Friday.
| Top Male | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Luca Bish | 5/2 | 28.6% |
| Jacques O'Neill | 11/4 | 26.7% |
| Andrew Le Page | 4/1 | 20.0% |
| Dami Hope | 7/1 | 12.5% |
| Davide Sanclimenti | 12/1 | 7.7% |
| Ikenna Ekwonna | 20/1 | 4.8% |
Jacques O'Neill is a newcomer to the betting odds after joining the show on Sunday as a bombshell.
O'Neill is the ex of Gemma Owen, so Love Island producers will be hoping that he causes a stir on the island.
Liam Llewellyn has the overall biggest percentage increase, but left the show last week
https://www.olbg.com/blogs/love-island-betting-odds-and-historyLiam Llewellyn has the overall biggest percentage increase in Instagram followers since the contestant announcements, but he left the show last week.
Llewellyn still hasn't given much reason as to why he left, but told his fellow islanders that he wasn't feeling like himself since being in the show.
Bookies had him down as the 9/4 favourite to be top boy last week so it has come as a big surprise to fans and bookmakers alike.
We began tracking the contestant's followers on 31st May when we knew the line up and you can see the difference in Insta followers since then below.
| Love Islander 2022 | Current Followers | Numbers Change in last week | 31st May | 6th June | 12th June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma Owen | 637,000 | 108,000 | 44000 | 77000 | 299000 |
| Luca Bish | 463,000 | 96,000 | 6,615 | 11400 | 152000 |
| Paige Thorne | 510,000 | 131,000 | 9,856 | 13600 | 128000 |
| Tasha Ghouri | 268,000 | 28,000 | 25800 | 32500 | 135000 |
| Indiyah Polack | 249,000 | 42,000 | 20900 | 30300 | 109000 |
| Davide Sanclimenti | 262,000 | 73,000 | 6,445 | 9462 | 81500 |
| Jacques O'Neill | 358,000 | 113,000 | n/a | n/a | 49200 |
| Andrew Le Page | 155,000 | 27,000 | 5,446 | 8362 | 41200 |
| Dami Hope | 159,000 | 35,000 | 3555 | 11200 | 43300 |
| Danica Taylor | 74,900 | 27,700 | |||
| Jay Younger | 61,400 | 22,200 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Over the course of the next few weeks we'll start to see bookmakers adding more and more betting markets like 'will someone steal the money for the first time' and even more dynamic markets.
Gemma Owen is out to 4/1 to be top female despite having the most instagram followers
Gemma Owen is the most popular of all the contestants in the Love Island villa according to instagram followers.
Her behaviour in the last week though has caused social media users to be unsure about her stint in the show though, especially now her ex boyfriend Jacques O'Neill has joined the show.
Owen has admitted that she still fancies O'Neill and this could cause backlash with viewers if she was to turn her back on Top Male favourite Luca Bish.
| Top Female | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Paige Thorne | 6/4 | 40.0% |
| Tasha Ghouri | 2/1 | 33.3% |
| Gemma Owen | 4/1 | 20.0% |
| Amber Beckford | 9/1 | 10.0% |
| Indiyah Polack | 12/1 | 7.7% |
| Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu | 14/1 | 6.7% |
| Afia Tonkmor | 40/1 | 2.4% |
Paige Thorne is the favourite to finish as the Top Female on this year's show, despite not currently being in a couple.
Thorne was dumped by Luca Bish for Gemma Owen but this hasn't stopped bookmakers in installing her as the favourite for the show.
For even more odds, including who will finish as the winning couple this year, check out our Love Island expert blog.
