Love Island's conspiracy theory explains why "fake" couples are separating now

Love Island is a source of joy – a period of eight-week summer sunshine during which we can all live vicariously through soft, shiny, polite specimens at the gym parading in their pants for hours.

But no matter who won the ITVBe show, the reality tends to show up as their champagne-covered plane lands in Stansted.

The win of the 2018 Love Island winners does not seem to have turned out badly: Jack Fincham and Dani Dyer still hang together, despite a brief separation and his shameful confession of cocaine, while Adam Collard, Geordie's gallerist, still love Zara McDermott. … type of .

But in recent weeks, established couples have been hit harder than Megan Barton-Hanson by aggressively annoying a puzzled bouncer.

In the first place, Megan and Wes Nelson, who separated after being jealous to spend so much time with his partner Dancing On Ice, Vanessa Bauer.

She canceled things in an Instagram statement, insisting that they would remain friends and co-parents of their hamster.

The next couple to split was Josh Denzel and Kaz Crossley, who said things were "not going as planned" after becoming the only couple to stay separate rather than rushing back to live together in Blighty.

Jack and Dani are also going through another difficult period after the former pen seller admitted that he was out for excessive coca consumption at a raging party last weekend.

Dani, furious, returned home from Tanzania and was seen moving his belongings out of their London home earlier in the week.

But it seems that she is now forgiven for her lost boyfriend, as they were spotted at their curtain-free window in a passionate hand-to-hand fight last night.

So why are all these Love Island lovebirds now splitting? Fans have come up with a conspiracy theory that makes a lot of sense that each couple is contractually obligated to stay together six months after the end of the show.

A tweet: "So, is there a six-month contract for Love Island relationships?"

Another pointed out: "Does love island have a contract with couples who have to stay together for 6 months after the end of the show? All of them broke up this month."

And a third wrote: "It's deffo reached the stage of the Love Island contract where couples no longer have to pretend to be true … 3 ruptures in a week so soooo ahahahah so wrong."

Mirror Online has contacted ITV for a comment.