{"id":1509,"date":"2019-07-09T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2019-07-09T08:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:27:27","slug":"ofcom-dismisses-complaints-700-maura-and-tommy-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/ofcom-dismisses-complaints-700-maura-and-tommy-complaints\/tv-and-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom dismisses complaints 700 Maura and Tommy complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ofcom received over 700 complaints about Maura Higgins\u2019 actions towards Tommy Fury during an episode. Higgins tried to kiss Tommy several times despite him moving his face away from her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Viewers had complained to ofcom that Higgins &#8220;sexually harassed&#8221; Tommy Fury. Ofcom have now said the incident on the show didn&#8217;t breach TV&#8217;s &#8220;generally accepted standards&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A spokeswoman said:<\/strong> \u201cWhile we recognise that many viewers disapproved of a contestant\u2019s behaviour in this episode, we took into account the context in which it occurred, including the nature of Maura and Tommy\u2019s relationship, before and after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The regulator said that all complaints about the episode had been \u201cassessed under generally accepted standards&#8217;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1510\" style=\"width: 862px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1510\" class=\"wp-image-1510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Untitled.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Untitled-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Untitled-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy and Maura\/\/ ITV<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ofcom are still reviewing whether they should investigate the treatment of Lucie Donlan by some fellow contestants including her partner Joe Garratt. Many viewers are\/were concerned for Lucie and accuse Joe of being controlling after he asked her not to hang around with the male contestants and \u00a0spend more time being friendly with the female contestants. Lucie has also been seen upset and crying over many times in the show after struggling with friendships with the female contestants. Ofcom received 300 people complaining about her treatment on the show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This photo is actually heartbreaking. How are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/loveisland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#loveisland<\/a> just sitting there and letting this happen. Amy has turnt everyone against lucie for no reason and jo really isn\u2019t helping the situation either. I\u2019ve never seen anything like this in all the previous seasons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AoQc6DMbZ3\">pic.twitter.com\/AoQc6DMbZ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc21\ud83c\udf78 (@bethdainesxox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bethdainesxox\/status\/1140860716938866688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"bb-p\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0Adina Claire, Co-Chief Executive of Women\u2019s Aid, has released a statement about Joe\u2019s behaviour with Lucie, saying<\/strong>: \u201cControlling behaviour is never acceptable, and with Love Island viewers complaining to Ofcom in record numbers about Joe\u2019s possessive behaviour towards Lucie, more people are becoming aware of this and want to challenge it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bb-p\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAbusive relationships often start off with subtle signs of control, so it\u2019s important that it is recognised at an early stage. Love Island viewers are now very vocal in calling out unhealthy behaviour between couples on the show, and this is a positive development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the last series there was 2,600 complaints about the treatment of former contestant Dani Dyer. The complaints were about how Dyer was shown a misleading video of her then boyfriend Jack after his ex-girlfriend was brought onto the show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An Ofcom spokesperson said they \u201cunderstood\u201d Dyer\u2019s distress was upsetting for viewers but it considered \u201cviewers are likely to expect emotionally charged scenes\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom received over 700 complaints about Maura Higgins\u2019 actions towards Tommy Fury during an episode. Higgins tried to kiss Tommy several times despite him moving his face away from her. Viewers had complained to ofcom that Higgins &#8220;sexually harassed&#8221; Tommy Fury. Ofcom have now said the incident on the show didn&#8217;t breach TV&#8217;s &#8220;generally accepted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-and-films"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}