Love Island's Jonny slammed by domestic abuse charity for behaviour towards Tyla

Love Island‘s Jonny Mitchell has been slammed by domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid for “controlling and abusive behaviour” towards Tyla on the ITV2 reality show.

CEO Polly Neate has released a statement highlighting remarks the Essex model made about Tyla to fellow contestant Theo, in which he vowed that he would have to prise her from his “cold dead hands”.

In case you missed it, Love Island takes 12 single participants to a villa in Majorca to see if any sparks fly and the reality series follows them as they fall in and out of each others’ beds.

Jonny and Tyla are currently an item, but newcomer Theo has caused their relationship to hit the rocks.

Neate says: “When Johnny said that new arrival Theo would have to prise Tyla ‘from my cold dead hands’ it was not romantic. It did not demonstrate just how much he liked her. It was possessive and controlling.

“What can be all too easily passed off as banter, actually carries the underlying sentiment that this man believes he owns this woman.”

She went on: “All of us have a duty to call out this sort of behaviour and challenge these sexist remarks when we hear them.

“The fact that Tyla says she was left wanting to run away from a controlling relationship in the past, shows just how easy this sort of behaviour, if unchecked, can slip into a controlling and abusive relationship.”

Theo also commented on Jonny’s reaction and told Tyla: “He [Jonny] is on you 24/7. To me that shows how insecure he is at the moment and to not even let you out of his grasp, out of his sight…

“if he can lose his head that easily, imagine you go to a club or something and you get a photo with another boy, he’ll lose his head.”

Love Island is yet to comment on the reports.

Love Island airs tonight at 9pm on ITV2.

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