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THIS is the shock moment one Love Islander admitted that he doesn’t know his own girlfriend’s middle name.

On the long-running ITV2 show, fans have been watching as Dejon Noel-Williams and gotten to know Meg Moore.

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In the villa, the pair were having a humorous discussion with each other when a concerning point of conversation came up.

Megan asked her Love Island boyfriend what her last name was, to which he answered correctly straight away.

However, she then asked him to identify her middle name, and there was great hesitation.

He replied: “I honestly don’t know.”

This was before she interjected: “It used to be a kids [TV] program.”

As he continued to hesitate, she decided to simply put him out of his misery as Meg stated the word, ‘Beaker’ in reference to the iconic kids drama, Tracy Beaker.

“Oh, yeah!,” he exclaimed. “Megan Beaker Moore.”

But she was still left unimpressed as he didn’t actually say her real name, Tracy.

She laughed off the quip as she said: “Not Beaker!”

However, viewers simply did not buy into the conversation as they questioned whether their connection is actually genuine.

Many users took to X – formerly known as Twitter – as they accused the couple of being ‘fake’.

One user commented: “Meg doesn’t want her “enemies” to feel like they have a one up on her and Dejon doesn’t want to look like “the bad guy” when he’s on TV.

“Both of them trying to prove something to someone else. Fake couple.”

A second claimed: “Dejon is more bothered about how he looks and is the biggest fake on the show.”

“Megan came back on some fake a** b* after seeing how the public perceived her,” noted a third user.

While a fourth stated: “Dejon has always been fake. How are people only seeing it now?”

In the last few weeks, viewers doubts have been creeping in as one interaction with Yasmin raised eyebrows.

In the moment that set off alarm bells among fans, his co-star asked: “I have a question for you, it’s a bit rogue, would you have a threesome with me and Toni?”

We’ll continue that question.

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Dejon laughed – but was soon saved from answering as Meg called out, “Come here please!”

He joked: “You called me at a good time! Oh my god! We’ll continue that question.”

Later, Harry’s actions in the Grafties led to his close pal and confidant washing his hands of him.

As the shamed star headed outside to sleep on the day beds, fans accused Dejon of backstabbing his best pal in the villa.

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Love Island continues on ITV2 and is available to stream on ITVX.

LOVE Island fans have hit out at the show for setting up a “scripted” scene between the boys on tonight’s show.

The lads headed off to enjoy an evening without the girls and the conversation quickly turned to their pairings.

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But the girls weren’t entirely thrilled with what they heard.

Each of the lads took it in turns to discuss their relationship.

Connor said he was “enjoying” Toni’s company despite not being each other’s natural types.

Ben said it was a “long time coming” with Shakira, while Dejon said he “wasn’t expecting to find something so rare so quick” with Meg.

Tommy admitted he and Megan were strong – saying she “ticks every single box” and added: “I’m new to the relationship stuff, but I’m putting in the energy.”

But Harry was keen to stir up some trouble and asked if any of the lads had any worries.

Harry asked Ben if there was anything he should be concerned about when it comes to Shakira.

“With the Blu situation, her not being honest if she’s not feeling it. If it was me and I wasn’t feeling the girl. I made it known, I don’t feel like Shakira does that, she can give mixed signals,” Ben explained.

Tommy admitted all of the girls could have their heads turned.

While Harry said he had concerns when it came to Helena after her threesome confession.

But viewers were quick to claim that the conversation looked like a “set-up” and appeared to be “scripted”.

One wrote: “Well this isn’t scripted at all is it(!).”

A second said: “Ohh the producers doing something different but still scripted a bit cause if you’re told to sit down and discuss the girls you know it’s going to be shown back.”

A third commented: “This show is becoming more and more scripted. Their mannerisms are not natural.”

Another added: “Idk this part seems scripted.”

And the surprises didn’t stop there, as all of a sudden the boys are greeted by not one, not two, but THREE brand new bombshells. 

Emily, Malisha and Yasmin crashed the boys’ night and wasted no time in getting to know the group.

Megan spotted the bombshells and shouted “There’s three of them!”

A stunned Meg added: “You’re joking!”

Harry asksed the new bombshells: “Are you coming back with us?”

Malisha said: “Of course I am!”

Yasmin added to the boys: “Tell us what your situation is in the Villa at the moment?”

They fill them in on their current situations and how they’re feeling, but as they’re blissfully unaware that their every move is being watched, they don’t hold back with their answers.

Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t expect to be at the forefront of the artificial intelligence debate in Hollywood. But she didn’t have a choice.

The Oscar-winning actor recently called out Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on social media, saying the company ignored her requests to take down a fake AI-generated advertisement on Instagram that had been on the platform for months.

The ad, which used footage from an interview Curtis gave to MSNBC about January’s Los Angeles area wildfires, manipulated her voice to make it appear that she was endorsing a dental product, Curtis said.

“I was not looking to become the poster child of internet fakery, and I’m certainly not the first,” Curtis told The Times by phone Tuesday morning.

The ad has since been removed.

What happened to Curtis is part of a larger issue actors are dealing with amid the rise of generative AI technology, which has allowed their images and voices to be altered in ways they haven’t authorized. Those changes can be wildly misleading.

Images and likenesses of celebrities including Tom Hanks, Taylor Swift and Scarlett Johansson have been manipulated through AI to promote products and ideas they never actually endorsed.

AI technology has made it easier for people to make these fake videos, which can proliferate online at a speed that is challenging for social media platforms to take down. Some are calling on social media firms to do more to police misinformation on their platforms.

“We are standing at the turning point, and I think we need to take some action,” Curtis said.

Curtis first became aware of the fake AI ad about a month and a half ago when a friend asked her about the video. The “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and “Halloween” actor then flagged the ad for her agents, lawyers and publicists, who directed her to send a cease and desist letter to Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram.

Nothing happened.

“It’s like a vacuum,” Curtis said. “There are no people. You can’t reach anybody. You have an email, you send an email, you never get anything back.”

Two weeks later, another friend flagged the same fake AI video. When Curtis wrote to her team, they assured her they went through the proper channels and they did everything they could do, she said.

“I went through the proper channels,” Curtis said. “There should be a methodology to this. I understand there’s going to be a misuse of this stuff, but then there’s no avenue of getting any satisfaction. So then it’s lawlessness, because if you have no way of rectifying it, what do you do?”

Curtis was concerned about the nefarious ways that people could alter the voices and images of other people, including Pope Leo XIV, who has identified AI as one of the challenges facing humanity. What if someone used AI to attribute ideas to the pope that he didn’t actually support?

Inspired by the danger of that possibility, she made her scathing Instagram post, tagging Zuckerberg, after she was unable to directly message him.

“My name is Jamie Lee Curtis and I have gone through every proper channel to ask you and your team to take down this totally AI fake commercial for some bulls— that I didn’t endorse,” Curtis wrote in her post on Monday. “… I’ve been told that if I ask you directly, maybe you will encourage your team to police it and remove it.”

The post generated more than 55,000 likes.

“I’ve done commercials for people all my life, so if they can make a fake commercial with me, that hurts my brand,” Curtis said in an interview. “If my brand is authenticity, you’re co-opting my brand for nefarious gains in the future.”

After she posted, a neighbor shared with her an email of someone at Meta who could help her. Curtis emailed that person (whom she declined to name), copied her team and attached the Instagram posts. Within an hour of sending the email, the fake AI ad was taken down, Curtis said.

“It worked!” Curtis wrote on Instagram on Monday in all caps. “Yay internet! Shame has [its] value! Thanks all who chimed in and helped rectify!”

Meta on Monday confirmed the fake ad was taken down.

“They violate our policies prohibiting fraud, scams and deceptive practices,” said Meta spokesman Andy Stone in an email.

As the technology continues to become more widely available, there are efforts underway at tech companies to identify AI-generated content and to take down material that violates standards.

Organizations like actors guild SAG-AFTRA are also advocating for more laws that address AI, including deep fakes. Both the writers’ and actors’ strikes of 2023 hinged in part on demands for more protections against job losses from AI.

Curtis said she would have wanted the fake AI ad to be taken down immediately and would like to see technology companies, not just Meta, come up with safeguards and direct access to people policing “this wild, wild west called the internet.”

“It got the attention, but I’m also a public figure,” Curtis said. “So how does someone who’s not a public figure get any satisfaction? I want to represent everyone. I don’t want it to just be celebrities. I wanted to use that as an example to say this is wrong.”