JombleWomble
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Yeah I'm no big Luca fan but I don't think it's because of him that Gemma isn't being picked for dates.But how do we know that? Given how much producers are pushing the luca is insecure arc wouldn’t we have seen him going to odd and warning them off? If lads aren’t picking hemma for dates that’s on them, not Luca.
When Davide, the day 1 bombshell, coupled up with Gemma there was a lot of backlash because of the age gap. I think later bombshells won't have picked her because they don't want to face that.
I think Gemma believes she isn't being picked because of Luca though. She said that when Jay and Remi arrived. I think, as is common with islanders, she's very used to being the prettiest one in a group so she doesn't quite know how to handle it when she's not the one picked by a guy. She was projecting tonight when she said that Ekin-Su wants to be every man's "number one" - Gemma also wants that. Remember that awkward chat where she clearly thought Jay was hinting about fancying her and then he said Paige? I don't think she fancied him, I just think her self-esteem is quite tightly linked with knowing that men fancy her. Which I don't blame her for, she's young and growing up in a society that sends those kinda messages. I've been really rooting for her to have some sort of epiphany through this process about loving herself and not depending on the opinions of others (kinda like Liberty did last year, except that was blatantly fake and I want Gemma's to be real
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