Temptation Island 13: the first episode and the squalor of the withdrawn marriage proposal

Temptation Island it’s just as we remembered it: with boyfriends acting cocky in front of the camera and girlfriends ready to scold them as soon as the hooded singles parade on the shore. Leaving aside the fact that the heights reached in the summer edition probably won’t return any time soon – the idea of ​​having recalled Tony as Pygmalion of the male village is confirmation of this -, we have to say that the first episode of the winter version still managed to get people talking about italthough not for such noble reasons. Beyond the competition of miss wet t-shirt among the suitors – the authors of Temptation Island they had the wrong idea of ​​dropping buckets full of water on the girls in order to have their boyfriends elect the most sensual of them, taking the feminist battles back fifty years -, one of the lowest peaks was reached by Antonio who, in a moment of confidence with the other males, said he asked his girlfriend Titty to marry him in Paris only because she was pressuring him. According to her story, the couple was in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower surrounded by several lovers on their knees about to ask their partner’s hand, the reason that led Antonio to recover a lucky ring from a stall and do the same.

“There was nothing planned and today I regret it,” the (very serious) words of Antonio, who decided to spill the beans on such a delicate issue not in private as one might have expected, but in front of half of Italy, at a safe distance from his fiancée. «For me she is nothing, I want to leave her but I can’t. And I can’t do it because, as soon as I try to let go of her, instead of crying and walking away with respect, she sticks to me even more”, Antonio’s thought, consumed in front of an audience of Temptation Island particularly shocked because an outburst of this kind, rather than an immediate confrontation, would deserve a complaint, but oh well. And to think that poor Titty, on the other side of Pinnettu, is despairing over a man who, for a certain period, used to be seen around with another girl who he passed off as his wife. – a circumstance that led Antonio to tattoo Titty’s face on his calf, but let’s leave that aside -. «I feel disgusted because I forgave him for cheating on me”, exclaims Titty seeing her counterpart throw himself into the arms of the single Saretta. It goes without saying that at the end of the episode the girl calls Philip Bisciglia and ask him to warn Antonio of his intention to light the bonfire, although we will know whether or not he accepts the invitation only in the next episode.

Alfonso and Federica

Meanwhile, it is clear that this edition of Temptation Island commit to show the worst of certain attitudes – especially male ones – much more common than we want to admit. Let’s think, for example, of Alfredwho didn’t take long to forget his Anna by throwing himself headlong into the conquest of the single Sofia – «Once you go black, you never come back» (Once you try black, you never go back) he tells her at a certain point – but also at Alfonsowhich for eight years effectively prevented his girlfriend Federica to have a life of her own – she was only allowed to leave the house with her mother but also with It is mandatory to wear a one-piece swimsuit on the beach to discourage inappropriate glances from men (“I do it because otherwise they’ll look at me and I don’t want to get into an argument with other men”). We know, unfortunately, that certain nonsense that we see in Temptation Island are still present in our societyand that’s why we hope that girls, watching the program, understand that certain toxicities are not normal, and must be torn apart before it’s too late.