Little Bit Leave It

Jessica and Karen get a texting challenge and the islanders gather around the simulated firepit for a refriending ceremony.

The islanders compete in the "baby bird" challenge. Some friendships are destroyed while others blossom.

Jeff attempts to engineer a bonding experience with Trevor and Karen. Uncle Terry makes deviled eggs.

Karen and Jessica go on a friend date and we learn more about the cast's lives at home.

Ben and Becka introduce the Friend Island villa and this season's opening cast: Andy, Jessica, Trevor, Karen, Terry, Miranda, Kyle, and Jeff.

Friend Island USA is coming soon and Little Bit Leave It is the official podcast! Here's some highlights from the upcoming season of Friend Island!

Why do some cast members on Love Island know each other? What makes contestants memorable while others are forgotten? Why do we feel "connected" to certain islanders? Why do some people cope well with the stress of being on Love Island while others can't handle tit? For insight into these and other questions, we interview Cathy and Joel from Worldwide Casting, a Los Angeles-based casting group that's hired by reality television production companies to find new and interesting people to be on TV. Enjoy! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

We hope you enjoy this re-cast of three of our favorite featured segments from the past season of Little Bit Leave It! First, Becka gets into the fine details of the love triangle between Princess Diana, Prince Charles, and Camilla Parker Bowles. Then, Ben tells us the fascinating story of the Kray Brothers, notorious London gangsters. Finally, Becka undresses the seedy and tacky criminal clown behind the Dreamboyz, the touring male revue. This episode is a whole lot of fun and definitely not for younger audiences! Adults only beyond this point! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

This week we are re-casting two feature segments about Scotland! First, Becka gives us the surprising history of kilts and plaids, and then Ben takes us on a tour of Inverness and the Highlands. Grab a glass of your peatiest scotch whiskey and enjoy this compilation episode! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's time to wrap up Love Island UK Season 7 with a neat little bow! We're once again joined by guest co-host Logan as we examine all of the summer's major narratives and themes and use enough critical theory to preclude any of us from running for school board! What does it all mean??? Then it's time to talk about the live final, say who we think should have won, tell you how all of your favorite islanders feel about Brexit, and give out our season-end awards! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

It's time to put the kids to bed, turn the lights down low, and tune your radio to the smooth jazz sounds of The Quiet Storm. It's Little Bit Leave It: After Dark. We pull together three different feature segments from past episodes.  You'll learn what a scaffolder is and why the UK girls are obsessed with them as we review the UK's sexiest jobs. You'll need a bucket and a mop to clean up after our discussion of sexual fetishes in Great Britain. And you'll be kind of weirded out every time a couple gets sent into the Hideaway after you hear about how it's an updated version of a communal sex tradition that goes back to medieval Europe!  This episode is, obviously, for mature audiences only, despite our very real lack of maturity. Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's another themed episode! Time for a trip through the west country! Our first stop will be Cornwall, where we'll talk all about Ollie Williams and the odd and delightful history of this distinct region. Next, we will head to Bristol--another historically important city that may or may not have outlived its usefulness. Finally, we will hear from Jacob Waller of Big Yellow Praxis; he will tell us everything we got wrong about Bristol and what we should do when we come visit! There may not be a ton of Love Island content this episode but it's a good one! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

The fall of Jiberty is the week's main event: from an exchange of "I love yous" at the beginning of the week to breaking up and walking away from the villa, it was a week we've never seen any couple in show history go through before. And we've also got a dreadful talent show, the babies episode, and everyone's families to meet! Oh, yeah, and there were the final dates! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's a themed episode! We're combining feature segments from past podcasts with new content in a series of podcasts focusing on a single topic in British culture, geography, or history. This week: WALES! Join us on a road trip from northern Wales to Cardiff, take a deep dive into the famous Welsh rabbit (or rarebit!), and learn all about Mari Lwyd (the spooky alcoholic ghost horse!) in this extremely fun and arguably funny episode of Little Bit Leave It! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's time for a British candy taste test! We couldn't get our hands on the Penguins that Jess and Ched went on about on their date, but we did find five different British chocolate bars to taste test! We tell you what you should think about Cadbury's Flake, Dairy Fruit and Nut, Crunchie, and Starbar, as well as Nestle's Aero bar.  This episode features additional music by Kevin MacLeod. Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

You might be asking yourself why we'd release an episode compiling all the advertisements from our first season. And no, it's not because we're looking to cash in on our internationally-renowned Love Island podcast. You may have picked up that the ads are fake, but over the course of producing the season, what started as a fun bit grew into a complex narrative. The subtlety of the narrative is easily lost in a weekly podcast, however, so we pulled them all together, along with some relevant commentary from the show, into this "all ads" episode! We hope you have as much fun listening to them as we did producing them. This episode features music by Jason Shaw of audionautix.com, Shane Ivers of Silvermansound.net, Rafael Krux, and Kevin MacLeod. Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

It's the grand finale of this season of Little Bit Leave It! We celebrate the final episode of Love Island UK Season 6 and welcome back our special guest co-host Logan! Not only do we tell you how the final should have gone and review the evening's festive attire, but we tell you how this year's cast would have voted on the Brexit referendum! We round things out with our end-of-season awards for everything from Muggiest Islander to Biggest Mug! And we reveal the Islander of the Year! It's all very exciting! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's another very special episode of Little Bit Leave It where  we discuss part 3 of Love Island: What Happened Next. This episode featured an amazing scene between Amber and Ovie, fun with the boys of Destiny's Chaldish, and a bit too much of the islanders watching themselves on the "telly." Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

We're happy to present the second installment of our take on each episode of Love Island: What Happened Next! We discuss who showed up and who didn't from seasons 3 and 4, from the Chris and Kem reunion to an awkward lunch with some of the girls from season 4. We're on vacation and will return with the Love Island UK Season 6 Finale! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

We are on vacation this week and are recasting a bonus episode that was previously only available to our supporters on Patreon: our discussion of the first episode of Love Island: What Happened Next. We cover the dramatic reunions of Love Island UK's season 1 and 2 casts! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

In honor of Jake committing the ultimate reality TV sin, we are presenting to you this virtually unedited episode of Little Bit Leave It! Are Faye and Teddy making up or breaking up? How about both? Millie and Liam may refuse to work through their issues, but Liberty won't let Jake get away with sweeping things under the rug. We get a happy ending at the end of the week, but not before Liberty and Jake break kayfabe and the producers decide to air it! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

It's the penultimate episode of Love Island UK Season 6, starring Ched's dad's smoking jacket! Time to meet the families and for the families to meet each other. And we sadly say goodbye to Mike and Priscilla. We are re-joined by Billie Jo Gibson of the 0151 Club Scousecast for a discussion about Love Island's role in UK youth culture. There is so much fashion, and our ranking of the couples is one you won't want to miss. This episode features "Underglow" by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

Liam and Millie are done! Faye and Teddy are back together! Oh, wait, no they're not! And Toby's head is turned yet again... but by Chloe? What a week at the Love Island villa! We break down everything that happened from the post-Casa recoupling to Mad Movies, review the State of the Couples, console ourselves about the decline in fashion from previous years, and remind you that Millie gave us a shout out in this week's Top Bits! (Thanks, Millie!) Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's time for the final final dates as we wrap up this season of Love Island UK. Demi and Luke M. enjoy a continental breakfast over a lake, while Siannise and Luke T. get a fairy tale early bird dinner for two at South Africa's finest castle! We also welcome Mx. Billie Jo Gibson from 0151 Scousecast to Little Bit Leave It to tell us everything you should do when you visit Liverpool and explain Scouse culture to us ignorant Americans! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

Love Island is BACK! It's Casa Amor week and it does not disappoint! But before the real action happens, we lose one of the season's best islanders in Aaron. Lucinda also gets dumped from the villa. And then it's time for heads to turn and a postcard from the Casa pushes Faye over the edge!  It's one of the most dramatic post-Casa Amor recouplings in Love Island history! A heartbroken Teddy leaves a teddy on the ground, and Lillie returns to spoil Liam's homecoming. We also feature fantasy Love Island, the islanders' fashion choices, and the top bits of the week!

We rejoin the islanders mid-dumping for the last bit of drama and tension this season of Love Island UK! It's time for the final dates. Mike and Priscilla get the best date in Love Island history, Fin rows, rows, rows his boat to a picnic with Paige, and Jess and Ched grill kabobs. Mike and Priscilla make it official! We do a deep dive into "compatibility," criticize some horrendous fashion choices, and rank the remaining five couples in a Little Bit Leave It you don't want to miss! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

The action at the villa is really heating up, and the most problematic islander in show history makes an early exit but not before making some waves. We say hello to Tyler, Abigail, and Georgia, but we say goodbye to Sharon, AJ, and Georgia. And no, we didn't say goodbye to Danny. But nothing topped Hugo's fiery defense of Chloe at the week's second recoupling. We talk about the islanders' fashion choices and  the future of each couple in another episode of Little Bit Leave It. Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

We've got a "special" episode this week featuring part of a patron-only episode where we answer the question you've all been dying to know: which Love Island female islander are we? We've also got a segment about possible missteps by producers in past seasons in honor of the first few weeks of season 7 (which thankfully gets turned completely around!). We'll be back with a regular episode next week! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

We discuss the controversy over whether Chloe is a bully and the 3rd week of the 7th season of Love Island UK--from three dates with dreamboat Teddy to two dates with Danny, the chavviest chav ever to chav on Love Island. In between, we've got a recoupling, a public vote, and Brad getting the Full Jonny. That's when an established doofus gets a redemption arc before getting dumped. The islanders suck eggs and we judge their fashions on this jam-packed episode of Little Bit Leave It! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's party time in the villa, and you know what that means: time for someone to leave the premises! Perpetual basement-dwellers Jamie and Natalia are sent away unceremoniously, but we're not done--the islanders must choose another couple to keep them company on the plane ride back to old blighty! Oh, and did I say IT'S THE BABY EPISODE?!?!?!? That's right, it's the one we all watch on mute! We do a deep dive into the Full English Breakfast, discuss the islanders' fashion choices, and rank those crazy kids. Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!  

It's our second week back in the Love Island villa and the bombshells are multiplying! Rachel picks Brad only to get pied a day later, Faye remains unlucky in love, Sharon's fling with Aaron dissolves as quickly as it commenced, and in the first major drama of the season, a confused and confusing Toby ditches Kaz for Chloe moments after he says he's "jumping in with both feet." He must have been referring to the pool of Jell-O that comprise his nerves! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

Luke T. may have lost his bedazzling but the shine hasn't worn off his new relationship with Siannise. We spend time learning about Paige and Finn's alleged flaws in a game that only gets Mike in trouble, and the islanders have to vote on which couples are least compatible which can mean only one thing: time for a public elimination vote!  Becka does a deep dive into the Dream Boyz, we debate the merits of Finn's corduroy hoodie, and the couple rankings are no surprise this week! This episode features "Conquer" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's been a year and a half, but we finally have a new season of Love Island! We're here for it, and so is Faye! Faye! Faye! We've got a whopping fourteen new islanders to meet in this first week, but don't worry--one of them is already gone! And not without controversy! We lament that it's a bit more like Friend Island so far, and review the new cast's taste in clothing. Join us for another summer of (hopefully) love! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

Perhaps the best episode of Love Island Season 6! We've got a recoupling! We say goodbye to one of the season's defining islanders as Shaughna gets a send-off! To top it off, it's Valentine's Day! We're going to carry some spag bol through a car wash and force our significant others to complete a ridiculous fairy tale-themed combination trivia challenge and scavenger hunt, as is tradition in winter Love Island. That's right, it's the scene we will all remember when we think of season 6: Luke T. asking Siannise to be his girlfriend. We finish up our interview with Worldwide Casting and talk recoupling ceremony fashion, sort of! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

Grab your biggest beach towels, because it's time to clean up after the News Splash! Multiple couples are on the rocks, while Demi and Luke M. seem to be getting on like a house on fire, so Shaughna decides to make her move. Will it pay off or will she get pied off? A classic episode of Love Island UK with two highly memed moments. Unbelievable scenes, Jeff!  We continue our interview with Worldwide Casting, do a little cultural translation, and talk about the islander's outfits! It's a lovely time! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's another exciting episode of Love Island UK and Little Bit Leave It! Mike and Priscilla in the Hideaway! Jess and Ched hang out with penguins! The islanders find out what's being said about them in the tabloids! Did I see Meryl Streep? Because this episode has a lot of drama! This episode features the first part of our interview with Cathy and Joel from Worldwide Casting! They talk to us about how they find tomorrow's reality TV stars--you don't want to miss it! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

The villa is in turmoil after two couples have been dumped, and a new boy arrives to shake things up even more! Jamie takes Shaughna and Demi on dates, but he and the rest of the boys have their work cut out for them when we learn that none of the girls have ever had an orgasm! Demi seems the most confused of all and doesn't know what to do about Luke M., and we pay Nas final respects with a tourist's guide to Shoreditch! We talk about who looked stylish while inflating a balloon with their butt! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's another action-packed night at the villa and another jam-packed episode of Little Bit Leave It! We've got the debut of The Breakfast Club, the girls chow down and do their best Speed Racer impression, Demi and Luke M. get snogging, and two couples get dumped from the villa, including podcast favorites Nas and Eva! We go through a whole bunch of cultural references, Jacob Waller from Big Yellow Praxis tells you where to eat and drink in Bristol, and we of course discuss outfits and rank couples! Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

It's an action-packed podcast for an action-packed episode of Love Island UK! Sean Paul is in the house, and Siannise and Luke T. are in the Hideaway!  We've got part one of our interview with Jacob Waller, man about Bristol and proprietor of Big Yellow Praxis, who tells us everything we got wrong in our Bristol deep dive!  Two nights of fashion! The return of the nipple top! Paige and Fin make it official! What are you waiting for?  Join the Little Bit Leave It community on Patreon starting at $2 per month!

Today, we have a special episode for you--it’s the entire interview with Parker James from the podcast A Modern Proposal. We included about 20 minutes of it in our episode covering episodes 23 and 24 of season 6, but we present it here in its entirety--well, it’s all of the parts we think are worth listening to, anyway. We talked a lot about Love Island, and made some comparisons to other shows, and we just couldn’t fit all of it into last week’s episode. We will be back to recapping the sixth season of Love Island UK next week! Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon for bonus content and much more! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

Congrats, hun! It's the moment we've all been waiting for: the post-Casa Amor recoupling! The most drama-filled episode of the season! We combine both episodes of the TV show into one glorious podcast, discussing the tearful reunions that had some girls crying in joy and others crying in despair. We ask questions about Demi's awful dress as well as whether Shaughna's famous one-liner was premeditated.   We've got a special guest for our feature segment: Parker James from A Modern Proposal stops by to propose some disturbing solutions for the problems of Love Island. Check out his podcast for more dark satire!   Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get lots of bonus content for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

Turned heads become budding romances at Casa Amor while the action has fizzled at the main villa. Priscilla decides that blondes have more fun and Jess tries to prove her right. We do a deep dive into tartans, plaids, and kilts (oh, my!) after Biggs declares that he might wear one when he gets married. We talk fashion and rank couples. This episode features additional music by Audionautix.com.   Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

Callum's head is turning and Siannise's ears are burning as Luke T. pines away in Casa Amor. Mike makes yet another connection, this time with Priscilla, and Demi makes up her mind to stay loyal to Nas--but will her loyalty be rewarded? Our feature segment highlights the just a few of the impacts that Britons of Ghanaian and Ugandan descent have had on UK culture and politics. And as per usual, we talk fashions and rank those couples. This episode contains additional music from audionautix.com. Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

It's everyone's favorite episode of Love Island UK! The Casa Amor episode! Season 6's version delivers six new girls along with six new boys to keep the original girls busy at the main villa. We breakdown whose heads are already being turned with special guest co-host Logan! He also weighs in with his opinion on the best Nando's sauce in an extended Culture Shock, lets his claws out in the T&A Report, and shakes up our rankings in a BIG way! Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

The islanders know somebody is going home tonight, but before they do, we get a classic game of snog, marry, pie--or as this season's cast calls it, Jess, Sophie, Siannise!  The Luke M./Jess/Mike love triangle is finally resolved and we say goodbye to a beloved islander who will truly be missed at the villa and also Wallace. Speaking of Wallace, this episode's deep dive is into Inverness, Scotland! It's the Return of the Jacobites in this week's installment of badly-explained history. We talk fashion and of course rank the couples. Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

Love Island UK March Madness! It's four divisions! London! Essex! Hotties! Hustlers! A total of 64 Islanders square off to get to the Final Four! Who will win? Who is even in the tournament? You'll have to listen to find out!!! This is a sample of an hour-long special episode available to our Patreon subscribers. This episode features music by BoxCat Games. Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

The love triangle between Mike, Jess, and Luke M. continues, and Wallace does the worst thing he could have ever done to Rebecca by making her avocado toast. The guys soak the girls in beer and the couples roll around with hot dogs in their mouths before deciding which of them are least compatible and at risk of going home.   Our curiosity as to the origin of the term "Geordie" leads us down a rabbit hole of royal history, and we talk fashion and rank the couples. This episode features additional music by Audionautix.com.   Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

Mike dumps Leanne from the villa and heads straight for Jess. Shaughna is angry with Mike but not angry enough to distract her from her mission of pushing Sophie out of the villa, too--or maybe she was just taking her anger out on Sophie. Luke M. does what he can to stop Mike from grafting but it's just not working, and Nas and Demi finally lock lips after breaking the ice in the sex position game. We tell the story of the Kray brothers, which somehow relates to Leanne's hometown of Chingford at the northern end of Greater London, and as per usual, talk outfits and rank the couples. This episode features additional music by Audionautix.com. Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

The Worst Rebecca continues to create trouble, Mike gets sleazy, Paige and Fin head to the Hideaway, Nas and Demi reveal troubling pizza preferences, and on top of all that, we've got a recoupling! Another original islander goes home as we say goodbye to Leanne. Our deep dive subject is the European tradition of the "bedding ceremony"--it's not just from Game of Thrones, and it finds contemporary expression on Love Island when the entire villa helps a couple prepare for the Hideaway. And of course we talk about fashions and rank the couples! This episode features additional music by Audionautix.com. Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

We rejoin our islanders with appetizers already in progress, and the triangles are everywhere! Will newcomer Wallace force Luke T.'s hand with Siannise? Leanne dumps Mike but could she get dumped in return? We ponder these questions, do a deep dive into the Charles/Diana/Camilla love triangle, answer your questions about pudding and squash, and of course discuss outfits and rank couples.   Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get a bonus mini-episode with every regular episode for as little as $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit

It's an instant classic LBLI! Shaughna's machinations come to fruition when Connor is sent home in a shock dumping! The surprise puts a black cloud over the villa and gives the islanders new perspectives. We do a deep dive into Sophie's connections to the larger world of British reality television, explain what the heck a Nectar card is, review some outfits, and rank the remaining couples. Support Little Bit Leave It on Patreon and get bonus content with every episode, starting at $2 per month! http://www.patreon.com/littlebitleaveit This episode features additional music by Andy G. Cohen.