FBOY Island Australia 2024‘s Ally Woodfall and Joe Blanch have set the record straight about their “villain” edit.
During the season, Ally received a lot of backlash for pining after Joe even after he was outed as an Andrew Tate supporter and exhibiting controlling behaviours.
Despite still being together six months later, Ally admitted that watching their edit has been difficult, considering she went on the show to find love.
“Reality TV, it’s about the drama,” she told Yahoo Lifestyle. “It’s about [captivating] the audience [so they] follow along the journey. And for me, I came onto the island for one thing, and that was to find a connection.”
The 27-year-old insisted that she wasn’t there “for the money” and that she’d found her connection with Joe “very early on”.
“There were connections elsewhere. But for me, the connection with Joe was the strongest,” she gushed.
FBOY Island‘s Joe Blanch embraces his ‘VILLAIN’ edit
Joe chimed in saying he was happy with how he “played his game”.
“You never know the right thing to say in those moments. At the time, it was a bit of a joke. You laugh afterwards and go, ‘I wasn’t actually being serious’, but it’s the way of the edit,” he justified.
He then claimed he was owning his “villain” edit.
“Sometimes there has to be a villain, and you know what? That was just me this time, and I’m okay with that.
“I’m happy with how I played my game, not necessarily how it was portrayed on TV, but it is what it is at the end of the day.”
FBOY Island‘s Ally Woodfall & Joe Blanch send message to trolls
Ally then urged viewers to remember that what they see on TV isn’t a “true depiction” of who the cast are “as people”.
“The audience don’t know us. They know a 50-minute edited version of us. We’re real people. We have real thoughts, feelings and emotions, and these are our lives,” she said.
“It’s hard to read many negative comments when both of us went in with pure intentions.”
Joe added that viewers wouldn’t understand unless they’d gone through the process of being on reality TV.
“What I would say to [viewers] is to put yourself on a reality TV show, put yourself in the spotlight and see how you’d react in those situations,” he asserted. “Because it’s not how you think you would.
“There are many things at play. You could be tired that day, annoyed. In real life, you go through a hundred things that you say, and you’re like, ‘Why did I say that?’.
“But these things are documented on camera, and you don’t get to take them back, so there’s no way out of it.”
And hasn’t he heard of accountability or thinking before you speak?
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