Love Island contestant Jonny Mitchell has been branded “controlling and abusive” by domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid after comments he made about Tyla Carr earlier this week.
After newcomer Theo Campell chose Tyla (who was with Jonny) to couple up with, Jonny branded him a “gigantic bellend” and things became heated. He also said that Theo would have to prise Tyla from his ‘cold dead hands’.
Women’s Aid CEO Polly Neate has branded these comments “possessive and controlling”.
She wrote on the charity’s website: "When Jonny said that new arrival Theo would have to prise Tyla'from my cold dead hands' it was not romantic.
"It did not demonstrate how much he liked her. It was possessive and controlling. What can all too easily be passed off as banter, actually carries the underlying sentiment that this man believes he owns this woman."
"The fact that Tyla says she was left wanting to run away from a controlling relationship in the past, shows just how easy this sort of behaviour, if unchecked, can slip into a controlling and abusive relationship."
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