‘Rosie had a script’: Love Island’s Adam on his infamous smirk

'I think it could have been handled a lot better.'

Rosie Williams became something of a feminist hero as she gave Adam Collard a dressing-down after he ended their relationship during their stint on Love Island. Adam was public enemy number one and was even accused of being emotionally abusive for appearing to smile as she told him how upset she was. His smirk went viral but he's now setting the record straight. Speaking in Dublin today, he said that viewers at home saw just four minutes of a 40 minute conversation in which he was "spoken at." "If the cut was a little longer people might have had a different approach – they would have seen how long I was spoken at," he told Independent.ie. "Rosie had a phone where she typed up everything she wanted to say.  I wasn’t smirking at her being upset, I would never want to see any girl upset like that. "I was smirking at the fact she had a script, an essay, that she was rattling off – and for 40 minutes I just sat there and took it and took it and took it and didn’t get a word in edgeways." It was "frustrating" that the whole conversation wasn't shown, he said, and while he understood why she wanted to make her points "it could have been handled a lot better and been a discussion rather than a speech."