Love Triangle star reveals explosive rows were cut from ‘carnage’ dinner party – and shares truth behind partner fallout
LOVE Triangle star Lois Grace has revealed explosive arguments have been edited out of boozy dinner party scenes in the drama-filled reality show.
The 34-year-old single mum has been paired up with barber Danny, 35, in Channel 4‘s dating series.
In the first three episodes viewers watched them meet for the first time after exchanging flirty texts, before moving in together and learning more about one another.
On Wednesday night, some of the couples on the show were introduced to a third person (Sadie, in Danny and Lois’s case) who posed a threat to the fledgling relationships they’d been building.
The couples have also been meeting for dinner parties to discuss their situationships, and there’s much that has been left on the cutting room floor.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Lois described one party as “carnage”.
She said: “I got in arguments with pretty much everyone at the table, so when I say to Danny ‘oh God, I really need a hug’ it’s because I’ve been arguing for like two hours with people.
“I think people forget because you are away from your friends and family the person that you’re living with, no matter if you like them or fancy them, they’re kind of all you’ve got. It’s like you kind of get your safety blanket so it was a really emotional night.”
The main cause of drama at the table was a clash of personalities as well as a gulf in ages; at 34 Lois is the oldest woman on the programme.
“My life is not very glitz and glam,” she admitted. “So when I walked into this dinner party and I saw everyone I was like ‘wow’, everyone was just so glamorous and I was like ‘oh my God, what am I doing here? This is not me’, so I found that quite difficult.
“I don’t fake it, I say how I feel and I felt at that dinner party that time that people were kind of playing up a little bit, not not really being honest with what was going on and I can’t take bulls**t, sorry.
“I just can’t. I’m too old. That’s where my kind of frustration was at that table. I just felt like I was surrounded by a lot of surface level characters.”
One of the people Lois argued with was Big Brother star Ryan Ruckledge.
The outspoken reality veteran sparked drama when he asked each person to share who they’d like to couple up with if they could pick one of their co-stars.
“Me and Ryan had a huge row that night, like huge,” said Lois. “He caught me rolling my eyes at him because I can’t hide my face well. Me and him were like battle of the big characters like we were not stepping down.”
At the end of episode three, Lois and Danny were no longer on speaking terms.
He shocked her when he decided that he wanted to meet Sadie, who was waiting in the wings, early.
And there was another argument when Danny made an unaired comment about her personal life. Viewers saw Lois upset and angry in the back of a taxi on their way home from a party, but the full story wasn’t shown.
Lois explained: “A lot of the stuff hasn’t been aired that was set at the table and, for me, I’m a very protective person when it comes to me being a mum and comments that were made were just not okay with me and that was my level of upset.
“He knew how homesick I was and how much I was listening and I was really struggling.
“We actually had a scene the day before the dinner party where I was in floods of tears and sort of saying to him ‘I really need your support’. Like this isn’t all about you, I’m away from my child, who I spend every second with, and when someone uses that to play with my emotions that was it for me.
“I was like ‘absolutely not. You’re not going to try and make me feel vulnerable because you know that I’m missing my child’.”
Lois, who had her “miracle” daughter aged 23, grew emotional while recounting her difficult past in this interview, sharing how she’s had three ectopic pregnancies, one of which she nearly died from due severe internal bleeding.
She said: “Life has been a roller coaster, and it’s taken me a long time to get to the point where I am now, where I’m very comfortable in my own skin.
“I know who I am, I’m happy with who I am, I’m self-assured, and I’m proud of who I am, and how I’ve got to where I am today.”
On multiple occasions she considered quitting the programme, but her determination to show her strength of character won out.
Lois is hopeful the real her will shine through in future episodes and that viewers will see her fun side as opposed to the ‘ice queen’ character she’s been portrayed as.
That narrative was set from the first episode when the awkward atmosphere between her and Danny took centre stage, before he eventually confessed he didn’t have a physical attraction to her.
Those hard to watch moments were actually shot on the second day after they’d had a good laugh and shared their backstories.
Lois even made bodybuilder Danny a sash and crown out of toilet paper and tinfoil, which wasn’t shown.
She said: “For it to just cut straight into this awkwardness I was like ‘oh okay this is how it’s gonna go’.”