Tha latest reality TV phenomenon to hit our screens is Forbidden Fruit,which is about to enter its second series. The rules are simple: two couples spend a week apart on a desert island,but the women are with gorgeous, single men and the men are with beautiful, single girls. Will they be able to resist temptation and remain faithful to their partners, or will they be unable to resist the forbidden fruit of other men or women? We talk to two of last years contestants, Abby and George.
Divide the class into two groups, A and B. Group A reads what Abby says and Group B reads what George says.
Abby
Well, everybody knows the story by now. When I went onto the island, l'd been going out with George for five years and we were planning on getting married. thought it was going to be really hard to be apart from him, but then when he went to the other side of the island, began to realize that really didn't miss him, and that what needed was some time to discover myself. I remember walking along the beach on the first day and thinking, "If only this had happened a couple of years before because, you know, you don't realize how unhappy you can be in relationships. I knew then that had to get out. should have gotten out a long time before the TV show.
l was planning to stay faithful to George until l had chance to tell him about my feelings, so for the first couple of days l didn't join in with the group very much. Then, after a couple of days, noticed that this guy Harvey was paying a lot of attention to me. He wasn't lke all the others, he was showing me a lot of respect as well, and he was actually intelligent After a couple more days we went on our first date, and we're still together now, so at least l can say that it wasn't a fling. In fact,Iwish I'd met him earlier and under different circumstances, because wish that people wouldn't look at us in the street and say, "There's that TV couple you know, the one who dumped her boyfriend for that guy" As things sland, we're probably going to get married next year, but wish we had a bit more money because then we could get married sooner.