Noah Purvis was one of the hot prospects of 2020’s edition of Love Island; ripped, blonde, and peppy, he was the eye candy for the girls and audience. But his sudden departure from the long-running and successful reality show left many in the audience wondering why Noah left Love Island. Today, we’re going to put the magnifying glass on that event and the context necessary to comprehend the man’s dismissal.
That season of Love Island was won by Paige and Finn, it’s been a few years now, and Noah Purvis opened up about why he left the program without much details on behalf of the show’s producers. Was it a breach of contract? Was it misbehavior? Or was it something from his past that caught up with him, and the producers found it to be unacceptable? Let’s find out.
Why Did Noah Leave Love Island?
According to CBS, the network in charge of making Love Island, Noah Purvis, had lied to them in their work application and provided them with false information that violated his contract as a contestant in the popular dating reality show.
As it turns out, CBS got wind that Noah Purvis had a few gay sex tapes running around the internet back when he worked as a gay porn star. Apparently, that goes against the policies of the contract drafted by CBS and which Purvis had signed.
He needed to tell CBS that he had been involved in those activities, failed to do so, and that caused him to be fired from the show. While that might sound bigoted and discriminatory on CBS’s behalf against Noah, that’s how things are handled in reality shows and the networks.
On CBS’s Corporate Hypocrisy
Everyone can agree that having a sex tape in your past is a bit of a petty reason —let alone a bullsh*t— an excuse to get fired from a show like Love Island, which banks money from exploiting sexuality, hookup culture, and the over-sexualization of normal human interactions.
Even more so when CBS makes millions of dollars by distributing and broadcasting shows that celebrate the LGBT community, like RuPaul’s franchise and Paramount+’s commitment to include minorities of all walks of life in their programming, so that move from CBS seems, at best, hypocritical and sketchy when they boast virtue signaling about casting choices on their reality television programs.
In any case, having a legal sex tape running around the internet is no crime; in many cases, it’s been a career booster for many celebrities out there: Just ask Kim Kardashian, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, and Colin Farrell or Hulk Hogan. You don’t see any of them getting shunned by networks or studios because of that; quite the opposite.
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Noah Purvis Speaks About His Departure From Love Island
Since his departure, Noah has been vocal about the reasons for his getting the boot off the popular dating reality show Love Island. In a video posted on social media, he says that he acknowledges his participation in a gay sex tape, claims that he had videos and photos of him taken and that he didn’t use his real name.
Instead, he used an alias —a common thing in the adult video industry—and that it was so way back, that that happened so long ago, that he’d practically forgotten about it.
Still, the internet remembers, the internet never forgets and seldom forgives, and when those videos of Noah popped up, he was approached by the producers who told him that given his explicit videos being out there on the internet, they couldn’t have him on the show anymore.
Noah claims he was surprised about that. He tried to explain his reasons to the producers, but the producers wouldn’t have any of those reasons. After being fired, Noah sought out counseling and therapy to deal with the emotional stress.
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