For the first few weeks of Love island 2006 it seemed as though Shane Lynch had it sorted. He was definitely leader of the pack, all the boys looked up to him and all the girls swooned whe he came near.

But it looks as though Shane could now be replaced in the celebrities affections by newcomer bad boy Dennis Rodman.

All the boys swarm round him constantly, and we have definitely seen an increase in laddish and overtly sexual behaviour since the basketball star arrived in camp.

Since Dennis arrived Shane seems to have taken a back seat, often disapporving of the conversations, or of peoples actions. Will Shane regain top spot? Hopefully right after Dennis is speedboated right off of there!

Tonight we are in for a treat! While watching our nightly does of Love Island we get to see former Boyzone singer Shane Lynch have THE talk with model Sophie Anderton.

Sophie has spent the last two weeks telling anyone that will listen how much she likes Shane and how besotted she is with him. She has also frequently added that she knows he feels the same way. Unfortunately for her, it seems that Shane thoughts on the matter couldn’t be more different than her own.

Shane approached Sophie and began by saying:

“This is something that I feared between me and you which is getting weird,�

“I think you’re an amazing girl and don’t want our friendship to be weirded out,� Father Shane begins, Bianca and Kelle’s words of encouragement still playing on his mind.

“I don’t know why anyone else was talking about it,â€? Sophie insists…incredibly!

â€?I just want to make sure it doesn’t affect us and we can crack on as friends,â€? Shane continues.

Sophie acts cool as a cucumber and continues,

“I just said I wasn’t interested in you in that way, we are totally on the same page, they can’t understand.â€?

“Absolutely, that’s what I thought. That’s where I thought you were coming from,â€? Shane lies!

Sophie then sauntered to the Beach Hut to spout:

‘When we leave here it’s something that could happen, it’s just not going to happen right now,’

“Fab, glad that’s ‘sorted’ then…aaaarrrrgggghhhhhh!!�

I think that if Shane really wants to put Sophie off he is going to have to try much harder than that. The conversation should have went:

“Hey stalker! Stop looking at me, talking about me and lusting after me! I want Colleen, now GO AWAY!”

Lets be honest none of us would have blamed him.

Most of the Love Island celebrities are praying to get sent to the love shack just once, but it seems that Boyzone star Shane Lynch can’t keep away from the place.

As part of the secret ‘who is the sexiest celebrity’ vote, Love Island producers chose the winners Colleen Shannon and Shane Lynch to enter the Love Shack for one night only.

Shane seems to be very happy with the choice of partners, so much so that he even rethought his celibacy vow. I wonder what Sophie will think when the pair return to camp!

It was crunch time this evening on Love Island as Alicia Douvall, Chris Brosnan and Colleen Shannon were selected for eviction.

Panic started to set in when the contestants were told that they would make the final decision who would be evicted. As the first part of the show wrapped, we could hear some of the contestants protesting that they wouldn’t nominate.

When the show came back on, the show producers had persuaded the group that they had to vote, but at the same time Alicia (sensing the axe falling?) walked off the set and refused to come back on!

Patrick Kielty asked the group to reveal their nominations. Although a few of them refused to nominate, those who did chose Alicia for the chop, so her instincts may have been right. Shane Lynch and Kelly Bryan decided not to nominate, and were told that all nominations were to be done this way. Lee “Bombhead” Otway chirped up that he didn’t want to and that the group were a team.

So, Alicia’s gone, and Love Island seems to be taking on the evilness of Big Brother and the nasty tasks of I’m A Celebrity – will this stir tensions within the group? I hope so!

You’ve gotta draw the line somewhere, and when I see a celebrity spewing up, I sort of lose interest. Don’t you?

The couples on Love Island had to complete a task which involved eating red-hot spices as quickly as possible. Although there were a few valiant attempts, Sophie Anderton couldn’t hold the food down and gave us a little too much footage of it coming back up. Charming I think Brendan Cole also had trouble keeping the hot stuff down.

So what better way to follow that task but with a little game of Guess Who? Blindfolded celebs were asked to guess their partner through the simple act of nipple-licking! What an ordeal!

Although it looked like a lot of fun, Shane Lynch was determined not to participate in the task. I always imagined that Shane was ….er… worldly and that he wouldn’t have a problem with the sexy stuff. I’m sort of still waiting for him to reveal a wild side….

After Shane Lynch and Sophie Anderton were voted to spend a third night alone together in the Love island 2006 Love Shack, you would imagine that things would be hotting up….well you would be wrong!

When asked how she felt about Shane, glamour model Sophie admitted:

“I do like him but I could like him more, hopefully he does like me.�

She continued “We have a connection, he is gorgeous. I love how he sees life and we both love the same things,�

But Shane seems to see Sophie in a whole different light:

“I don’t think there is any chance of romance,� he commented.

“She just reminds me of me sister too much�.

“I just don’t have any physical attractions to her�.

Tell it as it is Shane, why don’t ya.

Paddy Power bookmakers has named Shane Lynch as their favourite male to win this years series of Love Island.

Paddy Power odds on the males are as follows:

Shane Lynch 4 – 5
Lee Otway 7 – 2
Leo Ihenancho 6 – 1
Brendan Cole 6 – 1
Chris Brosnan 8 – 1

If you fancy a flutter on this years Love Island or Big Brother for that matter, click on the Paddy Power link for your free £10 BET!

Sophie Anderton and Shane Lynch were the first couple to be voted into the Love Island Love Shack, despite Shanes plea to be kept out of the hideaway.

The love shack is normally a place for couples to get closer, and in the case of Rebecca Loos and Callum Best last year, start romancing each other.

However things are to be different in this years show, not least because Shane Lynch has recently turned to christianity and has a major problem with sharing a bed with a woman he barely knows.

With this in mind he refused to share the huge bed in the Love Shack with troubled model Sophie Anderton, instead opting to kip on the sofa.

I am sure that did wonders for her self-esteem!

Details of the celebrities salries for Love Island 2006 have been leaked to the press this week.

The highest paid star is Sopie Anderton who will be getting £70,000, closely followed by Lady Victoria Hervey who is being paid £50,000.

Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole is set to earn £40,000, Bianca Gascoigne has been offered £30,000, while Hollyoaks star Lee Ottway and former Boyzone singer Shane Lynch are earning £26,000.

Less well-known stars such as models Alicia Douvall and Colleen Shannon, Pierce Brosnan’s son Chris and singer Leo Ihenacho have signed £20,000 contracts.

According to The People, the contestants will be taxed twice on their earnings – once in Fiji and again in Britain.

“They are very angry,” a source explained. “Someone earning £25,000 can expect to take home around £12,000 after tax.”

Love Island contestant Shane Lynch shot to fame after joining irish boyband ‘Boyzone’ in the mid 1990s.

He is most famous for his drunken tirade at the MTV music awards in 1999 where he claimed rumours of Boyzone disbanding were “fucking shite”.

Shane was married to Eternal singer Esther Bennet for two years vefore they seperated in 2000.

Shane Lynch is no stranger to reality TV, having taken part in Channel 4′s ‘The Games’ in 2004.