The 7 things you hear when you don't watch Temptation Island

Mouth open, crazy eyebrows and eyes like ping pong balls, and these are just the non-verbal reactions that my ‘I don't watch Temptation Island’ confession brings about. Yes, you probably don't believe it, but they really exist, people who do NOT watch it. Everyone around me is watching the reality show, and when you're the only one who hasn't seen it, it raises questions. These are the seven things you hear when you don't watch Temptation:

1. Starting with the kilometers of misunderstanding. ‘Huh, no, wait, you don't watch Temptation? I really don't know anyone who doesn't watch.’
2. ‘But why don't you watch it then?’ I find that a painful and awkward question. Because then I have to explain that a format in which sex, cheating, and surprise, because why is everyone so surprised all the time, doesn't interest me.
3. ‘You really have to watch it, you'll definitely like it.’ Yeah, no, I don't think I'm ever going to like it. Coincidentally, I watched for ten minutes last Thursday and that was ten minutes too long for me.
4.  ‘What do you watch then?’ Believe me, there is a life without Temptation, even if you might think otherwise.
5. ‘Wow, look at him there. He looks a lot like that guy from Temptation Island. Oh, you don't know that of course.’
6. ‘Lynn, Lynn, Lynn, have you seen those screenshots of Alex to that chick? Oh no, no Temptation for you of course.’
7.  By the way, every game show now has one unknown face and that is the person who drumrolls... participates in Temptation Island. When we watch Boxing Stars together and I ask who is in the left corner, it sounds in chorus: ‘That's Niels from Temptation Island. Oh, wait, you don't watch that, do you?’

Maybe Temptation Island works just like coffee, olives, tonic, or oysters and I need to learn to appreciate it. To be continued.