Domestic abuse, both physical and emotional, is not as black and white as one might believe – the filmic idea of a drunk husband coming home from the pub and blacking his wife’s eye for not doing the washing up cannot and does not represent every survivor’s experience.

Charities have long highlighted how domestic abuse can take the form of emotional manipulation and controlling behaviour – something officially recognised in the UK in 2015, with the introduction of a law specifically targeting “controlling or coercive behaviour”.

Now the CEO of Women’s Aid has taken aim at ‘banter’ – the catch-all term that too often allows people to say whatever they like, however offensive, under the guise of ‘just having a laugh’ – and specifically, at a comment from a Love Island contestant.

In an episode aired Monday 10 June, Jonny Mitchell remarked that a newcomer to the show, Theo Campbell, would have to prise contestant Tyra Carr from his “cold, dead hands”.

Love Island contestant denounced by abuse charity for “possessive, controlling” behaviour