It was the seventh day on the island and we met the women in dire straits. They were dehydrated and starving and things didn’t look like they were going to get much better.

Bear Grylls said humans have to drink between two and four litres of water a day, in those conditions, and the women were surviving on rain water – but there hadn’t been a drop in two days.

People couldn’t understand why the women seemed to be sunbathing despite their obvious dehydration.

It also happened to be Lauren’s 25th birthday. She said: “My other birthdays, I’m stressing out because no one’s got me a card, or no one’s come out for a meal – and now, I’m just going to be happy with a piece of fruit and some water.”

She got a bit more than fruit and water when the group stumbled across two piglets and their mum. Their aggressive mum.

Being stuck on an island the women were supposed to eat the pigs, that’s certainly what Bear expected of them to pass his tests, but instead of that – they named them.

Some of the women felt they’d have to eat the piglets eventually (the mother had disappeared by this point), but others were quickly getting attached to them. The piglets actually spent the night asleep, cuddling with their new human friends.

People on Twitter had opinions which varied as much as those on the island with the pigs.

Things got painful for Lauren when, before cutting to an ad-break, we heard loud screams and saw her running from the beach and into the water. People were confused.

It wasn’t long before we found out what happened.

Lauren, who’d previously attempted to row across the atlantic, didn’t let the scolding water get to her though: “I won’t let people see that I’m feeling just as weak as them, because I actually feel that some people need strength in other people to keep them going and I’m determined to be that person.”

We learned that Aloe Vera tastes like sperm, or at least that’s according to Jaime.

The women decided they’d had enough of Coconut Beach, where they’d previously travelled to (spending three days lost in the jungle on the way), and decided to head back to their previous home. The decision wasn’t taken lightly, as with a lack of food and water, morale and energy was low. People at home were, expectedly, unsympathetic.

They got to Home Beach quicker than expected and it turned out that the little piglets had actually followed them there. Incredibly cute, we know.

They also found a treasure chest (box of rubbish) on the beach, which contained a luminous orange drink. Jaime couldn’t have been more pleased, having earlier admitted to “dreaming about Diet Irn Bru… cold, freezing cold Diet Irn Bru,”

The journey proved too much for Fran however, who’d collapsed from dehydration a few days earlier and on tonight’s episode had to leave the Island. Again, people were unsympathetic.

Bear had to come to the Island to give them some new supplies to make a fire… people wondered whether that meant that they’d failed?

By the end of the episode, a timely narration from Bear let us know that the women were surviving on 50 calories a day. They decided enough was enough. Sage and Onion had to go, and Lauren stepped up to be the one to do it.

RIP Sage & Onion.