Netflix slammed for use of the Last Post on island dating show

Brisbane's Georgia Hassarati on Netflix series Too Hot To Handle. Photo / Netflix

A dating show on Netflix has been blasted as disrespectful for featuring the Last Post during a montage of contestants engaging in sexual acts.

Too Hot To Handle follows a cast of "gorgeous singles" on a tropical island. To win the grand prize, they have to give up sex, as well as kissing, sexual contact and self-gratification.

Each time the rules are broken the shared $US200,000 ($NZD300,000) prize get smaller.

While the show won't be winning a Sundance award anytime soon, one scene has rubbed veteran advocacy groups up the wrong way.

The new third season is based on the Turks and Caicos Islands and features more than a dozen bathing suit-clad singles including one Australian.

In the episode, after a night of several transgressions, the contestants learn they've managed to drain the $200,000 prize fund to zero.

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The music on the montage of their activities is the Last Post – a bugle call used across the commonwealth to signify a final farewell at Anzac Day and Remembrance Day services, as well as military funerals.

The show's narrator – comedian Desiree Burch – then says: "I think we all need to take a moment and pay our respects to our dearly departed prize fund.

"A once healthy $200k has been reduced to nothing but sweet memories.

"Dear prize fund, your dollars may have gone but you will never be forgotten."

RSL NSW President Ray James told 7NEWS.com.au he was "outraged that the Last Post has been used in this context".

"This piece of music is used as a mark of respect to those that have lost their lives in wars and conflicts around the world.

"The producers have shown a complete lack of empathy for their service and sacrifices made for their country, and for their loved ones left behind."

The scene has also been labelled as "inappropriate" and "disrespectful" online.

WHY have they put the last post over a montage of people making out in too hot to handle

— chloe (@bettysnights) January 27, 2022

"I can't believe they used it AS A JOKE. it's so disrespectful," one person wrote.

not Too Hot to Handle using “The Last Post” as a background song to a bunch of horny people losing prize money. not the vibe at all @netflix

— katy myhal (@katy_myhal) February 1, 2022

"So glad someone else clocked this! Netflix should be embarrassed at the blatant disrespect!" said another.

too hot to handle played the last post in the background of people having sex??? thats so wrong ????

— lexie (@esnyhigher) January 26, 2022

News.com.au has contacted Netflix for comment.