The British version of Love Island is on the move in the States.
08.01.2024 - 16:55 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Love Island fans don't have long to wait for their next villa fix, with an All Stars version of the hit ITV show launching next week.
The spin-off sees former islanders get a second chance at finding love. Shot in South Africa, it will replace the winter version of Love Island this January.
As ever, only one pair can be crowned the winner of this year's series. Maya Jama is back on hosting duties when the show returns to the small screen on Monday January 15.
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Season seven exes Liberty Poole and Jake Cornish will both be joining the line-up, alongside campaigner Georgia Harrison and YouTuber Kaz Kamwi. TV personalities Chris Taylor and Georgia Steel and semi-professional footballer Toby Aromolaran are also among those set for the show.
Meanwhile it is understood that spin-off show Aftersun will not be in the same format when Love Island All Stars airs. Maya will interviewing the booted- out contestants instead of a traditional panel-style reaction show.
Read on to discover the line-up in full, and when they've appeared on Love Island before.
Georgia Harrison, 29, who had been on series three of Love Island as a bombshell, is returning as part of the main cast. She has been campaigning to tackle violence against women and girls after her ex-partner Stephen Bear, a winner of Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother, was jailed for posting intimate footage of her online.
She said: “As much as this year’s been amazing, it’s been heavy at times and pretty serious with all of my campaigning work. This is the last year of my 20s so I want to go in the villa and have some fun and hopefully meet someone that I can fall in love with.
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The British version of Love Island is on the move in the States.
Love Island fans are fuming over contestant Chris Taylor's "annoying and immature" habit. The 33 year old star is back in the South African villa in the All Stars series, as previous contestants return once again on the look out for love. But Chris, who has previously found romance with Maura Higgins, can't seem to help saying the word "rizz" – using phrases like "forbidden rizz", "daytime rizz" and "playground rizz" – leaving unimpressed viewers begging him to stop using it.
Love Island: All Stars has been providing the drama on-screen for over a week now and it doesn't seem to be cooling down.
Love Island: All Stars viewers have been left questioning what the spin-off show really is following a surprise dumping and the arrival of a new bombshell during the latest trip to the villa. It was all happening on Monday night (January 22) in South Africa as a dramatic twist was delivered by host Maya Jama.
Love Island's first dumped islander Demi Jones has opened up on her time in the villa and didn't hold back calling Mitchel Taylor "a menace" after she was told her time was up during tonight's dramatic instalment, 22 January.The reality TV star, who took part in the show's first winter edition back in 2020, was back with a bang for All Stars. Sadly, after only one week in the villa, presenter Maya Jama announced that Demi and Luis Morrison, who have already agreed to go on their first date, were being sent home.
Love Island bosses have reportedly dished out a ‘flying ban’ to host Maya Jama while she films All Stars in South Africa. ITV was reportedly 'mortified' by how often Maya was flying between the UK and South Africa while filming the series last year.
Maya Jama tells us there’s not an easy way to her heart as she shimmers beneath the South African sunshine at the sumptuous Love Island villa, before adding coyly, “There shouldn’t be an easy way to anyone’s heart.” She’s the glamorous host of the nation’s favourite dating show, but Maya’s lessons in love have all been learned firsthand from her own roller-coaster love life.The TV presenter, 29, is once again wrapped up with her soulmate Stormzy, 30, four years after their romance first ended following rumours he’d cheated. Maya cut him out of her life but, in Love Island parlance, Stormzy didn’t stop grafting, writing songs about Maya and telling the world, “I want to marry her, I want to have her children.” For a while his declarations fell on deaf ears and in 2021, NBA player Ben Simmons proposed to Maya with a dazzling emerald-cut diamond ring worth £800,000.
Love Island's Jake Cornish is back in the UK after a dramatic exit from ITV All Stars, just three days after entering the villa for a second time. The star, who first appeared on Love Island in 2021, was tipped to join All Stars but left mere days into the competition after failing to connect with anyone. In a further emotional twist, Jake was shocked when his ex-girlfriend, Liberty Poole, also walked in, as the public had voted for them to couple up on the show and rekindle their former romance.
Love Island: All Stars viewers were left asking 'anyone else' after they were left feeling 'sorry' for the same Islander following the latest episode. The new version of the ITV2 dating show returned with host Maya Jama on Monday night (January 15) as a number of former islanders returned looking for a second shot at love.
Jake Cornish admitted that he is 'sad' after making the decision to quit Love Island All Stars, just three days into the show. The 28 year old was one of the stars of the new spin-off series, which sees Islanders from previous series coming together in a villa in South Africa for a second shot at love.
A string of popular Love Island stars have returned to reality TV for their second chance at finding love. The brand new series filmed in South Africa, Love Island All-Stars, will see a twist to the original ITV2 format, with stars from previous seasons coming together in a bid to find romance once again.The line-up includes some of the biggest bombshells from years gone by who can't wait to get back to the villa in the hope of finding lasting love this time around.
Love Island: All Stars viewers have been left demanding to know 'why' as a first look at the next episode revealed Jake Cornish's exit. It was reported that the 26-year-old had decided to leave the villa just a mere couple of days after heading to South Africa for the spin-off.
Love Island is back with a bang, with an all-new spin-off series: Love Island All Stars. The show, hosted by Maya Jama, kicked off on Monday, January 15, with a host of former Love Islanders, including Georgia Harrison and Toby Aromolaran, who have entered a villa in South Africa for a second shot at love.
ITV‘s decision to kick Love Island: All Stars into its main channel schedule failed to reap rewards, with just 1M tuning in to the opener last night on ITV 1 and a further 500,000 on ITV 2.
Love Island's Jake Cornish is believed to have dramatically left the show after being paired with Liberty Poole.The reality TV star re-entered the iconic villa just three days ago, with the first episode airing last night which saw the public vote to pair Jake with his ex Liberty. However, it seems that this may have proved a bit much for Jake, who has reportedly walked from the villa after just three days.
Love Island: All Stars viewers think they have named their 'winners' after the first episode and while their prediction includes Chris Taylor, they're divided over who it is he'll be coupled up with at the time.
Love Island: All Stars fans have asked 'is there any point?' as they spotted a problem with the new spin-off series. It was back to the villa on Monday night (January 15) as some very familiar faces headed to South Africa - where the winter series is usually filmed - for a second shot at love.
Love Island’s Mitch Taylor has revealed that he has a 'game plan' to get him to the final of Love Island: All Stars. The 28 year old gas engineer from Sheffield appeared on Love Island in the summer of 2023, but he stirred up strong reactions from viewers, who accused him of 'gaslighting' Abi Moores, amongst other things.
Liberty Poole and Jake Cornish took part in the seventh series of Love Island in 2021 and formed a relationship while in the villa.The two coupled up on the first day and remained together for almost the entire season. However, four days before the final, they decided to split and walk from the show before announcing their break up to the rest of the cast.
Love Island's Chloe Burrows has been the envy of her fans with a sun-soaked holiday to Bali and Australia - but things took a nightmarish turn when she was bitten by a spider.The horrifying moment that many Brits abroad dread was captured on camera by her best pal Millie Court, who shared a Snapchat of Chloe, 28, realising she had been bitten. In the video, Millie, 27, looks shocked and covers her mouth as she captions it: "I dunno if u can hear me out but Chloe's been bit by a spider." The camera then turns on Chloe, who is climbing out of an outdoor swimming pool and looking down at her leg as she mimes clutching at her throat in horror.