Maya Jama to succeed Laura Whitmore as Love Island host

Posted on October 12, 2022 by Admin

DJ and presenter will take over when the reality TV show returns for ninth series early next year

Maya Jama is to succeed Laura Whitmore as the host of Love Island, it has been announced. ITV said Jama would take over when the reality TV show returns for its ninth series early next year.

“I’ve always been such a massive Love Island fan and I’m so excited to be hosting one of the nation’s favourite shows,” Jama said. “I can’t wait to get into the villa to meet all of the islanders.”

Men watch Love Island to hear women’s conversations, says ITV boss

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Admin

Show offers young men insight into female counterparts, says Kevin Lygo, as channel adds Big Brother to roster

Cynics have suggested Love Island’s popularity is built on the opportunity to watch contestants walking around a villa in swimwear. But according to ITV’s boss, the show’s real appeal for young men is the insight it offers into the mentality of women.

Kevin Lygo, who oversees ITV’s programme output, said the hit dating show allows straight men to hear conversations that they are usually excluded from.

Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti voted Love Island winners

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Admin

Turkish actor and Italian business owner, both 27, share £50,000 prize after poll among viewers

Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti have been crowned the winners of Love Island 2022, winning the £50,000 prize money after a public vote.

Cülcüloğlu, a Turkish actor from Essex, 27, and Italian business owner, Sanclimenti, also 27, arrived in the Love Island villa early on in the series as bombshell contestants and won over viewers with their fiery but passionate relationship.

Love Island earns ITV £12m before new series as advertisers jostle to take part

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Admin

The most commercialised show on British television has signed up nine official partners

Love Island has netted ITV more than £12m in revenues even before the first episode of the new series of the hit reality show airs on Monday, as sponsors and advertisers rush to attach themselves to the most commercialised show on British television.

With uncertainty over Covid restrictions scuppering holidays abroad for a second successive year, the arrival of the feelgood summer juggernaut could not be more perfectly timed to tap into a viewer and advertising boom.

Sun screen: the best TV shows to watch over the summer months

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Admin

From Love Island to Queer Eye, as the longest day of the year beckons our writers pick their favourite summery television so you needn’t brave the outside world

For many Brits of a certain age, the launch of the latest Love Island trailer is the bat signal that summer is truly starting. Whatever the weather, every July between 2015 to 2019, when Caroline Flack promised me a “long, hot, summer”, I knew I was in for one.

Politicians condemn press intrusion after Caroline Flack’s death

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Admin

ITV says Sunday’s Love Island will not be broadcast as calls mount for regulation of traditional and social media

Politicians have condemned press intrusion, calling for more regulation of both traditional and social media after the death of TV presenter Caroline Flack.

The former Love Island presenter is understood to have taken her own life on Saturday at her home in Islington, London. She had been charged with assaulting her partner and was due to stand trial in several weeks’ time.

Caroline Flack’s boyfriend Lewis Burton ‘heartbroken’ by her death

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Admin

Former Love Island host reported to have been found dead at east London home on Saturday

The boyfriend of TV presenter Caroline Flack, who was found dead at her home on Saturday, has said he is heartbroken by her death.

Flack, 40, was due to go on trial on 4 March for assaulting Lewis Burton, a prosecution he did not support. She had been forbidden by a judge from communicating with him before the trial.