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The Sun
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Love Island major twist as TWO dumped islanders return to cause chaos days before final
LOVE Island was sent into meltdown tonight as two stars returned to the villa to cause chaos before the final. Irish stunner Megan and Spanish lad Blu appeared in a teaser for tomorrow night's eipsode. 3 3 3 Iain Stirling revealed the incredible comeback and The Sun understands the pair entered the villa tonight.
The Sun
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Love Island shock as superstar rapper performs for cast at surprise Love Island festival party and issues warning to lad
LOVE Island is in for a shock tomorrow night when a rap superstar hosts a surprise festival in the villa. In a Love Island first, the cast are treated to their very own music festival with Brit chart-topper Tinie Tempah performing. 4 4 4 Dubbed the Love Island Festival, the event lifts spirits after a chaotic kissing challenge and one star quitting the show. Tinie Tempah will perform his chart topping hits as the islanders dance the night away. The Pass Out hitmaker is the most successful British rap artist in UK chart history - being the first to reach platinum sales status with his US debut single Written in the Stars. In a first look of Tuesday's episode he can be seen surrounded by the cast during an electric performance, and they all look delighted to be at the intimate gig. Tinie tells them: "Make some noise!!" He even adds a warning to one of the boys: "I've been seeing you man, behave!" But there's another surprise to come. Love Island's Iain Stirling also revealed fans will learn the results of the latest public vote. Fans flooded social media with excitement as they wait to learn who is in the bottom two. One said: "It's absolutely a vote to get rid of the ones who aren't going anywhere - Emma & Boris watch out." Another insisted: "I have no doubt in my mind that this is probably going to be a vote where Dejon will be in the bottom BUT he won't leave." Emotional moment Love Island star Cach admits he DOES still like Toni One more echoed over on X: "From all The votes so far I fear it's Emma and Boris that'd be dumped, haven't seen anyone voting for them. Meg and Dejon live to fight another day sigh." And Maja Jama looks set to return this week - after revealing she's heading back to Majorca. Maya told Aftersun viewers last night that she was heading back to Majorca this week. Taking to social media today, Maya told fans: "Legit three hours sleep and I'm off again."
Scotsman
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Love Island 2025: who are the favourites to win ITV2 series?
The frontrunners to win Love Island 2025 have been named 👀 Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Love Island series 12 has been airing on ITV2 throughout the summer. The iconic reality show is nearing the conclusion of its latest season. But who are the frontrunners to win in 2025? Love Island has turned 10 this summer and it has celebrated the major milestone with another dramatic season. It has been weeks of twists and turns, break-ups and make-ups, on ITV2. However, as they say, all good things must come to an end and the iconic reality series is nearing its conclusion for 2025. The show will be crowning its winners in the coming weeks and a pair of frontrunners has emerged. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Maya Jama is on hosting duties once again for Love Island's latest series - having also hosted the latest season of ITV2's All Star spin-off in the winter. Iain Stirling has also returned as the narrator and has pulled double duty with the American version. But who is looking most likely to win Love Island this summer? Here's all you need to know: Who are the favourites to win Love Island? Love Island host Maya Jama | ITV The 12th series of the legendary reality show has been running throughout the summer on ITV2. Premiering way back on June 9, it has been a fixture of the TV schedule in the weeks since. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It has meant fans have had plenty of time to form their own opinions on the couples - from first impressions all the way to firm conclusions. Viewers have started to back the ones they think will win, via the bookies odds. Oddschecker has rounded up the favourites to win Love Island 2025 and one couple is the current frontrunner, as of today (July 21). The odds come via William Hill and look like this: Yasmin Pettet and Jamie Rhodes - 6/4 Shakira Khan and Conor Philips - 5/2 Helena Ford and Harry Cooksley - 4/1 Megan Moore and Dejon Noel Williams - 8/1 What do the winners of Love Island get? The winning couple will once again walk away with a joint prize pot - to be split between them. The winners will get £50,000, the same as in previous seasons. However, beyond just the instant prize pot, Love Island can be a platform for winners (and other contestants) to launch media careers and even empires. Molly Mae and Tommy Fury are perhaps the biggest example of this - with the former recently being the subject of her own docu-series on Prime Video. If you love TV, check out our Screen Babble podcast to get the latest in TV and film.
Scotsman
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Love Island 2025: who are the favourites to win ITV2 series?
The frontrunners to win Love Island 2025 have been named 👀 Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Love Island series 12 has been airing on ITV2 throughout the summer. The iconic reality show is nearing the conclusion of its latest season. But who are the frontrunners to win in 2025? Love Island has turned 10 this summer and it has celebrated the major milestone with another dramatic season. It has been weeks of twists and turns, break-ups and make-ups, on ITV2. However, as they say, all good things must come to an end and the iconic reality series is nearing its conclusion for 2025. The show will be crowning its winners in the coming weeks and a pair of frontrunners has emerged. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Maya Jama is on hosting duties once again for Love Island's latest series - having also hosted the latest season of ITV2's All Star spin-off in the winter. Iain Stirling has also returned as the narrator and has pulled double duty with the American version. But who is looking most likely to win Love Island this summer? Here's all you need to know: Who are the favourites to win Love Island? Love Island host Maya Jama | ITV The 12th series of the legendary reality show has been running throughout the summer on ITV2. Premiering way back on June 9, it has been a fixture of the TV schedule in the weeks since. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It has meant fans have had plenty of time to form their own opinions on the couples - from first impressions all the way to firm conclusions. Viewers have started to back the ones they think will win, via the bookies odds. Oddschecker has rounded up the favourites to win Love Island 2025 and one couple is the current frontrunner, as of today (July 21). The odds come via William Hill and look like this: Yasmin Pettet and Jamie Rhodes - 6/4 Shakira Khan and Conor Philips - 5/2 Helena Ford and Harry Cooksley - 4/1 Megan Moore and Dejon Noel Williams - 8/1 What do the winners of Love Island get? The winning couple will once again walk away with a joint prize pot - to be split between them. The winners will get £50,000, the same as in previous seasons. However, beyond just the instant prize pot, Love Island can be a platform for winners (and other contestants) to launch media careers and even empires. Molly Mae and Tommy Fury are perhaps the biggest example of this - with the former recently being the subject of her own docu-series on Prime Video.
Miami Herald
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Q&A: ‘Love Island's' Iain Stirling reflects on the hit reality TV show that's taking over the country
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Iain Stirling, the comedian cracking jokes as contestants on "Love Island" battle it out for love and cash, is wrapping up the latest season of the reality TV megahit and hitting the road on a stand-up tour that's slated for shows in New York and Los Angeles this fall- and yes, his set will include "Love Island" material. Stirling has been the narrator of the reality TV dating competition for more than a decade, and even he couldn't believe how many people are gathering at local bars across the United States for " Love Island" watch parties. "I genuinely thought people were photoshopping them and sending them to me," Stirling shared during a recent video call from his home studio in London. "Love Island" has been popular in the U.K. for quite some time, with many fans in agreement that Season 5 was when it really hit is stride with contestants who are now household names such as Molly-Mae Hague, Tommy Fury and Maura Higgins, the last of which now hosts "Love Island: Aftersun" in the U.S. For Stirling, it's interesting to witness the rise in popularity of " Love Island USA" over the past year, and how it parallels the achievement of the U.K. version. He's been narrating the series since the show first aired on ITV2 in 2015, and joined the U.S. version of the show in 2022 when it made the move from CBS to NBC's streaming service Peacock. The success of the franchise has catapulted him to iconic U.K. theaters, such as the Apollo Theatre in London, and now he's bringing his stand-up to the States. In an interview edited for length and clarity, Stirling chats about "Love Island," the early stages of his stand-up career in Edinburgh, and other career highlights that have come, in part, thanks to his wildly popular narration of the TV show. Q. You've been the narrator of "Love Island" for 10 years. What's been the biggest change you've noticed with the series? A: The biggest change is how well the Islanders prime and prep themselves. In earlier series, it was more like a "Survivor" vibe. Everyone just got a bit disheveled, but now obviously they're very primed. Q. Are there any major differences you've noticed between narrating the U.K. version of the show compared to the U.S. version? A: You know what the biggest one is? I don't know if it's just a "Love Island" thing or if it's an American thing, but in the U.K., we joke about people's jobs all the time. In the U.K., it'll be like "my name's this and I do this for a living." Whereas in America, it's like "my name's this and I'm from here." Like what state or area in America you are is a bigger blueprint for what you're like as a person. We've got loads of jokes [on "Love Island" U.K.] about jobs. In the U.K., we're very straight when we say what we do for a living. I feel like in America, they have all this fancy language to make their jobs seem a bit fancier than what they actually are. In the U.K., we've got like dog walkers and farmers and stuff like that, whereas apart from "pool boy Austin," there wasn't really anyone who had a job that we could joke about. Q. What is the recording process like for both "Love Island USA" and U.K? A: It's a lot more fluid in the American one. But, fundamentally, it's the exact same process. The U.K. one, I write with Mark Busk-Cowley, who actually came up with the format of "Love Island" way back in the day. In America, there are three of us: Me, Steve Bugeja, and an amazing New York comic, Caroline Hanes. It feels more writer-roomy. We all chuck ideas around like a Saturday Night Live writer's room. Whereas me and Mark have been working together for so long, it's like joke, next one, joke, next one. Q. I don't know if you've seen, but "Love Island USA" watch parties have taken over across the country. A: I genuinely thought people were photoshopping them and sending them to me. And then I'm lucky because Caroline's from New York and she's of the right age and demographic that her friends watch it. And I'm online a little bit, but I'm also like a dad with two jobs, so I'm not really an online person. I've only now realized that it's not a joke. I genuinely thought someone was watching the Super Bowl and they'd green screen that, but it's legit. Q. I've been writing about "Love Island USA," and my editors were like, "Can we send you to a watch party and have you cover it?" A: Did you go? Q. I did. It was crazy. I went to one in West Hollywood. I got there two hours early, and 10 minutes later, all the seats were taken. Thirty minutes later, everyone is packed like sardines and it's standing room only. I think it was the best episode I could have seen live because it was one with the plot twist at the end that Nic and Olandria were safe. A: That's honestly so cool. I can't remember the year, but when "Love Island" U.K. really took off, and obviously it's still massive here, but when it was the same [height of popularity as what is in the U.S. now], it was when the World Cup was on, and England had a really deep run in the World Cup. So, there were loads of images of all the sports bars' screens, all showing England in the World Cup semifinals, but then there was another section of the bar that was "Love Island." And obviously, for a sports bar to not show the national team in the semifinals of a World Cup and show something else is nuts. Q. This season of "Love Island USA" has been a roller coaster for a lot of things, but there have also been quite a few iconic moments aside from the drama. What's been the most memorable moment for you in the U.S. this season? A: There's obviously Nic and Huda's "Mommy, Mamacita?" That's gone so viral, but even my voice over into it, I did a joke about Nic not knowing what a mother is. I think those little fun moments are incredible. Also, there's a really lovely, vindicating moment when everyone clocked how popular Amaya was, and she had about four guys fighting for her. It felt really full circle because to be yourself unapologetically, when you keep getting it thrown back in your face, must be so, so difficult. Especially when she's not got her phone to have that positive feedback from the American public. I found that really beautiful and empowering for her, and also hilarious that all these guys were shamefully being like, "You know what? I just realized I think you're great." And she got to go, "Piss off." Q. People who know you best from hearing your playful, cheeky comments as the narrator of "Love Island," what can they expect from your stand-up show? A: We do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival every year, where you have to come up with these narrative shows. There's a story at the heart of the show, and a theme and narrative. The closest thing I can compare it to is a Mike Birbiglia, if anyone's familiar with his stuff. I've never done stand-up about "Love Island," but I'm only doing a handful of dates, a couple of New York, and a couple of L.A., so I feel like with the way "Love Island" is going, I want to do some stuff on "Love Island." There's a really funny comparison: There's a male contestant in "Love Island" U.K. who's got a 4-year-old kid, just like Huda, and I find it really interesting how underplayed the male being on "Love Island" is compared to the mother being on "Love Island," I think that's really interesting, and just sort of bad, but also a funny area as a father to talk about. Q. You studied law at the University of Edinburgh. What led to the career pivot to comedy? A: I'm from Edinburgh and I went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the reason I went to Edinburgh University is that they've got a group called the Edinburgh Improverts. It didn't quite work out there; improv wasn't my thing, so I started doing stand-up, and once I did stand-up, I fell in love. Q. Since your 2022 special "Failing Upwards," you and your wife have welcomed your first child together. Has fatherhood had a role in your comedy style? A: I like to keep my private life as private as I can. I've made an unwritten rule that I talk about being a father, but I don't talk about my daughter. I feel like that's her story to tell when she's old enough to tell it. The main change on stand-up is two things, and they sound like they counteract each other, but they totally don't. One, I've got a much bigger appreciation for people who spend money and take time to come and see my show. Now that I'm a parent, I'm the one that's got to book child care and find parking and do all that when I go to an event. So I really appreciate people that come to see me. And second, I think I'm a better stand-up because I'm a lot more relaxed. Before marriage and children, my whole self-worth was how good my stand-up was and how well it was received. Q. My final question: What's been your biggest career highlight? A: Probably putting on these American [tour] dates and them selling so well. It feels like such a massive achievement to do a voice-over in a reality television program. When you're doing voice over for two minutes in an hour-long show, and for anyone to leave that show going "that voice over was good," feels like such a massive achievement. When I first started doing it 10 years ago, I wasn't hired to write. My friend Mark [Busk-Cowley] was going to write it, but I went in the room every day and wrote it with him because, like, I'm in Spain. What else am I going to do? And then between us, we came up with this really fun way of doing it that no one else had done. And then when I did these big theaters in the U.K., the Hammersmith, Apollo in London, and all these mad theaters, because I do voice over on a reality television program, it's sort of wild. Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
