ITV are making a 'Love Island'-style show for single parents.
The luxury villa currently housing the Love Island stars
The network have confirmed the news that they are working on a new dating show, 'The Romance Retreat', which has been compared to the ITV2 dating competition - which is currently airing nightly and hosted by Maya Jama - through an online casting call for kids to sign up their “vibrant single parents”.
The description reads: "ITV1 are looking for vibrant single parents from across the UK who are in search of love, for a brand new dating show!
" This is the ONLY dating show where single parents can search for love, by spending time in a luxury retreat, where all the parents have been nominated by their grown up children. (sic)"
The call out seems to give people a snapshot at the sprawling luxury villa they are hoping to host the fun in.
This announcement comes after months of speculation that a 'Love Island' for those with a little more life experience could be in the works.
A presenter for the show is yet to be announced, but former ‘Big Brother’ host Davina McCall, 55, has made no secret about her desire to take the hosting reins.
She recently said: "I've got no embarrassment or shame in emailing a TV company and going, 'Have you thought about this? What about this? Can I do this?'
"I'm literally begging ITV to let me present mid-life 'Love Island'.”
The 'Masked Singer’ judge - who split from her ex Matthew Robertson, 54, in 2017 with whom she has Holly, 21, Tilly, 19, and Chester, 16, but has since found love with her new man Michael Douglas, 48 - believes the contestants will have “the best back stories”.
She said: "I could fill a villa in Love Island with middle aged people with the best back stories you have ever heard in your life.
"They've lived a life, they're widows, they're people who have been through horrific divorces."
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