Laura Whitmore has confirmed ‘Love Island’ will be back this summer.
Laura Whitmore
The 35-year-old presenter – who is pregnant with her first child with husband Iain Stirling – is expecting to return to work on the series in a few months time and thinks the dating programme being cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic has been a good thing.
She said: “I have been told that it’s coming back.
“I love doing it, it’s such a fun show. And I actually think it’s been good to have had that break, for everyone who works on it, because we all went through a loss.
“It’s nice to realise how much people missed the show. Apparently applications are crazy this year. Let’s just pray the vaccines kick in.”
And if the younger adults who typically make up ‘Love Island’s contestants are unable to travel because they haven’t yet been vaccinated, Laura joked she has a back-up plan in mind.
She told Stella magazine: “I’ve got a friend who jokes we should do 'Love Island Extra Baggage', with people who have ex-husbands and kids.
“Maybe if it’s only the older people that have been vaccinated, we’ll do that."
Although Iain provides the voiceover on the show, the couple don’t actually work together on the programme and are hesitant to take on a job where they’d be in one another’s space.
Laura said: “We never actually worked a day together on ‘Love Island’.
“We had separate hotel rooms in Cape Town because he worked from 1pm to 9pm, and I wouldn’t go into the villa until about 1am when the voting comes in. To be honest with you, we’d be cautious about working together properly because it would be … a lot.”
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