The next season of Love Island, airing in the dead of winter in 2023, has gotten off to a rousing start, and it promises to provide enough drama to keep us hooked until spring.
Newcomers from Love Island Australia and dramatic recouplings have added to the drama from the South African villa, while for some the adventure has already come to an end.
Since the series is presently providing us a New Year treat, I was wondering whether there would be any more seasons of the programme until 2023.
The number of Love Islands you’ll receive in 2019 is as follows…
How many Love Island series will there be in 2023?
In 2023, viewers of Love Island will be blessed with not one, but two new seasons.
The summer season will air as scheduled later in the year, alongside the winter season.
It’s just too soon to predict when this may begin; we don’t even know when the winter series will end, and yet it often starts in June and continues through August.
There won’t be any more romantic antics for a while.
Paul Mortimer, Director of Reality Commissioning and Controller, ITV2, said ‘Love Island has once again proved itself to be the nation’s favourite talking point across the summer, and we’re always blown away by the show’s ongoing impact and talkability amongst our younger audience.
‘So, rather than just serving up a Summer of Love, we thought we’d make 2023 the Year of Love with two full series of the show.’
Those who want to try their luck at the villa can do so by submitting an application on this page.
How many winter series of Love Island have there been?
In its second winter run, Love Island has already set a precedent.
In 2020, Paige Turley and Finlay Tapp won the only other winter series, and they are still together and making their home in Manchester.
The couple said they found “everything that we’d asked for in a partner in each other” because of the show.
Plans for a 2021 winter series had to be scrapped when the Covid epidemic put much of the world into lockdown, only weeks after that series concluded.
Love Island continues on ITV2 tonight at 9pm.