
If you’re tired of the rain and wind in the UK, the 2023 Winter Love Island series is about to begin.
This will be the ninth series of Love Island, and the premiere of Winter Love Island 2023 will be the 342nd episode – a monument to how durable the show’s appeal has proven.
This year’s hopeful romantics include the show’s first partially sighted contestant and a TikTok celebrity farmer.
Despite being the ninth season, this is only the show’s second winter instalment.
Who were some of the famous contestants on the inaugural Winter Love Island?
When was the first Winter Love Island series?
The first season of Winter Love Island premiered in January 2020.
It was the sixth season of the show overall, and the first to be filmed in Cape Town. Prior to then, the first five seasons were held in Majorca, with two taking place in Santanyi and three in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar.
The series premiered on January 2, 2020, and concluded on February 23, 2020. It was a stroke of luck that the inaugural Winter Love Island aired just a month before the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK.
After the epidemic shut down TV studios and made filming impossible, there would be no usual summer edition, and fans would have to wait until June 2021 for their next serving of the reality show.
Who won the first Winter Love Island?
Finn Tapp and Paige Turley were crowned the first Winter Love Island winners, receiving 44.52 percent of the public vote.
They were the first couple in the villa to declare their love, with Finn reading romantic texts from his phone.
Later, during their love proposals at the show’s prom, they dropped the L-bomb.
The pair is still married. They marked their two-year anniversary with an Instagram photo taken on their way to the BRIT Awards in February 2022.
Siânnise Fudge and Luke Trotman finished second with 43.61 percent, the tightest vote percentage between the final two couples ever (less than one percent).
They have since broken up.
Shaughna Phillips, Mike Boateng, and Luke Mabbott were among the other candidates on Winter Love Island 2020.
Winter Love Island 2023 starts January 16 at 9pm on ITV2.