ITV has confirmed that it has pulled the plug on the summer time season of its hit actuality present Love Island amid the coronavirus pandemic.
ITV director of tv Kevin Lygo stated: “Now we have tried each which technique to make Love Island this summer time however logistically it’s simply not attainable to provide it in a means that safeguards the wellbeing of everyone concerned.”
“In regular circumstances we might be making ready very quickly to journey out to the situation in Mallorca to get the villa prepared however clearly that's now out of the query.”
Presenter Laura Whitmore added on Twitter: “Like with numerous issues due to restrictions with journey, social distancing and unable to plan forward, Love Island is postponed till 2021.”
Lygo mooted the postponement of season seven final week, when he informed a digital Edinburgh TV Pageant occasion that the present could be an enormous logistical problem and should not strike the best tone through the COVID-19 disaster.
“What sign would possibly it's sending out if we’re doing a present the place everyone’s crammed collectively slathering over one another and the remainder of the world can’t go close to anybody within the park,” he stated. “I’m a bit uneasy about that.”
Lygo added that they explored making Love Island in Cornwall within the UK, however determined it will distort the DNA of the present, wherein singletons couple up underneath the Mediterranean solar.
The cancellation of the summer time collection represents an enormous blow for ITV’s youth channel ITV2, which has constructed Love Island right into a money cow, because of its engaged younger viewers. The present will doubtless return in January for a winter version in South Africa.
It caps a tough 12 months for the fact present. Former presenter Caroline Flack died by suicide in February throughout Love Island‘s first-ever winter season, briefly forcing this system off air.
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