The favored actuality TV present Love Island is the newest franchise to spawn a derivative, with Love Island Video games on the way in which.
Viewers will see former contestants from completely different variations of the present on the identical season as they try to search out love.
A well-recognized face for some Love Island viewers is already a part of the present, with Maya Jama being introduced as Love Island Video games’ host.
She’ll lead a solid of people in search of romance from Love Island’s UK, USA, and Australia editions of the present.
As of this writing, the contestants on the present haven’t been revealed, however it may arrange some intriguing coupling conditions relying on who’s solid.
Right here’s what we all know thus far concerning the upcoming spinoff Love Island Video games, together with who the host is and when it can premiere.
Who’s Maya Jama on Love Island Video games?
Maya Jama, 29, is greatest often called an English TV presenter and radio disc jockey. She started internet hosting the Love Island UK model in Season 9.
Viewers and followers of Love Island unfamiliar with Maya can observe her on Instagram @mayajama, the place she shares all kinds of content material, together with pics and movies from the present and her life.
The official Love Island IG web page additionally has Maya seem in content material, together with the beautiful visible beneath as she “makes an entrance” for the truth TV courting present.
Maya just lately graced the quilt of British Vogue, with the publication sharing an Instagram picture of her hanging cowl. A characteristic article praised “Fashions Love Affair” together with her.
British Vogue’s IG caption additionally indicated Maya is the “It girl” and everybody has “fallen hard for” her.
“In the new issue she discusses taking on #LoveIsland, family drama, and the misconceptions around her dating life,” the caption says.
What’s the present’s format and premiere date?
A Love Island teaser video that includes Maya arrived by way of Peacock on Thursday. Recognizable present narrator Iain Stirling informed followers, “Get ready for a new high-stakes competition with host Maya Jama and your favorite Islanders from around the world.”
In the course of the teaser, the video flashed via graphics for Love Island UK, Love Island USA, and Love Island Australia.
“So couple up and let the games begin. Love Island Games premieres November 1st, only on Peacock,” Stirling revealed.
This spinoff sequence will characteristic an identical format to different Love Island reveals, with contestants collaborating in couplings and eliminations. New contestants will arrive on the Fiji villa in typical Bombshell vogue. There can even be all kinds of pleasant challenges alongside the way in which.
The above teaser and press launch arrived lower than a month after Love Island UK Collection 10 concluded. Love Island Australia’s fourth season aired final yr, with a fifth season anticipated to reach in October.
As of this writing, Love Island USA Season 5 is heading in direction of its finale, with a winner to be revealed. In the course of the season, one of many contestants, Harrison Luna, had a noticeable accent and knowledgeable castmates he was from Australia.
Which will have been an early check to get viewers prepared for a mix of USA, Australian, and UK contestants all on one present. Up to now, solely the Love Island Video games host and narrator are formally revealed as solid members for the spinoff.
Monsters and Critics beforehand reported about Love Island UK’s Maura Higgins presumably being concerned in a Love Island All-Stars spinoff, which can have been referring to Love Island Video games.
Based on USA Community, the brand new sequence will air episodes six days per week, similar to the present Love Island USA season on Peacock. Nevertheless, the particular schedule has but to be revealed concerning which days it can air and when it will likely be off.
Love Island Video games premieres Wednesday, November 1, on Peacock.