What we hope for the new season of Love Island

Ohhh, the Islanders are completely ready again. Orange code for the Balearics? Then you're going to throw a whole clan into quarantine there in the form of nine single men and women? Great solution. A little villa in Gran Canaria, camera, set, action. This can only be a feast, right?

And I genuinely think this is going to be the juiciest season so far. These singles have of course also experienced our lockdown. They have missed the festivals. Maybe even played out Tinder. And not found love. In other words: everything is at stake in the villa.

Now in the first season we had Denzel and Aleksandra who provided the drama, but also loving moments. The season after that was a bit... Meh? Not very exciting or groundbreaking. But yes, they weren't in the middle of a pandemic, craving a vacation AND a fling.

So yes, I really hope these new candidates dive in completely from the first second. Catfights over men, backstabbing and keeping people on a string. Sounds all very wrong like this... But that does make for the best TV of course. Drunken fights are really so 2018 by now, so probably the rules are still the same: participants are allowed two glasses of alcohol per day.

I really hate the concept of ‘the new normal’, but with the return of Love Island it does feel a bit like normal life is coming back. My little life as it was before, where I had an hour of fun every day watching beautiful people in swimwear on a Spanish island. It can be that simple. TONIGHT GUYS.

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