Love Island 2024 is here, and if the start of the show's 11th season is anything to go by, we are in for an amazing summer at the famous villa.
Following on from Love Island: All Stars, Love Island 2024 back in Mallorca with a fresh batch of singletons all looking for love.
And to make this new series even more exciting, the Love Island team has made some changes to the usual format, with Mike Spencer, Creative Director of Lifted Entertainment promising that "brand new format elements, an incredible group of Islanders and an insta-worthy villa" are all coming our way!
The new series started on Monday, June 3 and the first episode saw the islanders arrive at the villa to meet one another, while Maya made her entrance and dropped a first-night twist that left everyone speechless...!
Here's everything that we know about Love Island 2024 right now...
Love Island 2024 release date
Love Island 2024 started on ITV1 and ITV2 on Monday, June 3 at 9 pm.
New episodes will arrive every evening at 9 pm apart from Saturdays when we will be treated to Love Island: Unseen Bits which sees Iain Stirling look back over memorable moments and exclusive content from the last week in the villa.
On Sunday evenings you can watch Love Island: Aftersun at 10 pm on ITV2 which will see a panel of celebrity guests share their reactions to the goings-on in the villa and exclusive interviews with dumped Islanders.
You can also keep up to date with all the latest episodes on ITVX
Love Island 2024: latest news
Monday, June 3
The opening night of Love Island 2024 left viewers (and islanders) speechless when reality TV star Joey Essex entered the villa in a surprise twist.
Presenter Maya Jama told the contestants: “Well it’s good to see you’re all settled in, as you know in Love Island, you must always expect the unexpected. So please welcome Joey.”
The TV star said he was 'the king of Essex' who wanted to find his 'queen' and is the first celebrity to appear on Love Island in the show's history.
Love Island 2024 contestants: Who are the islanders this year?
The Love Island 2024 cast is bigger and better than ever! The islanders were revealed on Monday, May 27, just one week before the show's premiere.
Paul Mortimer, Director of Reality Commissioning and Acquisitions and Controller for ITV2 and ITVBe, had teased ahead of release that 'this year's cast of Islanders is as amazing as ever'. Here's just a little bit more info about each and every one of them:
If you want a to get to know them even more, we've also included this year's "Meet the Islanders" video below:
Of course, Love Island wouldn't be Love Island without some bombshells. Whilst we don't know who our potential late arrivals will be, there's a chance they could be one of the potential stars who was rumored for a spot in the villa ahead of the lineup announcement... especially since some of those early rumors (about both Ciaran Davies and Samantha Kenny) turned out to be true!
One of the first unconfirmed islanders put forward for this season was Gigi Simon. The 19-year-old travel influencer already has a reality TV connection — she's the daughter of Lauren Simon (one of our Celebrity Big Brother 2024 housemates) — and The Sun has claimed she is "really keen to sign up" for a stint in the villa. Could she be jetting off to the villa in the near future?
Another rumored star is Manchester model Grace Jackson. She's already got nearly 80,000 followers on Instagram and has collaborated with a number of fashion brands. According to MailOnline, Jackson has been signed up for the show, with a source saying the show's producers think she will 'hopefully make the perfect contestant'.
Is there a Love Island 2024 trailer?
Yep! In early May, ITV dropped the first teaser for the new series of Love Island. In it, you can see Maya Jama using a flamethrower to spark up a heart symbol and claiming "Where there's love, there's fire".
Looks like the Love Island team wants to bring the heat this year!
Who's hosting Love Island 2024?
It will likely come as no surprise that Maya Jama is returning to guide our next set of islanders through the ups and downs of villa life, as confirmed by her appearance in the new teaser.
She took over from Laura Whitmore last year (the announcement came in late 2022) and her first season was 2023's winter edition, won by Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan.
Maya will also be on hand on Sundays for Love Island: Aftersun, where she'll be discussing all the latest goings-on in the villa with her panel of star guests, which includes Indiyak Polack, Sam Thompson, Amy Hart, Chris Taylor and Jordan Stephens (along with some other celebrity guests!)
Who won the last season of Love Island?
Love Island: All Stars, which became the first of our double helping of Love Island this year, saw villa veterans getting another chance at finding love.
Bombshells Tom Clare and Molly Smith walked away from the previous season as the winning pair after five weeks of coupling up in February 2024, bagging the £50,000 cash prize to share between them.
You can watch their initial reaction to the news below:
