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Iain Stirling will be narrating Love Island from London this year due to travel fears

Love Island narrator Iain Stirling will be narrating the show from London for the first time this year as he is not allowed to go to Mallorca due to Covid fears.

Mallorca is now on the green list for travel, but Iain, who recently welcomed a baby girl with Love Island host Laura Whitmore, is staying in London anyway in case it changes.

Love Island launches on Monday 28th June, with the contestants and Laura already on location and gearing up to head into the villa.

Speaking to Loose Women's Kaye Adams, Jane Moore, Judi Love and Linda Robson, Iain revealed: "I am very excited, I have not been in a sound booth for quite some time.

Iain Stirling says he is staying in London to narrate Love Island (ITV)

"This is like my gaming room but it's not quite the sound booth, I am looking forward to being locked away all summer."

Kaye replied: "And of course Mallorca is greenlit so are going to be on location in the sound booth?"

Iain replied: "We are in London, I think, now, this is the thing with coronavirus, I never want to say anything because you never know, who knows what's going to happen.

Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling recently became parents for the first time (Dave Benett/Getty Images for Hard Rock Hotel London)

"I don't know what colour Mallorca is going to be next week, it will be tartan by the time I'm done with it!"

Jane said: "That would be such a shame because when we watch the show we think you do five minutes in the booth and then you're sunbathing all day, but I know it's not easy."

Iain said: "Me and my friend Mark, we write the show together, and we definitely get to the stage where say a couple have been together three of fours weeks, you run out of ways of introducing them.

"Or week five when there's another text, you think, 'I have ran out of ways to say this now.'

"So you can watch out for that when it's week six, week seven!" he laughed.

* Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV at 12:30pm

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