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Sophie McCoid

ITV2 Love Island 2020 in doubt as bosses rule out filming in UK

The future of Love Island could be in doubt, as bosses ruled out filming the show in the UK.

The summer series of the show is filmed in Majorca, while the winter series is recorded in South Africa.

But with coronavirus causing huge disruption to travel, the show's future hangs in the balance.

Today ITV boss Kevin Lygo ruled out filming the upcoming series of Love Island in the UK.

Lygo said they had considered Cornwall as a location but had decided it "wouldn't be the same show".

He said: "With Love Island, you know, it's the first of these big shows - with I'm A Celebrity, it's November/December, I don't think we can talk about it now but we're looking at alternatives.

"We don't have to make a decision yet... we're proceeding on the basis it'll happen in a normal way."

Lygo said that regarding reality series Love Island, there was more of a time pressure around making a decision over the future of the ITV2 show.

He said: "We wonder if it will be feasible, will Majorca open its doors to hundreds of production people arriving, will there have to be quarantining, all these things.

"And so we have to factor all of that in and also, what signal might it send out... I'm a little bit uneasy about that, so we will make a decision in a proper way quite soon..."

Love Island usually begins at the start of June and runs for eight weeks, but there was talk that bosses were hoping to push in back to July, but even that is now in doubt.

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