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Katie Fitzpatrick

Love Island looks set to be axed because of coronavirus

Hit dating show Love Island looks set to be axed amid the coronavirus crisis.

The future of the next series, which is set in Mallorca each summer, looks uncertain with flights being cancelled and self isolation and social distancing in effect.

As the potentially deadly virus grips the world ITV is due to hold crisis talks about the best plan of action and if it should go ahead, according to The Sun.

Paige and Finn won the winter series (ITV)

Love Island starred celebrities in 2005 and 2006 and returned to our screens featuring members of the public, and presented by the late Caroline Flack, in 2015.

Earlier this year its first winter edition was screened, set in South Africa instead of Mallorca and presented by Laura Whitmore.

Paige Turley and Finley Tapp were crowned the winners of the show, winning £50,000 to split between them.

Laura Whitmore (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

"Me now realising we might not get summer love island because of coronavirus," tweeted one fan with a sad-face emoji.

In 2018 the show won a BAFTA Award for Best Reality and Constructed Factual Show.

Love Island has a group of single contestants, referred to as Islanders, living in isolation from the outside world in a villa in Mallorca under video surveillance with the aim of finding love.

The Islanders must be 'coupled up' with another Islander in a bid to win £50,000.

Over the duration of the series they are forced to 're-couple' where they can choose to remain in their current pairing or swap.

Islanders who remain single after the re-couplings are eliminated and dumped from the island.

ITV has declined to comment.

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