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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Emmeline Saunders

Winter Love Island 2021 cancelled with no UK show until next summer

Winter Love Island 2021 has been cancelled - meaning there will be no new Love Island series filmed until next summer.

Instead, an extended version of the original summer show is due to be aired next year.

This January saw host Laura Whitmore jet out to South Africa for a sun-drenched version of the ITV2 fan favourite.

The very first series of Winter Love Island was won by Paige Turley and Finley Tapp, who split the £50,000 prize month.

Laura Whitmore will not be hosting a 2021 version of Winter Love Island (thewhitmore/Instagram)

"ITV want Love Island to be a huge success so have decided to put all their energy into making next summer's series a bumper run, and not trying to force a Winter version given the uncertainty in the television industry still at this point," a source told the Sun.

"January 2021 seems a long way off but the process would be starting imminently and with certain restrictions still in place they don’t want to approach anything half-baked."

Paige Turley and Finn Tapp won the first series of Winter Love Island this year (Dave Benett/Getty Images)

A spokesman for ITV said: "Love Island UK will return bigger and better than ever with an extended run in summer 2021."

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