Love Island: Here’s when you can expect the winter series

ITV2 AND ITVX hit series - Love Island - is returning to our screens for its second Winter series and it’s sooner than we can expect.

Love Island winter series’ start date is here and it’s soon
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Love Island winter series’ start date is here and it’s soon

When ITV announced earlier this year that 2023 will see two seasons of Love Island, fans were sent over the moon. And after Laura Whitmore quit the show leaving it in the hands of Maya Jama, fans are even more excited for the new series.

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Sooner than you think!

And it looks like that fans won’t have to wait much longer for the 2023’s winter edition of the show. According to The Sun, a source has alleged that the show will be hitting our screens on January 16.

The contestants are expected to be flown to the new South African Villa in the early weeks of January. The Source claimed:

Love Island bosses have planned for the show to start on Blue Monday – which is bound to give fans a massive lift on such a gloomy day.
This year’s contestants will be flown out to South Africa earlier in January and will start filming for the first episode the day before.
The grand finale will take place eight weeks later on March 13.

Exciting series to look forward to

According to the source, the new series’ contestants are the ‘sexiest ever’ in the ‘biggest-villa’ yet. They alleged:

The villa is absolutely amazing, Maya is raring to go and this series’ contestants are looking to be the sexiest ever.
It is a really exciting time for everyone who works on the show and they cannot wait to get started.

Heat World reported that Eamon Blackwell – TOWIE star 'Gatsby' Blackwell’s brother, Lilly-Sue McFadden and Lilly-Ella Gerrard are some of the rumoured contestants of the winter series.

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The Sun: Love Island start date revealed – and it’s much sooner than you think

Heat World: Winter Love Island 2023: the rumoured contestants including a TOWIE star’s FIT sibling

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