Love Island Australia

Love Island Australia is an Australian dating reality show based on the international Love Island franchise. Following the premise of other versions of the Love Island format, the show features a group of single contestants, known as "islanders" who live together in a luxury villa that is isolated from the outside world, in an attempt to find love. Throughout the series, the contestants "couple up" to avoid being dumped from the villa. Additionally, Australia will vote for their favourite islanders to stay in the villa. As old islanders are dumped, new islanders will enter the villa. At the end, Australia will vote one final time to determine the winning couple. The series is presented by Sophie Monk and narrated by Eoghan McDermott from seasons 1 to 2 and Stephen Mullan from season 3 onwards. The first season aired on Nine's secondary channel 9Go! and on Nine's free ad-supported video on demand streaming service 9Now in mid 2018. With subsequent seasons airing on Nine Network's main channel, with the second season airing in late 2019. with production being relocated to a villa in Fiji. Following a hiatus in 2020, Nine announced the series will return for a third season in 2021, with production originally being relocated to a villa on the Gold Coast. In July 2021, Nine confirmed the series will be filmed in Port Douglas. However, in August 2021 production was relocated due to border closures to Northern NSW. It was confirmed during Nine’s 2022 upfronts that the series will film in Byron Bay. The fourth season premiered on 31 October 2022. The fifth season began filming in August 2023 again in Mallorca and is expected to air in October 2023. Format Love Island involves a group of contestants, referred to as Islanders, living in isolation from the outside world in a villa, and constantly under video surveillance. They are allowed to use their phones for the sole reason of receiving texts from producers, alerting them of upcoming dates and activities. To survive in the villa the Islanders must be coupled up with another Islander, whether it be for love, friendship, survival or money, as the overall winning couple receives $50,000. On the first day, the Islanders couple up for the first time based on first impressions, but over the duration of the series, they are forced to "re-couple" where they can choose to remain in their current couple or swap and change.