In just a few short hours, 11 contestants will head into the Love Island villa hoping to find love – and possibly £50,000.
The hit ITV2 dating show will return to our screens tonight and will run for between six and eight weeks, dominating summer evenings.
This year’s contestants include Michael Owen’s daughter Gemma, fishmonger Luca Bish, and Love Island’s first ever deaf contestant in dancer Tasha Ghouri.
Inside the 2022 Love Island villa. Credit: ITV
The young hopefuls in the eight series of the show will be spending their summers in a brand new villa back on the island of Majorca.
Reportedly worth £2.57m, the new villa features a bigger bedroom, outdoor kitchen, and 20m swimming pool.
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There are all the familiar Love Island fixtures too, like the fire pit, which will undoubtedly host the hottest drama of the season.
Inside the 2022 Love Island villa. Credit: ITV
There are several seating areas and day beds dotted around for the Islanders to gossip on, and a new outdoor gym area kitted out with dumbbells and pull-up bars.
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New sun loungers which are partly submerged in the water have been installed in the pool.
This year, all the beds in the bedroom face one another, rather than being in one long row.
The dressing room has also been given an upgrade and appears to be much larger than in previous seasons.
One concern for producers this year is a herd of ostriches who have apparently set up camp next to the villa.
The birds can run up to 45mph and can deliver a potentially lethal kick, so contestants will be warned to keep their distance.
That’s not the drama any of them signed up for.
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TV & Showbiz
I’m A Celebrity line-up announced for brand new all-star series in South Africa
Daisy Jackson
The all-star line-up for I’m A Celebrity… South Africa has been announced, with some massive Manchester celebs taking part.
The brand new show is due to air in April and will see some of the series’ most memorable campmates heading to a new setting in South Africa.
Names involved include Bolton-born boxing legend Amir Khan, Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan, and Happy Mondays legend Shaun Ryder.
And that’s just part of the first wave of celebrity contestants – more famous faces will take part in I’m A Celebrity… South Africa, entering the camp as the series goes on.
The new series will ‘push them to their limits and test them like never before’, ITV has said, promising bigger and tougher challenges and an even harsher environment.
Also taking part from the launch episode will be Diversity star Jordan Banjo, TV presenter Carol Vorderman, Olympian Fatima Whitbread, former royal butler Paul Burrell, ex-England cricketer Phil Tufnell, and supermodel Janice Dickinson.
ITV said: “Whilst nodding back to the Australian jungle, I’m A Celebrity…South Africa is a uniquely different series so viewers can look forward to lots of unexpected twists and turns.”
The trailer also shows the celebs taking part in pre-recorded challenges, taking on everything from nasty food to terrifying heights.
I’m A Celebrity… South Africa will air on ITV1 and ITVX from April 2023.
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Commentator Arlo White shows off what the Old Trafford gantry walk looks like
Danny Jones
Ever wondered what it’s like to be up in the gantry in a football stadium, say, Old Trafford? Well, we certainly have.
You see the odd shot of the commentators sat there on the telly from time to time but it never really gives much away either and, at some venues, it’s quite a ways up there. There’s a little bit of allure behind these mysterious parts of footy grounds that most fans will never get to see.
After hours of mindless scrolling on the social media app, we stumbled across the well-known sports commentator‘s channel where he’s been showing off what it’s like to go in the gantry and one of them is his long walk to crow’s nest up at the Theatre of Dreams.
As it turns out, Arlo’s been doing these videos for a couple of years now, revealing how the gantry looks not only at Old Trafford but other big Premier League grounds too, such as down the road at the Etihad, Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, Tottenham Hotspurs’ sparkly new ground and many more.
Another reason we found ourselves stuck on his TikTok for so long was also because of the other behind-the-scenes details he reveals too, even shedding light on how he prepares for games: note-taking, data sheets, how keeps himself warm up there during those cold nights on comms and so on.
Daisy Jackson -
6th June 2022 
