Yahoo News Love Island creator interested in exploring gay version
Love Island – for all its amazingness and addictiveness – is undoubtedly lacking in LGBTQ representation.
While in the past the show has featured the occasional bisexual contestant, the focus has primarily been on heterosexual relationships that don't exactly reflect the different shades of love experienced in the real world.
This has been an issue of the ITV2 show, and its creator Richard Cowles has admitted that he would like to see an LGBTQ version of the series… though he did argue that in its current form the "logistics" were tricky.
"I would like to see what a gay version of the show would be but trying to mix the two would be difficult," he told The Times.
"You are trying to create couples. It is not impossible and it is not something that we shy away from… but there is a logistical element which makes it difficult."
Speculation has emerged in the last week or so that the villa could add some lesbian contestants in the final week of the show.
When asked about the speculation, a spokesperson for the show didn't outrightly deny it either, telling Digital Spy: "The main stipulation for Love Island applicants is that they are single and looking for love, and we are open to all possibilities."
Still, considering the final is going to air on Monday (July 24), we're not entirely sure these rumours will prove true in this series at least.
And, whatever happens in the future, it seems one thing we can expect from Love Island will always be a cast of young and beautiful contestants.
"At the end of the day it's a dating show and so they have to fancy each other," Cowles said.
"However bad it seems, we all like to look at good-looking people. Maybe there is another show in ordinary people who date but I think the idea of aspirational beautiful people dating each other is fun to watch and is what we want to watch."
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