Love Island US: How the American show is going ahead with filming this summer

While this year’s summer season of Love Island UK has sadly been cancelled, the US version is charging ahead.

But their edition of the reality dating show will look slightly different given the current circumstances - and contestants hoping for an exotic vacation may have to adjust expectations.

In July, Vulture reported that the second season of Love Island US was heading inland to Las Vegas, where contestants will stay at a hotel, rather than the previous location of Fiji.

The US version of ITV Entertainment’s hit reality show began preproduction in July at the Cromwell, a Caesars Entertainment boutique hotel on the Vegas Strip that has been closed since the COVID-19 lockdown in March.

Production details were scarce, but Vulture reported that CBS and ITV would require all cast and crew to be quarantined prior to production beginning.

Sanitisation and social distancing protocol would be in place.

In an update this week, Vulture confirmed the quarantine season would be premiering on Monday August 24.

The two-hour premiere will be followed by consecutive episodes rolling out every night until the finale.

While ratings for the first season of Love Island US were comparatively weaker than the UK seasons, CBS renewed the show for a second season last August.

The show was originally Fiji-bound in May, but had to postpone - for obvious reasons.

Meanwhile in the UK, both the summer and winter editions of Love Island in 2020 were pulled due to coronavirus.

An insider told the Evening Standard in June: “Given the ongoing uncertainty, producers think that it's better to concentrate on one bumper season rather than two for 2021.

“Although January seems a long way off, at this stage of the year, producers would be approaching the point when pre-production for a Winter series would begin, which is why they've made this decision now.”

An ITV spokesperson confirmed: “Love Island UK will return bigger and better than ever with an extended run in summer 2021."

Paige Turley and Finley Tapp won the first-ever Winter season of Love Island earlier this year.