{"id":51922,"date":"2024-05-22T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2044494"},"modified":"2024-05-22T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:26:37","slug":"love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island officially confirms 2024 start date on ITV1, ITV2 and ITVX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Mark your calendars! <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By David Craig\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 22 May 2024 at 13:39 PM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Love Island 2024 finally has a confirmed start date, kicking off the summer television season for reality fans.<\/p>\n<p>The show will be returning to screens <strong>at 9pm on Monday 3rd June 2024<\/strong>, with a simultaneous launch on ITV1, ITV2 and ITVX, adopting the same strategy used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/celebrity-big-brother-2024-cast-line-up\/\">Big Brother<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/love-island-all-stars-2024-cast-line-up\/\">Love Island: All Stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, a group of singletons will be unleashed on a luxury villa in Majorca, where they will go on dates and complete a variety of challenges in the hopes of finding love \u2013 and a share of that \u00a350,000 prize fund.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/love-island-2024-cast\/\">Love Island 2024 line-up<\/a>\u00a0is still to be announced, but rumours are spreading like wildfire, as per usual.<\/p>\n<p>Maya Jama is confirmed to be returning as host for the fourth time, having worked on a winter, summer and All Stars edition of the show since taking over from Laura Whitmore in late 2022.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Love Island | ITV2\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RBs0HJ0VK3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>Comedian Iain Stirling will also be back to perform his trademark narration, which has been a major part of the show since its current iteration launched in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to the Love Island 2024 line-up being revealed, ITV has confirmed that contestants will not be able to have friends and family run their social media accounts while they are inside the villa (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckmmn08d8v3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This marks a return to a policy that was temporarily dropped for the recent All Stars edition, but that the broadcaster states is part of its \u201ccontinued commitment to duty of care\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/love-island-winter-2020-molly-smith\/\">Molly Smith<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/love-island-2023-contestant-tom-clare\/\">Tom Clare<\/a> went on to win that milestone edition of the show, beating competition from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/love-island-winter-2020-callum-jones\/\">Callum Jones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/winter-love-island-eve-jess-gale\/\">Jess Gale<\/a>, who placed second overall.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the previous summer edition \u2013 which unfolded across June and July of last year \u2013 saw 22-year-olds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/love-island-2023-contestant-jess-harding\/\">Jess Harding<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/love-island-2023-contestant-sammy-root\/\">Sammy Root<\/a> rise to the top of the ranking. Alas, they broke up less than two months later.<\/p> <p><strong>Love Island returns at 9pm on Monday 3rd June on ITV1, ITV2 and ITVX.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out more of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/\">Entertainment<\/a> coverage or visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/\">TV Guide<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/streaming-guide\/\">Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on. <\/strong><b>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<a id=\"OWA71a5a05f-6651-b0f3-aeda-3d3d09b909b1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/b><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mark your calendars! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":51923,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx.jpg",1280,853,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx-1024x682.jpg",800,533,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx.jpg",1280,853,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/love-island-officially-confirms-2024-start-date-on-itv1-itv2-and-itvx.jpg",1280,853,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Mark your calendars!","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/51922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}