Love Island Games Cast 2023: See Who Returned To The Villa

Eyal Booker

Instagram: @eyalbooker

Previously on: Love Island UK Season 4

Eyal Booker starred in Love Island UK Season 4 where he was dumped on Day 25. He was previously in relationship with Delilah Belle Hamlin. A source told Us Weekly on January 11, 2022, that Hamlin—the daughter of actors Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin—and Booker, a contestant on Love Island season 4, had ended their relationship after two years together. They were first linked in April 2019. The split came after Booker spent the holidays with Hamlin’s family. “A few days later, they were broken up. They were so in love,” the insider said. The source also called the split “a shock to some of their closest friends.”

Georgia Steel 

Instagram: @geesteelx

Previously on: Love Island UK Season 4

Georgia Steel is returning to Love Island Games after starring in Love Island UK Season 4. She finished in eighth place alongside Sam Bird.

Megan Barton-Hanson

Instagram: @meganbartonhanson_

Previously in: Love Island UK Season 4

Megan Barton-Hanson returns to Love Island Games after appearing in Love Island UK Season 4. She placed fourth alongside Wes Nelson.

Aurelia Lamprecht 

Instagram: @aurelialamprecht

Previously on: Love Island DE Season 4

Hailing from Germany, Aurelia Lamprecht starred on Love Island DE Season 4 and is ready to take on the Love Island Games.

Lisa Celander

Instagram: @lisacelanders

Previously on: Love Island SE Season 3

Lisa Celander takes on the Love Island villa again after starring on Love Island SE season 3.

Steph Blackos

Instagram: @stephblackos

Previously on: Love Island FR Season 2

Repping Love Island France, Steph Blackos takes on the villa again in Love Island Games.

Jessica Losurdo

Instagram: @jessicalosurdo
Previously on: Love Island AUS Season 4

Jessica Losurdo is back from starring in Love Island AUS Season 4 and now she’s moving on to Love Island Games.

Tina Provis

Instagram: @tinaprovis

Previously on: Love Island AUS Season 4

Tina Provis is back at Love Island Games after winning Love Island AUS Season 4 with Mitch Hibberd.

Mitch Hibberd

Instagram: @mitchellhebberd

Previously on: Love Island AUS Season 3

Mitch Hebberd is returning to Love Island Games after winning Love Island AUS season 3 with Tina Provis.

Imani Wheeler

Instagram: @imani.ayan

Previously on: Love Island US Season 5

Imani Wheeler was just on Love Island US Season 5 and she’s back on Love Island Games to take on the villa again.

 Zeta Morrison

Instagram: @iamzetamorrison

Previously on: Love Island US Season 4

Zeta Morrison won Love Island US Season 4 and now she’s back on Love Island Games.

Courtney Boerner 

Instagram: @courtneylynn

Previously on: Love Island US Season 4

Courtney Boerner returns to the Love Island Villa after starring on Love Island US Season 4. She was dumped from the island on Day 24.

Deb Chubb

Instagram: @debchubb

Previously on: Love Island US Season 4

Deb Chubb stars in Love Island Games after appearing on Love Island US Season 4. She came in third place with Jesse Bray.

Carrington Rodriguez 

Instagram: @c_rod003

Previously on: Love Island US Season 2

Carrington Rodriguez returns to Love Island Games after starring in Love Island US Season 2. He finished in fourth place with Laurel Goldman.

Johnny Middlebrooks

Instagram: @johnny_llee

Previously on: Love Island US Season 2

Johnny Middlebrooks returns to Love Island Games after appearing on Love Island US Season 2 where he was the runner-up with Cely.

Cely Vazquez 

Instagram: @cely

Previously on: Love Island US Season 2

Cely Vazquez returns to Love Island Games after appearing on Love Island US Season 2 where she was the runner-up.

Justine Ndiba

Instagram: @justinejoy312

Previously on: Love Island US Season 2

Love Island US Season 2 winner Justine Ndiba returns to Love Island Games.

Ray Gantt

Instagram: @raygantt

Previously on: Love Island US Season 1

Ray Gantt stars in Love Island Games after appearing on Love Island US Season 1. He placed third in the series with Caro Viehweg.

Kyra Green

Instagram: @kyra212green

Previously on: Love Island US Season 1

Kyra Green returns to Love Island Games after starring on Love Island US Season 1. She was dumped on Day 24 on the island.

Scott Van-der Sluis

Instagram: @scottvds17

Previously on: Love Island UK Season 10 & Love Island US Season 4

An all-rounder. Scott Van-der Sluis stars in his third Love Island franchise in Love Island Games. He previously starred in Love Island UK Season 10 where he was dumped alongside Abi Moores on Day 52 and a month later he starred in Love Island US where he was dumped a week after landing in the villa.

Toby Aromolaran

Instagram: @tobyaromolaran

Previously on: Love Island UK Season 7

Toby Aromolan returns to Love Island Games after starring in Love Island UK Season 7. He and Chloe Burrow finished in second place in the series.

Liberty Poole

Instagram: @libertypoolex

Previously on: Love Island UK Season 7

Liberty Poole returns to Love Island Games after starring in Love Island UK Season 7. She stayed together with Jake Cornish until day 54 when they decided to quit the series in the final five.

Mike Boateng 

Instagram: @michaelboateng1

Previously on: Love Island UK Season 6

Mike Boateng returns to Love Island Games after starring in Love Island UK Season 6. He was dumped from the villa on Day 41.

Curtis Pritchard

Instagram: @curtispritchard2

Previously on: Love Island UK Season 5

Curtis Pritchard returns to Love Island Games after appearing on Love Island UK Season 5. He placed 4th place after Day 58.

Jack Fowler

Instagram: @_jackfowler_

Previously in: Love Island UK Season 4

Jack Fowler from Love Island UK Season 4 is returning to Love Island Games. He came in 5th place days before the final

Who hosts Love Island Games?

Maya Jama is the Love Island Games host. She also hosts Love Island UK as ITV announced in October 2022 that Jama would replace Laura Whitmore, who left as the Love Island UK host after season 8. “I’ve always been such a massive Love Island fan and I’m so excited to be hosting one of the nation’s favourite shows! I can’t wait to get into the Villa to meet all of the Islanders,” Jama said in a statement at the time.

For this reiteration of Love Island Games, Jama is excited to show off what the seasoned Islanders have in play. “As a fan myself, the most surprising element is how tough the challenges and games actually are,” she told Elite Daily. “Going into it, I was assuming that they’d be Love Island-esque games: not too tough, lighthearted, a lot of kissing. But there are some really hard ones where you have to use your full strength. I couldn’t do a lot of them. I would be wiped out straight away. Considering the islanders are not gladiators or athletes, they did incredible.”

Who narrates Love Island Games?

Who is the Love Island UK season 10 narrator? The Love Island Games narrator is Iain Stirling who has narrated the Love Island UK and Love Island US since season 1. He is also married to former Love Island UK host Laura Whitford and also narrates Love Island US. In an interview with GQ in 2021, Stirling opened up about how his experience on Love Island UK has changed over the years. “In previous years, it might have been, ‘Redo this joke, please,'” he said. “That’s pretty uncommon these days because the producers trust us more [laughs]. Me and Mark, my writing partner — he works for ITV Studios in development and he’s the guy who actually came up with the Love Island format, 50-year-old Scottish vegetarian, really interesting guy — we’ve just really got the tone down. We’ve also just started asking them beforehand, like, ‘Can we say this?’ Saves us a lot of time. Now, it’s things like, ‘Can you say these people’s names in a different order because they’re sat on a bed in this order?'”

He also told the magazine about how he knew Love Island UK would be a success from the first episode. “God’s honest truth — the very first coupling. When I saw the footage of the very first, original coupling on Season 1, I was like, ‘This is unbelievable,'” he said. “I couldn’t believe how much I cared about everyone instantly. The first time a boy came down and they said, ‘Step forward if you like him,’ and no one stepped forward I was like ‘I can’t not watch this, it’s madness.'”

He continued, “Especially then, they were all such characters. Like there was this girl, Hannah, who was from Liverpool — and for an American, now that is a fuckin’ linguistic journey. Her accent was unbelievable. And she was a former Playboy bunny, and she had this insane swimsuit on, and had had a lot of work done. There’s a big thing with women in Liverpool, Scouse girls, on a Saturday you walk around a mall in Liverpool, every woman has got rollers in her hair, getting ready for a night out. She just had this massive blow dry, her hair was huge, platinum blonde, and she had these glass heels on. A builder from Essex got coupled up with her. I was just like, ‘I love this.’ I loved it. I honestly loved it.”

Despite his witty narrations, Stirling also told GQ that he would “never” hurt contestants on purpose. “No, never. We were never told to make fun of the show. [Mark and I] figured that out ourselves. We just thought, if we make fun of the show first, other people can’t really,” he said. “Also, the only reason it works is because the show’s actually quite good. Like with making fun of the dates, the Islanders can be at a rubbish table or whatever with plastic champagne glasses, but they still have to be on quite a nice beach.”

He continued, “If they were just in someone’s shitty backyard and it looked terrible, and I said ‘that’s terrible,’ it’s not funny. It has to come from a point of actually being quite good. If the show ever actually gets bad, we are in a difficult position, because it’s not comedy if you’re just saying something’s bad that is bad. I think self-deprecation is also a very British thing. I’s very British to say, ‘This is bad. Isn’t that funny?’ You’ve got to say ‘I’m shit,’ and then everyone will go ‘Oh yeah, I’m shit as well.’ That’s what Love Island does really well.”

In an interview with The Arizona Central, Stirling explained how narrating the U.S. version of Love Island is different from the U.K. “I think the hardest thing will be the language,” he said. “I don’t even know what you call it if someone mugs someone off. I don’t even know what you’d say. What do you call that in America when a boy is mugging you off?” He continued, “(Phrases) like ‘mugged off’ weren’t a thing before “Love Island.” So hopefully America will get to invent, sort of, their own vernacular and come up with our own little phrases and make it feel unique to them, do you know what I mean? I would love to get an American (version of) … mugged off, et cetera. So we’ll see how it goes.

Though the slang is different, Stirling also confirmed that he’s up-to-date on American references—for the most part. “I think — and I’m sure Americans do know this — but literally, like, half of our news feed is American news, American politics. If you go to the politics section of the BBC website, half of it will be U.S. politics,” he said. “Culturally, I think, we’re sort of all right. All the TV shows, I sort of get. The sports, I don’t understand. I don’t get that. Basketball is cool. But why is soccer not the best sport? It’s mad; it’s the best game. It’s so good.”

He also told The Arizona Central about what it’s like to narrate Love Island US and UK at the same time. “It’s a bit wild, and I’m very fortunate because the people at Peacock are sort of, like, very aware of how full-on it is, and they’ve done everything to make it possible that I can do this and sort of do things like, you know, sleep and see my family and eat, things like that. Everything’s in LA for the American show, apart from the writing team,” he said. “We’ve basically got two huts next to each other, and me and Mark (Busk-Cowley) will write the British one. And then the second we finish recording that, we go into the American room — I was going to say office, but that makes it sound too good — and go inside the American box. We’ll help those guys write what they’ve written so far and sort of let them know things we would and wouldn’t say. And also we learn stuff, like Americans don’t know what grafting is! I found this out today.”

Where is Love Island Games filmed?

Where is Love Island Games filmed? Love Island Games was filmed in Fiji, where Love Island US was filmed.

Love Island Games is available to stream on Peacock. Here’s how to watch it for free.

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