Love Island starts casting for series 7 sparking rumours show will finally return in 2021

LOVE Island has started casting for its latest set of stars – sparking rumours is is going to return in 2021. The show has been off air since February, with coronavirus laying waste to plans to stage the ITV mega-hit twice a year. But now its casting website has crackled back into life – inviting […]

LOVE Island has started casting for its latest set of stars – sparking rumours is is going to return in 2021.

The show has been off air since February, with coronavirus laying waste to plans to stage the ITV mega-hit twice a year.

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Love Island, hosted by Laura Whitmore, has started the casting process for its next series[/caption]

But now its casting website has crackled back into life – inviting potential villa stars to apply for the show’s seventh series.

A return in January, as happened this year, is off the cards, lining up the show for a possible summer series in June.

A list of requirements for possible contestants lists only four things – that applicants must be 18 or over, have no family links to ITV or the Love Island producers, hold a passport, and be free for eight weeks to film the show.

Applicants must then upload a short video explaining why they would be a great Islander – plus headshot and full-length photos of themselves.

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The show delivers instant fame to its stars, who include Curtis Pritchard and Maura Higgins[/caption]

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Coronavirus wiped out this year’s summer trip to Love Island’s villa[/caption]

A warning states: “Videos that have a filter on them won’t be accepted!”

There are then questions about applicants’ jobs, genders and sexual orientation.

However, applications are not necessarily any guarantee of catching a producer’s eye with only six stars being recruited to the show that way in the 2019 series.

ITV chief exec Carolyn McCall explained: “Twenty-four were found and cast by the programme’s casting team and six were put forward by professional agents.”

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The famous recoupling ceremonies could be back on our screens soon[/caption]

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Anna Vakili and eventual winner Amber Gill in the villa last year[/caption]

Love Island has aired ever year since 2015, when it was brought back after an initial run as a celebrity reality show.

It was most recently won by Paige Turley and Finn Tapp, who are still together, as are runners-up Luke Trotman and Siannise Fudge.

Curtis Pritchard and Maura Higgins survived as a couple for a matter of months before breaking up – with the the 30-year-old moving on to another Love Island star, Chris Taylor.