Fewer people watched season two of Love Island: All Stars on TV than watched season one. Some fans were stressed that ITV might give up on the formula. But fear not, because Love Island: All Stars is definitely coming back. The wait isn’t as long as you might expect. Here’s what we know.
ITV has confirmed Love Island: All Stars shall return
ITV announced ahead of the Love Island 2025 final that All Stars would be back at the start of 2026. Most elements of the show sound the same. The season will be filmed in a villa in South Africa again. But this time, Love Island: All Stars will go on for six weeks instead of five. What a win. Maybe the Islanders will have more time to perfect feigning interest in each other?
We have a reasonable sense of when Love Island: All Stars will air in 2026
ITV don’t usually specify the exact dates for Love Island until close to the time. But based on our general Love Island know-how, we can make a very educated guess about when All Stars will be.
So, the first season of Love Island: All Stars went on from 15th January 2024 to 18th February 2024. The second season aired from 13th January 2025 to 17th February 2025. When the winter version of Love Island existed (rip), it took place at a similar time of year. The 2020 one lasted from 12th January to 23rd February, and the 2023 one aired from 16th January to 13th March.
All hardcore fans know that Love Island has inexplicably started and ended on a Monday since, like, the dawn of time.
Yup, Molly and Tom are still together
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So, based on this, it seems pretty likely that Love Island: All Stars 2026 will start on Monday 12th January 2026, and the final will air on Monday 23rd February 2026. ITV hasn’t confirmed this, so please don’t come for me if the show actually starts on a different day x But hopefully we will only have five months without Love Island to fill up our evenings.
We have a rough idea of which Love Island legends might return
2021 legend Chloe Burrows told The Sun that ITV tried to book her for All Stars, but she refused because she didn’t feel “in the right place right now to be looking at boys and thinking about stuff like that”. But maybe she’ll fell differently by the start of 2026?
As much as we would all love to see Ovie back on our screens, he clarified earlier this year that he wouldn’t go on All Stars. He wrote on his socials: “Love the show, but I’m 33 guys. I am your uncle now.”
I’m never going on love island all stars, love the show but I’m 33 guys. I am your uncle now. pic.twitter.com/BqkP6NoibV
— Ovie Soko (@OvieSoko) November 21, 2024
Tragically, it’s unlikely Maura Higgins would go on All Stars. She told The Standard that ITV did attempt to recruit her, but she refused because she doesn’t want to go on any more reality TV dating shows.
There are plenty of people from Love Island 2025 that we would love to show up. Emma said on the Spill with Will podcast that she would definitely be down. She said: “Round two, let’s go! I think the men are older on there as well, so they’re more age appropriate and more serious.”
There is, of course, a high chance that Casey Gorman does in fact live in a shoe cupboard in the Love Island villa all-year round, ready to return to the show at any opportunity. We will have to wait and see.
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