“And the contestants are always characters,” McLaren adds.
Former civil servant Sharon Gaffka has possibly the most interesting back story.
Of course, these are just names and job titles – we won’t really get a sense of what the new islanders are like until they’re actually in the villa.
You’ll have noticed that 11 is an odd number, and therefore one of the new islanders will be single from the beginning while the other 10 couple up.
Whitmore will return to hosting duties, dropping into the villa every so often for recouplings and evictions, and will present the weekly Aftersun specials.
In a way that no other Love Island alumna has quite managed,” wrote Lauren O’Neill, commenting that Hague had “set a gold standard for influencers”.