![]() ![]() With its loudmouthed cast, mind-boggling accents and horniness, the show is a breath of fresh air for viewers used to Bachelor Nation’s milquetoast contestants and stuffy self-seriousness. (An American version of Love Island flopped, and Netflix and HBO Max have since launched two hot-people-on-an-island-with-comedic-voiceover shows in homage, Too Hot to Handle and Fuckboy Island Netflix’s Sexy Beast also has narration from the comedian Rob Delaney.) Although the show was on hiatus last year, the old seasons became a go-to quarantine binge watch, and the new season finally began airing in July. It might sound like a generic reality TV premise, but Love Island UK exploded with a force in the US around 2018 after Hulu picked it up. Like many Americans, I’ve spent maybe a hundred hours with Stirling in my ear over the last year, narrating the movements of a dozen or so attractive twentysomethings, plucked from all over the UK to spend two months in a Mallorcan villa dating on camera. It’s bizarre to see Stirling, blonde and scruffy, seated in his home office under framed soccer jerseys and awards, rather than hearing him as a disembodied voice, suspended above a luxurious Spanish mansion. With assurance, he rearranges his thick Scottish accent into the punchy, stilted register that instantly transports audiences to the green astroturf of the Love Island villa, continuing: “In an exciting new marketing tie-in, this part of the show’s been sponsored by the word ‘feel’… not that you’ll notice.” “We’re doing a Sesame Street bit… are you sure it’s alright if I do this now?” he says. ![]() But now he has to add a last-minute line needed to stitch in a clip in which a contestant said ‘feel’ seven times in a minute. The 33-year-old comedian and narrator of the cult British reality TV show finished his voiceover for the evening’s episode an hour ago. “Welcome back to Love Island!” Iain Stirling reads off his iPhone into a huge microphone.
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