On Tuesday, 23rd July 2019, ITV announced that from 2020 there will be two series of the show per year. Series 6 will be broadcast in early 2020 and will be filmed at a brand new villa in South Africa. Series 7 will air in the Summer of 2020 and will return to a European villa as the filming location.
Yahoo News reported in Jan. 2020 that former Love Island contestant Ellie Brown shared that she went to extreme measures when it came to her appearance ahead of her stint in the 2018 series of the show. Brown claims she limited her diet before going onto the programme, even shunning fruit due to its sugar content, and spent two-and-a-half hours in the gym everyday for two months. "One of the biggest myths about Love Island is that we look so toned, tanned and skinny all of the time," she wrote in The Sun. "In reality, I practically starved myself going into the villa, eating nothing but fish and vegetables for months and spending hours sweating away in the gym each day." Brown said that being fat-shamed by online trolls for pictures taken after she left the programme left her feeling "lower that [she] ever had in her life". She opined that the contestants for the upcoming series "will no doubt be under the same pressures from trolls who are desperate to scrutinise every pound they shed or gain".
Series 8 featured five offspring of famous people - Gemma, daughter of footballer Michael Owen; Liam, son of rugby union player David Llewellyn; Antigoni, daughter of chef Tonia Buxton; Summer, daughter of garage MC & DJ "MC CKP"; and Jack, son of singer Ronan Keating.
Yahoo News reported that the show came under fire in 2019 from those who believe there is a lack of body diversity among the contestants. Creative director of ITV Studios Entertainment Richard Cowles responded to the backlash, saying: "First and foremost, it's an entertainment show. It's about people wanting to watch who you've got on screen falling in love with one another. We're not saying that everyone that's in there is how you're supposed to look." But then he basically inferred that body types other than the tone and fit contestants they include in the show aren't attractive. "Yes, we want to be as representative as possible, but we also want them to be attracted to one another."