A villa on Mallorca – isolated from the outside world and filmed by cameras: this is the world of “Love Island”. Now it starts again with the dating show and the search for “true love”.
Hamburg – “I’ve never had a boyfriend and I’m looking for love. I think that’s a good prerequisite, ”says Jessica. The 23-year-old is one of the 13 candidates for the new season of “Love Island”.
Whether she will find love on a dating show of all things remains to be seen soon. Because on Monday at 8:15 p.m., the flirting starts again on RTLzwei – this time on the island of Mallorca. Certainly, numerous tears will flow again in the four weeks, because men like Philipp, 23, who boasts in the short video for the show that he eats a different one every week, certainly won’t let anything burn.
In fact, some of the candidates in the five seasons of the flirt show, which first aired on September 11, 2017, remained a couple in real life – some even had a baby. The concept of “Love Island” has always remained the same: A group of candidates, called Islanders, live isolated from the outside world in a villa – under constant surveillance by video cameras. In order to really get the mood crackling, the Islanders are coupled with each other several times. The couples then have to spend time together, including sleeping in one bed together.
In order to get to know each other better and to get closer, there are numerous teasing games and competitions – for example, the candidates have to decide blindfolded which man (or woman) can kiss best. The winners of the competitions receive special prizes, such as dating their partner outside the villa. By voting via smartphone app, viewers can decide which couple they like best or which couple should leave the villa. At the end of the season, the winning couple will receive a bonus of 50,000 euros.
So far, “Love Island” has been moderated by Jana Ina Zarrella (44), Sylvie Meis (43) is now supposed to bring a breath of fresh air to the show. The Dutchwoman, who hosted “Let’s Dance” on RTL from 2011 to 2017 together with Daniel Hartwich, is already looking forward to “accompanying the Islanders in their search for great love”. And the new presenter also has a few flirting tips ready: “Be open, be safe, be self-confident. Because that’s the most attractive. If someone flirts with self-confidence, it almost doesn’t matter how you look, ”said Meis in an interview with dpa. In addition, one should be open, also for the great love. “It will only happen if you are open.”
She herself was coupled with her current husband Niclas Castello (43) at the wedding of model Barbara Meier and entrepreneur Klemens Hallmann in the summer of 2019 – and has been completely happy since then. “I feel very welcome,” said the moderator. But in order for love to last, you have to do a lot. “It is always important to me that it never gets boring. And I am responsible for that: you always have to make an effort and never take it for granted that a person is there. ”Dpa
