Love Island bosses make back-up plans to move villa to Jersey if Covid makes filming in Majorca impossible this summer
LOVE Island's famous villa could be moved to Jersey when it makes its return later this year.
ITV bosses have chosen the island of Jersey as their back-up location if plans can't go ahead to film in Majorca.
An insider told the : “The Channel Islands get plenty of sunshine so it makes sense to hold Love Island there if we can't get back to Spain.
“Either way we're going to put out a belting series. Viewers have missed Love Island for the whole of 2020 and they're desperate to have it back. They're going to love what we do, wherever we do it.”
Last year ITV boss Kevin Lygo hinted that Love Island may ditch the Majorca villa.
Making plans amid the coronavirus pandemic, he said the show could follow in the footsteps of I'm A Celebrity.
Hosts Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly swapped Australia for a haunted castle in Wales to ensure the latest series returned.
Meanwhile last year's summer edition of Love Island had to be cancelled because of lockdown, with ITV2 airing a re-run of the Australian version of the competition in its place.
The popular series is aiming to return this summer, but Lygo isn’t ruling out quarantining contestants or changing the Spanish location where it is usually held.
He told press, including RadioTimes.com: "It’s a long way away, and we hope we’ll be back. They are making it [Love Island] you know, they’re shooting it now in America, they do it in Las Vegas, and there are ways, you know, you isolate people beforehand and all the rest of it.
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"If we couldn’t do it in Mallorca, well, maybe we’ll have to do like we’ve done with I’m A Celebrity: find a new place to do it or something, because then it would have been off a long time, and that would be a shame.
"We need it, and we are assuming it will return," he added.