{"id":307778,"date":"2026-02-24T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:55:10","slug":"love-island-winners-revealed-after-drama-filled-all-stars-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307778\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island winners revealed after drama-filled All Stars series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Love Island&#8217;s popularity seemed to rise again last year, thanks to the success of the US version of the show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cnvmmp34yq5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and a jump in social media interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, ITV told BBC Newsbeat streams on ITVX were up 9% year on year, and figures from TikTok show one million people followed Love Island&#8217;s official account in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Producers were keen to capitalise on that for the latest All Stars, which saw six American bombshells enter in their own Casa Amor villa halfway through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only two of them made the final, including second-place Zac who hit it off with series seven winner Millie straight away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Love Island superfan Georgia Blue, 30, says adding the American contestants really helped bring a new energy to the format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it was just such a great idea, especially off the back of Love Island USA doing so well last year,&#8221; the content creator tells BBC Newsbeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This has been one of the best series we&#8217;ve had in a long time, not just with All Stars, I think in terms of the whole UK Love Island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She feels viewers have gotten used to the show becoming &#8220;somewhat stale&#8221; with challenges often being repeated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Georgia says it was &#8220;really nice&#8221; to have some &#8220;new surprises&#8221; this time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love Island&#8217;s popularity seemed to rise again last year, thanks to the success of the US version of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-307778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}