Love Island can claim to be the UK’s most successful dating show after newborn Bambi Fury became the eighth baby born to couples paired on the show.
This ties with the number of babies made thanks to Take Me Out – however, three of the couples only started dating after meeting again at reunion gatherings.
While eight couples wed in total from the series, only three babies have been born to three couples who found love via Paddy McGuinness and the mythical island of Fernandos.
Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Hague, who met on Love Island in 2019 and have been living together ever since, announced Bambi this week after her birth last week.
Series two runners-up Olivia Buckland and Alex Bowen wed two years later in 2018. They share one six-month-old son together, Abel.
The same year’s winners Nathan Massey and Cara De La Hoyde split briefly a year after the show, before rekindling and marrying in 2019. They are still happily married, with two children, Freddie-George, four, and Delilah, two.
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During series three, in 2017, viewers watched Camilla Thurlow fall for her future husband Jamie Jewitt. The couple, who wed in 2021, have Nell, two, and nine-month-old Nora Belle Jewitt.
That same year, Jess Shears and Dom Lever met while both were living in the villa, but the pair left single.
However, they pursued a relationship together back in the UK, and married in 2018. They have a two-year-old son together, Presley, and welcomed another son in June.
Series one’s Luis Morrison and Cally Breech also welcomed a daughter Vienna, five, who takes the show’s total tally up to nine babies.
Sadly the couple are no longer together, having split around the time she was born.
Blind Date achieved three weddings, all attended by the show’s host Cilla Black, and produced four babies. Couples who met on scripted reality series TOWIE have produced two babies, and Made In Chelsea can claim a tally of three.
It comes after BGT judge Amanda Holden claimed Tommy and Molly-Mae’s baby Bambi was a “one off” success story for the show, adding: “It’s not really about love. It’s just about looking hot.”
Sadly, this series looks unlikely to produce any success stories - with even narrator Iain Stirling remarking that no couples are looking solid enough to stand the impending test of Casa Amor.
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