Love Island is returning to our screens tonight as a brand new bunch of singletons head to the show's latest villa on the island of Majorca for the 2022 series. The line-up for the series has already been confirmed with the first episode set to air on Monday, June 6 over on ITV2 from 9pm.
Amongst the contestants on this year's eighth series, is 19-year-old Gemma Owen, the daughter of former footballer turned sports pundit and commentator Michael Owen. Ahead of the new series, our sister title Yorkshire Live have gone through the Love Island archives and taken a look into which pairs from previous years are still loved up.
Since 2015, viewers have seen hundreds of contestants heading to sun-kissed locations in their search for love. Whilst some relationships haven't continued after the show, some of the islanders did find love and have since gone on to get married and welcome children.
Millie Court and Liam Reardon - Love Island 2021
Despite some ups and downs whilst they were in the villa, the pair were crowned the winners of last year's series and bagged the £50k prize money. They are still together and in November 2021, Millie shared with her almost 2million Instagram followers that the pair had moved in together. She has since landed a number of collaborations including a clothing line with ASOS and Eylure.
Chloe Burrows and Toby Aromolaran - Love Island 2021
Chloe and Toby were runners up on the 2021 series and there had recently been rumours they had split. But the pair looked happy and loved up when they took to Instagram last week to share photos from their trip to Jamaica.
Since the show, the couple have remained in the limelight. Chloe has become and ambassador for JD women and Toby becoming an ambassador for BoohooMAN. The pair were recently seen on BBC One game show Catchpoint too.
Faye Winter and Teddy Soares - Love Island 2021
Faye and Teddy made it through to the finale and are still a couple and live together. The pair recently helped with the marketing for the new Love Island series by making a big transformation as the mimicked the Rodin's Kiss statue outside the Tate Modern in London. Faye shared the image on Instagram adding: "The aim is to help show what love really looks like and prove love island really is the OG of dating shows".
Paige Turley and Finley Tapp - Love Island 2020
Paige Turley and Finley Tapp clinched the Winter Love Island crown back in 2020 when the series was set in South Africa. They are still going strong and were another pair of Love Island alumni to recently take part in recreating a statue pose. They transformed into the 'Wincher's Stance' statue in Glasgow.
Eva Zapico and Nas Majeed - Love Island 2020
Nas Majeed and Eva Zapico met on the first Winter Love Island are still together after being kicked out of the South African villa early. They didn't make their relationship known to the public until a few months after they left the show.
Callum Jones and Molly Smith - Love Island 2020
Callum went down in Love Island history when he dumped Shaughna Phillips after Casa Amor after his head was turned by Molly Smith. The pair met on the sixth series of the show and two months after leaving the villa decided to make their relationship official and are now living together.
Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury - Love Island 2019
Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Hague are the only couple from their series in 2019 to still be together. They regularly share loved-up snaps on their socials of their holidays abroad. They have a house together and recently sparked rumours of marriage after Molly-Mae posted a picture of them kissing with the caption "Forever Thing". The pair have had great careers since leaving the show with Tommy’s boxing career and Molly-Mae becoming the creative director of clothing brand Pretty Little Thing.
Dom Lever and Jess Shears - Love Island 2017
Dom Lever and Jess Shear were actually the first couple to be split up in 2017’s Love island when Jess was kicked out of the villa. But the pair have proved their sceptics wrong and married in Mykonos in October 2019. Jess also gave birth to a baby boy the same year and they are now expecting their second baby.
Jamie Jewitt and Camilla Thurlow - Love Island 2017
The pair became the nation’s favourite Love Island love story in 2017. It's been five years since they first met, and the happy couple announced to fans at the end of May that they had welcomed their second baby. They had their first child, Nell, three years after meeting on the show.
Nathan Massey and Cara De la Hoyde - Love Island 2016
The winners of 2016’s Love Island Nathan Massey and Cara De la Hoyde haven’t left the villa six years ago but they split less than a year after the series ended. They did however rekindle their romance before Cara gave birth to their son Freddie-George in December 2017.
In 2018, the couple revealed they had got engaged after Nathan proposed to Cara back at the villa where they first met. They got married in a low-key ceremony in June 2019 and welcomed their second child Delilah in 2020. Nathan posted an Instagram video of the couple's time on the show on June 6 and wished the 2022 contestants "good luck". He added: "We hope you all find love like we did!".
Olivia Buckland and Alex Bowen - Love Island 2016
Alex Bowen and Olivia Buckland tied the knot in September 2018 after meeting on the 2016 series. They announced in January 2022 that they are now expecting their first baby together. Olivia shared photographs on social media to her 2.9million followers last week of the baby shower they held with family and friends.
The 2022 series of Love Island kicks off on ITV2 and ITV Hub from 9pm on Monday, June 6.
