Who Is That Witty Scottish Announcer on Love Island?
Iain Stirling pulls a double shift because the narrator of each Love Island UK and Love Island USA—and throughout filming, he’s additionally on a good schedule.
“At 12 within the afternoon U.Ok. time, I’d go surfing to Love Island UK,” the Scottish comic detailed to TODAY in 2024. “By that time, the present’s all however completed. Then we might write for 2 or three hours. Performed by about 4, half 4. Then I would get a toddler dinner, tub time, mattress time—I’d love for it to be extra rock ‘n’ roll than that, however that was my life. Then I’d have some meals, and then I might go surfing to Love Island USA at half previous 8, which is admittedly early Fiji time.”
Stirling watches a tough reduce from residence over Zoom, exec producer Parrish defined to The Wrap, and he and the writers are “simply observing humorous issues within the scene, or reminders of what’s occurred within the story, that will get recorded…at residence on his microphone.”
His narration is added to the episode earlier than the episode is distributed to Peacock’s legals and requirements crew (which does typically have notes that require last-minute modifications).
“We’d strive to end by about 12 or 1 within the morning, then I’d keep up until half to 3 — which remains to be not the top of the present for the U.S.,” Stirling informed TODAY. “In a dream world, I’d be staying up ‘til like, 5, 6, within the morning, however that will mainly contain me by no means sleeping.”
Proof that the franchise can produce a without end bond: Stirling married former Love Island UK host Laura Whitmore in 2020 and they welcomed a daughter in March 2021.
