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 through filming, he’s additionally on a decent schedule.
“At 12 within the afternoon U.Ok. time, I’d go online 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. Accomplished by about 4, half 4. Then I might get a baby dinner, bathtub 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, after which I might go online to Love Island USA at half previous 8, which is actually early Fiji time.”
Stirling watches a tough reduce from house 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 house 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 generally have notes that require last-minute modifications).
“We’d attempt to end by about 12 or 1 within the morning, then I’d keep up until half to three — which continues 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 may mainly contain me by no means sleeping.”
Proof that the franchise can produce a perpetually bond: Stirling married former Love Island UK host Laura Whitmore in 2020 and so they welcomed a daughter in March 2021.