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 good schedule.
“At 12 within the afternoon U.Okay. 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 might 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, after which I’d go surfing to Love Island USA at half previous 8, which is basically early Fiji time.”
Stirling watches a tough minimize from dwelling 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 dwelling on his microphone.”
His narration is added to the episode earlier than the episode is distributed to Peacock’s legals and requirements staff (which does generally have notes that require last-minute adjustments).
“We’d attempt to end by about 12 or 1 within the morning, then I’d keep up until half to three — which remains to be not the tip of the present for the U.S.,” Stirling instructed TODAY. “In a dream world, I’d be staying up ‘til like, 5, 6, within the morning, however that will principally contain me by no means sleeping.”
Proof that the franchise can produce a ceaselessly bond: Stirling married former Love Island UK host Laura Whitmore in 2020 and so they welcomed a daughter in March 2021.