Love Island bosses have reportedly been urged to reconsider South Africa as the location for the winter version of the reality series after a rise in violent crimes in the country. Coupling: On Day 1, the Islanders coupled up for the first time. After months of counting down, Love Island's brand new series will launch on ITV2 this Sunday, January 12 and security for it is being tightened after a … Where is the new series of Love Island being filmed? Security has been upped for the first ever Winter Love Island after a shocking murder close to the show's villa in South Africa. Week 1 Entrances: On Day 1, Callum, Connor, Eve, Jess, Leanne, Mike, Nas, Ollie, Paige, Shaughna, Siânnise and Sophie entered the villa. Then on Celebs Go Dating, Amber claimed he had been messaging another Love Island star before she appeared to brand Amber a "snakey b-tch" on Instagram.

Cape Town – The popular ITV Choice reality show, Love Island is heading to South Africa. In the reality show, a cast of hot young singles go in search of love and romance in Majorca.
But where is the Love Island villa? And what's the security like?

ITV producers had to switch location to South Africa for the winter version of the show in order to guarantee some January sun. Yes, the latest season of Love Island is being filmed in Cape Town.. Upper Constantia, to be exact, at a property owned by 50-year-old Italian tycoon Luca Bechis. The South African city is home to the brand new winter Love Island villa, as well as a number of dangerous gangs. WINTER LOVE ISLAND has been announced after the popularity of the summer series on ITV2. South Africa– Blue Sky Publications (Pty) Ltd T/A TheSouthAfrican Number: 2005/028472/07. The main events in the Love Island villa are summarised in the table below.

The winter Love Island villa is in Cape Town Credit: Sothebys. The new series is set to launch at the beginning of 2020 with a whole new crop of Islanders. Fans of the show will know that the regular villa and nearby Casa Amor are both situated on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Love Island is an ITV reality TV show which sees single participants couple up in an effort to find love - and win a £50,000 prize.


On Day 5, Connagh and Finn entered the villa. The new winter series of Love Island airing in January 2020 is being filmed at a gorgeous luxury villa in Cape Town, South Africa. In January 2019 following all that Dancing on Ice drama with Vanessa Bauer, Wes Nelson and Megan Barton Hanson split.However a couple of months later there were reports that Wes had been 'sexting' 2017 winner Amber Davies. The publicity team for the UK reality show Love Island, which is currently being filmed in Cape Town, has denied any link between the show and the death of security boss Tim Lotter.