Love Handles Island!
Davina begs ITV to let her host a version of the holiday dating show ... but for middle-aged couples
IT’S the summer dating show that sees toned twenty-somethings flaunt their flesh in the hope of finding a social mediasavvy ‘soulmate’.
Now Davina McCall, 55, is ‘begging’ ITV bosses to hire her to host a ‘mid-life’ version of Love Island.
The presenter was 50 when she split from her husband Matthew Roberston in 2017. She is now dating her hairdresser Michael Douglas.
Miss McCall wants to help other older singletons find love and said the show would be full of ‘interesting people’ who have ‘lived a life’.
Speaking on the Diary of a CEO podcast, she said she has ‘ no embarrassment or shame about emailing a TV company or the head of a TV company and going “have you thought about this?”’ as she revealed she is ‘literally begging ITV to let me present mid-life Love Island’. ‘I could fill a villa in Love Island with middle-aged people with the best back stories you have ever heard in your life,’ she told host Stephen Bartlett.
‘They’ve lived a life – they’re widows, they’re people who have been through horrific divorces. They are people who have split up with somebody and decided they want to try going out with somebody the same sex as them. I’d watch that show.’
Miss McCall, a judge on The Masked Singer, said ITV is looking into a similar show and they ‘might consider’ her to host. It comes months after it was reported that ITV was working on a pilot for a Love Island-style show that would see people in their 40s and 50s coupled up by their children while on a retreat.
A source then told The Sun: ‘This show will give those who settled down young a second chance at love while they still feel in their prime.’