ITV sets Love Island start date

The new series of Love Island will start on Monday 3 June, ITV has confirmed.

The official I TV 2 Twitter account posted a short video to unveil the broadcast date.

The fifth series of the programme will air against a backdrop of calls for it to be cancelled following the deaths of two of its stars.

Sophie G radon ,32, who appeared in season two in 2016, was found dead in June last year, while 26 -year- old Mike Th alas sit is, who took part in Love Island a year later, died in March.