OHMYGOSSIP — ITV commissioner Amanda Stavri says including gay contestants in ‘Love Island’ presents a “logistical difficulty”.
Amanda insisted the the ITV2 dating show – which is hosted by Laura Whitmore – wants to “encourage greater inclusivity and diversity”, but she admitted the Islanders need to have “an equal choice when coupling up”.
She told RadioTimes.com: “There’s been quite a few rumours circulating about featuring gay Islanders, so it’s worth touching on that really.
“The line-up will be announced within time and it goes without saying that we want to encourage greater inclusivity and diversity.
“In terms of gay Islanders, I think the main challenge is regarding the format of ‘Love Island’. There’s a sort of logistical difficulty, because although Islanders don’t have to be 100 per cent straight, the format must sort of give [the] Islanders an equal choice when coupling up.
“With our dating shows, such as ‘The Cabins’, there is much more sexual diversity. The formats don’t have as much restrictions as ‘Love Island’. So we’re very sort of mindful of that across our programming on ITV and dating series. But that’s the difficulty with ‘Love Island’.”
It comes after ITV2 met with over 1,000 applicants for the 2021 series, and show bosses are currently deciding who to put into the villa.
Amada explained: “We’re always very mindful of diversity and inclusion and hopefully you’ll see that when we announce the line-up.
“There’s been more applications than ever. They’ve whittled it down and we’re all very pleased.
“We’ve got a big sort of pool at the moment and we need to sort of work out who to put in the opening line-up and who sort of to hold back, you know as a bombshell – we need the bombshells!”
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