Love Island to film Season 2 at a Las Vegas hotel with hopes of premiering this summer

Vulture

The CBS reality show is moving production to the Caesars-owned boutique hotel The Cromwell on the Las Vegas Strip, where the cast and crew will live in quarantine, according to Josef Adalian. Love Island had planned to film Season 2 in Fiji, where it filmed Season 1, but the coronavirus pandemic scuttled those plans. CBS is hoping to premiere Season 2 by the end of summer. "While precise details surrounding the production are scant, CBS and ITV will require everyone associated with Love Island, including the show’s cast and all crew members, to be quarantined prior to the start of production," says Adalian, adding: "As for the decision to base the show in Las Vegas, keeping it in the United States, and close to Hollywood — where budding reality stars are organically grown — removes the difficulties that might have been associated with producing outside the county, including international travel and the fact that many countries have banned travelers from the U.S. because the virus is out of control in the States. Las Vegas is just a five-hour car ride from Los Angeles, so cast or crew members based there could conceivably avoid any risky air travel to get to the site of production." It's unknown if casting on Season 2 has started or is completed.