LOVE Islanders are expected to roast next week when temperatures rise in South Africa.
The harvest of new singletons will sweat a scorching sun on January 16.
The winter edition of Love Island was first introduced in 2020 and won through Paige Turley and Finn Tapp, who won the £50,000 prize.
But the exhibition was then suspended for two years due to Covid.
Love Island’s new winter villa is named after a Roman gladiator, in a nod to the drama ahead.
ITV bosses spent £1. 2m to rent the luxury platform in South Africa, which includes rugby and football pitches like an Olympic swimming pool.
But singles will have to be prepared for war in their search for romance at the site, named Ludus Magnus after Rome’s ancient gladiatorial school.
The original Ludus Magnus built between 81 and 96 AD. C. by Emperor Domitian to supply gladiators for the Colosseum, where slaves fought to the death to save their lives against the barking of the Romans.
The ecological village of Love Island has its own wells and streams for water and operates off-grid, being powered through 266 solar panels.
It has its own resident gazelles and 4 rescue donkeys.
For punters, a night at the mansion costs upwards of £430 in keeping with the night.
But it is understood that the fee for the manufacturers of the program is £8,000 a day to take out the entire property.
It’s just a few miles from Virgin billionaire Richard Branson’s vineyard, Mont Rochelle.
It has football and rugby fields, 400m athletics track, zip lines and trails for mountain bikes.
Ludus has river rapids and two 50-meter swimming lanes on a large lake, which are used for Olympic training.
The water has its own “island of love” in between, with a sandy beach surrounded by trees.
The platform spans 25 acres of a wine valley in the town of Franschhoek, 46 miles from Cape Town.
It has 17 rooms and a tree house, as a T-shaped pool.
Love Island will have a new host for the winter series, with Maya Jama Laura Whitmore.
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