Love Island is officially back for 2022 - and we've finally got our list of singletons who will be entering the infamous villa.
The ITV2 show kicks off next week on Monday June 6, with bosses promising a long hot summer of love for the 11 new contestants who will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of some of the most iconic and long-lasting Love Island couples.
Ahead of the new series, ex-Islander Tyla Carr - who caused quite a stir when she joined the show as a bombshell in 2017 - has exclusively given the Mirror Online the lowdown on what the cast will be doing right now ahead of the new series.
Speaking to the Mirror Online about what happens before you enter the villa, she explained that the Islanders go into "hiding" for a couple of weeks, as she added: "I had a very different experience to everyone else because I lived in Mallorca at the time.
"Obviously it was being filmed in Mallorca and they wanted to get people over there to go into hiding for two weeks."
She shared: "I didn't have to do that cause I lived there, my dad lived out there and they just called me the day before I went in and said, right, you're on. You're coming in tomorrow. Then I had a car pick me up."
Islanders are then vetted - and their suitcases are searched, and repacked, to make sure they're not bringing any banned items in.
"You then go in and they sort of vet you, like make sure they go through all of your suitcases, put it in a different suitcase," she explained, "They go through all your things to make sure we're not bringing anything naughty in there.
"And they get you ready to go on and obviously then you go in causing havoc if you’re a bombshell."
Tyla also opened up about how what we see on screen is very different from what it's like actually inside the villa, as she admitted it can take ages to film some scenes - particularly the games and the re-couplings.
"It does - anything that's quite specific like the games that you play or the coupling up takes hours, like actual hours. It's not five minutes, it's a long time. It does take a while," she shared.
*Love Island returns to ITV2 on Monday June 6 at 9pm.
