Love Island 2020 Betting

Welcome to the Ultimate Betting Guide for Love Island 2020!

Despite your best efforts to convince yourself otherwise you love trash TV, and so do we. Punters are starting to get in on the action too with bookies who offer specials betting, with Love Island betting markets becoming more and more popular each season as the show's popularity reaches unprecedented heights.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What channel is Love Island on?

• Love Island is back on the air for season 6 on ITV2 and Virgin Media Two. The show will usually air daily from 9pm, with the latest updates from the previous day in the villa but also during the summer season live shows are aired when contestants are evicted. There is also rumoured to be a winter version of the show coming to air.

Where is Love Island?

• The villa is the same as used since 2017 and situated in Mallorca, on the east coast of the island. It’s away from civilization so the noise can be loud, and the privacy is high.

What is the Love Island Lie Detector?

• For at least one uncomfortable episode the show requires contestants to answer personal questions while attached to a lie detector. It has been the cause of several breakups and hookups in remarkably equal measure. A moment of tension for contestants and reality TV punters alike.

How do I follow Love Island on social media?

• The verified Twitter handle for Love Island is the place to be @LoveIsland and this is likely to be where you will first hear the return date for the show, the contestants announced and then the fun will begin once the first show is aired. The contestants will usually have agents or friends running their personal accounts during the show and couples will embrace the social media audience with catchy hashtags – aka #JackandDani or #MegWes!

Who hosts Love Island 2020?

• Caroline Flack has hosted Love Island and the Love Island spin-off “Aftersun” since 2017 to great acclaim amongst the show’s fans. A hugely popular part of teenage television culture since the “mid-noughties” with roles on Eurovision, Gladiators, Strictly Come Dancing and the X Factor it appears Caroline has found her new home in the heart of Love Islands media success.

How Do You Win Love Island?

• Contestants live in isolation from the outside world in a villa on the island of Majorca, constantly under video surveillance in a similar fashion to shows like Big Brother. While living in the villa the ‘Islanders’ must couple up with one another, regardless of whether it is for love, friendship or money.
• Single islanders leave the show after a recoupling. During the final week of the program the public vote for the couple they think deserve to win the series. The winners take home £50,000, but only if both couples agree to split the pot. If one person opts to ‘steal’ the pot, they take home all of the cash, but if both decide to ‘steal’, they wind up with nothing.

Love Island Betting Odds

The most important thing to focus on is the public, whose vote makes a massive difference and eventually determines the winner. Top betting sites offering specials will base their Love Island odds on the general public's perception of each couple.

One practical way of informing your Love Island betting is to listen to social conversation. Twitter and Facebook will be hopping mad while the show is on, so check out what others are saying to gain an understanding of why the odds are listed the way they are.

Love Island Betting Strategy

As with other specials betting markets, such as the Eurovision or Strictly Come Dancing, it can be particularly difficult to predict the outcome. One practical thing to keep in mind when plotting out Love Island odds and researching the show is that there will normally be one stand out couple who not only have great chemistry but are loved by the public too. This is the recipe for success when Love Island betting.

The value in Love Island betting is found when you can successfully identify a couple that nobody would expect to come together in the early parts of the series. Focus on couples who have chemistry but haven’t had much screen time. Less screen time early on normally results in longer odds at the bookmakers and this should be factored into account. Also, keep an eye on contestants that are particularly rowdy or divisive within the group. These Islanders are more likely to be resented by the others in the villa and may bag themselves an early ticket home and so should be avoided at all costs.

Love Island Betting History

Betting on Love Island became popular in 2015 as the series was revived (it previously aired on ITV in 2005 as a full celebrity version). At this point in time bookmakers were very much in the business of offering quirky specials and political betting, and the reality format of the show afforded many top bookies the opportunity to list Love Island markets.

The obvious market is the winners market i.e betting on which couple will win the show, but some bookmakers have listed Love Island specials in the past that focus on different specifics - for example, the week in which a certain Islander will be eliminated.

How to Get on Love Island?

It’s become far more difficult to get onto Love Island than when the first version of the current “non-celebrity” incarnation of the show started in 2015. Now a potential candidate need only apply if they have some subtle celebrity connections, a huge social media following, and a perfect trim and toned body.

What perhaps was encouraging for watchers of last season was that the rather paunchy male winner, Jack Fincham, had certainly skipped a few tum sessions at the gym and represented at least to a point, the normal man in the street!

What Happened to Love Island Stars?

Love Island Controversy

Sadly, two former contestants of Love Island have passed away since appearing on the show. Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis in 2018 and 2019 respectively, ended their own lives and calls have since been made in the media for the show to be cancelled, in a similar vein to the recent halting in production of the Jeremy Kyle show on ITV.

Love Island show spokespersons have recently confirmed continued commitment to making “after show care” available to all those that take part in the reality show including psychological support.

Love Island Successes

Many others though have gone on to have burgeoning television careers, multiple further reality TV appearances are the norm but former popular Love Island contestant Chris Hughes has made strides in the horse racing betting industry with regular well-received appearances on ITV Racing.

Love Island has also taken off in Australia who now hold their annual version of the reality hit from Mallorca, hosted by popular English-Australian singer and actress Sophie Monk.

Get to Know Love Island Terminology

• Mugging Off - A term that suggests a contestant is not being entirely truthful to another about feelings and intentions of a romantic sense.
• Coupling Up – Two contestants commit to being in a couple rather than just checking out their options. Contestants must be coupled up to remain on the show so this is forced even if it isn’t amicable.
• Type On Paper – A term used to describe a contestant’s usual preference in a romantic partner. For example, if someone isn’t “my type on paper” then it is unlikely they will end up coupling up.
• Doing Bits – A term used to politely describe romantic liaisons without unsavoury details being disclosed.
• Boyfriend/Girlfriend – As they suggest the terms are easy to understand but in Love Island parlay this is a serious commitment and beyond that of merely “coupling up”.
• Bev/Bevvy – Introduced in during Love Island 2019 by contestant Lucie Donlan, 'bev' or 'bevvy' refers to an attractive male. The phrase, however, was quickly dismissed by Love Island fans on social media as an attempt at trend-setting.
• Get to know him/her - A Love Island contestant will often use the phrase "get to know him/her" as a signal of their intent to pursue another Islander romantically. Typically, a number of one-to-one chats will ensue after this phrase is used.

Who Are the Previous Love Island Winners?

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