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This has arguably been the best year for Love Island in a long time.
We had the iconic series that was All Stars 2025 - that featured the Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Curtis Pritchard vs Elma Pazar and Sammy Root feud - and then we were treated to all the series 12 Islanders.
From love triangles and Ofcom complaints to the infamous divide with all the girls - the Love Island 2025 cast certainly kept us entertained.
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So we've had a deep dive into all things villa - including the cast, bombshells and who won the show...
Love Island 2025 aka series 12's cast
Angel Swift
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Angel Swift was the last bombshell to enter the series 12 villa. She's a 26-year-old aesthetics practitioner and salon owner who had her eye on Ty before she joined the cast.
Ty Isherwood
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Ty Isherwood is a 23-year-old site engineer from Barnsley. He entered the villa as a Casa Amor bombshell and had his eyes on Shakira.
Martin Enitan
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Martin Enitan's 23, he'd just graduated from uni and he's from South London. Before heading into the villa he was interested in getting to know Shakira and Yasmin.
Jamie Rhodes
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Jamie Rhodes is a 26-year-old electrical engineer from Barking and before entering the villa he told producers, 'Yasmin, Shakira and Toni have all caught my eye.'
Chris Middleton
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Chris Middleton is a 29-year-old commercial real estate asset manager from Manchester. He was a Casa Amor bombshell and barely got any screen time.
Cach Mercer
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Cach Mercer is a 24-year-old professional dancer from East London and before heading into the villa for Casa Amor, he told producers, '[My game plan is] to try and make everybody fall in love with me.'
Boris Vidovic
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Boris Vidovic is a 28-year-old model who lives between Ljubljana and Dubai. Before entering the villa, he told producers, 'I’m super attracted to Shakira, I think she’s got a great personality and seems like a good girl. I’m sure we’d get along well and have a good time together, but I need to see in person, it’s all about energy.'
Yaz Broom
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Yazmin Broom is 26, a DJ and lives in Manchester. Before heading into the Casa Amor villa, she admitted, 'I have my eye on three boys: Harrison, Tommy and Conor. They all seem like they treat women really well, and they have nice personalities and nice bodies.'
Rheo Parnell
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Rheo Parnell is a 26-year-old ring girl from Nuneaton. Before heading into the Casa Amor villa, she admitted, 'I don’t really have a game plan and I’ve never really had to play games to get someone I’ve liked before. I’ve definitely got my eyes on Harrison. I’m locked and loaded on him, target secured.'
Lucy Quinn
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Lucy Quinn was rumoured to enter the villa before the series even started and her day finally arrived during Casa Amor. Opening up about her type, she admitted, 'I have my eye on one boy, Tommy. I think he’s just a lovely lad and he’s got good morals. I’ve been watching at home with my mum and dad. My dad said ‘I think you should pick him.’ So I want to listen to my dad on that one.'
Lauren Wood
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Lauren Wood's a 26-year-old dog walker for York and her Casa Amor game plan was 'to win Harrison over.' She went on to say, 'He is so my type. There are a couple of guys that take my fancy, but Harrison is the one I’m going in for.'
Emma Munro
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Emma Munro is a 30-year-old hydrogeologist from Norwich and she's also Harry's ex-girlfriend. Opening up about the OG Islander before walking into Casa, Emma said, 'Harry and I had been together for four years but unfortunately we broke up because he was misbehaving.'
Andrada Pop
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Andrada Pop is a 27-year-old personal trainer from Dublin and before heading into the villa admitted she has her eye on three of the boys.
'I have my eye on Tommy and I like that he’s very mature in communicating. He’s also very easy to look at, he’s very handsome. My number two is Dejon, he intrigues me, because he’s naughty and I have a naughty side. I also like Harrison, he’s very cute and very good to look at, he’s very chatty and a bit bold,' she told producers.
Ryan Bannister
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Poor Ryan Bannister. The 27-year-old Islander from Chesterfield who works as a post office retail support, only had 24 hours to win over one of the girls but he failed. He was sent packing shortly after.
Billykiss Azeez
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Billykiss Azeez is a 28-year-old content creator from Dublin. She entered the villa as a bombshell and only had 24 hours to win over one of the boys but she managed to turn Conor's head. Revealing her secret skills to producers, Billykiss said, 'I can speak Mandarin! While studying, I lived in three different countries.'
Will Means
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Justice for Will Means, tbh. He was only at the VIP Sleepover for 24 hours before he was dumped after failing to recouple.
Poppy Harrison
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Poppy Harrison entered the villa as a 22-year-old dental nurse. During the VIP Sleepover she flirted with Remell but failed to win him over and after he chose to reunite with Alima, Poppy was dumped.
Caprice Alexandra
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Caprice Alexandra is a 26-year-old nursery owner who went into the villa during the VIP Sleepover and flirted with Dejon, however he decided to stay loyal to Meg and Caprice was dumped.
Giorgio Russo
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Gio Russo - a 30-year-old account manager with a VERY famous sister - arrived in the villa during the VIP Sleepover and coupled up with Helena.
Harrison Solomon
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Harrison Solomon is a 22-year-old US college soccer player and a student. He's from Derby but lives in Florida and before entering the villa he told producers, 'I do really like American girls. Their personality is slightly different, in general they’re more confident and go for what they want. But I like a challenge, I like a bit of the chase.'
Malisha Jordan
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Malisha Jordan is a 24-year-old teaching assistant from Broxbourne. During her short but sweet stint she managed to partially turn Dejon's head but he remained loyal to Meg which meant Malisha was sent packing.
Yasmin Pettet
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Yasmin Pettet is a 24-year-old commercial banking executive from London. She arrived in the villa as a bombshell and managed to ruffle a few feathers within her first few minutes.
Emily Moran
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Emily Moran is also 24 but she's an insurance development executive from Aberdare. Before entering the villa. she told producers, 'I wouldn’t go after someone who wasn’t giving me the vibe back, I wouldn’t choose someone who didn’t fancy me. You can always feel if there’s a vibe. I wouldn’t want someone who doesn’t want me, or was giving someone else the time of day or lying to me. I want to be open and honest.'
Shea Mannings
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Shea Mannings is a 25-year-old scaffolder from Bristol and described his ideal lady.
'She needs to be bubbly and we need to have that initial spark. She needs to have a nice personality - like I think I have - so that we match together,' he told producers.
'Also, I have a little boy, so I’ll be taking him into consideration with who I couple up with, too.'
Remell Mullins
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Essex lad Remell Mullins is a 24-year-old a self improvement content creator and he was looking for, 'A bubbly, confident, ambitious and fun girl.
'One feature that stands out to me is a nice smile, nice teeth and someone that can keep me on my toes.'
Toni Laites
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Toni Laites has made Love Island UK history by being the first ever American contestant to enter the villa. She's 24, a pool cabana server in Las Vega and is from Connecticut in New England.
Sophie Lee
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The first Love Island star confirmed for series 12 was author, influencer, public speaker Sophie Lee who already has 94k Instagram followers. Not only is she 29 and from Manchester but she previously dated Love Island 2023's Ouzy See.
Meg Moore
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Meg Moore has swapped her job as a payroll specialist for the villa this year. The 25-year-old Islander is from Southampton and has revealed exactly what she's looking for, 'I’d like to meet someone who is tall, with a nice tan, nice eyes and a nice smile.
'He needs to have a good fashion sense and a really good, funny personality that I can get on with.'
Dejon Noel-Williams
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Dejon Noel-Williams is an OG boy on series 12 of Love Island and the 26-year-old personal trainer has already revealed his claim to fame.
'My dad being an ex-professional footballer. I’ve met all kinds of famous people through him,' he told producers.
'When I was younger it was weird because he was just my dad, but we’d go to a game and fans were asking for photos. I’ve met David Beckham, he was really nice.'
Tommy Bradley
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Tommy Bradley's only 22 but the landscape gardener from Hertfordshire already knew what he's looking for before entering the villa.
'A girl who is very ambitious, with a big personality, caring, but also someone that doesn’t take themselves too seriously,' he told producers.
'I don’t know if that’s asking for too much, but I want a bit of everything. I haven’t got a specific type in terms of looks, though.'
Alima Gagigo
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Scottish babe Alima Gagigo is 23 from Glasgow and her day job is a wealth management client services executive. Before heading into the villa she told producers, 'I always ask guys on a night out to guess which country I’m originally from. If they get it right, they can get my number. But they never guess correctly so it works really well if you don’t want to give a guy your number.
'I’m originally from Guinea Bissau. If they’re close and I really fancy them, I’ll give them my number anyway.'
Ben Holbrough
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Ben Holbrough was also part of the OG line-up and the 23-year-old private hire taxi driver from Gloucester revealed exactly who he was looking for.
'Someone sexy, good looking, good chat, good vibes, nice teeth and good eye contact - they’re all the traits I look for. Oh, and also a cute smile, I just look at you and know I can be around you all day, every day,' he told producers.
Helena Ford
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Helena Ford's a 29-year-old cabin crew from London and she was looking for love in the villa. Despite being from down south, she's looking for a man outside her area.
'[I'd like to couple up with] somebody funny or Northern. I feel like Northern people have much more banter than Southerners.
'If you look through my previous dating history, you’ll see I clearly go for personality. You can pretty much laugh me into bed,' she joked.
Megan Forte Clarke
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Megan Forte Clarke's a 24-year-old musical theatre performer and energy broker from Dublin but she currently lives in Brighton. And it turns out she has a claim to fame, 'Me and my friends made a Derry Girls TikTok for Halloween and it went a bit viral around Brighton.
'Sometimes I get stopped in the street about it. I’ve also done Panto.'
Blu Chegini
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Blu Chegini was part of the OG line-up and he's 26, a construction project manager and he's from London.
Speaking about his flirting skills, he admitted, 'I’ve got the charm to smooth things over with a girl.
'The fact I speak fluent Spanish comes in handy when it comes to flirting!'
Shakira Khan
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Another OG star is beauty Shakira Khan who already had 4k Instagram followers before entering the villa. She's 22, works in marketing and lives in Burnley. She's also revealed her type on paper, 'Someone who is tall, charming, witty, with big arms, a good smile and just really funny.'
Harry Cooksley
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Harry Cooksley's another OG Islander and he's a 30-year-old gold trader, model and semi-professional footballer. He's from Guildford and told producers his claim to fame, 'I’m the body double for Declan Rice.
'So when he does a shoot, any body close ups will actually be me. You’ll never see my face, but you’ll see my shoulder or chest, that kind of thing.'
Conor Phillips
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Following Kyle Ashman's dismissal, Conor Phillips joined the OG line-up. He's a 25-year-old professional rugby player from Limerick and he hinted about his secret talent before he even entered the villa.
'Singing [is my unusual skill]. My go to is Mario’s ‘Let Me Love You’. I’ve sang in front of a lot of people before,' he told producers.
'If it’s your first rugby match you have to get on the bus and sing - they loved it!'
Who won Love Island 2025?
From the moment Toni walked into the villa we knew she'd be iconic and we were right. She won series 12 alongside Casa Amor's Cach - beating Harry and Shakira, Jamie and Yasmin and Angel and Ty.
What was the divide in the Love Island villa?
The main storyline that plagued series 12 was the divide between the OG girls.
On one hand we had Meg, Helena and Megan and on the other hand we had Shakira, Yas and Toni.
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The feud pretty much started on day two when Shakira was forced to turn someone's head so she wouldn't be the first Islander dumped.
It wasn't long before shady comments were made with Meg and Helena saying 'Shakira would flirt with a plant', Yas asked Dejon if he'd have a threesome with her and Toni, and then there was the whole Toni/Helena/Harrison love triangle.
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Despite remaining in the villa together for the majority of the season and Helena insisting they're 'friends', Shakira seems to think differently.
Who was axed from Love Island 2025?
Kyle Ashman
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Kyle Ashman's a 23-year-old water operative from Stafford who was looking for someone that's 'fun, confident and just themselves.' Unfortunately he didn't find anyone in the villa as he was axed from the show before he even walked into the villa.
Who else was rumoured for Love Island 2025?
Despite not making it into the villa, there were reports that six foot five inches FITLORD Aaron Buckett was going on the show.
Aesthetics clinic owner Rose Selway was also rumoured for Love Island 2025.
Love Island bosses were reportedly in talks with transgender recruitment adviser Michelle Roscoe who already has 23k followers on Instagram.
A source told The Sun, 'Love Island are always looking to evolve and move with the times when it comes to their contestants. They have met with Michelle and spoken to her about whether Love Island would be the right show for her.
'She is absolutely gorgeous and an advocate for the trans community so she’d be an incredibly interesting contestant.'
When did Love Island 2025 start?
After lots of speculation, Love Island bosses confirmed that series 12 would air on Monday 9 June.
When did Love Island 2025 finish?
The Love Island 2025 final was on Monday 4 August at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
Who hosted Love Island 2025?
The one, the only - Maya Jama of course.
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Before All Stars series two aired, there were rumours that Maya had quit the show but she shut them down ASAP and said on her Instagram Story, 'I will be presenting Love Island next year and have no plans to leave right now.
'I filmed promo a couple of days ago actually. Fake news is fake news-ing as usual.'
Phew.
And while Maya will pop into the villa for dumpings and host Aftersun, Iain Stirling will continue to make us LOL while narrating the show.
Who was on Love Island 2024?
Who wasn't?
Joey bloomin Essex was the first bombshell of the series and let's just say, that pretty much set the tone for the rest of the show.
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Sam Taylor was brutally dumped after 48 hours, producers introduced the sleepover villa where Joey and Grace Jackson wasted no time snogging in the pool and Diamante Laiva came to blows with Matilda Draper at that dramatic Casa Amor recoupling.
Oh, and there was the infamous 'secret mission', Uma Jammeh quit the villa for Wil Anderson and Mimii Tafara and Josh Oyinsan became the first Black couple to win the show.
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Eden-Olivia is the deputy editor of heatworld and she’s worked in showbiz since 2016. She started watching Love Island in 2017 because of her job. However Montana Brown remaining unphased by absolutely everything kept her entertained and she’s watched every series since.