Who
Is
That
Witty
Scottish
Announcer
on

Love
Island?

Iain
Stirling
pulls
a
double
shift
as
the
narrator
of
both

Love
Island
UK
and

Love
Island
USA—and
during
filming,
he’s
also
on
a
tight
schedule.

“At
12
in
the
afternoon
U.K.
time,
I’d
log
on
to

Love
Island
UK,”
the
Scottish
comedian
detailed
to


TODAY
in
2024.
“By
that
point,
the
show’s
all
but
finished.
Then
we’d
write
for
two
or
three
hours.
Done
by
about
4,
half
4.
Then
I’d
get
a
child
dinner,
bath
time,
bed
time—I’d
love
for
it
to
be
more
rock
‘n’
roll
than
that,
but
that
was
my
life.
Then
I’d
have
some
food,
and
then
I
would
log
on
to

Love
Island
USA
at
half
past
8,
which
is
really
early
Fiji
time.”

Stirling
watches
a
rough
cut
from
home
over
Zoom,
exec
producer
Parrish
explained
to
The
Wrap,
and
he
and
the
writers
are
“just
observing
funny
things
in
the
scene,
or
reminders
of
what’s
happened
in
the
story,
that
gets
recorded…at
home
on
his
microphone.”

His
narration
is
added
to
the
episode
before
the
episode
is
sent
to
Peacock’s
legals
and
standards
team
(which
does
sometimes
have
notes
that
require
last-minute
changes).

“We’d
try
to
finish
by
about
12
or
1
in
the
morning,
then
I’d
stay
up
till
half
to
3
—
which
is
still
not
the
end
of
the
show
for
the
U.S.,”
Stirling
told

TODAY.
“In
a
dream
world,
I’d
be
staying
up
‘til
like,
5,
6,
in
the
morning,
but
that
would
basically
involve
me
never
sleeping.”

Proof
that
the
franchise
can
produce
a
forever
bond:
Stirling
married
former

Love
Island
UK
host

Laura
Whitmore
in
2020
and
they
welcomed
a
daughter
in
March
2021.