Sexy singletons are jetting off to the Love Island villa in Majorca as the smouldering ITV hit TV show is set to return for a seventh series later this month.
But the journey to love - and potentially lucrative instagram fame and clothing collections - starts long before the show takes to the air.
ITV casting teams are inundated with hopefuls with around 98,000 people applications received for the show in previous years.
This year is tipped to be even more popular than ever after last year's summer show was pulled due to the Covid pandemic. Producers have also been forced to scrap face-to-face auditions and instead asked potential contestants to upload a one minute video explaining why they would make a great islander.
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