Love Island boss admits All Stars 2026 casting is "tactical" as he promises "big twists” are to be introduced

Love Island All Stars will be returning with a bang next week (12th January), as a new group of former Islanders head into the iconic villa for a second chance at love.

But their chances at love may not be as smooth sailing, with this year's theme being that of unfinished business...

All Stars is no stranger to introducing bombshells in the form of ex partners – as well as bombshells who may not even share the same country of residence as the Islanders.

Last year's summer series introduced Toni Laites, a bombshell hailing from the US who went on to find love and win the programme.

Meanwhile, the 2023 winter series introduced Aussie bombshells, one of whom has since gotten engaged to someone she met on the show!

With plenty of rumours, the question on many people's minds is: Could there be some international bombshells arriving on Love Island All Stars?

Well, Love Island's creative director Mike Spencer-Hayter recently teased: "I'm very excited and remember, we are very tactical.

"We have done our matchmaking in our heads and we have some incredible bombshells waiting in the wings and some big twists to go alongside those."

When asked if the rumours were true that there could be bombshells from different shows worldwide, Spencer-Hayter added: "I will say, some things should be kept a secret.

"You can imagine that we have a very exciting order of bombshells and they might have different postcodes."

Consider us excited!

Love Island: All Stars returns on Monday 12th January at 9pm on ITV2.

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