Love Island All Stars forced to evacuate villa with season postponed

Wildfires in South Africa have meant that the villa for Love Island All Stars has been evacuated and the show will have to happen later as filming cannot go ahead.

The third series of the show was set to be on screens tomorrow (12 January) but it has been postponed as people have had to evacuate the area, so for obvious reasons they wouldn't be filming a new series of Love Island when everyone would be in danger.

South African wildfires have been spreading through the Cape and authorities said they had been working to control several fires in the area.

ITV said in a statement: "Further to a production evacuation owing to ongoing wildfires in the area, our assessment of the location site has concluded that filming will need to be postponed.

"Health and safety is our greatest priority and will always come first, and therefore the transmission of Love Island All Stars will be delayed until a date to be confirmed."

That is the most recent statement on the matter, so it remains a mystery as to when Love Island All Stars can return to filming and the call to evacuate the villa has ended.

This is supposed to be the third series of the Love Island spin-off which brings back former contestants for another crack at finding love, or at least a relationship for a little while.

Maya Jama is hosting the show and a dozen contestants are waiting for the evacuation order in the villa to clear so they can get in there and be on TV.

Among them are two former Love Island, winners Jess Harding, 25, and Millie Court, 29, who will be hoping it's second time lucky for them in the villa.

Joining them is 26-year-old Jack Keating, son of Irish singer Ronan Keating, who was on series eight of Love Island.

Also expected to get into the villa when it's safe to do so are Belle Hassan, 27, Charlie Frederick, 31, Ciaran Davies, 23, Helena Ford, 29, Leanne Amaning, 28, Sean Stone, 26, Shaq Muhammad, 27, Tommy Bradley, 22 and Whitney Adebayo, 28.

While the show was supposed to be going on the air tomorrow, ITV 2 will instead be showing Love Island: Decade of Love, a reunion special which was first shown last year that brought back former contestants to discuss the history of the popular dating series.

For now, the future of the show depends on when the wildfires can be dealt with and when it's safe for contestants and production staff to return to the villa.