Season 7 (DE)

**Season 7** is the seventh season of Germany's version of the popular dating show; Love Island, hosted by Sylvie Meis and premiering March 21st,2022 on RTLII.

## Production

The seventh season of the show was first confirmed to be in production, after the previous season concluded through audition advertisements released through their social media pages on December 2nd,2021.

Promotion for the new season, first began on January 28th, when new promotional images of host Sylvie were released by the producers both to the press and on their social media pages, revealing the new season's tagline to be "Festival of Love". At the same time, they also promised that everything surrounding this season of the show would be different to the previous six seasons. This would then be reaffirmed by Sylvie in an interview with German lifestyle magazine; Gala.

On February 14th 2022, it was confirmed by the show, that the new season would be premiering March 21st,2022 on RTLII with episodes airing Mondays to Fridays, as well as on Sundays. This was accompanied by new promotional material, featuring Sylvie and a number of actors posing as islanders in the background.

### Casting

Applications for the new season were opened on December 2nd,2021 with the release of a new advertisement on the show's Instagram, featuring Sylvie and clips from a number of the islanders in the past season, convincing applicants to audition for the show. Once again the producers were looking to find young and attractive boys and girls between the ages of 18 and 35 to fill out an application form and send in audition videos. As of March, the applications are still open for potential new islanders to sign up.

### Villa

For this season, the show will once again be airing from a luxury villa that's located in Tenerife, however it will be a different one from the one that was used for the previous season of the show. Official images of the villa were released by the producers, just a day before the season's launch on March 21st. The villa this time round features, a large pool, lounge area, outside bar/kitchen, decking areas, a large bedroom and changing rooms for the boys and girls, all decked out with LI iconography.

#### Brotel

Revealed on launch day; March 21st,2022, the Brotel is a new villa that was added for this season, as a part of a new twist. The villa is situated close to the main one and in a show first is where the boys will be living separately from the girls for the first few days, without any coupling occurring.

## Islanders

The initial cast for the new season were starting to be teased by the show from March 15th,2022 through their Instagram, where they posted a sizzle reel featuring close-up shots of the new islanders. Here they revealed that the new cast would be revealed exclusively through the show's official app on March 16th. The initial cast for this season, is the largest initial cast to feature on a season of LI with a total of 14 new islanders; 7 boys and 7 girls. However it should be noted that it's still unknown whether all of them will enter on launch night.

## Week-Summary

* Week 1
* Week 2
* Week 3

* Day 3:Jennifer, Sandrine(Brotel).
 **Couplings** | * Day 2: On Day 1, after all 10 boys and girls had entered the villa, they were told that in a show first, they wouldn't be coupling up on Day 1 , with the girls then having to decide which 2 boys could stay in the main villa with them, their choices being Adriano and Mark. This meant that only Adriano and Mark would be able to couple the next day- Adriano & Jessica, Mark & Vanessa L.
 **Dates** | * Day 2: Bucci & Vanessa (First date)
* Day 5: Tommy & Sandrine (First date)
 **Exits** | * Day 4:Jessica & Lara (Failed to couple)

 **Dates** | * Day 8: Madhi & Vanessa K (Hideaway)
 **Exits** | * Day 10: On Day 9 a public vote was opened for the boy and girl the public were most in the show for love - Tommy & Vanessa L (Voted least-likely to find love).
* Day 13:Bucci (Removed for bad behaviour).

* Day 17:Chris,Daniel
 **Couplings** | * Day 16: Third Re-coupling (Girls Choice) - Vanessa K & Madhi, Jennifer & Nico, Leona & Leon. Inna & Jendrik, Sandrine & Bocc, Sanne & Adriano, Cindy & Mark (Re-coupled).
* Day 18: On Day 17, new boys Chris and Daniel were told that during the next day, they'd be able to steal a girl of their choice to couple up with. On Day 18, Chris chose to couple up with Inna and Daniel chose to couple up with Sandrine, leaving Jendrik & Bocc single respectively.
 **Dates** | * Day 17: Chris & Jennifer, Daniel & Sandrine (New islander double date).
 **Exits** | * Day 16: After the day's re-coupling, the couples were tasked with deciding which of them were least romantic in their relationship, being asked to vote on the matter - Adriano & Sanne (Voted least romantic couple)
* Day 18: On Day 17, a public vote for the most deserving islanders to be in the villa opened up - Mahdi (Voted least deserving)
* Day 19: A day after her partner's dumping, Vanessa K received a text during that night's party revealing that if she wanted to she could go and meet up with Madhi, but with the proviso that she wouldn't be able to return to the villa. In the end she took took this option and left the villa.

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