Season 3 (America)

**Season 3** is the third season of Love Island's American adaptation, hosted by Arielle Vandenberg and premiering July 7th,2021 on CBS.

## Production

The season was first announced to be in production by CBS on January 27th,2021 where they made the announcement through their various social media accounts, confirming that the show would indeed be returning for it's third season in the summer of 2021.

On May 13th,2021 it was revealed during an official CBS podcast held on podcast app; Clubhouse with Arielle and Big Brother US host; Julie Chen, that the third season of the show would be premiering on CBS; July 7th 2021.

### Casting

Casting agents first put out adverts looking for new islanders for the third season 2 months after Season 2 came to an end in November 2020, through the use of social media. As with previous seasons they were looking for young and attractive single boys and girls to apply and send in audition tapes and requiring them to be 18 or over.

However, as of February 2021, CBS have not announced any official audition details for this season. On April 25th,2021 the auditions were officially opened by CBS, with the show announcing their official casting call through their social media accounts.

### Villa

Alongside the announcement of the show's renewal on January 27th, it was also revealed that the show would be airing from a villa in Hawaii instead of Las Vegas or Fiji like it was in the previous two seasons. The first official images of the Hawaiian villa were released on the day of the launch; July 7th,2021 through their official social media pages. Here they showed off a variety of the villa's different areas, including the bedroom, make-up room, lounge, outdoor bar, decking area and hide-away, as well as a luxury pool that features a water-slide.

## Islanders

On June 28th,2021 it was announced through the show's official social media accounts, that the cast for the third season would be revealed the next day on June 29th, just over a week away from the launch. The initial line-up for this season features 5 girls and 7 boys. More islanders will enter as bombshells later in the season.

## Week-Summary

* Week 1
* Week 2
* Week 3
* Week 4
* Week 5

 **Couplings** | * Day 1: After each of the girls had entered, the boys entered one after the other, with the girls being asked to step forward for a boy they're interested in. The boy would then get to have free reign of the girls to choose from, regardless of whether they stepped forward. In the end the couples were as such: Christian and Cashay, Javonny and Olivia, Jeremy and Trina, Josh and Shannon, Korey and Kyra.
* Day 2: Upon entering the villa late into Day 1, new boys; Melvin & Will were told that during the next day they'd both be able to steal a girl from one of the boys to couple with. On Day 2, Melvin decided to couple up with Cashay and Will chose to couple with Kyra, meaning Christian & Korey were left single.
 **Challenges** | * Day 2:Whistleblower-In this Bridgerton-themed challenge, the islanders were divided into 2 teams; Boys and Girls and were tasked with trying to guess which islanders of the opposite sex a variety of different statements correlated to, with the islander then having to snog the member they thought it correlated to, scoring a point for their team if they got it right. In the end it was a draw between both teams.
 **Dates** | * Day 3: Jeremy & Trina (First date)
* Day 3: Aimee & Josh (New islander date)
 **Exits** | * Day 5:Christian(Failed to Re-couple)

 **Challenges** | * Day 7:Kissing Booth-In this challenge, each of the boys were blindfolded and had to stand in stalls, where each of the girls one-by-one would come up and give them a kiss. The boys would then have to each give a score out of 10 for each kiss they receive. The girl that received the highest score at the end would be declared the winner.
 **Dates** | * Day 8: Korey: Florita, Lei-Yen, Roxy (Voted for by public, 3-on-1 date)
 **Exits** | * Day 11:Lei-Yen & Roxy (Failed to Re-couple)

 **Exits** | * Day 15:Isaiah(Failed to re-couple)
* Day 17:On Day 16, a public vote for most compatible couples opened- Aimee & Wes, Florita & Jeremy, Olivia & Javonny (Bottom 3)- Aimee,[[Florita Diaz|Florita,Javonny,Wes Ogsbury(Not saved by the most popular boys and girls)

 **Challenges** | * Day 19:The Love Island Games-For this challenge the boys and girls were pitted against each other and had to take part in sports-themed challenges to score points for their team. These challenges included boating, bean-bag target-toss, archery and fencing, with each team selecting a member to take part in each of them.
 **Exits** | * Day 22:Andrew,Florence,Gabe,Kamryn,Kay,Isabel,Raul.(Failed to Couple-up)

 **Challenges** | * Day 24:Smooch, Marry, Pie-For this challenge, each of the islanders took it in turns to smooch an islander of the opposite sex by kissing them, marry them by putting a ring on their finger and slamming a cream-pie in their face to pie them.
 **Exits** | * Day 24:Leslie(Walked)
* Day 25:On Day 24, a public vote opened for the most popular boys and girls-Kyra, Will, Melvin, Genevieve (Bottom 4)-Genevieve & Melvin(Chosen by most popular boys and girls to dump).

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