Season 5 (Australia)

**Season 5** is the fifth season of the Australian Love Island, hosted by Sophie Monk and premiering October 30th,2023 on Channel 9.

## Production

The fifth season of Love Island Australia, was confirmed to be in production on March 21st,2023 upon the launch of the show's application drive. On June 21st,2023 it was confirmed that like the previous season, this season would be once again pre-recorded instead of airing live, with the producers announcing applications for fans of the show to become LI "superfans" and take part in the new season.

Filming for the fifth season would then later begin on August 19th,2023 At the same time it was also confirmed that Sophie Monk would once again return to host the season. On October 2nd,2023 the first promotional trailer for the new season was released featuring host; Sophie Monk and revealing that there would be a new twist involved with the fifth season, one that was toted as being the "spiciest twist ever" and that would give the girls all the power.

On October 16th,2023 alongside the announcement of the new cast, it was confirmed that the season would be premiering October 30th,2023.

### Casting

The applications for the fifth season were launched on March 21st,2023 upon the announcement of the season, with producers then looking for young and attractive boys and girls to apply to become islanders. The producers began a promotional campaign running from March encouraging potential islanders to apply for the new season via the application form on their site. Applications were closed prior to the filming date of August 19th,2023.

### Villa

As of October,2023 it's not currently known from which villa the fifth season filmed at, however it's most likely to have been the villa used for the previous season.

## Islanders

The initial cast of islanders were announced in full on October 16th,2023 being comprised of 5 girls and 5 boys. Further islanders entered the villa later as bombshells.

## Week-Summary

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

* Day 2:Lucinda.
* Day 3:Reid.
 **Couplings** | * Day 1: After each of the girls had entered the villa, they were introduced to the boys one by one. However in an LI-Australia first, the girls were then given the power to choose who to couple up with, with each of the boys then having to step forward for any of the girls they were interested in. The girls would be able to choose from any of them, regardless of whether they were already in a couple. These were the final couplings-Kirra & Ollie, Nakia & Nate, Savanah & Zac, Tia & Trent, Tyra & Ben.
* Day 3: On Day 2, bombshell; Lucinda was told that during the next evening she would be able to choose a boy to couple up with. Upon the evening of Day 3, Lucinda made the decision to couple up with Nate, while new bombshell; Reid who had just arrived in the villa was also given the opportunity to couple up with a girl and as such chose to couple up with Tia, therefore meaning that both Nakia & Trent were left single and vulnerable.
 **Dates** | * Day 3: Lucinda: Ollie, Nate, Zac (Speed-dates).
 **Exits** | * Day 6:Ollie-(Failed to re-couple).

 **Exits** | * Day 9:Kirra-(Failed to re-couple).

 **Dates** | * Day 11: Aidan: Savanah, Tyra - Ryan: Tia, Abby (Breakfast dates)
* Day 11: Georgia: Ben, Nate (mini speed-dates)
 **Exits** | * Day 11:Ben (Failed to re-couple)
* Day 12: On Day 12 it was revealed that a vote had been held between the superfans for the most popular couples-Lucinda & Ryan, Tia & Zac (voted least popular couples)-Ryan & Tia (Chosen by most popular couples).

* Day 15:Seb,Tasia
 **Couplings** | * Day 13: On Day 13, bombshell; Andy was given the opportunity to couple up with a girl of his choice and as such he made the decision to couple up with Nakia, which left Kale single and in a twist he was dumped.
 **Dates** | * Day 13: Andy: All girls (group-date).
 **Exits** | * Day 16:Aidan (Failed to re-couple).

 **Exits** | * Day 18:On Day 18 it was revealed that there was a "Superfan" vote for the most genuine islanders-Trent, Seb,Zac, Abby, Georgia, Savanah (Voted least genuine boys and girls respectively)-Abby & Seb (Chosen by islanders).

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