Eden Hotel

Love island was rebooted and renamed for the second season as "Eden Hotel." ianTV returned to present the series this season hosted on instagram.

The previous season is *Love Island.*

## Production

The season was initially comissioned at the same time as *Project Verified* and instead of narrowing the casting pool to new players it was opened so that anybody could apply. The season was announced June of 2023 and began production late July, and began casting a few days later in the first week of August.

## Format

Each week there will be an even number of either men or women. The gender with less contestants in the show will choose which of the opposite gender to recouple with, the leftover going home.

**Week 1 (Guys Elimination)**

* **Entrances:** Jayda, Donna, Summer, Chanelle, Cece, Beneka, Zain, Harry, Von, Dan, Wes, Adonis entered on **day 1**.
* **Date Winners:** Dan and Harry won, Dan chose to go on a date with Donna and Harry chose to go on a date with Summer.
* **Rose Ceremony (Day 2):**

- **Chanelle's** rose went to **Zain**.

- **Donna's** rose went to **Von**.

- **Summer's** rose went to **Harry**.

- **Cece's** rose went to **Adonis**.

- **Jayda's** rose went to **Wes**.

* **Dumped:** Dan was dumped **day 2** after not receiving a rose.
* **Exits:** Beneka quit on **day 1** after learning Donna and Summer were casted.

**Week 2 (Girls Elimination)**

* **Entrances:** Jocelyn, Sapphire and Angie on **day 3**.
* **Date Winners:** Jayda won and took Wesley on a date, Jocelyn also won and took Harry on a date.
* **Recoupling (Day 3):**

- **Jocelyn** stole **Harry** from **Summer**.

- **Angie** stole **Adonis** from **Cece**.

- **Sapphire** quit before choosing someone to steal.

* **Rose Ceremony (Day 4):**

- **Wes'** rose went to **Jayda**.

- **Harry's** rose went to **Jocelyn**.

- **Von's** rose went to **Summer**.

- **Zain's** rose went to **Donna**.

- **Adonis'** rose went to **Angie**.

* **Exits:** Sapphire voluntarily left the show **day 3** after being racist and then playing victim.

* **Dumped:** Cece was voted out by the guys **day 4**.
* **Dumped:** Chanelle was dumped **day 5** after not receiving a rose.

**Week 3 (Guys/Girls Elimination)**

* **Entrances:** Jamar, Mehgan on **day 7**.
* **Date Winner:** Wesley won and took Donna on a date.
* **Exits:** Von left the show due to a family emergency on **day 7**. This changed the week from a guys elimination to a girls elimination.
* **Dumped:** **Jocelyn** was dumped after being beat by Angie on **day 9** in a elimination battle. Both were nominated by date winner Wes to leave the Hotel.

**Week 4 (Girls Elimination/Casa Amor)**

* **Entrances:** Saddie, Violet, Sunhi, Mane, Naomi on **day 10**.
* **Date Choices:** All the guys had the option to bring back one girl from casa amor to the villa. **Jamar** chose to bring back **Naomi**, **Zain** chose to bring back **Violet**, **Wes** chose to bring back **Saddie**, **Adonis** chose to bring back nobody, **Harry** chose to bring back **Sunhi**. This left **Mane** dumped, as she did not get chosen by any guys.
* **Recoupling (Day 10)**

**Jamar's** rose went to **Naomi**.

**Zain's** rose went to **Violet**.

**Wes'** rose went to **Jayda**.

**Adonis'** rose went to **Angie**.

**Harry's** rose went to **Sunhi**.

This left **Saddie, Mehgan** and **Summer** single.

* **Dumped: Mane** was dumped on **day 10** after not being chosen by any guys during casa amor.

**Week 5 (Girls elimination)**

* **Dumped: Saddie** was dumped after losing a competition to Summer and Mehgan
* **Dumped: Summer** was dumped after the majority of the couples in the villa chose to eliminate her over Mehgan

**Week 6 (Format Change)**

* **Entrances:** Lexie and Jake entered on **day 12**.
* **Format Change:** It was announced that the format would be changing at this point. Instead of Date Challenges there would be couples challenges, One couple would win and nominate 2 couples to leave. The safe teams would vote one team off
* **Recoupling (Day 13):**

**Jayda's** rose went to **Wes**

**Jamar's** rose went to **Naomi**

**Zain's** rose went to **Violet**

**Sunhi's** rose went to **Jake**

**Harry's** rose went to **Angie**

**Lexie's** rose went to **Mehgan**

**Adonis** was left single. But **Cece** re entered the game to become his partner.

* **Date Challenge Winner:** Jayda & Wes
* **Nominated for Dumping:** Lexie & Mehgan | Harry & Angie
* **Dumped:** **Angie** and **Harry** on **day 13.**

**Week 7 (Purge)**

* **Exits:** **Jake** left on **day 14** after being exposed in a sex scandal with Mehgan, **Adonis** was removed for inactivity on **day 14** as well so that Cece could re-partner with Sunhi.
* **Date Challenge Winner:** Jamar and Naomi
* **Nominated for Dumping:** Zain & Violet | Cece & Sunhi
* **Dumped:** Zain and Violet on **day 14**.

**Week 8 (Top 4)**

* **Date Challenge Winner:** Jayda & Wes
* **Nominated for Dumping:** Mehgan & Lexie | Naomi & Jamar
* **Dumped:** Mehgan on **day 17**

**FINAL**

* **First Place:** Jamar & Naomi
* **Second Place:** Jayda & Wes
* **Third Place:** Sunhi & Lexie

## Cast

The original 12 islanders were released on August 13th, 2023.

A) This is Wesley's first show in the MTV/CBS universe, but his initial appearance was Amy's games second season of VU Sorority.

B) Beneka left the show upon finding out that Donna and Summer were going to be on the cast.

C) Sapphire's first show in the MTV/CBS universe was Fear Street, but her first original appearance was Amys Games Love Connection 5.

D) Angie's first show in the MTV/CBS universe was Ex on the Beach 4, but her first original appearance was on Amys Games Love Connection 2.

E) Sapphire left the show a few hours after coming in after arguing with Jayda over caucasians not being the same thing as white people

F) Von left the show voluntarily after having a family emergency

G) it was revealed in a confessional with Summer that Donna had exited the show, but her quitting or the reason why was not shown onscreen

H) Lexie's original show was amysgames *Love Connection 7*, but this is her first show in the MTV/CBS universe.

I) Jake quit after being exposed for having sex with Mehgan, Adonis was removed afterwards for inactivity and Cece was Re-Partnered with Sunhi

J) Cece randomly ghosted everyone and left the chat, so when Sunhi made her choice to eliminate a team she instead chose to steal Mehgans partner, Lexie, meaning Mehgan ended up being dumped