Season 5 (Poland)

**Season 5** is the fifth season of Poland's version of the popular British Dating reality show; Love Island, hosted by Karolina Gilon and premiering February 28th, 2022 on Polish television channel; Polsat.

## Production

The fifth season of the show was first confirmed to be in production on November 9th,2021, as confirmed through the show's official social media accounts, upon the announcement of casting for this season.. Later on December 31st,2021 it was confirmed that Karolina would be returning to host the show once more through the show's audition promotions.

On February 16th,2022 a trailer for the upcoming season was released featuring Karolina explaining the basics of the show, while clips of the previous season were played, to give viewers an idea of what the show was about. At the same time the launch date was confirmed to be February 28th,2022.

### Casting

Auditions for the fifth season were opened on November 9th, 2021 with the producers encouraging young singles between the ages of 21 and 35 to fill out an application form which could be accessed through their official site. In order to accomplish this, the show made use of it's social media platforms, posting short promotional videos, featuring clips from the previous season to try and convince potential new islanders to audition.

### Villa

The season will be broadcast from a villa based in Andalusia, Spain, which is the same villa that was used for the previous season.

## Islanders

The initial cast of islanders were beginning to be teased by the show through their socials on February 20th,2022, just over a week from the launch of the season. The posts featured the lower-halves of the islander's body, with a cartoonish version of their covering their top. The islander teased in the post would then be revealed in full a few hours later. Each day leading up to the launch, the show revealed 1-2 new islanders who would be a part of the initial line-up for the season, with 5 boys and 5 girls set to be revealed. Further islanders will enter the villa later as bombshells.

## Week Summary

* Week 1
* Week 2
* Week 3
* Week 4
* Week 5
* Week 6

 **Couplings** | * Day 1:After each of the boys had entered the villa, the girls then came in one after the other, with each of the boys being given the chance to step forward if they were interested in coupling with either of these girls, before said girl chose their partner. The final couplings were as such: Ania & Michal, Iwona & Konrad, Julia & Robert, Kamila & Lukasz, Patrycja & Wlodek.
* Day 2: After the first coupling on Day 1, 2 new girls; Agnieszka and Oliwia were introduced to the villa, where they were told that during the next day they'd be able to both steal a boy of their choice to couple with. On Day 2 however, as both of them wanted to couple up with Konrad, the choice was left up to him, with him then choosing to couple with Oliwia, leaving Iwona single.
 **Dates** | * Day 2: After coupling up, Konrad and Oliwia were sent on a date together.
 **Exits** | * Day 2:Agnieszka-Wasn't chosen to be coupled with by Konrad.
* Day 5: On Day 5, the islanders were tasked with voting off one boy and one girl, whom they didn't think had a chance of finding love - Robert & Iwona (Chosen by the girls and boys respectively).

* Day 8:Sidiki
 **Couplings** | * Day 8: Second re-coupling (Boys choice)- Konrad & Oliwia, Lukasz & Patrycja, Wlodek & Ania (Stayed together). Michal & Julia, Radek & Kamila, Sidiki & Roksana (Re-coupled).
 **Dates** | * Day 8: Konrad & Oliwia; Picnic date, Roksana: Wlodek (New Islander date).
* Day 9: Lukasz & Patrycja: First date
 **Exits** | * Day 9: On Day 8, a public vote for the most popular boys and girls was opened-Radek & Kamila(Voted least popular boy and girl).
* Day 11:Michal(Left single)

 **Challenges** | * Day 15:**The Flavours of Love Island**-In this challenge, the boys were each blindfolded, with each of the girls then taking it in turns to kiss each boy. Once a girl has snogged each boy, they would then need to rate the snog out of 10, with the girl that managed to get the highest total score, being declared the winner. In the end, Ania was declared as the winner of the challenge.
 **Dates** | * Day 15: Aleksandra, Josie, Louise: All boys (Speed-dates)
* Day 16: As a reward for winning the challenge, Lukasz was able to take a girl of his choice out on date and he chose Patrycja.
* Day 17: Jakub & Julia (First date), Daniel & Oliwia (First date)
 **Exits** | * Day 16:Louise(Failed to couple)

* Day 24:Klaudia,Laura,Milena,Natalia,Sandra (Main villa).
 **Dates** | * Day 20: Aleksandra & Sidiki (First date) - Josie & Kuba (Night in the hide-away)
* Day 21: Ania & Wlodek (First date).
 **Exits** | * Day 22: On Day 19, a public vote for the least popular boys and girls opened-Sidiki & Roksana (Voted leas popular boy and girl respectively). After this the safe islanders had to vote out one of the next 3 least popular boys and the next 3 least popular girls as to whom they thought would be least likely to find love - Julia & Daniel (Voted for by the islanders).

 **Challenges** | * Day 28:**Raunchy Races**- Each of the villas were tasked with performing a number of small tasks, with the villa to complete each first scoring a point. The villa at the end of the challenge that managed to score the most points would be declared the winners. In end the Main villa were once again the winners.
* Day 31:**Playing the field**- In this challenge, the boys all dressed up as American football players, while their partners dressed up as cheerleaders. The boy had to protect their cheerleader, while she attempted to score a goal with an American football, all while the other boys sprayed them with paint. The couple who managed to remain the cleanest at the end would win.
 **Dates** | * Day 28: Ania & Jurek, Mikolaj & Patrycja, Aleksandra & Piotr, Josie & Maciek & Oliwia & Rafal (Casa Dates)
 **Exits** | * Day 29: Rafal,Natalia,Milena,Maciek,Klaudia,Helena (Failed to couple). Lukasz (Walked).
* Day 31: After a game of "Couples Jenga", the last piece of the tower read that the couples had to each vote off the couple, whom they thought were the least sincere and truthful in their relationship-Konrad & Oliwia (Chosen by the islanders).

 **Dates** | * Day 34: Ania & Wlodek (Final date)
 **Exits** | * Day 35: On Day 33, a public vote was opened for the couples, the public wanted to be finalists - Jurek & Laura, Ania & Wlodek (Least and second least votes respectively)
* Day 37: On Day 36, the public vote was opened once more the couples that the public wanted to be in the finale - Jakub & Sandra (least amount of public votes).

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