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Do they wash the sheets on Love Island?

Who cleans the Love Island villa? A cleaner comes into the villa once a week to give it a spruce up and change all the bed sheets.

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Is music free after 50 years?

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Can a locksmith duplicate a skeleton key?

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The past 12 months have been really muggy but summer is looking far more positive, especially now Love Island 2021 has been confirmed. After being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, Love Island is set to make a return to ITV2 in June and show bosses promise it will be bigger and better than ever. We are ready. Producers have promised "more texts, fire pit gatherings and challenges" with "lots of twists and turns along the way, with shock recouplings, unexpected splits and dramatic exits" for Love Island 2021. Insiders are reporting that the show's bosses are going to invest huge sums of money to make this year's edition go ahead and be a major success. Spain's decision to let British tourists return to the country looks set to pave the way for Love Island to take place in Mallorca, despite Jersey being mooted as a back-up option. You can read our definitive guide to Love Island 2021 in our hero feature but if you're just as intrigued as we are by what goes on behind the scenes on TV's hottest show and want the inside scoop, stay right here because we have answers. I pride myself as a bit of a Love Island veteran, having flown out to Mallorca and Cape Town for the past few years to have a sneak peek at the villa, meet the show's brilliant producers, grill Laura Whitmore and, of course, meet the batch of islanders. Whilst access to this year's villa is currently off limits, I've learnt some pretty interesting - and shocking - insider secrets over the years and the producers follow a similar formula each year. So if you care as much about Love Island as I do (which you probably don't want to admit), here's all the cast secrets I've learned over the years as Love Island's super sleuth (and yes, there really are hundreds of condoms!).

Are the Love Island cast head-hunted?

A lot of the Islanders in the past have been head-hunted by producers or talent scouts via Instagram. Whilst the twins (Eve and Jess from 2019) were scouted on Instagram and Nas from the same year was spotted via a YouTube video he starred in, the vast majority of the islanders actually apply to be on the show. Although most people leave the villa with lucrative clothing deals under their belt and millions of Instagram followers, the producers are old romantics at heart and just want contestants looking for love. Sophie Piper told us she wanted to go on the show because she'd been single for '500 years', whilst Niall from 2018 told us: "I made a little video of me basically saying I'd DMed everyone in the city to no avail so now I need to get on the Island to get some action. Obviously they must have agreed with me so I'm here now." Every islander has to make a video of themselves to get a place on the show. Laura Anderson from 2018 maintains you should pull out all the stops – because producers told her that her entry was the best of the year.

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What song is the most downloaded?

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Does music shape your personality?
Does music shape your personality?

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What is a I6 chord?

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What keyboard should a beginner get?

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Does piano help with ADHD?

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