Love Island's hilarious voiceover man Iain Stirling says he would love producers to make a spin off version of the smash hit show with older people.
And when he says older, he doesn't mean guys and gals pushing 30. He means actual middle-aged people, in their 40s and 50s.
"I think it'd be a great idea to have a version of show with older people in it," the funnyman told Digital Spy. "The average age of TV watchers is going up so I think the show would work with an older crowd. They have lots of life experience and would have great stories to tell."
While there are no plans just yet for a spin-off show, Iain says he would actually like producers to get some older singletons in the villa this summer.
"I think it would really work if we did actually have some older folk join the current line up, as people are attracted to people of all ages, aren't they? I mean, how old is Jared Leto? In his 40s, right? Someone who looked like him would clean up in Love Island.
"You can name hundreds of people who are older and are attractive. Someone like George Clooney on Love Island, I'd pay to see that! Someone like Kylie Minogue for the boys. There are plenty of people of all ages who are beautiful regardless of age who would work in the show."
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Iain, who has teamed up with First Direct on their 'trying something new' initiative, flies out to Love Island on Sunday, June 3.
He said he is very excited about the new set of twenty-something villa mates and thinks producers have come up with an ensemble that are just as good as last year's bunch.
"It seems like we have a very exciting diverse group," Ian says. "We have a nice age range and range of education backgrounds that I think will really work. We have doctors, models, we have everything. I like that.
"You want any show that is so popular with the general public to reflect the people who are watching it.
"Last year we had people who bucked expectations. Camilla was someone you'd never expect on a show like that and I think we really want to present people as if stereotypes didn't exist.
"The producers have done a great job on the casting this year and I'm already thinking of funny things to say about them. But I'm not looking at their profiles, I want to see them on the show being themselves."
Love Island returns this Monday (June 4) on ITV2.
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Catherine is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, and was the site's News Editor between 2018 and 2024. Prior to that, she worked at OK! Online, and has interviewed a slew of celebrities across her career in entertainment news, including Tom Hanks, Cheryl and Noel Fielding. Catherine also has specialist knowledge in all things drag, interviewing a huge portion of RuPaul’s Drag Race stars, and getting her own drag makeover for Channel 4's show Drag SOS. LinkedIn
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