Life's hard. Jobs are hard. Relationships are hard. Friendships are hard. Family is hard. Socialising is hard. Staying on top of health and fitness is hard (that's really hard). There's plenty for us to worry about in this complicated world of ours; the last thing we need to start worrying about on the commute home is the possibility of Love Island NOT being on tonight.
The worst of the sinking feelings.
Luckily, Love Island is well and truly back on our screens, so you can take a deep breath. As will we.
But is it on every night? How long is it on for? Is it always on at the same time? Let's take it question by question.
We'll get through this together.
When did Love Island 2022 start?
Love Island returned to our screens for its eighth season on Monday 6 June 2022 and boy did it come back with a bang. It was that evening that we met Love Island S8 OG's Paige Thorne, Dami Hope, Indiyah Polack, Liam Llewellyn, Tasha Ghouri, Davide Sanclimenti, Gemma Owen, Ikenna Ekwonna, Andrew Le Page, Amber Beckford, and Luca Bish.
We totally get why last year's season had to be tweaked slightly, but it's nice to return to some normality this year - whatever that means when it comes to Love Island.
When does Love Island 2022 finish?
We don't like to dwell on such negativity.
We're all about the present moment here at heat, and right now, Love Island is very much ON.
We actually couldn't tell you, for sure, even if we wanted to, as ITV hasn't officially announced a finale date. That being said, host Laura Whitmore has previously said that the season will run for eight weeks, which means Love Island Season 8 is likely to finish on 1 August.
And then all we have to do is wait a few months for Winter Love Island to heat up our screens. Right, ITV?
Sadly, we're still in the dark on this one, too. Getting a straight answer out of ITV bosses is harder than Davide's abs.
What days does Love Island come on?
Okay, yay, some good news. Love Island is on every weekday and every Sunday. Unfortunately, there's no Love Island on Saturdays, but they do air Love Island: Unseen Bits which shows the less dramatic parts from the villa.
HOWEVER Saturday episodes are full of laughter and basically show what the Islanders get up to during 'down time' aka when they're not pulling each other for chats.
What time is Love Island on?
The easy answer to that is 9pm. But here's a snapshot of your average Love Island week for those who like to physically block out their diaries (US). Seriously; we've cancelled dates, birthdays, weddings...
Saturday: Love Island: Unseen Bits: 9pm - 10.05pm
Sunday: Love Island: 9pm - 10pm
Sunday: Love Island: Aftersun: 10pm - 11.05pm
Monday: Love Island: 9pm - 10.05pm
Tuesday: Love Island: 9pm - 10.05pm
Wednesday: 9pm - 10.05pm
Thursday: Love Island: 9pm - 10.05pm
Friday: Love Island: 9pm - 10.05pm
In other words, Love Island is on every night and you should cancel all your plans henceforth.
Check out: Love Island rules - everything that could get contestants REMOVED from the villa 😱
Love Island: what are the rules? slider
1. Alcohol
It is suggested that one of Love Island's main rules is that contestants follow the strict alcohol policy.Eyal Booker from Series four of Love Island exclusively told Closer about the villa's very strict drinks policy.When asked about how much the Islanders were allowed to drink, he told us, "it was very, very limited. Max two glasses of wine a night and that's max!"
2. Eating
According to 2018 Islander Alexandra Cane, one of the Love Island rules insists that contestants food intake is monitored.Viewers are always wondering when the contestants eat as we never see them sit down for meals unless they leave the villa to go on dates. Alexandra Cane revealed to Closer, "We do have to be monitored on what we eat. This is to make sure everyone in the house is eating sufficient amounts of food and no one is going to get ill."So, lunch and dinner times were never shown because we had to eat certain amounts."She added, "Sometimes we would be split up so the girls would sit on their own and the boys would sit on their own to eat food, but it was mainly for monitoring purposes".
3. Smoking
In the first few seasons of Love Island, smoking was openly seen on camera and the smoking area seemed the most popular hotspot for the best conversations and gossiping. However, the show then faced backlash as it was seen to encourage and glamourise the habit. So in 2018, the ITV2 show introduced strict rules which meant Islanders could only smoke off screen. Smokers now have to ask for a cigarette and enter the designated area one at a time, it's said.The 2018 smoking ban inside the villa grounds seems to have carried on for the fifth series.
4. Health checks
Love Island Bosses recently revealed that the 2019 cast had to pass mental health checks before entering the villa.This rule comes after the reality show received criticism for its aftercare in the wake of the deaths of former contestants Mike Thalassitis and Sophie Gradon.Niall Aslam, from 2018, left the villa just days into the series and later shared his daily struggles with Asperger's syndrome and mental health. Each Islander now follows a continuous duty of care process which covers pre-filming, filming and aftercare.
5. Fighting
Kady McDermott recently claimed that she was punched and left with a bleeding nose during her time on Love Island.Kady came third in 2016 alongside her then boyfriend Scott Thomas, but has now admitted her feud with fellow Islander Malia Arkian extended far beyond what was shown on TV.Kady shared an apparent extra insight into the infamous fight as she shared a video of the altercation on her Twitter page.At the time viewers were told that Malia had "shoved" Kady and subsequently been removed from the house.It seems that the no-fighting policy on the ITV2 show is very strict and those who break it, are removed from the villa immediately.
6. Microphones
We are assuming that Love Island has one quite obvious rule - keep the microphone packs on at all times. The producers like to capture every conversation that takes place on the show and Dani Dyer revealed that while everything on the show is real, some things are tweaked.She told the Capital Breakfast show, "The only direction you have is just on your conversations, so that they space them out a little bit because you can't have like 10 conversations going on at once so they'll be like, 'just wait a little bit longer' or 'leave it 'til the morning'."
7. No nudity
This rumoured rule has definitely been broken in the past...It's claimed that Love Island's apparent no nudity policy means contestants are not allowed to be fully naked in front of each other or even in the shower, as the villa is a public place.
8. Masturbation
One of Love Island's rules apparently includes a ban on solo sex acts.We are assuming that masturbating, along with full nudity, is banned for contestants so others are not made to feel uncomfortable in the villa.According to The Mirror, "Despite islanders being told to get frisky whenever they wish, this must be with a partner. No solo acts are permitted on the premises".However Elma Pazar hinted that all the boys broke this rule in the villa.
9. The Handbook
Former Islander of series three, Simon Searles, told The Sunabout Love Island's strict booklet, that is given to each contestant on the show. He told the publication, "They give you a bit of a handbook before and it's in regards to consent, nakedness, condoms, what's right and what's not."You never really get a lot of drink but they do say if someone's had too much to drink do not have sex with them."
10. Language
Sherif was kicked out of the Love Island villa on day 9 after he play fought with Molly-Mae Hughes and described it as a "c--t punch".However the TV star admitted that it wasn't the first time he was told off for saying something controversial. He explained to The Sun: "There were so many things I was pulled aside on. The first was calling Amber 'lighty,' which I know is a poor choice of words but she did not get offended."He went on to say: "I asked them, 'Can you give me a list of the words I can use?' They said, 'No, but you cannot use that one.'"Arabella Chi also revealed she was told off for saying something deemed controversial.