Love Island cast 2023: Full line up of contestants for winter series in South Africa - start date

Love Island has confirmed the first batch of islanders to appear on this year’s winter instalment. The good looking singletons will jet off to the South African villa to star in reality TV’s hottest vacation.

Just months after Davide and Ekin-Su took the crown as winners of the 2022 series - ITV are back to spice up your evenings. This will be the first winter series of the show since Paige Turley and Finn Tapp emerged victorious in 2020.

There is another new addition to the show in Maya Jama, who will be taking on hosting duties from Laura Whitmore. To ensure the safety of the contestants this year, ITV bosses have announced they will be disabling social media accounts during the show.

Here’s every contestant that has been confirmed for Love Island 2023, who they are and where they’re from.

Winter Love Island 2023 lineup

Tanya Manhenga

Tanya is a 22-year-old biomedical science student and influencer from Liverpool. She hates guys who don’t wear socks in the house and guys who have huge feet.

Tanya has the skin pigmentation condition Vitiligo and is proud to show it off on the show.

Kai Fagan 

Kai Faigan is a 24-year-old Science and PE teacher from Manchester. The first male contestant has confessed he has high expectations and won’t commit to someone unless they take his breath away.

He is a Jamaican citizen that plays semi-professional rugby and has obtained three different degrees and attended three separate universities.

Lana Jenkins 

Lana Jenkins is a 25-year-old makeup artist from Luton. Lana has confessed she doesn’t like men who are too needy over text message.

She’s no stranger to falling in love quickly and predicts she might go head over heels for someone quickly. The makeup artist used to live in Spain and was an extra in Benidorm when she was six.

Ron Hall

Ron Hall is a 25-year-old financial advisor from Essex. The fun and charismatic singleton is blind