Anna Peele

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm thrilled to be here.

We're so excited to have you.

It's the whole story of Love Island from UK all the way to the present seasons.

Talk to so many Islanders, talk to so many producers, the creators of the show, the hosts.

I went to the villa.

It's like everything.

It's from everything from casting to how they do the challenges and then like how it impacts the people who go on the show.

convince all these people to sit down with you have these conversations to kind of give us the inside scoop of love island i feel like you would know better than anybody because you work independently obviously the networks aren't vetting what you're going to put out there but you have relationships with them and they trust you because they know that you're going to talk about it in a nuanced thoughtful way and so i had written about love island before for vanity fair where i'm a contributing editor

And that had been dealing with like very serious stuff because three former cast members of Love Island UK had died by suicide.

And so I talked about how the show changed its duty of care to protect cast members going forward.

And so like that's about as dark as it can get for a reality show.

Right.

Yeah.

And so after I did that, you know, they were like, well, if she handled this this way, like, OK, like we're cool with her.

And then so the first thing I started out doing was literally going to the villa.

And so I was like, OK, like I'm in.

But I, you know, I was clear with them from the start.

Like it's like this is unauthorized, like they're not going to be able to read it.

But, you know, we worked together to get access to, you know, people like Ariana and Maura.