I work on Love Island and building the challenges takes WAY longer that you’d think – here’s how we do it | The Sun
LOVE Island challenges can see contestants locking lips, pelting each other in food fights or declaring their deepest, darkest secrets.
Yet with each task there comes an amazing set, to make sure the antics of the Love Island hopefuls are captured in full glory.
This season has seen everything from mermaid seashells – one containing bombshell Danica – take centre stage in the villa, as well as the creation of a mock airport.
It is challenge producer Woody's task to make sure the eye-catching props are suitable and up to scratch.
Yet with numerous challenges set through the Love Island season, his team doesn't have much time.
He told a backstage Reddit video: "We always have a plan, which we work with with an art team and a design team of what the challenge is going to look like.
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"They do a graphic of everything that's going to be on the challenge stage.
"Then we get about four to five days to actually have it built, which is a really small turn around, but because we have a group of chippies, painters and art directors that are incredible they basically do their magic.
"And suddenly, the challenge stage is transformed into a mechanics workshop or an airport like you've already seen."
Woody added that while drumming up the challenges, he liked to choose what is "quite current" and "what the viewer and a fan would always want to see."
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He then promised: "We are always thinking of bigger and better challenges."
Recently, former Love Island winner Amber Gill told how she arranged a secret get-out from challenges which left her "gagging" and throwing up.
When it came to food challenges – such as one which saw the Newcastle lass dressed as a bride – the beauty came to an arrangement with producers.
The influencer spoke candidly as she told Daily Star: "The first challenge that we did was like a food fight dressed as brides and it was whoever had the cleanest dress won.
"I remember I did that challenge and for the most part of the challenge I was just off to the side gagging because I hate anything like that.
"I really hate food and I don’t want food everywhere because it makes us feel physically sick and it was all mushed together and the smell was disgusting."
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She added: "So I remember for every single food challenge after that I was the presenter, I used to present them.
"I think the producers thought, ‘Well we’re not having her look like a frigging idiot off to the side just being sick so we’ll have to get her to present them’."
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