The second series of Love Island began on 30 May 2016 hosted by Caroline Flack on ITV2, and ended on 11 July 2016. It's the second from the revived series, but fourth overall. The series was narrated by Iain Stirling. The series was extended to air every night of the week, as opposed to the previous series where it only aired six nights. However the Saturday episode was used as a weekly catch-up entitled Love Island: The Weekly Hot List rather than a nightly highlights episode. The average viewers for this series was 1,470,000, up 900,000 on the first series.
The series included the first time an Islander was removed from the villa, as Malia Arkian was removed just hours after she entered the villa following an altercation with Kady McDermott. It also featured a number of voluntarily exits from the series, as Rykard Jenkins decided to leave the villa after his new love interest Rachel Fenton was eliminated. Zara Holland also decided to leave after discovering her mum is in the hospital and she was stripped of her title Miss Great Britain. Sophie Gradon also decided to voluntarily leave the villa. Sophie was a former Miss Great Britain. Sophie and Katie Salmon were also the first same-sex couple to feature in Love Island.
On 11 July 2016, the series was won by Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey, with Alex Bowen and Olivia Buckland as runners-up.
Production On Valentine's Day, 14 February 2016, it was confirmed that Love Island would return for a second series due to air later in the year. On 18 May 2016 it was confirmed that the series would begin on 30 May 2016, but had scrapped the live eliminations. A one-minute trailer for the series aired on 23 May 2016. Pictures of the villa were unveiled on 28 May 2016. The villa is located in Mallorca with 69 cameras watching the Islanders' every move. It only includes double beds forcing them to share with each other, but has a special Hideaway bedroom for couples to spend the night away from the others.
Islanders The Islanders for the second series were revealed on 24 May 2016, just a week before the launch. However, throughout the series, more Islanders entered the villa to find love. Some Islanders were dumped from the island for either failing to couple up, some were voted off by their fellow Islanders, and others for receiving the fewest votes in public eliminations. The series was won by Cara and Nathan on 11 July 2016 having received 54% of the vote.
IslanderAgeHometownEnteredExitedStatusRef Cara De La Hoyde 26 Kent Day 1 Day 45 Nathan Massey 25 Essex Day 1 Day 45 Alex Bowen 24 Wolverhampton Day 18 Day 45 Olivia Buckland 22 Chelmsford Day 1 Day 45 Kady McDermott 20 Stevenage Day 3 Day 45 Third place Scott Thomas 27 Manchester Day 1 Day 45 Third place Adam Maxted 24 Belfast Day 11 Day 45 Katie Salmon 20 The Wirral Day 34 Day 45 Emma Jane Woodham 19 Oxford Day 27 Day 41 Terry Walsh 28 Surrey Day 3 Day 41 Adam Jukes 23 Manchester Day 34 Day 41 Lauren Whiteside 25 Blackpool Day 37 Day 41 Tina Stinnes 21 London Day 20 Day 40 Sophie Gradon 30 Newcastle Day 1 Day 39 Troy Frith 23 Kent Day 30 Day 37 Tom Powell 24 Port Talbot Day 1 Day 33 Liana Isadora Van Riel 20 Exeter Day 20 Day 33 Oliver Maxwell Fernandez 25 Hertfordshire Day 30 Day 31 Malin Andersson 23 Milton Keynes Day 1 Day 25 Zara Holland 20 Hull Day 1 Day 22 James Khan 20 Teddington Day 18 Day 20 Rykard Jenkins 25 Kent Day 1 Day 15 Daniel Lukakis 23 London Day 1 Day 15 Rachel Fenton 23 Hampshire Day 7 Day 15 Malia Arkian 26 Manchester Day 7 Day 7 Javi Shephard 27 York Day 1 Day 6
Future appearances In 2023, Kady McDermott returned as a bombshell on series 10.
In 2024, Adam Maxted appeared on series one of Love Island: All Stars.
In 2025, Tina Stinnes and Scott Thomas returned for series two of Love Island: All Stars.
Coupling and elimination history The couples were chosen shortly after the contestants entered the villa. After all of the girls entered, the boys were asked to choose a girl to pair up with. Sophie was paired with Tom, Cara with Nathan, Malin and Rykard paired up, Zara and Scott coupled up, whilst Olivia paired up with Daniel and Javi remained single. However, throughout the series the couples swapped and changed.
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Final Day 1 Day 6 Day 13 Day 15 Day 20 Day 25 Day 31 Day 32 Day 33 Day 37 Day 40 Day 41 Cara Nathan Nathan Nathan Safe Nathan Safe Oliverto dump Nathan Safe Nathan Nathan Finalist Splitthe £50kWinner (Day 45) Nathan Cara Cara Cara Safe Cara Immune Immune Cara Safe Cara CaraWinner (Day 45) Alex colspan="4" Olivia Immune Immune Olivia Safe Olivia Olivia FinalistRunner-up (Day 45) Olivia Daniel Rykard Immune Alex Safe Oliverto dump Alex Safe Alex AlexRunner-up (Day 45) Kady Scott Scott Safe Scott Safe Oliverto dump Scott Safe Scott Scott FinalistThird place (Day 45) Scott Zara Kady Kady Safe Kady Immune Immune Kady Safe Kady KadyThird place (Day 45) colspan="2" Olivia Immune Zara Immune Immune Liana Vulnerable Tina Katie FinalistFourth place (Day 45) Katie colspan="9" Sophie Fourth place (Day 45) Adam J colspan="9" LaurenEliminatedDumped (Day 41) Lauren colspan="9" Adam JDumped (Day 41) Emma colspan="6" Oliverto dump Terry Safe Terry TerryEliminatedDumped (Day 41) Terry Malin Malin Safe Malin Immune Immune Emma Safe Emma EmmaDumped (Day 41) Tina colspan="5" Vulnerable Oliverto dump Troy Immune SingleDumped (Day 40) Sophie Tom Tom Tom Safe Tom Safe Oliverto dump Tom Vulnerable KatieWalked(Day 39) Troy colspan="6" Vulnerable Tina Immune SingleDumped (Day 37) Liana colspan="5" Vulnerable Oliverto dump EliminatedDumped (Day 33) Tom Sophie Sophie Sophie Safe Sophie Immune Immune SophieEliminatedDumped (Day 33) Oliver colspan="6" VulnerableDumped (Day 31) Malin Rykard Terry Terry Safe TerryEliminatedDumped (Day 25) Zara Scott Daniel Daniel Vulnerable Walked(Day 22) James colspan="4" SingleDumped (Day 20) Rykard Malin Olivia Rachel VulnerableWalked(Day 15) Daniel Olivia Zara Zara VulnerableDumped (Day 15) Rachel colspan="2" Rykard VulnerableDumped (Day 15) Malia colspan="2" Removed (Day 7) Javi SingleDumped (Day 6) Notesnone 1 none 2 3 none 4 none 56 Removed noneMalia none WalkednoneRykard noneZaranoneSophienone DumpedNoDumpingJaviNoDumpingDaniel,Rachelto dumpJamescouple upMalinto dumpOliverNoDumpingLiana,Tomto dumpTroycouple upTinacouple upEmma & TerryPublic’s choiceto dump & KatieKady & ScottAlex & Olivia
Notes
: On Day 15, the public voted for which couples they think is the 'perfect couple'. The couples with the fewest votes would be vulnerable and at risk of being dumped from the villa. The safe islanders then has to chose one member of each of the bottom two couples to be dumped from the island. : The public voted for their favourite girl islanders. The islanders with the fewest votes would be vulnerable and at risk of leaving the villa. Malin received fewest votes and was dumped from the island. : On Day 31, the girl islanders had to chose one of the new bombshells to dump. Oliver received the most votes and was dumped from the island. : The islanders voted who they thought were the weakest couples. The two couples with the most votes were vulnerable. The public then voted for which member of each vulnerable couple they wanted to be dumped from the island. As the newest couple, Troy and Tina were immune. : On Day 41, the public voted for which couples they wanted to save. The two couple who received the fewest votes, Adam J and Lauren and Emma and Terry, was dumped from the island. : The public voted for which couple they think should win Love Island. The couple with the most votes were declared the winners of Love Island and received the grand prize money.
Weekly summary The main events in the Love Island villa are summarised in the table below.
Entrances On Day 1, Cara, Daniel, Javi, Malin, Nathan, Olivia, Rykard, Scott, Sophie, Tom and Zara entered the villa. On Day 3, Kady and Terry entered the villa. Coupling On Day 1, the Islanders coupled up for the first time. After all of the girls entered, the boys were asked to choose a girl to pair up with. Sophie was paired with Tom, Cara with Nathan, Malin and Rykard paired up, Zara and Scott coupled up, whilst Olivia paired up with Daniel and Javi remained single. On Day 6, the Islanders re-coupled. This time it was the girls who had to pick a boy to pair up with. Cara and Nathan, and Sophie and Tom were the only couples to remain together, whilst Olivia picked Rykard, Kady went with Scott, Malin chose Terry, and Zara coupled up with Daniel. As Javi remained single he was dumped from the island. Challenges On Day 2, the boys went up against the girls in a game of Beer pong with a twist. A secret about an Islander was in each cup, and if the ball landed in the cup, the Islander who threw the ball would have to guess who the secret is about. To lock in their answer they had to kiss that chosen Islander. On Day 6, the boys competed in "Love Island's Strongest Man", where they took part in a number of physical activities in order to prove their strength. At the end of the competition Daniel was announced as the winner. Dates On Day 3, Cara and Nathan left the villa to go on their first date. On Day 4, Javi was asked to choose one of the girls to go on a date with him. He chose Kady. On Day 5, Terry had to choose two girls to cook him dinner then date separately. He chose Malin and Olivia, whilst Kady had to choose two boys to do the same. She chose Daniel and Scott. Exits On Day 6, Javi was eliminated after failing to couple up. Week 2 Entrances On Day 7, Malia and Rachel entered the villa. On Day 11, Adam M entered the villa. Coupling On Day 13, the Islanders re-coupled once again. They were told that whoever new Islander Adam M coupled up with would be safe from the next elimination. Nathan and Cara, Scott and Kady, Terry and Malin, Tom and Sophie, Zara and Daniel remained coupled together, whilst Rykard picked Rachel, and Adam M chose Olivia. Challenges On Day 7, Tom and Sophie hosted "A Trifling Matter" where the other couples competed to pass trifle ingredients from one bowl to another by passing with their mouths only. Olivia and Rykard won this challenge. On Day 9, the boys competed against each other to sweat the most after doing physical exercise, then place their sweaty clothes into a bag. The girls then had to judge the scent of the boys without knowing which bag belonged to who, and then choose the most attractive scent. As most of the girls chose Rykard, he won the challenge. On Day 11, Rachel hosted as the Islanders took part in "Size Matters" where the girls had to use clay to make models of their partner's penis. The boys then had to make models of their own penis. The couple with the most similar models won the challenge. This was Tom and Sophie. Dates On Day 7, Scott left the villa to go on a date with new Islander Malia, whilst Daniel left to date new Islander Rachel. On Day 9, Daniel and Zara left the villa to go on a date feeding ostriches. On Day 9, after winning a challenge, Rykard chose to spend the night with Rachel in the Hideaway. On Day 10, the girls speed dated four potential new Islanders. On Day 12, as the new Islander, Adam M was given the opportunity to take three girls out of the villa and date them separately. He chose Olivia, Sophie and Zara. Exits On Day 7, Malia was removed from the villa following an altercation with Kady. Week 3 Entrances On Day 18, Alex and James entered the villa. On Day 20, Liana and Tina entered the villa. Coupling On Day 20, the Islanders re-coupled again, where the girls chose the boy they wanted to be in a couple with. Cara and Nathan, Kady and Scott, Malin and Terry, and Sophie and Tom remained together, whilst Zara chose Adam M, and Olivia picked Alex. As James remained single, he was dumped from the island. Challenges On Day 16, the Islanders had to do dares that they randomly picked from a cup.