How to bet on Love Island?
- Top Female
- Top Male
- Winning Couple
- Who gets Dumped
One of the most popular ways and to make the most £££ is to bet on Love Island’s outright winner. When it comes to choosing your winner, you can look at the past winners and how they were received by the public. This might help you to analyse the Love Island betting odds and place your bet.
Of course, if you are unlucky and your favourite couple gets eliminated before the final, you can always place another bet on who you think might take home the prize but it’ll be at lower odds.
How do you predict the winner of Love island 2021?
The value in Love Island betting is found when you can successfully identify a couple that nobody would expect to come together in the early parts of the series. Focus on couples who have chemistry but haven’t had much screen time. Less screen time early on normally results in longer odds at the bookmakers and this should be factored into account.
Also, keep an eye on contestants that are particularly rowdy or divisive within the group. These Islanders are more likely to be resented by the others in the villa and may bag themselves an early ticket home and so should be avoided at all costs.
In previous series, couples who have spent more time in villa usually have a better chance at emerging victorious. Series five appeared to buck this trend, however. Although Amber Rose Gill had been present from the start of the series, she coupled up with Greg O’Shea – who had only entered the villa two weeks previous – to claim the £50k prize.
The most important thing to focus on is the public, whose vote makes a massive difference and eventually determines the winner.
Past Winners
In 2015, Jessica Hayes and Max Morley took home the crown followed by Cara De La Hoyde and Nathan Massey in 2016. 2017s winners proved very popular with the viewers as Amber Davies and Kem Cetinay won the £50,000 prize.
Love Island in 2018 saw Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham win the cash – a couple who stole the hearts of the viewers from the first episode.
2019 saw Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury steal the hearts of the nation but were a surprise runner up in this series. Instead it was the fiery Amber Gill and Greg o’Shea who coupled up with only a few weeks and managed to win. It was basically an Amber win as she proved very popular.
Jan 2020 came the very first edition of Love Island Winter. Set in South Africa the same format was brought to our screens to keep this reality show in our lives. Winners of Winter Love Island 2020 were Paige and Finley. They were solid throughout and committed to each from the second week.
Get to Know Love Island Terminology
- Mugging Off – A term that suggests a contestant is not being entirely truthful to another about feelings and intentions of a romantic sense.
- Coupling Up – Two contestants commit to being in a couple rather than just checking out their options. Contestants must be coupled up to remain on the show so this is forced even if it isn’t amicable.
- Type On Paper – A term used to describe a contestant’s usual preference in a romantic partner. For example, if someone isn’t “my type on paper” then it is unlikely they will end up coupling up.
- Doing Bits – A term used to politely describe romantic liaisons without unsavoury details being disclosed.
- Boyfriend/Girlfriend – As they suggest the terms are easy to understand but in Love Island parlay this is a serious commitment and beyond that of merely “coupling up”.
- Bev/Bevvy – Introduced in during Love Island 2019 by contestant Lucie Donlan, ‘bev’ or ‘bevvy’ refers to an attractive male. The phrase, however, was quickly dismissed by Love Island fans on social media as an attempt at trend-setting.
- Get to know him/her – A Love Island contestant will often use the phrase “get to know him/her” as a signal of their intent to pursue another Islander romantically. Typically, a number of one-to-one chats will ensue after this phrase is used.
- “It is what it is” – In any given situation this phrase is used to emphasise that quite literally, this situation is exactly as it seems.