Exclusive: Love Island's Harriett Blackmore hints at huge twist as she spots major season 12 clue
A new season of Love Island is here and the twists have already begun.
On Sunday night (8th June), Toni Laites was revealed as the first bombshell for season 12.
In a show first, the 24-year-old will be flying in all the way from the US. She'll make her debut on Monday night's episode and will get to steal a boy right away.
But as is usual with Love Island, there's more to come, and former Islander Harriett Blackmore thinks she knows what's on the way.
Speaking exclusively to Cosmopolitan UK along with Catherine Agbaje, Harriett pointed out that in the promo imagery there are different clocks labelled Mallorca, Menorca and Marbella.
She thinks this could be part of a major twist, as the show celebrates its 10th anniversary.
"I think there's probably like a Casa [Amor] in Marbella," she said.
"Surely they're not going to fly them out to [Marbella]."
On the topic of twists, Catherine added: "Did you see this year that they're actually asking what the viewers want as twists? I feel like we're in for a lot of twists. Hopefully it's crazy twists. I want to see crazy twists."
"Yeah I want it to be chaos!" Harriett said.
Usually, the Casa Amor villa is located not too far from the main villa, with the Islanders being able to hear one another while playing games or during parties.
In season 10, Sammy Root and some of the other boys tried to zoom in on their phones to see if they could see what the girls were up to.
If Harriett is right, they won't be able to do any of that this year.
In a teaser clip for season 12, Maya Jama teased a "bigger" and "bolder" season with "more twists" and "more bombshells", so Harriett and Catherine might not be far off
Love Island starts on ITV2 on Monday 9th June at 9pm.
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