‘Love Island USA’ Narrator Responds to “Visceral Reaction” From Fans to Jeremiah Joke

Logo text Iain Stirling, the voice behind Love Island USA, swears all his jokes on the hit Peacock reality series come “from a place of love.” The comedian has been narrating the U.K. version of Love Island for 10 years, and the U.S. version since season four. And while he enjoys getting to see the episodes before the world does and writing jokes for them, it doesn’t come without its challenges. “I’m sort of glad I live in the U.K. because I wouldn’t have the willpower to not tell loads of people what’s going down on Love Island today. I’m so bad,” Stirling, who returns to America in October for his new stand-up show Iain Stirling Live, tells The Hollywood Reporter with a laugh. Below, Stirling talks about the reality hit’s buzzy season seven, hosted by Ariana Madix, including his Jeremiah waiter joke that received a “visceral reaction” from fans, his process of writing the scripts and jokes for each episode, and relating to the “Islanders that are slightly ostracized from the group.” *** When it comes to writing the script and jokes for each episode, do you get excited that you know what happens before America does? Putting the
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