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Love Island All Stars 2026 line-up | Confirmed contestants and bombshells

Love Island All Stars 2026 line-up | Confirmed contestants and bombshells

Published by Daniella Wilson

The return of Love Island: All Stars has already brought us the drama. This weekend brought further drama following the arrival of Scott van-der-Sluis, and now three new bombshells have arrived in the form of AJ Bunker, Konnor Ewudzi, and Samie Elishi. With recouplings and temptation, who knows what lies ahead for our All Stars. Scroll on to learn more about his time since the show and what brings him back, as well as more information about the OG Islanders. Love Island All Stars cast: The 2026 contestants The confirmed line-up for Love Island: All Stars 2025 is as follows. Read on to learn more about the contestants. AJ Bunker AJ Bunker. ITV Age: 33 Instagram: @andreajanebunker First appeared: Season 7 (2021) AJ only appeared briefly in Love Island in season 7, arriving for a week as a bombshell as a hair extensions technician from Hemel Hempstead. Paired with unlucky-in-love Hugo Hammond, things didn’t work out, and eventually, AJ was dumped by the boys of the island. Now, AJ is back, hopefully for a more successful …

Matt, Sam, who? I’m struggling to tell the young male Traitors contestants apart

Matt, Sam, who? I’m struggling to tell the young male Traitors contestants apart

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Secret Traitor! The battle of the barristers! Fiona going all “J’accuse!” against co-conspirator Rachel! We’ve just about reached the halfway point of The Traitors’ fourth season, and it’s already been a vintage outing. Yet this time around, there’s just one small issue that’s blighting my viewing enjoyment ever so slightly. Here’s my confession: I simply cannot tell the vast majority of the younger male contestants apart. Matt. Sam. Reece. Adam. James. Every single time, I tune in, hear these names being bandied about in whispered conversations about who’s displaying “traitorous behaviour” and who isn’t, then utterly fail to match them to the correct twenty or thirtysomething bloke. They simply appear to me as a sort of generically nice-looking, vaguely amiable young man wearing lovely knitwear. The only guy from this particular Traitors demographic (white man with hair colour ranging from …

The Masked Singer 2026 contestants: Who are the characters?

The Masked Singer 2026 contestants: Who are the characters?

Published by Daniella Wilson

After a joyful Christmas episode, The Masked Singer is making a return for a brand new series, with more unmaskings than ever before, plus some format changes. For the first time in The Masked Singer history, headlining the first two shows is The Masked Singer Band! Up first is Goldfish and their band No Trout in show 1 (3rd January) and Emperor Penguin and the Antarctic Funkeys in show 2 (4th January). Jonathan Ross, Davina McCall, Mo Gilligan and Maya Jama are back and will once again be guessing at the true identities of these masked characters. There’s elaborate costumes aplenty, but which characters will take to the stage? Read on to find out more about each of The Masked Singer 2026 characters. The Masked Singer 2026 contestants: Who are the characters? Moth Can of Worms Red Panda Conkers Arctic Fox Toastie Monkey Business Yak Sloth Gargoyle Disc Jockey Teabag Scroll on for the initial clues about this year’s characters. This article will be updated regularly with the latest clues, guesses and songs as the …

Who left The Traitors season 4? All murdered and banished contestants

Who left The Traitors season 4? All murdered and banished contestants

Published by Daniella Wilson

**Warning: Contains spoilers for The Traitors season 4** The Traitors has pulled out all the stops this season, with the introduction of a Secret Traitor pulling all the strings… As revealed in the launch episode, Claudia Winkleman chose her three Traitors but also another Traitor, whose identity not even the audience or the rest of the players know. In the role of Secret Traitor, the player must not only evade detection from the other Traitors, but they must also provide a shortlist of who should be murdered each night. The cliffhanger saw James, Netty and Maz all in the shortlist to be murdered, and it was down to the Traitors to decide who would be leaving the castle first. So, whose time up was in The Traitors season 4? Read on to find out more about the murdered and banished contestants. Who has been murdered or banished from The Traitors season 4 so far? Judy – BANISHED in episode 2 Judy. BBC/Studio Lambert/Cody Burridge/Matt Burlem Judy became the first victim of The Traitors roundtable, as she …

The Traitors 2026: Meet the contestants, from a former detective to a bestselling crime writer

The Traitors 2026: Meet the contestants, from a former detective to a bestselling crime writer

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter BBC One’s stratospheric hit The Traitors is back for four weeks of deception and backstabbing, keeping us entertained and screaming at the TV through the long January nights. Fresh from leaving Strictly after more than a decade as its co-host, Claudia Winkleman is once again presenting the ultimate reality game of trust and treachery, with new twists and 22 new players. The 2026 season arrives just a couple of months after the first ever UK celebrity edition, which saw Traitor Alan Carr win the game against all odds. Meet the contestants hoping to follow in his footsteps below, from a bestselling crime writer and psychologist to a retired police detective. Adam open image in gallery Adam (BBC/Studio Lambert/Cody Burridge/Matt Burlem) The 34-year-old builder from Essex says he’s “a very outspoken, dramatic sort of person” with “no filter”. He has studied body …