"I’m normally all right" — Love Island USA narrator Iain Stirling on staying behind the scenes

Love Island USA narrator Iain Stirling addressed his experience with fame and voiceover work during a recent interview. In a conversation with The Sunday Post on March 19, 2025, he reflected on how his role behind the microphone allows him to maintain a degree of privacy. Speaking about being recognized in public, he shared:

“It’s quite good doing voiceover because as long as I don’t say anything I’m normally all right.”

For the unversed, Iain Stirling has been narrating Love Island UK since its debut in 2015 and joined the franchise's USA version later.

The above interview took place amid online rumors that Stirling would be stepping away from the UK series to focus only on the US one. A fake TikTok post, claiming to be Stirling, circulated a screenshot stating that he had quit Love Island UK, as reported by The Sun. However, the publication later confirmed that these claims were false.

The comedian also spoke about his current stand-up tour, how he started performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, and working with his wife Laura Whitmore. He looked back at how the dating show became a big part of pop culture and shared a fun memory from a World Cup night in Spain.

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Love Island USA narrator Iain Stirling shares voiceover work keeps him grounded despite growing fame

Iain Stirling said that despite Love Island’s popularity, being a narrator gives him space in public settings. He added that while the show is widely known, his face isn’t front and center, which helps him stay relatively under the radar. He noted:

“Generally speaking, people are really lovely. In Edinburgh, I’m more likely to get recognized from going to school with someone’s brother.”

He also talked about how the voiceover role shaped his perspective on reality TV participants. In an earlier GQ interview, published on August 4, 2021, he explained:

“You are seeing such a small percentage of how that person acts in a villa… You can like them or dislike them as a character, but you don’t know who they are.”

Iain mentioned that the narrator “can’t even comprehend that they are people,” highlighting how distant the narration persona is from the cast.

While the rumor about his departure from Love Island UK spread quickly online, a source exclusively later told The Sun on May 7, 2025 that "the rumors are just not true…Iain is fully expected to make a return to the summer series.” He will continue with both the UK and USA shows.

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Stand-up remains his passion alongside TV work

Even with television success, Stirling said stand-up is still his main creative outlet. “I’d be doing it even if I wasn’t a professional,” he said. He explained that for him, comedy was never just a means to an end — it was a craft.

“There’s a working-class part of me which was always told to get a trade. My trade’s stand-up, weirdly,” he shared.

He described how the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh shaped his path. “If it wasn’t for the Fringe, I wouldn’t be doing this,” he said. Stirling reminisced about performing sketch comedy with a friend at 16, where their one-minute sketches required three-minute blackouts for costume changes. He mentioned that he and his friend had only seen Little Britain, so they thought "every character had to be in full gear.”

Outside of touring, Stirling also talked about doing comedy gigs in the US while his wife, Laura Whitmore, worked at New York Fashion Week. He recalled that Alec Baldwin came to one of his shows. The comedian will continue his Relevant tour with stops in Stirling, Paisley, and Grangemouth in April 2025.

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Love Island USA episodes are available to stream on Peacock.