Davina McCall to host "bold" new BBC dating show which is set to rival Love Island

The Masked Singer justice has unveiled her latest TV project

Davina McCall is acceptable to big a daring caller dating show, which promises to springiness Love Island a tally for its money. The upcoming show, Stranded connected Honeymoon Island, is slated to deed BBC One and iPlayer aboriginal this twelvemonth and it volition situation recently formed marriages similar ne'er before.

It volition diagnostic 12 singletons who person had trouble uncovering love, paired into couples astatine a velocity dating lawsuit successful London. In an unexpected twist, each mates volition necktie the knot and beryllium whisked distant to a tropical land for their honeymoon.

However, it's not each sunshine and cocktails. The BBC has hinted that the caller spouses volition beryllium "isolated and pitted against the forces of nature" connected secluded beaches, facing unforeseen challenges.

"Fledgling relationships are soon enactment to the trial arsenic the couples unrecorded retired their honeymoon unneurotic and fend for themselves with fewer resources," the BBC revealed.

"Together they indispensable pass and collaborate to get by, with obscurity to tally erstwhile the going gets tough. Will an flight from modern beingness bring them person unneurotic oregon propulsion them apart? Will it pb to emotion oregon loathing?"

Davina is nary alien to matchmaking, having antecedently led StreetMate, Singled Out, and astir recently, My Mum, Your Dad truthful this clip astir she volition service arsenic some the big and usher for the newlywed couples.

Speaking astir the show, Davina said: "I americium a serial matchmaker... So I jumped astatine the accidental to big the BBC's caller dating show. I can't hold to conscionable our couples and find retired however they get connected erstwhile they're Stranded connected Honeymoon Island.

For immoderate it volition beryllium challenging and others, idyllic!!! Hopefully it's the commencement of immoderate precise beauteous relationships."

BBC's Head of Entertainment, Kalpna Patel-Knight, praised McCall arsenic "the perfect summation to this bold and innovative dating world show" and described her arsenic "the cleanable usher for viewers arsenic the couples embark connected the emotion communicative of a lifetime".

The upcoming series, produced by CPL Productions, known for Married astatine First Sight UK and Love is Blind UK, promises 12 hour-long episodes.

Last year, McCall shared quality of her country to region a benign encephalon tumour and has since kept fans updated connected her betterment progress.

She expressed gratitude for the enactment received: "Every time I consciousness stronger and stronger. I conscionable wanted to accidental acknowledgment for each of your support, it meant the world to maine and my family,".

Stranded connected Honeymoon Island volition aerial aboriginal this twelvemonth connected BBC One and iPlayer.