“The great @peelebanana [Anna Peele] with a must-read for everyone who loves Love Island (and also those who don’t!)”
—Seth Meyers

“If you want to get the dirty details of all things, the history of Love Island, interviews with cast members, production, Charli XCX, all of that and so much more is in this book.”
—Nick Viall, The Viall Files

“[One of] the best books about reality TV.”
—Bustle

“It is a fantastic book and a great beach read.”
—Kate Casey, Reality Life with Kate Casey

“The go-to source for all things Love Island. It’s THE text, [Peele] is THE girl…this book has been such a hit.”
—Evan Real, Page Six

“From the unstable messiness of Season 1 to the franchise’s modernized, glammy iterations of the past few years … Peele scrutinizes the moral, sociological, and psychological impacts of the show… . An immersive, behind-the-scenes, for-fans-only effort.”
—Kirkus

“A true expert… . I was obsessively reading this. It is so good.”
—Ira Madison III

Anna Peele is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She spent the first eight years of her career as an editor at men’s magazines and received the ASME Next Award at the 2016 National Magazine Awards. She has also written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and ESPN.

Her feature on Bravo was Vanity Fair’s most-read story of 2023, and her February 2025 cover story on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle broke traffic records for the publication. Peele graduated with a BA from New York University in 2010 and lives in Manhattan with her husband. She can be found watching astonishing amounts of reality TV or walking in Central Park.

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