The latest series of Love Island has seen all the usual drama, controversy and “bombshells” galore.

We’ve had the trademark baffling language, the frenzied infidelities and never-ending fallout of Casa Amor and, of course, the familiar discussions of what it tells us about society as a whole.

Soon, all that will be left is for Laura Whitmore to enter the villa and tell the remaining contestants which couple has convinced the public that they are worthy of leaving with a £50,000 cheque – here’s everything you need to know about this year’s Love Island final.

The final of the 2022 series of Love Island will air on Monday 1 August on ITV2. As is customary, the last episode will be a special extended live edition, starting at 9pm and lasting until 10.35pm.

You can watch live or on catch up online via the ITV Hub, which you can access on your phone, tablet, computer, Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

It means that the latest series will span 49 episodes – just like the previous three summer editions – as well as eight episodes of Love Island: Aftersun on Saturday evenings.

Including Monday 25 July and the final, it means there are just seven more episodes left until we say farewell to the villa for another year.

Following the latest dumping, the remaining couples on Love Island are:

The Love Island prize money stands at £50,000, but once Whitmore has revealed the winners they will be asked to pick an envelope each.

One of these contains £0, while the other holds the full £50,000.

Whoever has the envelope with the prize money in it is then asked whether they want to split it with their partner and receive £25,000 each, or if they want to keep the £50,000, thus revealing once and for all beyond any shadow of a doubt if they were in the show for love or money.

After convincing the public of their affections to the extent of winning the viewer’s vote, it would take someone very brave (or perhaps stupid?) to take the brutal step of pocketing the money themselves, and probably ruin their prospects of lucrative endorsements in the future.

Thus far, this has never happened – although some of the romances didn’t last particularly long after the series ended.

Here are all the winners of Love Island since it relaunched in 2015:

Despite the temptation to by cynical about the motivation of contestants, three out of the seven winning couples are still together: De La Hoyde and Massey, Turley and Tapp, and last year’s victors Court and Reardon.

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