Jeremiah Brown’s dumping from Love Island USA shook reality TV fans hard. So hard, in fact, that some felt it was a little too soon when Love Island USA narrator Iain Stirling joked about Jeremiah’s dumping. Now, Iain is apologizing for the Jeremiah joke, saying it might have been a “misstep.”
“I genuinely thought people would appreciate the nod to him, because we very rarely talk about it, but if you think about it, it’s an unwritten rule that I never really joke about the islanders once they’ve gone,” Iain explained to E! News. “I’ll maybe do a joke as they’re leaving. So it’s a big deal.”
The joke in question happened after Jeremiah had been dumped, when Olandria and Nic were on a date and given a second chance to re-enter the Villa as a couple. In his voiceover, Iain joked that Jeremiah would be acting as their waiter, which was a blow to fans who had been holding out hope that Jeremiah would also be brought back in a Casa Amor twist.
“It was a genuine statement of love that I mentioned Jeremiah after he’d already left the show,” he said. “I thought people would be, ‘Oh, that’s funny.’ He was such an intrinsic part of the show. Some people did take it as such, and then some people sadly didn’t, and I apologize to those people.”
Iain writes and records his Love Island narration daily, pulling double duty on both the UK and USA versions. “[From] 12 in the afternoon ‘til about six at night, I record the UK one,” he told E! News. “Then I do my dad duties, spend time with my wife, bit of dinner, bath times, bedtimes, that sort of drill.” Once his kid is asleep, it’s back to work on Love Island USA from around 8:30 p.m. to 2:30 in the morning.
The grueling schedule might sound like the hardest part of the job, but Iain says the real challenge is writing fresh material as you get deeper into the season. “The writing is 90 percent of the time,” he said. “When you’re thinking about something funny to say about Nic and Cierra, who are having their 55th chat of the series, that’s when it gets tricky.”
