‘Love Island’ Narrator Iain Stirling Works Late to Keep Up With Daily UK, USA Episodes (Exclusive)

Summer is the exact opposite of a holiday for Iain Stirling.

The Scottish comedian has been the narrator for Love Island UK since its premiere in 2015, satirizing some of the crazier behavior from every summer’s singles and establishing himself as an unforgettable piece of the Love Island experience.

In 2022, Stirling, 37, began narrating Love Island USA too, doubling his summer workload — and things haven’t died down since. “It’s pretty full-on,” he tells PEOPLE of his demanding recording schedule, which is necessary to keep up with five new episodes a week on both UK and USA, which air simultaneously each summer.

Stirling’s day starts with recording for Love Island UK and finishes 14 hours later with USA.

“I do the UK one [from] 12:00 till about 5:00, roughly speaking, but there might be changes after that,” the comedian explains of his daily schedule.

After that, it’s “dad duties.” Stirling shares 4-year-old daughter Stevie with his wife, Laura Whitmore.

“So it’s like bath time, dinner time, bedtime,” he says, referring to his daughter’s schedule. “That’s until 7:30, and then I have dinner.”

Around 8:30 p.m., Stirling starts working on narration for USA, which lasts until 2:30 a.m. “This is all U.K. time,” he makes sure to note.

“At 2:30, I log off and I go to bed and then whenever my little one wakes up, I get up.”

The process for each show is pretty different on his end.

Making his schedule work so he can narrate both shows at the same time is a bit of a beast, but he applauds the “amazing” teams on both sides of the pond for “making our diaries work.”

“We start quite early for the US one,” he explains. “So the UK one, we get the show, but it’s like the final edited show. We just do our jokes, it’s fine.”

Love Island USA, though, is “still getting edited and changed” when it’s sent to him to start recording, mainly due to the time difference between where he lives and Fiji, where the Peacock series is filmed.

“We have to start early [on USA], otherwise I’d be up till 7:30 in the morning and I would literally never sleep.”

Stirling is not in it alone, though — he has a team of “great” writers working with him on both UK and USA.

He says he’s “very lucky” to have such a “great team” behind him as he embarks on the seemingly impossible task of trying to keep up with the drama happening in both villas every summer.

On Love Island UK, he writes with Mark, who he says is “great and he’s been doing it for 10 years,” and on Love Island USA, “I write with an amazing New York comic called Caroline Hanes and then a British comic called Steve Bugeja.”

“I’ve got a team around me, which is great because, the first couple of weeks, everyone just has to tell me who everyone’s names are, because I’ve got two shows worth of people in my head.”

The girls pose the bigger challenge. “All the girls are very similar, so it’s really hard to tell the girls apart,” he says, whereas “the American guys and the UK guys have different vibes.”

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New episodes of Love Island USA drop every day except Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Peacock.