After being called racist, the dating show Love Island is about to have its first black winner.

Whitney Adebayo is likely to win the £50,000 prize in Monday’s final, which would be a “big win” for the network that has been under fire.

Even though the show has had winners of mixed races in the past, it has always been accused of being unfair.

At the beginning of each season, when islanders choose who they want to pair up with, black contestants are often the last ones picked. After leaving the TV villa, several cast members talked publicly about racism.

Yewande Biala, who was in the fifth season, wrote an open letter in which she talked about “microaggressions” and called out co-star Lucie Donlan for mispronouncing her name, which she called “just another form of racism.”

Amber Gill is of mixed race and comes from Trinidad, and Greg O’Shea won that match.

And earlier this year, Indo-Trinidadian Sanam Harrinanan and Jamaican Kai Fagan, who were both in the show’s winter series, became the first non-white couple to win.

Now, TV experts think that entrepreneur Whitney, who is 25 years old, and her partner Lochan Nowacki, who is also 25, will win Love Island in 2023.

A person said, “Whitney has won over the nation, and ITV bosses could not be happier. She has topped the public vote repeatedly, so the prediction is that she will go all the way and be crowned champion. Although she will be winning as part of a couple, it is Whitney who is the favorite among viewers.”