THE future of TV’s Virgin Island has been cast into doubt amid the Married at First Sight rape scandal, The Sun can reveal today.

Both productions put together strangers who live in close quarters and can end up having sex.

A group of young people gathered on a beach for "Virgin Island 2026."The 2026 cast of Virgin Island, which may not be returning to screens Credit: Channel 4 Lucy Beaumont at the Edinburgh TV Festival.Comic Lucy Beaumont narrates the show Credit: Ashley Coombes/REX/Shutterstock for Edinburgh TV Festival

Filming on the third series of , which sees experts help 12 adults explore intimacy, was due to start this summer.

Yet an insider said staff were told work on the show, narrated by comic and set on a private island in the Med, would not be going ahead.

He said: “Word spread it was being halted indefinitely.

“No reason was given and it’s had good ratings.

“So everyone thinks it’s because C4’s still reeling about .

“After all, both are highly sexual shows involving the public.”

A former Virgin Island contestant, Ellen, from Haywards Heath, West Sussex, said last week the virgins, who each have a tent, often broke the show’s no night visiting rule.

In May on BBC’s Panorama, and a third

The claims are denied and an

Channel 4 said it was delaying “outstanding commissioning decisions on big returning series” until a new director of programmes is appointed.