‘Are You My First?’ Producers on Verifying Whether Contestants Were Actually Virgins: ‘You Could Just Tell’

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from Season 1 of “Are You My First?,” now streaming on Hulu.

Although the promos for “Are You My First?” read “from the producers of ‘Love Island,’ referring to ITV Studios, the show also comes from Plimsoll Productions, a UK-based company that’s used to creating documentaries. So, when head of factual entertainment Karen Plumb began casting what was then called “Virgin Island,” she was in for a treat.

But we’ll get there.

In 2021, Plumb was meeting with the “quite young” development team and the topic of virginity came up. “We were talking about when everyone lost their virginity,…