Going through Love Island USA withdraws? Allow Us to give you new (and exclusive) content from summer’s hottest show.
Decked out for the July 13 finale, the remaining Love Island USA couples — Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales, Chris Seeley and Huda Mustafa, Iris Kendall and Pepe Garcia and Nic Vansteenberghe and Olandria Carthen — took to the Speakeasy and got ready for their close-ups.
Season 7 of Love Island USA blew up this year as reality TV fans around the world tuned in every day — except Wednesday — to see the Islanders live in isolation and under constant video surveillance while searching for a connection in a luxury villa in Fiji. While the different pairings and onscreen drama sometimes divided the audience, one thing we could all agree on? None of Us could look away.
“[This season] there’s a lot more emphasis put on the journey as opposed to the result. I think it’s about the journey of finding someone and how you grow as a person by doing that. Whereas five or six years ago, you had like proper millennials in there. There was that more traditional approach to dating,” narrator Iain Sterling exclusively told Us Weekly about how the search for love has evolved. “The end goal [was] to be with someone and you have this contract with someone you’re in a relationship with to honor that person and to honor that relationship. … I think now there’s a lot more people who make contracts with themselves to have the journey that they want and the experience they’re after.”
As social media fans argued over which connections were legit and which could be for the cameras, Iain — who has seen more hours of footage than the rest of Us — came to their defense. “These people are predominantly speaking in their early 20s. If you can’t be selfish dating then — then when can you?” he asked. “Especially people from my generation, they weren’t selfish in their 20s and maybe did not want to upset people. Then they get to sort of 30 to 40 and get divorced and go insane. Maybe it’s the healthier way to do it.”
Keep scrolling for exclusive never-before-seen photos of your favorite Love Island USA couples from Us‘ exclusive shoot:
