Ariana Madix has a message for those Love Island USA viewers who are taking things too far when expressing their frustrations with season 7.
“I do want to say something to some of those people who are online,” Ariana, 39, said during the Saturday, June 21, episode of Aftersun. “Don’t be contacting people’s families. Don’t be doxxing people.”
The host urged people to reconsider their behavior on social media.
“Don’t be going on islanders’ pages and saying rude things. You still have time to delete all of that because the islanders don’t have their phones,” Ariana noted. “So we are giving you a chance because this is a fun, amazing and beautiful show. We should be thanking each one of these islanders every single day for giving us themselves.”
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Love Island USA follows a different group of singles every season who have to pair off in order to stay in the show’s luxury villa. The contestants — who are referred to as islanders — live in isolation and are under constant video surveillance. They must be coupled up to remain on the show and to stand a chance to receive the prize of $100,000.
Season 6 of the U.S. version of the show blew up on social media when it premiered in 2024. As a result, season 7 islanders Ace Greene, Amaya Espinal, Austin Shepard, Chelley Bissainthe, Cierra Ortega, Hannah Fields, Huda Mustafa, Iris Kendall, Jalen Brown, Jeremiah Brown, Pepe Garcia, Nic Vansteenberghe, Olandria Carthen, Taylor Williams and Charlie Georgiou were under even more scrutiny.
Huda, 24, specifically received backlash for her tumultuous romance with Jeremiah, 25. Her ex Noah Sheline, with whom she shares 4-year-old daughter Arleigh, came to her defense earlier this month, writing via his Instagram Story, “At the end of the day I hope everyone remembers we’re human. Her going on that show to find love, or whatever you think it was she’s doing, remember she’s still human, she has a daughter, and a life.”
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Noah urged Peacock viewers to be kind instead of mocking Huda.
“She’s maybe not doing a great job idk I don’t watch the show but I don’t like that I’m seeing so much negative s*** on my page or even clips of it about her,” he added about the “unhealthy” hate. “It’s not my job to police her or the people in my comments, but I will say what you guys do will affect her mental health and my daughter’s maybe in the future.”
Meanwhile, Ariana offered advice on how islanders and their loved ones should navigate their fame.
Ariana replied to a TikTok on Wednesday, June 18, about the overwhelming backlash certain islanders have received, writing, “I also think the people running their social media pages need to be on top of blocking, deleting and setting limits on words etc on their pages. They shouldn’t see any of that when they get their phones back.”
New episodes of Love Island USA are released six days a week — except for Wednesdays — on Peacock.
