Some sad news for reality TV fans: Love Island USA season 8 is approaching its end. It can seem like Peacock’s hit dating show just started, with fan discourse reaching a fever pitch over the past two weeks of Casa Amor and Movie Night. However, longtime Love Island fans familiar with the franchise beats know that the season 8 finale is just around the corner. Get ready for more dates (please), more light-hearted challenges, and more public votes ahead of the evening when America’s favorite couple wins $100,000.

When is that evening, you ask? Read on for everything we know about the Love Island USA season 8 finale so far, including a possible timeline for the reunion.

When will 'Love Island USA' season 8 end?

Peacock has confirmed that the Love Island USA season 8 finale will air on Sunday, July 12, 2026, at 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET. Season 8 will feature 36 episodes, the same number as last year's season 7. (If this season feels shorter than usual, Love Island UK typically lasts 49 episodes, so there is international precedent for longer seasons.)

Fans can watch Love Island USA by subscribing to Peacock.

Which couples could be in the 'Love Island USA' season 8 finale?

As of the end of Movie Night, there are eight couples in the villa: Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff, Melanie Moreno and Sincere Rhea, Kayda Bosse and Zach Georgiou, Kenzie Annis and Dylan Wrona, Jen Terry and Gal Tshnieder, Caleb McDaniel and Jaiden Bacciocco, Corbin Mims and Parmida Keshani, KC Chandler and Tierra Davis. However, the next recoupling is sure to bring some shake-ups, including Aniya Harvey and Carl Schmidt making things official, and Jen and Gal likely splitting up.

Based on the couples’ statuses at the moment and the Islanders’ popularity, the only guaranteed couple to make it to the finale is Trinity and Bryce. The fan-favorite pair became the season's first boyfriend and girlfriend in Episode 24 (which aired on June 29). The rest of the final four couples will depend on how things shake out in the final 10 episodes.

Will there be a 'Love Island USA' season 8 reunion?

Though Peacock hasn’t given any official word, the season 8 Islanders will likely reunite after the finale for a contentious reunion. Last year, season 7’s cast filmed their reunion one month after the finale, with the special episode airing two weeks later. If this six-week gap remains the same for 2026, the season 8 reunion could be released around the last week of August.

Every year when dating shows like Love Island USA return and take over the internet, a perennial question resurfaces: Where are the gays? A queer Love Island may not exist, but there is an answer to the sapphic-shaped hole in reality TV: I Kissed a Girl.

In 2023, the BBC debuted a landmark LGBTQ+ reality franchise, releasing the U.K.'s first-ever gay dating show, I Kissed a Boy, followed by its lesbian version, I Kissed a Girl. Both series were critically praised and found passionate fanbases, with the latter receiving notable love for its groundbreaking representation of sapphic culture. Though Korea and Japan hold the crown for wholesome-yet-messy reality hits, I Kissed a Girl proves that the country that gave us Love Island can also release much less blood-pressure-raising fare.

If any of the above has piqued your interest, your watchlist is in luck. Read on for our breakdown of I Kissed a Girl and how U.S. viewers can tune in.

What is the reality show 'I Kissed a Girl?'

Hosted by LGBTQ+ ally (and Kylie's little sister) Dannii Minogue and lesbian narrator Charley Marlowe, I Kissed a Girl can be considered a sapphic, more low-key version of Love Island. It starts with 10 queer women arriving at an Italian masseria—a fortified farmhouse unique to Puglia, Italy—where pre-planned pairs immediately smooch on their first meeting to test their compatibility.

The couples are then left to flirt, build their connections, and possibly catch someone else's eye as they all live together. The dating-show gameplay includes the standard themed parties and challenges, or "chemistry tests," that stir up drama; reveals where new singles enter the masseria; and "Kiss Off" ceremonies that end in elimination. The final test is whether they'll commit to continuing their romance outside the masseria by kissing one last time in front of their families(!) who've been flown out for the finale.

While there are more exciting shows that focus on producer-contrived drama, I Kissed a Girl is made for the reality-TV sociologists who want to observe how the singles move through their romances. Many lovely moments also move LGBTQ+ representation on TV beyond tired stereotypes, such as discussions on the intersections of queerness and race.

When does 'I Kissed a Girl' season 2 come out in the U.K.?

After its acclaimed May 2024 debut, I Kissed a Girl began its second season on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. After dropping four episodes on the 23rd, the dating show will release two episodes at a time for the rest of its run, with drops arriving on BBC iPlayer every Tuesday at 6 a.m. BST.

According to PinkNews, I Kissed a Girl season 2 will have 10 episodes total, with the season finale expected to air on July 14, 2026.

How can I watch 'I Kissed a Girl' in the U.S.?

Thankfully for U.S. viewers, I Kissed a Girl and I Kissed a Boy are both available to stream stateside on Hulu. However, it hasn't been announced when season 2 will land on Hulu—and subscribers will likely have to wait. The queer dating show arrived on the streaming giant in late August 2024, a couple of months after it aired on the BBC.

If you're the impatient type or don't want to get spoiled by an IG reel, I Kissed a Girl season 2 is streaming without delay on BBC iPlayer, free with a TV license. If you don't have a VPN, you can use one like Nord VPN.

Will there be an 'I Kissed a Girl' season 3?

Unfortunately, I Kissed a Girl season 2 will be its final installment. In March 2026, the BBC announced that both I Kissed a Girl and I Kissed a Boy would come to an end with their second seasons.

“We are exceptionally proud of I Kissed A Boy/Girl, the U.K.’s first dating show for the LGBTQ+ community,” a BBC spokesperson said at the time. “We would like to thank our fabulous Cupid Dannii Minogue and the entire team at [production company] Twofour for bringing the series to screen. Unfortunately, we have to make difficult choices in light of our funding challenges, and there are no current plans for the show to return.”

Fans have since called for other networks to consider reviving the show and started a petition directed toward the BBC that has racked up over 20,000 signatures. For now, new viewers can enjoy the three (and soon four) franchise seasons airing on Hulu.

As soon as it began, Love Island USA season 8's Casa Amor is about to come to an end. The reality-TV phenomenon's signature test of relationship loyalty revived a divisive season by diving headfirst into chaos, as season 8's Islanders all got to know a new set of eligible singles. Over the past few nights, chats were had, toes were sucked, and true colors were revealed as the internet devolved into speculation about whether the Islanders would either stay loyal to their original match or explore a new connection.

With the original villa dwellers expected to reunite on Friday, June 26, it's time to refresh your memory on each Islander's journey on the dating show over the past four weeks in Fiji (which is like, half a year's worth of relationship development). Below, read on for a recap of Love Island USA season 8's romances so far, with the couples ordered from least to most likely to stay together after Casa Amor. Spoilers ahead up to Episode 20 (released on June 25), and you can watch Love Island USA by subscribing to Peacock.

Jen and Caleb

In all fairness, Jen Terry and Caleb McDaniel are the closest we've gotten to a friendship couple in season 8. They both entered the villa as bombshells in week 2, alongside Sol Dean (more on her below). America voted for Caleb, a blond Charleston cowboy, to couple up with Kenzie, whose ideal type was a blond cowboy. However, the spark wasn't there, seemingly because Kenzie was so attracted to her previous match, Corbin. Even the female Islanders knew that Caleb got the short end of the stick, which is why they voted to save him from elimination after Kenzie went back to Corbin.

Meanwhile, Jen was voted into a couple with Gabriel Vasconcelos, who had been partnered with Beatriz Hatz but was still willing to explore. Gabriel got emotional when Beatriz was dumped, but as soon as she left, he quickly got physical with Jen. Though the pair got along great, the female Islanders wondered whether Gabriel was too lustful and was always looking for "the next best thing." The girls dumped Gabriel from the villa, leaving Jen and Caleb single.

So the question of who Jen and Caleb could bring back from Casa isn't that dramatic, since neither of them has lingering connections in the villa. Jen has been pretty set on surf-café owner Gal Tshnieder, though she also chatted with lacrosse player Ronnie Gunter after Gal expressed an interest in Kenzie. Meanwhile, after briefly finding himself in another love triangle with Corbin—this time over personal trainer Parmida Keshani—Caleb hit it off with new grad Jaiden Bacciocco.

Corbin and Kenzie

While Gabriel's dumping was the reason "lustful" became season 8's buzzword, it's also been pointed toward Corbin Mims and Kenzie Annis. Kenzie arrived in the villa on night one and had a rough go at first: Zach rejected her after 24 hours together, leaving her to explore with fellow single Sean Reifel, and even (briefly) Gabriel. But her head was quickly turned when Corbin arrived as a bombshell, and the pair had an easy chemistry. Things hit a bit of a snag when she learned that Corbin used the same lines on her as Kayda, but she quickly got over it. When Corbin used his bombshell privilege to choose Kenzie in a recoupling, she admitted she would've chosen him over Sean anyway.

Corbin and Kenzie weren't closed off when Caleb, Jen, and Sol came in as bombshells, so they got closer as a couple while also exploring other connections. After America voted for Kenzie to be with Caleb, leaving Corbin single, he chose to couple up with Melanie. Both Kenzie and Corbin seemed to want to give their new couplings a fair shot, but they were also physically drawn to each other. They even shared a kiss one night, and it was clear it was a crossed boundary because both of them kept it secret from their new matches. It was no surprise when Corbin and Kenzie chose each other in the next recoupling.

Then came this year's Casa Amor twist, where the boys were secreted away to the auxiliary villa during the "Hearts on Fire" challenge, and the girls watched them meet the six new Casa girls on a live feed. All of the boys were giving real strip-club energy, but Corbin took it the farthest, declaring that he's definitely bringing someone new back to the villa, just two girls in. And he clearly meant it; that second girl, Parmida, also liked him, and they started making out immediately.

Meanwhile, Kenzie seems interested in Casa Boys Gal and Dylan Wrona, but a bigger question than who she will bring back is whether she will stay with them. After Zach left her for a date with Kayda, Kenzie refused chats with him and didn't give him the time of day. But she had only been with Zach for 24 hours. Will Kenzie have the same energy after a week (which, again, is the real-world equivalent of a couple of months) with Corbin? We'll have to see.

Kayda and Zach

Situations change so quickly in Love Island. Back in weeks 1 and 2, Kayda Bosse and Zach Georgiou (A.K.A. Charlie from season 7's brother) were early favorites—and even seen as potential winners. Besides Zach's brief time with Kenzie, he and Kayda locked on to each other on day two and never looked back. (Remember Kayda curving Bryce as the three of them were forced to sleep in what we thought at the time was the show's biggest bed?) Though they both had opportunities to explore—Kayda with Sincere and Gabriel, and Zach with Jen—they never really crossed boundaries. (To me, each of their one kiss outside of a challenge cancels each other out.) They were even the first couple sent to the Hideaway.

However, though Zach wasn't unfaithful pre-Casa, he always had some sketchy behavior. While Kayda low-key thought jealousy is a sign of affection, Zach dealt with said jealousy by getting possessive and vindictive, as far back as pulling Jen for a chat after the giant-bed challenge. Zach has also been a regular shit-stirrer among the established couples, even telling his BFF Bryce that it didn't seem like Trinity liked him. But the biggest early red flag was when, literally as they were making the hideaway bed the morning after, Zach asked Kayda if she'd be okay with him chatting up a new bombshell.

The cracks in the couple continued after Sol and Gabriel's dumping, when the guys got pissed that the girls sent Gabriel home. Zach threatened that the boys might not make breakfast for the girls the next morning, which is one of the most disrespectful things you could do in the villa. (He's literally the only guy who followed through the next day!) He then jokingly said the girls should chat with Caleb since they saved him, and even told Caleb to pull Kayda. And then, when Caleb did pick Kayda in the next challenge, Zach accused her of liking it too much! If all that whining wasn't enough, he even threatened to pull Melanie for a chat, which left Kayda as confused as the rest of us.

By the time Casa started, Zach was ready to cheat, and Kayda's anger was mixed with tears as she watched him have the time of his life meeting the Casa girls. Even though Kayda didn't join the initial "I miss my man" contingent, she was still staring at pictures of Zach in a Joe Goldberg hoodie. She also collapsed into tears after seeing a picture of Zach kissing a Casa girl on night one, while she hadn't been kissing any of the Casa boys. Due to extenuating circumstances, Zach will likely return to the villa single. And despite how easily she hit it off with chiropractor Chay Nehra, Kayda may have too much unfinished business.

Aniya and KC

It only took a week of Casa Amor for Aniya Harvey and KC Chandler to go from one of the villa's strongest couples to one of the most divisive. However, as KC won't let anyone forget, they didn't choose each other at first. On night one, both Aniya and Melanie went for Sincere, while KC was left standing alone at his giant door. Still, his and Aniya's consolation match seemed to be blossoming into something real. KC's assurances that Aniya was "the blueprint" and that dark-skinned women were the most beautiful, even made her tear up.

But now, in hindsight, the red flags began popping up by week 2. When Sol arrived at the villa, KC admitted she resembled his ex-girlfriend, which eventually got to Aniya. Literally hours earlier, KC had told Aniya that he had always played it safe, like staying in his hometown instead of going away for college. But when Aniya expressed concern that she just felt like a safe option (and KC was really a Taylor waiting for his Clarke), KC’s previous reassurances had fans reading Aniya as unnecessarily insecure. Even as KC told Sol in private chats that he was holding himself back from pursuing her, he became offended when Aniya suggested he only saw her as a fallback.

Despite all of the above—and a gross conversation between KC and Corbin where KC called Aniya a “grandma” for not hooking up with him on national TV—KC and Aniya chose each other again at the love-letter recoupling. However, after KC defended Sol during the dumping vote and claimed he’d explore with her if they kept her around, he and Aniya had the same argument over again. So they were not in a good place when Aniya saw KC doing the absolute most while meeting the Casa Amor girls. She didn’t even see him fall lips-first into L.A. model Tierra Marsh, before doing the same “I’m all about you, but I’m gonna explore her” routine, and telling the guys that he liked Tierra because he didn’t have to “beg” for kisses anymore. And she didn’t see him claim that he and Aniya had nothing in common, which even threw Sincere off.

Aniya is the biggest lover girl there behind Melanie, so of course she cried when she saw the pic of KC kissing another girl. But thankfully, host Ariana Madix brought in 12(!) new men to woo the women. Aniya hit it off with Carl Schmidt, a 6'4'' personal trainer and world traveler who’s a volleyball player like her. Carl is gorgeous. Carl is chivalrous. Carl constantly says she's hot. Carl genuinely listens to her. Carl held her dress down while they were getting freaky in challenges. Carl’s ex-girlfriend posted TikToks about how great he is and that she’s rooting for him and Aniya.

If Aniya doesn’t pick Carl, I may have the biggest crash-out of my life. Unfortunately, since not everything that happens in the villa makes it to the screen, there’s no way to be entirely sure that the Internet’s prayers will be answered once Aniya and KC see each other again. (But seriously, girl, RUN.)

Melanie and Sincere

Oh, my girl Melanie. Sincere Rhea and Melanie Moreno's tumultuous romance was the central drama of the season pre-Casa, with Melanie filling a Love Island archetype: The girl who falls hard and fast. We love her vulnerability; we shade her decision-making. But without that central lover girl to influence the rest of the female cast, and provide the opposite of a slow burn, Love Island truly would be Friendship Island.

Sincere and Melanie were into each other from the very beginning, but Melanie's admitted jealousy issues quickly surfaced when she learned Sincere had a history of texting other girls while in a relationship. She didn't react in the best way, immediately declaring that she'd "cheat back" and arguably stepping on people's toes as she explored with Gabriel, Corbin, and even, very briefly, KC. (Going from Sincere to Corbin and back during the giant-bed challenge was a bad look.) Still, Sincere and Melanie were shaken but not broken...until Sol entered the villa.

Before Sol, Sincere was arguably doing what Love Island was designed for by playing the field. But then Sincere started lying. He'd chat with Sol for hours and kiss her outside of challenges. When confronted by Melanie, he'd admit to the kissing, then immediately downplay his connection with Sol and reassure Melanie that he only wanted her. And then next time he went off to chat with Sol, he'd kiss Sol and reassure her he only wanted to be with her. (This cycle repeated at least two more times.) Compare that to Gabriel, who was upfront with Bea about kissing bombshells, while Sincere had Melanie crying and feeling crazy.

Sincere and Melanie finally, briefly, split up when America voted for Sincere to couple up with Sol, while Melanie ended up with Corbin. Melanie said at the time that she was happy the love triangle would be over, but even if Corbin wasn't sneaking kisses with Kenzie, it was clear Melanie still wanted Sincere. But when it seemed like Melanie was opening up to Corbin, Sincere spun the block and told Melanie how much he missed her while assuring Sol that he only wanted her. Once again, it wasn't a surprise when Sincere chose to recouple with Melanie during the love-letter recoupling. (Sol understandably had smoke for Sincere for leading her on, but the male islanders dumped her from the villa the next night.)

Melanie and Sincere's happy reunion after trials and tribulations was quickly interrupted by the ultimate trial of Casa Amor. Once again, Sincere eagerly explored with a new girl, this time SCAD student Amora Robinson, but after the Sol of it all, I'm thinking he'll probably go back to Melanie once they're in the same villa again. Meanwhile, Melanie has seen ample evidence of the way he operates when she isn't around, and her Casa boy, Corey Sawyer Jr., also told her that Sincere was playing her. (The Casa girls and boys can watch the show before they go in.) Still, one thing about a lover girl, she's gonna stick beside him. Sincere and Melanie probably aren't over yet.

Trinity and Bryce

Aniya may be the princess, but Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff are the only couple right now who seem set for a Happily Ever After. (But again, Aniya, we can change that girl.) Brinity coupled up on night one, but they quickly realized that they had some major differences. (Most notably, Trinity called Gabriel old at the ripe age of 26, and Bryce is 29.) Both Trinity and Bryce chose to explore with new bombshells, Gabriel and Kayda, on day 2. Obviously, that didn't work out, so they ended up back in their couple.

Even as the pair got closer week by week, it was unclear whether they were forming a romantic connection beyond their growing friendship. Despite all the tears that exploring connections brings, that's how Islanders (and viewers) truly know that a couple is solid. The five bombshells who arrived before Casa didn't seem interested in either of them. However, neither of them rode the complacency of a friendship coupling. Trinity was vulnerable about her concerns and told Bryce to put in the work to strengthen their connection, and he made the effort. They're also one of the season's most transparent pairings; Bryce gave her a heads-up that he wanted to try to explore with Kayda again, and Trinity wasn't afraid to tell him that it upset her. (Kayda immediately friend-zoned him again, because duh.)

Unfortunately, it took Casa for Brinity to truly take flight. After his initial glee at meeting the Casa girls, Bryce looked miserable the rest of his time in Casa, and the rest of the boys took shifts to join him as he stared across the ocean at the villa day and night. Meanwhile, Trinity tried to explore a bit and kissed Corey, but she soon realized that she really did miss Bryce. By the third night of Casa, she had taken Melanie's place sleeping out in Soul Ties. Even though Bryce saw the postcard of Trinity kissing Corey, Brinity still only wants each other, which is more than I can say about any of the other couples.

Love Island may dominate reality fans' summer watchlists, but the franchise isn't limited to two months. In addition to Love Island USA and Love Island UK, the dating-show franchise has expanded to dozens of countries. Of course, an international hit like Love Island has its own answer to a World Cup: Love Island: All Stars.

For those new to All Stars, the Love Island UK spinoff first aired in January 2024, reuniting several former Islanders for a second chance at love in the villa. Rather than changing up the show's format—for that, check out Peacock's Love Island Games—All Stars feels more like an extra season of the original phenomenon, tapping into an alumni roster with a lot of history.

Interested? Read on to learn how to tune into Love Island: All Stars next winter, including how to watch in the U.S. with no delay.

When does 'Love Island: All Stars' air?

For the past three years, Love Island: All Stars has arrived each winter to fill the LIUSA and LIUK-shaped holes in fans' hearts. The spinoff, led by host Maya Jama and narrator Iain Stirling, typically begins in mid-January and airs for five weeks.

Like the original series, Love Island: All Stars is filmed as close to real-time as possible. This means that the spinoff also includes audience votes that switch things up for the Islanders, as they film in a South African villa.

How can I watch 'Love Island: All Stars' in the U.S.?

All three seasons of Love Island: All Stars are currently available to stream on Peacock. While Love Island: All Stars season 4 has yet to be confirmed, the new season will likely air exclusively on Peacock in the U.S., following its fan-favorite third season. For season 3, new episodes hit Peacock two days after they air on ITV in the U.K.

If you're the impatient type or don't want to get spoiled by an IG reel, Love Island: All Stars will stream with no delay on ITVX, free with a TV license. If you don't have a VPN, you can use one like Nord VPN.

Three new bombshells entered the Love Island USA villa in season 8’s sixth episode, but only one of them has made a real impact when it comes to testing the existing Islander couples. 24-year-old Sol Dean caught the eye of Sincere Rhea, whose relationship with Melanie Moreno has been tumultuous, to say the least. Sol, who also goes by Sol Mýa, and Sincere's chats have resulted in a few private kisses, which upset Melanie, and the original pair were on thin ice as he explored his other options.

America’s first vote of the season upped the ante when they officially broke up Melanie and Sincere for the foreseeable future by pairing Sol with Sincere. Now, they are exploring their connection in earnest...but if things don’t work out in the villa, she also has an off-island admirer in Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan. While we wait to find out her destiny, let’s get to know Sol better.

Sol works at a gym, and is also a model.

A native of Orange, California, Sol works at the front desk of a gym while also waitressing and modeling. On Instagram, she often posts from the BellaTec pilates studio in West Hollywood, citing pilates as the secret to her “toned and defined” body.

As a model, she is repped by Photogenics LA and was discovered at the U.S. Open of Surfing after high school. Sol briefly moved to Chicago to kickstart her modeling career, first signing to The Rock Agency, and then The Option Agency a few months later before eventually moving back to California.

Sol is a singer and has an interest in the entertainment industry.

Speaking with Voyage LA in 2024, Sol said that arts and creativity have always been a big part of her life and that she was heavily influenced by her father.

“Since a child, my father taught me how to sing and act, where that led me to a passion in the entertainment industry,” she said at the time. “Started off doing talent shows since 1st grade to get more comfortable in the public eye with expressing myself. Began writing my own music in my junior year of high school inspired once again by my father being a poet he helped me understand what I was feeling and was able to help me express it through my writing.” The confidence she built then led her to modeling, which launched her into the public eye.

Sol was close with her late father.

On Love Island USA, Sol tells Sincere that she recently lost her father—a loss that she is still grieving. In the few interviews she’s done, it’s clear how much her father influenced her, from her interest in the arts to building her confidence in her skills. When asked what her favorite childhood memories are, she cited her dad “playing oldies in the car, teaching me a classic duet by Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack” as one of the key moments in her life that shaped her into the woman she is today.

Sol has pug dogs as pets.

Though Sol’s Instagram currently doesn’t feature any photos of her fur babies, she does mention her pugs in her professional bio on her modeling agency’s website. But unfortunately, unlike their mom, the dogs aren’t fans of hiking outdoors.

These days, reality TV is the closest thing we have to a monoculture—especially if you’re tuning into the new seasons of Love Island USA and UK, which have audiences tuning in daily. In both versions, a group of singles is flown to an island (Fiji for USA, Mallorca for UK) and filmed constantly for a six-week stint. During that time, they couple up with fellow contestants and their bonds are tested when new bombshells enter the villa. Fans can also weigh in by voting for who gets to stay and who gets dumped, ultimately crowning a winning couple at the end of the season.

Aside from love blooming in the Fiji villa, one of the most charming aspects of the Love Island franchise is Iain Stirling, the 38-year-old comedian who provides the sassy voiceover narration that pokes fun at the absurdity unfolding. But while Stirling’s voiceover is a crucial part of the Love Island ethos, we very rarely get to see him in the flesh.

So who is this mysterious Scottish jokester? With both Love Island USA season 8 and Love Island UK season 13 airing now, let’s get to know Stirling a little better below.

Iain Stirling dropped out of law school to become a comedian.

Stirling was in his final year of law school at the University of Edinburgh when he discovered comedy. He told The Telegraph that, oddly enough, comedy seemed like the more viable path forward. “I probably wouldn’t be doing comedy if it wasn’t for the fact that I was doing stand-up and getting a few gigs, while I was also applying for law internships and getting absolutely nothing,” he told the newspaper in 2017.

Those stand-up gigs led to him being named one of Scotland’s Hottest Newcomers, and his career soon began to take off. His TV appearances began in children’s television, where he earned a few BAFTA nominations, before he was tapped for Love Island.

Iain Stirling is a podcaster and a Twitch streamer, and is married to Irish actress and presenter Laura Whitmore.

In addition to performing as a stand-up comedian, Stirling has appeared on various TV series, including season 8 of Taskmaster, where he finished as the runner-up, and Celebrity MasterChef: Christmas Cook-Off, which he won. Since 2017, he has operated a Twitch account where he broadcasts himself playing FIFA.

He and his wife, Laura Whitmore, also host a true-crime podcast called "Murder They Wrote," produced by BBC. The couple has been married since 2020 and has two children, their youngest just born in May 2026. (Whitmore is also a Love Island alum; the Irish model and media personality stepped in to replace the late Caroline Flack as Love Island UK host for seasons 6 and 7.)

Iain Stirling didn’t have to audition for the 'Love Island' gig.

All of Stirling’s odd jobs led him to the villa. In 2018, he told the Evening Standard that a clip of his previous voiceover work landed him the job. “I’d done the voiceover for a show called Who Let the Dogs Out with Ashleigh and Pudsey, who were on Britain’s Got Talent. They taught children and their dogs to do tricks,” he explained at the time.

“That’s the clip that got sent to ITV to get me this job, insanely enough. I thought about not taking it because I wanted to get my Edinburgh show in shape. Imagine—I’d be a very bitter man right now,” he added.

Iain Stirling and his writing partner, Mark Busk-Cowley, write the jokes for the 'Love Island' narration.

Stirling explained to The Hollywood Reporter that he and Busk-Cowley (one of Love Island's co-creators) write the show's narration based on rough cuts of episodes, a few days before they air. “Where the voiceover would be, the producers have recorded some temporary voiceover, so we just start writing it,” he told the trade outlet last summer, during season 7 of Love Island USA. “We pause it when we hear a voiceover, put a little time code for where it goes and then just start writing the jokes. We go through act by act and just write them all, record them, send them to the channel.”

For Stirling, Love Island narration allows him to "say the thing that nobody should say." Speaking with Esquire, he added that "with Love Island, I get to say it with my chest … and get a bit naughty with it.”

Due to the semi-live nature of the entire experience, Stirling is also able to weigh in on real-time fan reactions and mishaps in production—like in episode 8, when he commented on the app crashing when the first fan vote opened. “It is scripted, but it is quite loose,” he told USA Insider. “And it is very recently written. The ink has yet to dry on the page.”

He admits to rooting for the cast members who are "slightly ostracized" from the group.

Stirling feels a kindred spirit with the Islanders who don’t fit in because that was his “entire time at high school.” While we don’t yet have his take on the season 8 cast, he told The Hollywood Reporter that he was rooting for Amaya, Huda, and Austin in the seventh season. “It’s funny calling them rejects or oddballs because obviously they’re also incredibly articulate and beautiful people, but by the weird Love Island law that we live in, that’s what they are, I suppose.”

He also admitted that the hardest days for him and his writing team are right after recouplings. “When they’ve all been put into the couples, and you watch them walk off in their own couples, to different parts of the villa and we’re like, ‘Oh, they’re all going to have a little chat now.' Because we know we’ve got to do a joke for every couple as they bounce around the villa.”

When Amanda Batula and West Wilson stepped onto the stage at the Summer House season 10 reunion, it soon became clear that the reality TV special would disappoint fans. Over three weeks, there was no real reckoning for Amanda and West’s controversial romance, as the pair’s emotionless affect and perceived lack of remorse meant there was no resolution, especially regarding Amanda’s betrayal of her “most loving, loyal friend,” Ciara Miller. But really, I should have known that Summer House was never going to dissect the duplicity to the extent that Ciara deserves.

Like most non-watchers who binged the Bravo hit after Amanda and West went public, I spent the past two-plus months rooting for Ciara to get her moment of retribution. For the past five seasons of Summer House, Ciara has been one of Amanda’s biggest supporters; she defended Amanda in arguments with her ex-husband Kyle Cooke and held Amanda’s hand through everything from identity crises to fertility issues. Ciara’s place in “Scamanda” also hit me, and countless other Black women, on a deeper level: We immediately understood the added layer of Amanda being white and Ciara being Black. While the average non-Black Bravo fan is experienced in sidestepping issues of race, Black women have kept their feet on necks since March 31, in hopes that the reunion would actually significantly address the elephant in the room.

But we were inevitably disappointed. Race seldom came up throughout the three-part reunion, and only when brought up by Ciara, Mia Calabrese, and KJ Dillard, the Black members of the cast. Early in part 2, host Andy Cohen asked Ciara to reflect on her discussion of the blowback she’s faced for publicly dating white men, in episode 7 of season 10. Ciara responded by astutely putting words to several dynamics Black women experience in interracial relationships: the mental toll of having your reaction to microaggressions be met with “it’s not that deep;” the patronizing insult of friends using therapy talk to placate instead of actually hearing you; the soul-need for your friends to acknowledge and empathize with your full humanity as someone experiencing racial prejudice.

But Cohen didn’t ask her any follow-up questions. After he turned to Amanda and West with a weak “Any response?” race was dropped, and the focus returned to Amanda’s self-victimization.

Summer House has had conversations about race before. While they’ve been rare, they’ve also been impactful: Ciara having Mya Allen’s back about experiencing microaggressions in the house in season 6; Mya and Gabby Prescod’s season 8 discussion about racial prejudice in dating; and Ciara, Mia, and KJ’s many intra-cultural talks in season 10. But as Ciara pointed out during the reunion, the non-Black cast members can pretend to be engaged, while mentally detaching from what’s being said. The purpose of reunions is to reflect on the show’s pivotal moments, when the cast can (ideally) employ distance, hindsight, and new information. Not only did Ciara have little distance from the betrayal she experienced in her friendship, but she was also tasked with demanding accountability from Amanda in the right way: not too spirited, not too harsh, not harping on the “race card.”

Since the reunion, Ciara opened up to Harper’s Bazaar about how “fucking tired” she is of having to be “strategic” in anticipating others’ reactions to her pain. “I have to maintain face, like, ‘Oh, this hurt my feelings, but I can’t even really express why it hurt my feelings, because people think that I’m going to bring up the race card, and everyone’s going to get all freaked out and then immediately not hear what I have to say.’”

Ciara has exhausted herself bringing these much-needed conversations to reality TV, and it shouldn’t be all on her, or Mia, or KJ, or future Black Summer House stars to keep them going. The season 10 reunion was a clear example of what happens when non-Black people don’t do their part in continuing the discussion. When Ciara is too heated or too emotional to tiptoe around white people’s feelings, that doesn’t mean that the subject of race should be dropped. It means that everyone else needs to be the support system that they claim to be, by putting aside their knee-jerk deflection when faced with racial discomfort, and actively listening when their Black friends ask for what they need. Ciara, her Black costars, and the Black Bravo fandom have been fighting for deeper conversations about race—now it’s time for the network to full send it.

Love Island USA season 8 is fully underway on Peacock, which means we’ll be spending our summer dissecting every romantic gesture, offhanded remark, bombshell entrance, and cast departure. For those still getting acquainted, Love Island USA is a reality dating competition airing almost every night (they take Wednesdays off) from now through the end of July. Singles on the show form connections with each other at a remote villa in Fiji, which are then tested nightly through physical and emotional challenges and the new suitors who enter the villa.

Celebrities ranging from Kat Dennings to Tyler Hilton are tuning into the now-airing season 8, and the likes of Daniel Radcliffe, Megan Thee Stallion, and Margot Robbie have admitted their fandom for previous seasons and the original UK version. And if you, like them, are looking for someone to talk to about all the drama unfolding daily, look no further than the companion talk show Love Island USA: Aftersun (not to be confused with the touching 2022 Paul Mescal film of the same name).

Here’s what you can expect from the talk show, including the format and the buzzy new hosts. (And if you're looking for the season 8 Islander's Instagrams, the current couple standings, or how to vote, we've got you covered.)

What is 'Love Island USA: Aftersun?'

Originally launched via the U.K. franchise, Aftersun is an after-show and space to dissect the drama that just unfolded, hear from dumped Islanders, and see exclusive never-before-seen clips from the previous week. Occasionally, the series will also feature celebrity panelists and contestants from previous seasons who dissect what's going on. Think of it like a video podcast that parses the details of everything that transpired in the villa, with the chance of seeing some of those outspoken celebrity fans.

Who hosts 'Love Island USA: Aftersun?'

Peacock and Love Island USA have officially pulled two new hosts for a chat! Summer House’s Ciara Miller and content creator and The Cut advice columnist Tefi Pessoa will be the new faces of the talk show, taking over from Love Island UK and Traitors alum Maura Higgins. Ariana Madix, of Vanderpump Rules fame, still hosts the main series.

When does 'Love Island USA: Aftersun' air?

Starting Saturday, June 13, Love Island USA: Aftersun will air every Saturday at 9:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. PT) on Peacock. Love Island USA will continue to air every other night, except Wednesdays.

Is it worth tuning into 'Love Island USA: Aftersun?'

Fans are mixed about how much the after-show really adds to the series, but are generally willing to give it a chance. And with Ciara—fresh off her standing-ovation-worthy performance at the Summer House reunion—and Tefi by her side, it’s worth seeing how they freshen up the talk show.

Hannah Berner has perfected the art of the overshare.

Spend even a few minutes consuming the comedian and podcaster's content—whether on social media, on stage, or on her and best friend Paige DeSorbo’s hit podcast “Giggly Squad,”—and you'll quickly pick up deeply intimate details about her life. Her bowel movements. Her underwear preferences. The McDonald's order that nearly made her miss a flight. The exact conversation she had with her mom that morning.

But unlike the many creators spinning Internet fame into mainstream careers, for the 34-year-old, access isn’t a means to an end or a tool for influence. It is the product itself. Vulnerability, she says, is her “superpower.”

"My job is to be myself and put myself out there and, not to get too deep, but try to make people less alone," she tells Marie Claire during a whirlwind week that includes filming a still-under-wraps acting project (separate from the scripted Netflix series she's developing with DeSorbo, Amy Poehler, and Kay Cannon) and presenting at the American Music Awards alongside fellow reality TV vet Lisa Rinna.

Berner doubles down on that philosophy in her second comedy special, None of My Business, now streaming on Hulu. Across the hour, she mines everything from sexting disasters and body insecurities to the increasingly complicated question of whether she wants children—and how that decision intersects with her ambitions, her career, and a husband (comedian Des Bishop) who is 16 years older than she is. The result is a set that’s both fearlessly personal and surprisingly universal, as if Berner is the inner voice of a generation that processes life's biggest questions in real time and often online.

"It takes a lot for me to be embarrassed," she says. "I purposely talk about not shaving my legs above my knee, me sweating, and awkward situations I get in; I think it normalizes being human and a multifaceted woman."

So when Berner appears on Zoom from a Los Angeles hotel room, bedhead and all, it feels reasonable to assume there isn't much left to uncover. Yet away from the rapid-fire punchlines, she's more measured than expected—still warm, giggly, and disarmingly candid, but also intentional about the business of being herself. Here, she talks about building a comedy career in public, navigating fame without losing herself, the friendship-powered empire she's built with DeSorbo, and the Summer House scandal that continues to reverberate across the Bravoverse.

Marie Claire: Your comedy special is called None of My Business, but as a Giggler, I feel like I know all of your business. As your platform's grown, how do you navigate what parts of yourself to protect?

HB: Number one is protecting the family—not to be so Italian. I learned early in my career that other people didn't sign up for public access and also that not everyone has a sense of humor—if you make a joke about something, people can take it seriously. When I bring up my family or my husband in public, I make sure it's either really, really hilarious and worth the joke or I don't. I never talk about my marriage, and that's probably the number one thing that I think is really healthy.

MC: Hannah-the-person and Hannah-the-character feel closely linked, but do you feel there’s a distinction between you and that public perception of you?

HB: It's been really hard for me to be PR trained. I'm still not good at it because I just believe in honesty. I do think, though, why my comedy connects with people is because people want to feel like they're just FaceTiming their friends. And I also never tried to replicate a different comedic voice because I've done reality TV, because I've done sketches online, I yearned to be myself.

MC: There’s a common saying with comics: the first special's easy to write because it's a lifetime worth of material, but with second specials, you have to start from scratch. How did working on this one compare to your first special on Netflix, We Ride at Dawn?

HB: You feel like you won a Super Bowl when your special comes out, and then you have to learn how to play football again because you literally have zero jokes. [This time around] I was going to the clubs being like, "Are cankles funny?" I literally started from nothing. And you wonder, Was I funny because I'd written these jokes that I know work, or am I just good at performing?

I was able to realize I knew my voice even more. I was insecure [in the beginning], and my husband, who's done like a trillion specials, was like, “It's always scary in the beginning.” But I love this hour so much. It's almost sad to have to burn it and not be able to tour it anymore.

MC: What’s your typical writing process?

HB: I was lucky that after the Netflix special came out, I went on tour with “Giggly Squad.” So I didn't have pressure to be coming up with jokes every day. But I do think hanging out with your friends, like when you're riffing with them, you see where there's something. So if I make someone laugh really hard, whatever I said, I write it down. If Paige starts dying laughing at something, there's something there. Sometimes, also, I'll say a story on “Giggly Squad” that will cause a lot of reaction where people DM me, and I'll think, Okay, let's expand that on stage. I'm like a dog sniffing around, just trying to collect stuff, and then when I'm finally ready to start putting it together, I take all of my notes, and I start to combine themes, and write it out, and then you don't know if it's all crap or any of it's good until you go on stage.

MC: You've also earned so many celebrity fans like Nikki Glaser, Chelsea Handler, and Amy Poehler. Is there someone's opinion, whether in that group or otherwise, who still makes you nervous? Or whose feedback matters more on jokes?

HB: Comedians are so insecure because, well, if the people don't laugh, they are the judges. So I don't care how much you can intellectualize the bit; I'm like, “If the crowd didn't laugh, the crowd didn't laugh.”

But also just being able to like make those comedians laugh in conversation is my favorite. Having Chelsea or Nikki make fun of me, that's my favorite. The fact that they're shooting the shit and busting my balls is an honor and a privilege. To be around these women and be able to ask questions and see how their brain works is really, really, really cool.

MC: In the special, you're also very candid about motherhood and deciding if you should or shouldn’t have kids. Going into this, did you feel any pressure about how you were presenting that journey?

HB: I honestly was going in purely with curiosity of, I'm touring the country, speaking to women all over the country, I want to do some control groups. And every single show, I would have women debate, “should I, should I not [have kids]?” And I'd tell them my fears, and it was therapeutic for me.

One of my favorite lines of the special is, “I can't just have a baby and leave it at home and go on tour. I'm not a male comedian.” Because I see fellow male comics who are my age and they're like, "Oh, I wanna have a kid." And I'm like, "Yeah, but that's not gonna affect you how it's gonna affect me." And I'm competitive, and I see the career path, and I like to call that out. So I kind of just use it to say all my intrusive thoughts and questions, but I feel like anyone, whether you're a mom or not a mom, relates.

MC: I want to ask about Paige because she is such a big part of your life and your career. You guys have built such a brand off your friendship, but how has monetizing the friendship changed it?

HB: We really haven't changed our “business.” I put it in quotations because it's me, Paige, and Grace [Battle Thompson, executive producer]—who really runs the show—and it's an extremely small team. Yes, more people know who we are, but we're just doing what we've always done. I think it's been really beneficial because she's always had her own stuff, and I've always had my own stuff, so we've never needed “Giggly Squad.” It's always been a choice.

It's been able to be this passion project that has ended up being financially really worth it. But because we never went into it for that reason, it's been able to stay consistent, because you can tell we're not doing money grabs with it. Like, we purposely don't make Gigglers pay for our Substack. We only release merch that we're obsessed with. We just want to have this fun community.

MC: Do you guys have any rules around conflict, like couples might, where you say, "This issue we're having is going to stay private," or is everything fair game because it makes you relatable?

HB: I honestly have to thank reality TV because we were put through the wringer. They did everything they could to rip our friendship apart. I can't tell you the things behind the scenes that happened to, like, literally end our friendship [and] we fought against the system. Bravo doesn't want two women to love each other—that's just not good TV.

So I think surviving television drama made our friendship so strong and our communication so strong. Even on the show, we had one or two tiffs that when we had to make up, we couldn't stop laughing, and they were like, "This is horrible TV. You guys are just not giving us what we need." And I'm like, "Because I'm not actually mad at her." So because we've forgiven and overcome difficult things, now when it’s like, "Oh, do you wanna do this video for Dunkin' or this video for Dunkin'?" It's not life or death.

But also, I do have to say we got lucky that creatively we work really well together in that I'm a little more type A with how I want things to be. And Paige is really good at narrowing down all my ideas. She's really good at saying no to things. In a meeting, we can finish each other's sentences.

Our number one thing is making sure the other one's never uncomfortable. So, sometimes teams could be arguing about something, and I'm like, "I'm calling Paige." And Paige is like, "Yeah, let's figure this out, me and you." Because we actually love each other.

MC: Speaking of Bravo, did you watch the Summer House reunion?

HB: I'm not because I have something called PTSD. Ciara’s keeping me in the know. So I'm getting it from the source.

MC: There is a fan theory that you and Paige were a part of how Ciara caught West and Amanda dating because you both hired a PI. Can you confirm or deny this rumor?

HB: I'll just say that we were there for [Ciara], emotionally.

MC: People are rewatching old seasons, and there's a lot of "justice for Hannah" discourse now. Is it satisfying for you to see people reassessing you on the show? Or would you actually rather people leave it in the past because you've moved on?

HB: Reality TV is so crazy. You see this happen with a lot of shows where people realize we did what the storyline wanted us to do, but now that we have more information, we know that it was actually different than what was shown. So I think it's cool for people to understand some of the tricks of reality TV. It's like WWE for people to be like, "Wait, she actually wasn't the worst in this situation.” So I think it's funny.

MC: I also want to ask about your project with Amy Poehler. What can you tease about it?

HB: We're writing. We're trying to figure it out. I feel like I'm a sponge trying to learn everything I can from Amy. So Paige and I are, it feels like, [in] graduate school for TV. I always say, I love keeping the Gigglers and the gays fed, so I just wanna make the best, funniest show for them. Just know if we're quiet, it's because we're working hard to do it.

MC: Stand-up and acting aren’t exactly the same thing, and reality TV is so different. Does working on this scratch a different itch or did it feel like a really natural extension?

HB: It feels natural in terms of they give us a scenario, like, “Let's say you and Paige were in Walgreens, what would you do?” and I'm like, "I'll tell you exactly what we do and what we'd say." So it's cool that we kind of already know our characters in a way, but we're changing it a bit because it is fictional. But creatively, I want to be doing different things. So acting has been on my vision board. Back in the day, stand-up comedians, if you were good enough, you'd get your own series or your own movie. So I think deep down, I always wanted to act, but I just didn't think it was possible. Stand-up was, like, the thing that you could do without waiting to get picked.

MC: Are you taking acting classes or are you learning on the ground from Amy?

HB: We will be taking acting classes for this show. We cannot disappoint the Gigglers. Paige is already researching and stuff, so don't worry: We are gonna take acting classes to act more like ourselves. I always joke that Paige is an incredible actress if you've ever seen Summer House. She should win an Oscar. Some of her one-liners and reactions are just incredible. So I have a lot of confidence in her.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Bravo fans, it’s all led up to this. Tonight, the three-part Summer House season 10 reunion comes to an end with a final round of highly-anticipated revelations. And once again, I, the resident reality TV expert on Marie Claire’s team will be here to discuss the “Scamanda” bombshells live. (Be sure to check out our Part 1 and Part 2 takeaways first.)

For the past two weeks, the Summer House cast has been unraveling the controversial timeline of Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s romance. Host Andy Cohen has led the rest of the cast in demanding clarity, as the controversial couple admitted to lying to their friends, including Amanda and West’s respective exes, Kyle Cooke and Ciara Miller about their growing romance. The first two episodes dove deep into both the unraveling of Amanda and Kyle’s marriage and West’s pattern of behavior with exes like Ciara, Dara Levitan, and Meija Moreno. In the final hour, fans are hoping that Amanda and West will address lingering questions that have been subject to fan debate for over two months, including whether Amanda shows remorse (or an understanding) of the depth of her betrayal towards Ciara, and whether West actually has serious intentions of doing right by Amanda.

With the final part of the reunion set to begin in just a few minutes, I’ll be sharing live updates and thoughts on everything that’s revealed tonight’s special. —Quinci LeGardye, Culture Writer

This reunion has me feeling like an over-the-shoulder investigator, watching as Amanda and West’s narrative of their romance is picked apart. Some of the biggest bombshells from Parts 1 & 2:

Though Amanda and West claim they didn’t kiss until late February/early March, there are still questions about when their emotional connection began. Ciara’s suspicions started on January 17; she and West had been having “sleepovers” the previous fall, just a few months earlier.

Amanda and West admitted to lying about the cast about their connection in March, when the rumors about the romance began circulating.

West had been dating Mejia Moreno from February 2025 up to late March 2026. Though West denied that they’d been exclusive, Mejia told Ciara and Kyle, via FaceTime, that West had referred to her as his girlfriend, and that he’d allegedly told her that he’d get fired from the show if their relationship came out. Amanda knew about Mejia when she and West were getting together, but it’s unclear whether she knew the extent of the relationship.

Amanda’s biggest defense so far is that she got caught up in her feelings and “she’s just a girl in love [who] can’t be held accountable for [her] actions.” As Marie Claire contributor Radhika Menon points out, “Amanda continues to be defensive and hasn't acknowledged how hurtful her actions were—even as Ciara continuously points out the juxtaposition of how good of a friend she was to Amanda.”

I also want to recognize the rest of the Summer House cast, since the point of a normal reunion is to catch up with all the reality stars. Some developments:

Core threesome Kyle, Carl Radke, and Lindsay Hubbard seem to be in a much better place since season 10’s filming. Any lingering beef between Kyle and Carl regarding Soft Bar and their fight in the season 10 finale seems fully resolved. And ex-fiances Lindsay and Carl have rebuilt a friendship deeper than an UberEats collab, with Lindsay praising Carl for finally becoming “the person you are supposed to be and wanted to be.”

Mia Calabrese and Ciara are still besties and are now experiencing their single-girl eras while living in the same building. Mia confirmed that she ended things with her longtime boyfriend Scott Robert Williams after filming, and is now working on herself.

KJ Dillard revealed that he had a serious mental-health downturn after filming; he was hospitalized due to self-harm and diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. In a separate Ebony interview, he opened up about his mental-health journey, the toll it took on his relationship with Dara, and the pressures of being the first Black male cast member on Summer House.

Jesse Solomon is building his music career and ready to pursue a serious relationship. (And no, “Falling for Best Friend” isn’t about Ciara.)

Bailey Taylor accused Ben Waddell of "reprimanding women," including his girlfriend Sabrina Belle, and not having the same heat for men. (Frankly, there’s been too much else going on to focus on this, but Sabrina did respond on Instagram.)

And Levi Sebree popped in! Great to see her.

After some set-up, we are getting immediately into West and Amanda, thank Bravo. Since Part 2 caught all the way up to Amanda and Kyle’s separation (minus whatever will be shown on In the City), hopefully this hour will be all “Scamanda.”

Also, before I forget one very big question: What’s happening with Summer House season 11??? Ciara’s notably on her way to Fiji, so I need updates on the confirmed cast yesterday. —QL

It seems very clear that everyone in the Summer House cast started looking at the season 10 footage twice after Amanda and West’s announcement, even if Mia’s the one leading the charge. The way everyone chimes in when Ciara and Lindsay mention gaslighting shows how they’ve hurt all of their friends with the lying.

Also, after that unanimous assertion that Amanda had no friends in Part 1, interesting to hear West say that he and Amanda had mutual friends, closely followed by him recalling that he was bringing Amanda around his friends. —QL

This discussion on the semantics of cheating (i.e. emotional vs. physical) is definitely the deepest the reunion has dove in so far. But that is impossible to prove, especially going all the way back to last summer, so I appreciate Kyle trying to nail down the physical. His aside to Lindsay, “We’re not going to be able to prove that”? Chef’s kiss.

(Also, considering how much editing the show’s team probably had to do post-announcement, wouldn’t be mad if they got an Emmy nom.) —QL

Mia with an essential question: Did going public have more to do with showing accountability for their friends or getting ahead of the rumored video of them? And Amanda side-steps. —QL

Though Bravo’s reunion filming process is arguably excessive, Andy Cohen needed this length of time to get West tripping on his story and at least admitting that Mejia thought she and West were exclusive. If anything, the past three parts have solidified West’s seeming pattern of discarding the women he dates (notably, women of color in Ciara and Mejia’s case) without much regard for their feelings. —QL

It’s so sad to hear Kyle pointing out that Amanda was fresh out of a marriage and really vulnerable when West made the first move, and that she’s now so isolated from her cast mates, who have supported her through the reality-TV gauntlet for years.

Also, as Ciara points out, West hasn’t said anything yet like, Amanda’s worth it. —QL

The cast circles back to Amanda’s Instagram activity while she was sneaking around with West, from the song choices to the “this is how much I care” photo, and all she says is that those weren’t related to West, and that she…doesn’t put that much care into her posts? Ma’am, how long have you been a reality-TV celebrity? —QL

Ciara and Andy give Amanda a clear opening to speak directly to the Ciara friendship betrayal, after a montage of Ciara holding Amanda down all summer. Amanda repeats the I developed feelings for someone I shouldn’t have line, and does “deeply” apologize, but Ciara points out that Amanda barely gave her advance notice before the statement. Kyle and Lindsay were the ones to pick Ciara up off the floor.

Ciara then takes it to, why didn’t Amanda think and recognize that part of West's pursuit could've been spite towards Ciara. But I kind of wish she’d just stuck on the friendship level. ‘Cause, how does Amanda seemingly have no consideration for Ciara's feelings? Even in this talk, the emotions are in Ciara’s voice, not Amanda’s. —QL

I see a lot of myself in Ciara, as a fellow Black woman who hates crying in front of people, so I’m getting emotional watching her cry as she recalls seeing her mom get through romantic turmoil to become an independent single mom, and wanting that resilience for Amanda. Amanda’s reaction also seems like true remorse. But Amanda’s reasoning being a constant I didn’t think this far…it’s no wonder that fans have been shouting from the rooftops that Ciara deserved so much more. —QL

I have never heard the words “beta blockers” more than in the past three weeks. I still don’t really know what they are. But it seems very, very important that West does admit to taking one, after Andy points out that he and Amanda have been the least emotional participants in this entire reunion. —QL

At this point, a live-blog of this reunion could just be “This is so sad” over and over, but Kyle and Amanda’s hug killed me. Hearing their heartbeats over the mics…There was more love in that moment than when current partners West and Amanda were questioned on whether they were in love. —QL

I admittedly thought that it was a bit much when some fans crowned Lindsay the MVP of the reunion after Part 1… I stand corrected. I don’t think that Ciara, who’s closest to the situation, could get away with refusing to let go and vocalizing her confusion at all of West and Amanda’s half-answers and lack of introspection in this entire reunion, and consideration for the entire cast's feelings throughout their relationship. Sometimes we need someone further away to give their "birds-eye view."

Time to add “Andy, I didn’t learn anything” to the Bravo Hall of Fame. —QL

The biggest, most-explosive Summer House reunion ever ends on a bummer, despite a closing toast with Girl Scouts. Everything about this reality-TV friend group is up in the air, with no mention of Summer House season 11. What could be next for Summer House?

A BONUS EPISODE!!!!! Based on the post-reunion teaser, Summer House: The Aftermath will be a full episode(!) of the show picking up cameras three weeks after the reunion taping. We briefly see Amanda discuss West with Lindsay, Kyle discuss Amanda with West, and Ciara and Mejia sit down and compare notes face-to-face. Scamanda never ends!!!!

To be honest, this was such a surprise that I’m not sure if I’ll be back to live-blog the new episode. Whether or not, thank you for joining me as I put my reality-TV sociology fixation on main. And of course, Happy Summer! —QL

24-year-old Kenzie Annis is one of the original Islanders on the Love Island USA season 8—and of the OG cast, she’s had one of the more tumultuous romantic arcs. After first pairing with Zach Georgiou in the premiere, she was soon left single when he opted to leave her for bombshell Kayda Bosse. Kenzie then explored her connection with police officer Sean Reifel and two new bombshells, Gabriel Vasconcelos and Corbin Mims. Though briefly on the brink of elimination, Kenzie pairs with Corbin in the season’s fifth episode, which in turn resulted in Sean leaving the island.

Though she expressed remorse in leaving Sean vulnerable, she’s soon distracted by the latest bombshell to enter the villa in episode 6: Caleb McDaniel from North Carolina. While we wait to see whether she stays with Corbin or moves on to Caleb, let’s get to know the Kennesaw, Georgia native a little better.

Kenzie just graduated from nursing school.

Kenzie, whose real name is Mackenzie, posted a celebratory Instagram on May 17, 2026, announcing she could now “add ‘BSN’ to her name.” She graduated from Kennesaw State University with a nursing degree and posed with her friends and family in scrubs in an Instagram carousel just days before joining the Love Island USA cast. "I literally just graduated nursing school the day before getting here," she revealed in her intro in the season premiere.

In a pre-season interview, Kenzie added that she’s also a nanny to two young girls. “I could just eat them up, I love them!” she said.

Kenzie is a former competitive dancer.

In that same interview, Kenzie mentions her past as a competitive dancer and says that she does a split every morning as a stress reliever. She was a member of both the DancElite group and CK Danceworks Inc. She competed at the 2017 National Finals and placed 17th in the Top Intermediate Solo 15-19 category.

She had a mini-scandal before the season even premiered.

Before the cameras started rolling, eagle-eyed social media fans assumed Kenzie was affiliated with the MAGA movement when an image of her wearing a red hat with the slogan started circulating online. But after some investigation, it appears the photo was doctored and/or created using AI.

To throw more water on this controversy, Kenzie’s brother and father have both spoken out and clarified that their family does not support the president. “Me and my family are very against the Trump administration. We have never voted for Donald Trump,” her brother Alden said, while her father confirmed the same sentiment to TMZ.

Kenzie is hoping to emulate her parents' relationship.

In the pre-season interview, Kenzie calls herself a “big lovergirl inside” and mentions that her parents are still together after 30 years of marriage. “It’s beautiful to see how their marriage has grown…I want that kind of love,” she said.

Whether it’s with Corbin, Caleb, or some other still-to-be-seen bombshell, here’s hoping Kenzie finds what she’s looking for inside the villa!

Love Island USA’s season 8 premiere ended in dramatic fashion when two new bombshells—one male and one female—dropped into the villa for the first time. 22-year-old Kayda Reese Bosse whisked away Bryce Dettloff and Zach Georgiou, both of whom were opting out of pursuing their current relationships, for a 24-hour getaway. By the end of episode 2, she chose to steal Zach from Kenzie Annis, and her confidence quickly had fans online paying attention.

“I’m 10 out of 10,” she asserts during her intro on the Peacock series. With Kayda officially coupled up on the show, now is the time to learn more about Love Island USA’s rising star.

Kayda is from the East Coast and has mixed heritage.

Kayda Bosse hails from Manchester, New Hampshire, which, as she explains to the girls in episode 3, is right above Boston. She has Haitian blood from her father’s side, while her mom is a mix of German and Irish.

At just 22, she’s one of the youngest contestants this season, with ages ranging from 22 to 29.

Kayda is a former model.

On Love Island USA, Kayda introduces herself as a server. She later admits that she did some modeling in New York City but left the profession because she didn’t enjoy the fast pace. At 5’9”, she is also a former high school basketball player and a shooting guard who set her hopes set on competing on "at least" a Division 2 college team.

Featured on the NCSA College Recruiting Page in 2023, her personal statement says she’s “been playing basketball since she learned how to walk” and that she credits her dad with “everything she knows.” She describes herself as “very smiley and happy person but when it comes to basketball, I always come ready to play.” Public information about Kayda's personal life is limited, so we're not sure if she achieved that collegiate athlete dream.

Kayda likes to travel.

During her one-on-one date with Zach, she cites traveling as one of her favorite hobbies, listing Croatia as a bucket list destination. On Instagram, her love of traveling is on display, with photos from the Bahamas, London, New York City, and more on her grid.

Her usual type is someone with dark features and tattoos.

While playing cornhole with Bryce in episode 2, she mentions that she is typically drawn to men with dark hair and dark features, and likes tattoos. It’s no surprise, then, that she picks Zach over blonde Bryce at the end of the episode, even though Zach doesn’t have any visible tattoos. Whether this will cause tension or make her eyes wander as new bombshells enter the villa remains to be seen.

Since its premiere on June 2, Love Island USA season 8, the biggest reality dating series in the country, has brought the meme-worthy drama. As the season 8 cast navigates hot bombshells, silly challenges, and countless love triangles, viewers can weigh in on the villa's goings-on via America's Vote.

If this is your first year tuning in, Love Island is not only a competition for love, but for public favor, with viewers ultimately deciding which of the remaining couples will walk away with $100,000. Even before the finale, fans get the chance to switch up the proceedings in the house, from choosing which Islanders will go on dates with incoming bombshells to controlling which couples are up for elimination. Since Islanders are unaware of their public perception, voting results can lead to the most jaw-dropping moments of each season (outside of Casa Amor or Movie Night).

Below, read on to find out how to vote for your favorite Islanders or couples on Love Island USA season 8.

When does voting happen on 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Unfortunately for those who like to plan, Love Island doesn't hold eliminations or add bombshells on a steady schedule. The best way to know when a vote is coming up is to tune in to the reality series every evening at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT. New episodes stream on Peacock every night except Wednesdays, and, starting on June 13, Saturdays are reserved for weekly Aftersun specials.

(Pro tip: The Love Island USA Instagram and X/Twitter, and the Love Island USA app, will often tease votes in the morning before polls open, when they drop the First Look for that night's episode.)

On the nights when votes take place, the polls typically remain open for two to three hours after the end of the episode. The series will also occasionally extend the voting period due to technical difficulties. In fact, after the first vote of season 8 crashed the LIUSA app, polls remained open until the following afternoon.

How do you vote on the Love Island USA app?

The official Love Island USA app is free to download on your phone via the App Store or Google Play Store. You do need to register a valid U.S. phone number to vote, but beyond that, there is no charge.

Each registered participant can vote one time, and once you tap that button, you cannot change your vote, so choose wisely.

In addition to voting, the app features exclusive videos and photos from the villa, as well as exit interviews with departed Islanders, polls about the ongoing drama, and a shop for looks inspired by the Islanders and official merch. (Who else is eyeing a personalized water bottle?)

Who are the Islanders up for America's Vote on 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Love Island USA never reveals the details of a vote before it opens, so viewers won't know exactly what they're voting for until the polls open. The typical Love Island vote asks viewers to choose either their favorite couple or their favorite boy and girl for the villa, leaving the Islanders who receive the least votes vulnerable to going home.

Of course, there are also special votes, including season 7 and 8's chaotic twists where America paired the new bombshells with current Islanders. Producers could also bring back season 7's ranking challenge to reveal how viewers really think about the couples.

In case you need a recap, the current couples of Love Island USA season 8 are Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff, Aniya Harvey and KC Chandler, Kayda Bosse and Zach Georgiou, Kenzie Annis and Caleb McDaniel, Jen Terry and Gabriel Vasconcelos, Sol Dean and Sincere Rhea, and Melanie Moreno and Corbin Mims.

Any devout reality TV fan worth their salt knows summer starts with the premiere of Love Island USA. Almost every night for the next six weeks, viewers across the globe tune in to see which new bombshells will enter (or exit) the villa, who will couple up with whom, and what new drama this latest cast of Islanders will find themselves in.

What exactly that drama will look like, only time can tell. But the hit dating show, which returned for season 8 on June 2 and airs on Peacock, also manufactures plenty of opportunities to stir the pot. New cast members, known as bombshells, get air-dropped into the villa throughout the season. Bonfire eliminations can cut short burgeoning relationships, while the show's Casa Amor—in which contestants switch houses and spend time with new contestants for a handful of days—tests those same connections. And, of course, there's the highly anticipated Movie Night, a challenge game often whispered across the Love Island discourse throughout the season.

So, what is Movie Night—often the most highly anticipated episode of the season? And will it happen in Love Island USA season 8? We're breaking down everything we know below.

What is Movie Night on 'Love Island USA?'

Throughout the season, the Islanders play a variety of challenges—often meant to incite drama. Movie Night is one of those challenges, popcorn and all. Sectioned off into groups of men and women, each team must answer an often romance-related trivia question. Whichever team answers correctly gets to pick from a selection of filmed clips from their time in the villa—which is then broadcast for everyone to see.

How does Movie Night on 'Love Island USA' work?

Almost everything is filmed in the Love Island villa. There are cameras just about everywhere, which is how the show manages to produce an hour-long episode almost every day of the week. The Movie Night challenge capitalizes on that surplus of footage.

Often taking place about midway through the season (usually after Casa Amor), Movie Night captures some of the juiciest, most jaw-dropping moments the audience has seen, but that other Islanders might not know about, and broadcasts it for the whole cast to watch together. Anything's up for grabs—snide comments made behind a cast member's back, flirty conversations and dalliances couples might not know about, matches being unfaithful to their partners, and the moments everyone thought would stay hidden. If someone hasn't been honest about something, Movie Night reveals that. People get caught in their lies, exposed for deceit, and more.

Last season of Love Island USA didn't have a Movie Night, but the super popular season 6 did—meaning there's a decent chance a Movie Night could be in the cards for season 8.

Will there be a Movie Night during 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Movie Night is officially happening! On the June 27 episode of Aftersun, hosts Ciara Miller and Tefi Pessoa revealed that the classic challenge will return. So, yes, expect Islanders to get the chance to see what's been said and done behind their backs.

Not only that, this time around, viewers have the chance to chime in on the selected clips, with the show putting up a suggestion box via Instagram Story Q&A. (The story itself expired on June 28, but a standard post is still up where fans can sound off in the comments.)

When is Movie Night during 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Movie Night's official showtime is on June 30. As usual, the episode will air at 9 p.m. ET on Peacock. The release date was announced just one day before airing.

What should we expect during Movie Night in 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Think about all those times you've watched a reality show and wished you could see another cast member react to something wild that happened behind their backs, unbeknownst to them. Movie Night gives you and the Islanders the chance to see all of that. And after Casa Amor, fans have seen a lot that they want their faves to know.

According to my timeline, the most pressing drama is KC and Aniya's breakup—or, more accurately, KC's descent from an early favorite in a devoted couple into red-pill, Kevin Samuels-level disrespect towards women. In fact, most clips will likely show how the male Islanders were getting down in Casa Amor, as well as anything they said behind their partners' backs in the villa. Odds are, there will likely be plenty of clips of Amora and Sincere's canoodling, and of the boys opening up to each other about their feelings. Throw in a bit of discord around the love triangles—which at this point are Melanie/Sincere/Amora and Jen/Gal/Kenzie—and this movie night may join the ranks of the franchise's best.

Love Island USA season 8 has once again taken over pop culture, with the Peacock reality series returning for another summer. After weeks of challenges, bombshells, and plot twists, the dating show reached a fever pitch when its trademark relationship test, Casa Amor, saw several Islanders do their big one. Or, as Aniya would say, "The villa is villa-ing."

For those unfamiliar, Love Island has its own specific dating culture that has confused many newcomers. The name of the game is to get "coupled up," or officially link up, with another Islander, at which point you share a bed. Ideally, in early days, those who are coupled up can still "explore their connections" (i.e. get to know and flirt) with the other Islanders. Recouplings are ceremonies where Islanders either reaffirm their commitment or switch to a new couple, and the odd ones left single get "dumped from the villa," or eliminated from the show. All this is easier said than done, as disagreements on whether the cast is being respectful to their couple or each other make up the bulk of the villa's drama.

Below, we're keeping track of every new development about the villa's couples, episode by episode and vote by vote. Read on for everything to know about who's coupled up on Love Island USA season 8. (If you're looking for the Islanders' ages and Instagrams, check out our Love Island USA season 8 cast guide.) Spoilers ahead up to Episode 23 (released on June 28), and you can watch Love Island USA by subscribing to Peacock.

Who's coupled up on 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff

Coupled Up: Episode 1.

Former Flings: Trinity and Bryce both chose to explore with new bombshells Gabriel and Kayda in Episode 2, but when Gabriel and Kayda rejected them, Trinity and Bryce became a couple again. After staying together for three weeks, they were separated during Casa Amor.

Recent Developments: Trinity and Bryce chose to stay together during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Closed Off? Yes.

Melanie Moreno and Sincere Rhea

Coupled Up: Episode 1 / Episode 13

Former Flings: Sincere and Melanie first coupled up in Episode 1; though they stayed together that first week, they fought often over exploring other islanders. When bombshell Sol arrived, Sincere began exploring with her behind Melanie's back. America then voted for Sincere to leave Melanie and couple up with Sol in Episode 9, while Corbin chose to couple up with Melanie. Sincere and Melanie later chose to reunite during Episode 13's love-letter recoupling. During Casa Amor, Sincere explored with Amora, while Melanie got to know Corey.

Recent Developments: Sincere and Melanie chose to stay together during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Closed Off? No.

Kayda Bosse and Zach Georgiou

Coupled Up: Episode 2.

Former Flings: Zach initially coupled up with Kenzie, but he chose to explore with Kayda after admitting that Kenzie wasn't his type. Kayda and Zach stayed together for the next three weeks and even went to the Hideaway. When they were separated for Casa Amor, Zach explored with Alannah before she was removed from the show, while Kayda explored with Chay.

Recent Developments: Kayda and Zach chose to stay together during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Closed Off? No.

Caleb McDaniel and Jaiden Bacciocco

Coupled Up: Episode 21.

Former Flings: After Caleb entered the villa as a bombshell in Episode 6, America voted for him to couple up with Kenzie. However, Kenzie chose to re-couple with Corbin in Episode 13, leaving Caleb single. Once in Casa Amor, he briefly showed interest in Parmida before hitting it off with Jaiden.

Recent Developments: Caleb chose to bring Jaiden into the villa during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Closed Off? No.

Jen Terry and Gal Tshnieder

Coupled Up: Episode 21.

Former Flings: After Jen entered the villa as a bombshell in Episode 6, America voted for her to couple up with Gabriel. Jen and Gabriel stayed together up to Episode 14, when they landed in the bottom three couples of America's vote, and the safe female Islanders chose to dump Gabriel from the villa. Once in Casa Amor, Jen quickly developed a crush on Gal, though she was upset when he also explored with Kenzie.

Recent Developments: Jen chose to couple up with Gal during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Closed Off? No.

Kenzie Annis and Dylan Wrona

Coupled Up: Episode 21.

Former Flings: Kenzie first coupled up with Zach in Episode 1, but he admitted that Kenzie wasn't his type and chose to explore with Kayda. While she was single, Kenzie explored with Sean and Gabriel until bombshell Corbin arrived and chose to couple up with Kenzie. Corbin and Kenzie were later split up by America's vote in Episode 9, with Kenzie placed into a new couple with Caleb. However, she and Corbin later reunited ahead of Casa Amor. After seeing Corbin on the Casa livestream, she quickly moved on by exploring with Dylan, Ronnie, and Gal.

Recent Developments: Kenzie chose to couple up with Dylan during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Closed Off? No.

Corbin Mims and Parmida Keshani

Coupled Up: Episode 21.

Former Flings: When Corbin arrived as a bombshell in week 1, he chose to couple up with Kenzie. Even though America's first vote split them, they later chose to recouple in Episode 13. However, Corbin quickly decided to explore with Parmida once he got to Casa Amor.

Recent Developments: Corbin chose to bring Parmida into the villa during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Closed Off? No.

KC Chandler and Tierra Davis

Coupled Up: Episode 21.

Former Flings: During the opening challenge, no one chose to couple up with KC, so he was placed into a couple with the other single Islander, Aniya. The pair stayed together for the entire show until Casa Amor, but they often fought because of KC's interest in Sol and Aniya's inkling that he just saw her as a safe option. In Casa Amor, KC quickly began exploring with Tierra and Sydney.

Recent Developments: KC chose to bring Tierra into the villa during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Closed Off? No.

Who is single on 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Aniya Harvey

Former Flings: During the opening challenge, Aniya showed interest in Sincere, but she was left single and automatically paired with KC. They stayed together for the entire show until Casa Amor, but they often fought because of KC's interest in Sol and Aniya's inkling that he just saw her as a safe option. In Casa Amor, Aniya explored with Carl.

Recent Developments: Aniya was left single when KC chose to bring Tierra into the villa during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Carl Schmidt

Former Flings: Carl was one of six Casa boys whom the girls chose to stay in the villa. He explored with Aniya all week, but he was dumped from the villa when Aniya chose to stay with KC during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Recent Developments: America voted for Carl to return to the villa for a second chance.

Amora Cacheé Robinson

Former Flings: Casa girl Amora explored with Sincere all week, but she was dumped from Casa when Sincere chose to stay with Melanie during Episode 21's post-Casa Amor recoupling.

Recent Developments: America voted for Amora to return to the villa for a second chance.

After a long week of waiting, it’s finally time to tune into Part 2 of the Summer House season 10 reunion. Once again, the resident reality TV expert on Marie Claire’s team will be here to discuss the Bravo special’s new revelations live.

Last week, the Summer House cast reunited to begin unraveling the controversial timeline of Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s romance. Host Andy Cohen and Amanda and West’s respective exes, Kyle Cooke and Ciara Miller, led the rest of the cast in demanding clarity, as the controversial couple admitted to lying to their friends about their growing romance. When the hour was over, viewers were left to compile their lingering questions for the rest of the three-part reunion. (Anyone looking to refresh their memory further can read our live updates for Part 1.)

With the reunion set to continue in just a few minutes (before concluding on June 9 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT), I’ll be sharing live updates on everything you need to know from tonight’s special. —Quinci LeGardye, Culture Writer

Following Part 1, Marie Claire contributor Radhika Menon shared her biggest lingering questions heading into Parts 2 & 3 of the Summer House reunion. Amanda and West’s motivations are the biggest question mark that needs to be addressed: Why did Amanda and West lie? Why did West change his non-committal ways for Amanda? Does Amanda realize how much she hurt Ciara, who Amanda has called “one of [her] kindest, most loving, loyal friends”?

As Menon points out, “We still haven't heard the words ‘I'm sorry’ come out of either of their mouths (nor have we gotten closer to understanding where she's coming from). The clock is ticking.” —QL

I didn’t expect to tear up again this soon into the reunion, but KJ comparing West to his estranged father breaks my heart. KJ may not have been “directly impacted,” or whatever West said in Part 1, but KJ has obviously been truly hurt by his so-called and there are conversations to be had!

(Related: KJ spoke to Ebony last week about the pressures of being the first Black male cast member on Summer House and his mental health journey. If you haven’t read yet, it’s a great discussion!) —QL

Summer House has had some of the best conversations about interracial friendship in Bravo history ,thanks to Ciara. So I’m happy that she’s getting the space to address the racial aspects of “Scamanda,” especially since the racial dynamics are an integral part of Amanda and West’s treatment of Ciara. So many white fans of Summer House need to hear Ciara say, “Amanda and West were using buzz words of ‘I see you, I hear you’ to satiate maybe what I needed to hear, but they didn’t really see or hear me.”

Also, if Ciara prints “I don’t want to be friends if we’re not talking about the political climate of this world” on merch, I’ll be first in line to buy.—QL

This full moment of West not going after Amanda after she leaves the stage in tears is more mortifying than any preview could’ve teased. First there's West’s defense of himself: “I didn’t know if the questions were going to come back to me.” Then, as Lindsay keeps telling him to “be a fucking man,” and West still doesn’t get up until Kyle says he should?!? —QL

The biggest revelation of Part 2 so far: West was allegedly in an exclusive relationship with Meija Moreno (of horsehair tie fame) since February 2025(!). Kyle says he reached out to Meija, and everything she told him about West made Kyle “question who he is.” As far as Kyle and Ciara think, West could’ve had this plan to seduce Amanda during her post-divorce glow-up all along. —QL

Dara’s coming to the stage! Despite whatever’s gone on with her and KJ off camera, I’ve been so excited to hear from someone who has also dated West.

(Sidebar: Given KJ’s mental-health struggles, I vote we leave any parasocial speculation about his love life off of his timeline.) —QL

I agree that Amanda needs to be there to hear Dara tell West, “You treat the women who give themselves to you like they’re expendable.” Meanwhile, odds on Amanda coming back to the stage on her own? —QL

Amanda’s back, and Dara’s telling the same truths that elicited a “harsh” when Ciara said them at the end of Part 1.

“It will always be The West Show,” Dara tells Amanda. “He doesn’t prioritize treating the women he’s linked to romantically with the same respect he does anybody else… I foresee him for a very long time wanting someone who will mold and fold and fit into his life without excuse or complaint. Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide what’s worth sacrificing for that kind of person.” —QL

Good to hear that Jesse Solomon is building his music career and ready to start a relationship. Also, Kyle’s praise that Jesse’s “putting himself out there more than 99 percent of people I know” was so sweet, before the camera’s shady cut to Amanda and West. —QL

Another sweet moment as Lindsay says that Carl is “finally the person [he is] supposed to be and always wanted to be.” Also glad that the original “Carl’s a mess” clip has been enshrined on Bravo forever. —QL

Amanda coming down hard on Lindsay and Carl’s “Carl's a mess” UberEats ad…have you not been on reality TV for a decade? Also, as Ciara noted, “You would never monetize something but you would fuck your friend’s ex?” —QL

I’m glad that the reunion is addressing Kyle’s history of outbursts towards Amanda, because "Scamanda" doesn’t negate Kyle’s shitty behavior during their marriage. Two things can be true at once. That being said, it’s interesting that West is talking the most he has this episode, when he gets to be the white knight while Kyle’s under the spotlight. —QL

I’m admittedly new to Summer House (I binged seasons 3-6, 8, and 10 since “Scamanda” started), but Kyle and Amanda’s arguments over Kyle going out every night have fascinated me. It’s astonishing that over a 10-year relationship, they never seemed to come to any understanding over their biggest understanding: that one’s a homebody and the other is screaming, “Summer should be fun.” And now that they’re split up, Amanda says she didn’t hate going out; she just hated going out with Kyle?

Obviously, we have bigger questions to answer here, but I would really love for someone to get Amanda on the record explaining just how different partying with Kyle is from partying with West. —QL

Kyle, Carl, and Lindsay have been the backbone of Summer House since season 1 because, for good or bad, they’ve always brought their full selves to the show. (If this isn’t true, Kyle and Lindsay deserve Academy Awards.) So viewers believe Kyle when he says that he and Amanda didn’t fully call it quits until the day the statement went out. Meanwhile, Amanda reveals that the nail in the coffin was New Year’s Day, when Kyle spent the night in a hotel in Hoboken. She says she immediately contacted Bravo PR letting them know she was going to put out a break-up statement.

It’s two very different stories, followed by Amanda claiming that Kyle cheated on her during their marriage, and Kyle rebutting that, while there were moments where he has “acted out,” he’s never slept with someone or had an affair. Amanda claims that Kyle made out with a girl at a party, and there’s a video. (Lindsay chiming in: “We’ve talked about this for years.” And Bailey: “Making out is fully cheating.”) There’s no doubt that Kyle and Amanda’s marriage was unhappy and full of miscommunication. But in the “Scamanda of it all,” and her seeming lack of remorse towards Ciara, it’s hard to listen to her use Kyle’s past behavior to defend her current actions. —QL

Part 2 ending with another heater: While West and Amanda commiserate about being the villains of the reunion—West sums up his strategy for the rest of the time as “Breath. Apologies. And then delivering it simple”—Ciara video-calls Meija(!!!!!) to gab about West’s silence during the reunion. According to Meija, she was going to West’s place every weekend that he was filming, and she saw him the night before he went on Watch What Happens Live. He also allegedly told her that he’d get fired if it came out that he was in a relationship with someone who wasn’t in the Bravosphere. (Kyle points out that this is "bullshit."

Mejia also points out the hypocrisy in his reasoning, saying, “So [he was] concerned about people maybe pitting me against Ciara… but you’re very comfortable just dumping me and then popping out the next day in a new relationship with Amanda?” As Meija gets choked up, she adds, “So our relationship is that easy for him to completely discredit?”

The installment ends with Ciara promising to confront West on behalf of Meija, the other girl he discarded, and Meija thanking Ciara for having her back. And with that, there's just one more episode left. —QL

We got a text! Love Island USA season 8 is in full swing to heat up the summer. Peacock's reality TV phenomenon began on June 2nd this year, with a new batch of Islanders hoping to rise to the fame (and infamy) of season 7's cast (and to find love, of course). Now that the islanders have made it through controversial challenges, divisive public votes, and the diabolical plot twist of the Casa Amor livestream, it's time for fans to fight for their faves as the dating show enters its final stretch.

Below, we're keeping track of the Love Island USA season 8 cast (and their Instagrams) as they enter and exit the villa. (We're also tracking the current Love Island USA season 8 couples episode-by-episode.) Spoilers ahead up to Episode 23 (released on June 28), and you can watch Love Island USA by subscribing to Peacock.

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Aniya Harvey

Age: 23

Star Sign: Virgo

Hometown: Tyrone, Georgia

Occupation: Non-profit marketing director and former college volleyball player

Fun Fact: Her dad is former NBA player Donnell Harvey.

Instagram: @aniyaharvey02

Kenzie Annis

Age: 24

Hometown: Kennesaw, Georgia

Occupation: Nurse and nanny

Fun Fact: She's a former competitive dancer.

Instagram: @kenzieannis

Melanie Moreno

Age: 24

Star Sign: Scorpio

Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lives In: Los Angeles, California

Occupation: Manager at a bikini store

Instagram: @melanieelisa

Trinity Tatum

Age: 22

Hometown: Newport News, Virginia

Occupation: Model and makeup artist

Fun Fact: She quit her job at a hardware store to come on the show.

Instagram: @soootrini

Sincere Rhea

Age: 25

Star Sign: Aries

Hometown: Cape May, New Jersey; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Occupation: Former college track-and-field athlete

Fun Fact: He was a star hurdler at Penn State, the University of Miami, and Texas Tech.

Instagram: @sincere.rhea

Bryce Dettloff

Age: 29

Star Sign: Cancer

Hometown: Hawaii and Las Vegas, Nevada

Lives In: Los Angeles, California

Occupation: Model, DJ, and producer

Fun Fact: He has worked in construction and as a handyman.

Instagram: @brycealakai

Zach Georgiou

Age: 26

Hometown: Birmingham, United Kingdom

Occupation: Content creator

Fun Fact: His brother Charlie was on Love Island USA season 7.

Instagram: @zachgeorgio

KC Chandler

Age: 23

Star Sign: Aries

Hometown: Fresno, California

Occupation: Nursing assistant

Fun Fact: He hosts his own run club.

Instagram: @kc.thagreat

Kayda Bosse

Age: 22

Hometown: Manchester, New Hampshire

Occupation: Server and former model

Instagram: @kaydabosse

Corbin Mims

Age: 22

Lives In: Miami, Florida

Occupation: Co-founder of a luxury travel company and fitness content creator

Instagram: @corbiskii

Jen Terry

Age: 23

Hometown: Melbourne, Florida

Lives In: Los Angeles, California

Occupation: Model

Fun Fact: She's from the same hometown as LIUSA host Ariana Madix.

Instagram: @jennifertterry

Caleb McDaniel

Age: 21

Hometown: Asheboro, North Carolina

Lives In: Charleston, North Carolina

Occupation: Model

Fun Fact: He's friends with Jimmy Presnell from Love Is Blind and Perfect Match.

Instagram: @calebbmcdaniell

Parmida Keshani

Age: 27

Star Sign: Gemini

Hometown: Isfahan, Iran

Lives In: San Antonio, Texas

Occupation: Personal trainer

Instagram: @paaarpaaarri

Jaiden Bacciocco

Age: 22

Hometown: Newbury Park, California

Fun Fact: She just graduated from Arizona State University.

Instagram: @jaidenbacciocco

Tierra Davis

Age: 25

Hometown: Los Angeles, California

Lives In: Inglewood, California

Occupation: Nanny and model

Instagram: @tierraaa_._

Dylan Wrona

Age: 24

Lives In: Los Angeles, California

Occupation: Model

Instagram: @dylan_wrona

Gal Tshnieder

Age: 29

Lives In: Los Angeles, California

Occupation: Surf shop co-founder

Instagram: @gal.tuch

Amora Cacheé Robinson

Age: 21

Hometown: Miami, Florida

Lives In: Atlanta, Georgia

Occupation: Model and fashion marketing and management student

Fun Fact: She's a former pageant queen.

Instagram: @amoracachee

Carl Schmidt

Age: 28

Lives In: Denver, Colorado

Occupation: Personal trainer

Fun Fact: He's an world traveler and outdoors enthusiast.

Instagram: @carl_witness_lee

Dumped

Vasana Montgomery

Age: 25

Star Sign: Sagittarius

Hometown: Beaverton, Oregon

Occupation: Business owner

Sent Home: By producers due to controversial clips that resurfaced, ahead of the season 8 premiere.

Sean Reifel

Age: 29

Star Sign: Aquarius

Hometown: Easton, Pennsylvania

Occupation: Police officer

Fun Fact: He's a father. (Papacita?)

Instagram: @parm3_sean

Sent Home: In Episode 5 (released on June 7), in the first recoupling, after Corbin chose Kenzie.

Beatriz Hatz

Age: 25

Star Sign: Libra

Hometown: Lakewood, Colorado

Lives In: San Diego, California

Occupation: Track-and-field athlete

Fun Fact: She is a two-time Paralympian who won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.

Instagram: @bhatz_track

Sent Home: In Episode 9 (released on June 12), after she was left single when America chose to pair Gabriel with Jen.

Sol Dean

Age: 24

Hometown: Orange, California

Lives In: Los Angeles, California

Occupation: Model, waitress, and gym front-desk clerk

Fun Fact: She's a singer-songwriter and former cheerleader.

Instagram: @itssoll

Sent Home: In Episode 14 (released on June 19), after she landed in the bottom three couples of America's vote, and the boys chose to dump her.

Gabriel Vasconcelos

Age: 26

Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lives In: Miami, Florida

Occupation: Model, DJ, and computer science student

Instagram: @gvasconcelosv

Sent Home: In Episode 14 (released on June 19), after he landed in the bottom three couples in America's vote and the girls chose to dump him.

Chandlar Wilson

Age: 26

Hometown: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Instagram: @steamboatwillly

Sent Home: In Episode 18 (released on June 22), when the girls didn't choose him to stay during Casa Amor.

Keyon Harry

Age: 24

Hometown: North Babylon, New York

Occupation: Professional bodybuilder, model, and photographer

Instagram: @mr.unfazed__

Sent Home: In Episode 18 (released on June 22), when the girls didn't choose him to stay during Casa Amor.

Kyle Greene

Age: 26

Hometown: Tampa, Florida

Instagram: @kylegreeneee

Sent Home: In Episode 18 (released on June 22), when the girls didn't choose him to stay during Casa Amor.

Ryan Ten Hulscher

Age: 27

Hometown: Rijswijk, Netherlands

Lives In: Silver City, New Mexico

Occupation: Former college football player

Instagram: @itsrth__

Sent Home: In Episode 18 (released on June 22), when the girls didn't choose him to stay during Casa Amor.

Tino Ellis

Age: 28

Hometown: Queens, New York

Occupation: Model and former NFL player

Instagram: @iamtinoellis

Sent Home: In Episode 18 (released on June 22), when the girls didn't choose him to stay during Casa Amor.

Trae Taylor

Age: 23

Lives In: Missoula, Montana

Occupation: Former college basketball player

Instagram: @traetaylorr

Sent Home: In Episode 18 (released on June 22), when the girls didn't choose him to stay during Casa Amor.

Alannah Keyser

Age: 21

Hometown: Miami, Florida

Lives In: Los Angeles, California

Occupation: Student

Sent Home: By producers due to controversial clips that resurfaced, in Episode 20 (released on June 25).

Sydney Eugene

Age: 25

Star Sign: Capricorn

Hometown: Naples, Florida

Occupation: Medical assistant in cardiology

Instagram: @sydney_eugene

Sent Home: In Episode 21 (released on June 26), when the boys didn't choose to bring her back to the villa after Casa Amor.

Chay Nehra

Age: 27

Lives In: San Diego, California

Occupation: Chiropractor

Instagram: @chaynehra

Sent Home: In Episode 21 (released on June 26), when Kayda chose to stay coupled up with Zach after Casa Amor.

Corey Sawyer Jr.

Age: 24

Hometown: Longwood, Florida

Occupation: Former college basketball player

Instagram: @coreysawyerjr

Sent Home: In Episode 21 (released on June 26), when Melanie chose to stay coupled up with Sincere after Casa Amor.

Ronnie Gunter

Age: 29

Hometown: Shakopee, Minnesota

Lives In: New York, NY

Occupation: Program director

Fun Fact: He played lacrosse at Drexel University.

Instagram: @_ronniegunter

Sent Home: In Episode 21 (released on June 26), when the girls didn't choose to keep him the villa after Casa Amor.

For years, Calabasas was just one of the many cities located in the hills of L.A., full of gated communities and mansions to the rich and famous. And then Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered in 2007—and suddenly the gates opened up. The mystique of Calabasas as a home to the upper echelon has only grown in the years since, as the Kardashians and other reality stars have given the world selective sneak peeks to a world of premium organic salads and luxury shopping complexes. Now, Netflix is revealing all with their latest reality show, Calabasas Confidential.

Calabasas Confidential, which premieres on May 29, follows a group of early-20-somethings—most of whom grew up and graduated high school ensconced within the polished streets of SoCal. Most of the cast are longtime friends who parted ways during college or as they set off to pursue their careers, but as they're reunited for a summer, they must face what they left behind at home and where to go next. Read on for what to know about every member of the Calabasas Confidential cast—including where you may recognize them from and their famous families.

Nicole Sahebi

Age: 22

Instagram: @nicolesahebi

Though Nicole claims she was quiet throughout her time at Calabasas High School, her social media following is anything but. The content creator boasts over 2 million Instagram followers and 3 million on TikTok. Before moving back to Calabasas, she studied marketing at Loyola Marymount University, where she launched her career as a full-time content creator, making aesthetic collegiate "day in the life" videos.

Nicole doesn't take center stage in much of the show's drama, but she certainly plays a part in some of it. Still, her more subdued demeanor makes her memorable among her boisterous castmates.

Suede Brooks

Age: 25

Instagram: @suedebrooks

Suede is introduced as an influencer friend of Nicole's, but quickly ingratiates herself into the fabric of the friend group (and its drama). Another big-time L.A. influencer, with over 1 million followers on TikTok and 1.7 million on Instagram, Suede first broke into the scene with a YouTube channel, where she spoke out against bullying.

Some might also recognize the bubbly blonde from the poker table. Brooks has appeared at a few poker tournaments over the years, namely competing in the Celebrity Poker Tour in 2024.

Jemma Durrant

Age: 24

Instagram: @jemmadurrant

After studying advertising at the University of Oregon, Jemma returns to Calabasas to live with her parents and work as a marketing coordinator for Kelly+Partners Group Holdings, a promotion she scores during the first season of the show. Jemma also boasts a social following of her own, with over 22,000 followers on Instagram and over 300,000 on TikTok. Her main tension throughout the show is with her high school ex, Dylan Wolf, with whom she had an on-and-off relationship during their time at Calabasas High School.

Dylan Wolf

Age: 24

Instagram: @dylannwolf and @malibuscowboy

If you're a frequent purveyor of #RodeoTok, then the moniker "Malibus Cowboy" might ring a bell. While Dylan's high school friends attended college or filmed their days for the internet's consumption, Dylan opted for a slightly different route and went to work on a Malibu ranch post-high school. He eventually began parlaying that hustle into social media content, posting under his own name as well as the pseudonym "Malibu's Cowboy."

Though he remains firmly in the Gen Z content creator bucket, his brand is a little different from the GRWM vlogs and brand deals common with some of his peers. Think: True Grit if Supreme handled all the marketing. And his lasso isn't the only thing at risk of tying Dylan up this first season. The 24-year-old finds himself in numerous entanglements throughout the course of the show—including with his ex flame, Jemma Durrant.

Emma Medrano

Age: 22

Instagram: @eemmamedrano

After studying business administration at Moorpark College, Emma returned to Calabasas with a job managing social media for Mercedes-Benz, boosting her own profiles (with over 80,000 TikTok followers), and stirring up a bit of drama in her old high school friend group. Things get especially tense in the first episode between her and Jemma, after the other girl discovers Emma might be dating Dylan.

Jodie Woods

Age: 19

Instagram: @jodiewoods and @wodiewrld

Jodie Woods might be a new face, but if you're a fan of The Kardashians, then you're likely familiar with her older sister Jordyn Woods. Like the Kardashians, the Woods family has become a Calabasas staple over the years. They're close with Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. Model and entrepreneur Jordyn was once among Kylie Jenner's close friends before a falling out, and now Jodie is paving her own path. With over 1 million Instagram followers, Jodie has over 800,000 TikTok followers, as well.

Kimora Lewis

Age: 23

Instagram: @kimoranicole and @kimoranicolebeauty

After attending Loyola Marymount University, Kimora returned to Calabasas to pursue a career as a beauty influencer, sharing content with her over 19,000 Instagram followers, and as a DJ. She even released a song, "Dreamin'," while filming the show. She's also one of the handful of cast members who attended Sierra Canyon School, rather than Calabasas High School. Her old high school flame, Hercy, is also in the cast.

Emilie Nelson

Age: 23

Instagram: @emiliennelson

Another graduate of Sierra Canyon School, Emilie enters the show as a Southern Methodist University graduate and a friend of Alexie and Kimora. However, tensions arise when Kimora's former flame, Hercy, shows interest in Emilie.

Hercy Miller

Age: 24

Instagram: @hercymiller

As the son of rappers Master P and Sonya C, Hercy knows a thing or two about fame. He returns to Calabasas with hopes of playing in the NBA. He played for the basketball team at the University of New Orleans Privateers (where his father is the president of basketball operations), but reveals on the show that he got injured in his freshman year. Most of this first season, Hercy spends training and working to be drafted into the NBA.

Ben Favaedi

Age: 22

Instagram: @ben_favaedi

Compared to his other cast members, Ben's a bit of an enigma. He doesn't have a massive social following—though he does seem to be starting his own jewelry business, according to his LinkedIn. He enters the show about midway through the season, and immediately catches the eye of a few girls in the cast.

Alexie Olivo

Age: 23

Instagram: @alexierolivo

Alexie returns to Calabasas with plans to eventually move to New York to pursue modeling (which, judging by her Instagram, she may have already). She starts the season as one of Emilie's good friends. There's also a bit of history and chemistry between Alexie and fellow cast member Preston Pippen, who have been crushing on each other for years.

Preston Pippen

Age: 23

Instagram: @prestonpippen

This isn't the first time a Pippen has graced our television screens. Preston's dad is professional basketball player Scottie Pippen, while his mother, Larsa Pippen, famously starred in Bravo's Real Housewives of Miami. Preston remains magnanimous with most everyone in the group (Jemma even tagged him in a recent post), and harbors a long-standing crush on Alexie.

Raine Michaels

Age: 25

Instagram: @rainee_m

As the daughter of actress Kristi Gibson and Poison singer Bret Michaels, Rain is among the cohort of cast members who come from a line of fame and all its fortunes. She's got ambitions to become a model, actress, and sports broadcaster, and has a passion for rescuing animals. She even takes some of the cast members to a rescue shelter later in the season. She's currently signed with Ford Models and with The Montag Group as a sports broadcaster and personality, according to her LinkedIn.

Sterling Retzlaff

Age: 24

Instagram: @retzlaff.sterling

You might not recognize Sterling from anywhere, but you'll definitely recognize his girlfriend, former Dance Moms alum Brynn Rumfallo, during the brief moments she appears on the show. Sterling is the only cast member in the group who didn't grow up in Calabasas, or even in California. The 24-year-old wannabe model moved to the area from Alaska, where he grew up and lived after graduating from Texas Tech University. He met and became friends with Dylan and later Hercy, who introduced him to the rest of the cast.

Sterling is somewhat of the audience stand-in as he experiences the world of Calabasas for the first time. Though he's sometimes a fish out of water in some of the group's more heightened moments, he also oftentimes functions as the voice of reason in the show.

Whether you're a Summer House enthusiast or not, series star Ciara Miller is living rent-free in everyone's minds this week. Part 1 of the Season 10 reunion aired days ago and is still driving all sorts of debates online. Miller, however, isn't letting the noise drown out her personal style. On May 27, her pantsless halter-neck look gave fans something non-Scamanda-related to talk about.

Miller's revenge dressing tour peaked this week with a sculptural two-piece set at the Season 10 special. Once the reunion dust settled, she outdid herself at the launch party of her DSW collaboration in New York City. She nailed hostess with the mostest dressing in an elongated halter-neck top and little else.

Stylist Marc Eram (the same creative behind Barbara Palvin's pregnancy style) made a sleeveless tunic from Pennsylvania-based brand EAVES her outfit's main character. Its ivory, silk-satin sheen stretched from a high mock-neck, beyond an airy bodice, and into a downward-facing point atop her thighs. At first glance, you might think it's an ultra-mini dress. However, Miller's back was on full display and secured with a loose, low-slung bow.

Pre-dinner photos revealed itty-bitty micro shorts stacked beneath her seemingly pant-free set. Miller chose a cheeky black short, which featured a hip-hugging waistband that wouldn't interrupt the top's luscious silhouette. The $272 top drooped so low, you could barely see the shorts anyway.

She embraced her outfit's summer-ready energy in the accessory department, too, beginning with the heeled flip-flops trend. They followed the same slim-strapped silhouette as the Toteme kitten heels Hailey Bieber styled nonstop last summer.

To finish, Miller revived the circa-2024 vanity bag trend with a $3,000 top-handle tote from Saint Laurent. Blink and you'll miss the atelier's "Cassandre" emblem atop the leopard-print, pony-hair garnish.

So far, summer 2026 is off to another pantsless start. Dakota Johnson, Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, and Demi Moore have showed some skin on red carpets, in fashion campaigns, and at recent runway shows. But Miller is one of the first VIPs to make micro shorts feel so approachable this year. Don't be surprised if other Summer House stars follow her lead. Lindsay Hubbard, you're up next.

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The Summer House season 10 reunion may be the greatest reality TV cultural event of all time. Yes, only the first part of the three-part reunion special has been released—but the first bombshells following Amanda Batula and West Wilson's coupling—and its effect on their exes and friends Ciara Miller and Kyle Cooke—have set social media ablaze. And eager fans still have so many lingering questions that need to be answered.

If this is your first time tuning into a Bravo reunion, part 1 of the Summer House reunion was the perfect way to set expectations. Andy Cohen and co. are very good at pacing out major reunion revelations across several parts, and night one was just the tip of the Scamanda-timeline iceberg.

According to the network's descriptions, Dara Levitan—who, in addition to dating KJ Dillard, also previously dated West—is set to join the cast in part 2. Then, part 3 will see West and Amanda "face the toughest questions yet about their relationship timeline, leaving the house to decide whether the friendships can ever fully recover."

With Bravo fans across the globe counting down the minutes til the next installment, read on for everything to know to tune into the rest of the Summer House season 10 reunion, including ways to watch the jaw-dropping special live.

When does the rest of the 'Summer House' season 10 reunion air?

The Summer House season 10 reunion will return to Bravo for part 2 on June 2, followed by part 3 on June 9. Both installments will air at 8 p.m. ET/PT, in the same time slot as part 1.

If you can't catch the shows live, "uncensored and extended" versions of each week's installment will stream on Peacock the following day. According to Variety, "the streaming cuts will feature additional footage not shown during the Bravo broadcast."

How can I watch the 'Summer House' season 10 reunion live?

Viewers with a cable subscription can watch the Summer House season 10 reunion live on their local Bravo channel or use their login to stream it from their respective provider's website or app.

For cord-cutters, live streaming TV services like Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV STREAM, Sling, and YouTube TV also provide access to Bravo (and offer free trials).

If you're the impatient type or don't want to get spoiled by an IG reel, the earliest way to watch the reunion is to tune into the ET broadcast. If you don't have a VPN, you can use one like Nord VPN.

Is there a trailer for the rest of the 'Summer House' season 10 reunion?

Summer House fans who stuck with Bravo to watch In The City after the reunion got a special reward. The network dropped a sneak peek at next week's installment, in which Dara takes the floor to share her thoughts about West. "You cannot be a good friend and treat the women that give themselves to you like they're expendable," the newcomer says, earning a "clock it" gesture from Ciara.

As the interrogation of Amanda and West continues, the clip also shows Kyle getting visibly heated. "You are the most immature, fraudulent phony I've ever met," Kyle says (presumably to West). Then, when Amanda gets emotional and walks off stage, Ciara reminds West, "You should go after your girl."

Just like Scandoval in 2023, Bravo was at the center of online discourse when this year’s Summer House scandal catapulted the reality series to must-watch television. When cast members West Wilson and Amanda Batula confirmed their new romance via matching Instagram stories in March 2026, they became the internet’s newest villains. The reason? Girl code. Amanda separated from her husband, fellow castmate Kyle Cooke, and promptly took up with West, who was previously involved with Amanda’s best friend Ciara Miller as recently as last summer.

Much of Summer House season 10’s tension stems from Ciara’s simmering feelings and her eventual reconciliation with West, complete with a drunken kiss in the season finale. The season’s other big storyline centers on Amanda and Kyle’s crumbling marriage, for which Ciara often provided Amanda a shoulder to lean on. Naturally, fans were distraught to find that Amanda had violated the No. 1 rule in girlhood: Don’t date your friend’s ex. So, where does that leave the Bravo show for future seasons? Here’s everything we know so far about the already greenlit Summer House season 11.

Is 'Summer House' renewed for season 11?

Despite (and maybe because of) all of the drama that went down in season 10, Bravo has officially invited everyone back to the Hamptons for another crazy summer. Season 11 was confirmed in early May 2026 at the NBC Upfronts presentation, with season 10 ranking in series-best ratings.

When will 'Summer House' season 11 come out?

Summer House follows a pretty tight schedule: It films over the titular summer, usually from July 4th through Labor Day, with episodes turned around for an early Q1 release. During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, VP of Current Production for Bravo Josh Brown confirmed that the network is in the process of firming up the cast, plans to have the ensemble set by late June, and to pick up the cameras in July. That being said, should everything go to the show's typical schedule, we'll get more Summer House in early 2027.

Who in the 'Summer House' cast will return for season 11?

This is the biggest lingering question, especially now that Amanda and Kyle are no longer together and Ciara and Amanda’s friendship won’t withstand Amanda’s betrayal. And with Kyle, Amanda, and Lindsay Hubbard starring on the Summer House spinoff In The City, it would be easy for them to trade the Hamptons-based series for the one in the Big Apple.

With Ciara expanding her reality TV footprint as the new co-host of Love Island: Aftersun and a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, it’s possible she may opt out of returning for season 11. However, DWTS airs in the fall, and TMZ claimed in early May that Ciara is set to return to Summer House, with filming Aftersun in Fiji wrapping in time for her to shoot the Bravo hit's new installment.

As for the other side of the drama, it's been confirmed that Amanda will not return for season 11. Variety reported the news in late June. In their report, the outlet pointed to an interview from a few weeks prior with Bravo executive Noah Samton, who spoke about how the network sees casting for Summer House. He said, "If you have two Housewives who hate each other and can’t get along, they can shoot a scene, and at the end of the day go home to their own house. On Summer House, they actually live together. So if people have a real issue with each other, you can’t live together in a house. And we wouldn’t do that to the cast."

Based on those comments, it seems as though Amanda was never in the season 11 conversation. Although the word is still out on whether In the City will be renewed and she'll return to the screen on that show.

As for her new paramour, West, TMZ reported in mid-June that sources claim he is also not scheduled to return. However, he may not be cut from the cast for good; according to TMZ's sources, he could appear in "a cameo at some point." Bravo nor West responded to TMZ's request for comment. At the time, Marie Claire also reached out to Bravo, but did not receive a response.

Ultimately, the network and most of the stars themselves haven't weighed in, so we'll have to see how TMZ's reporting plays out—and who else may resurface or not. Other series staples, like Jesse Solomon and Carl Radke, are also unknowns for season 11, but neither has a direct conflict of interest that would preclude them from coming back to the house. Season 10 also introduced a handful of new faces, including Mia Calabrese, KJ Dillard, Ben Waddell, Dara Levitan, Bailey Taylor, and Levi Sebree, who may or may not be back—but could all be up for more screen time with the probable core cast shakeups.

The most clarity we've gotten perhaps came from Josh Brown, VP of Current Production for Bravo, after the release of the third part of the season 10 reunion. While speaking to THR, he said that Bravo does not see the next installment as "a reboot situation at all," but rather the show is "evolving." He noted that season 10 included a handful of new cast members but wasn't considered a reboot, and it evolved then, as well.

"It really comes down to what the show is, which is obviously about a summer share in the Hamptons, and in real life, every summer, there might be a core group, but the group does evolve in real-life share houses," he explained. "We can’t say exactly how many people are returning or exactly how many new cast members are joining, but there’s always new people to freshen the dynamic, and we were planning for that before any of this scandal hit."

So, that being said, it does sound like some current stars will appear, but it remains to be seen who exactly. "I think it’s going to be very tough to get the full cast back together," the Bravo exec told THR. "I don’t think we’re thinking about that, actually."

It's hard to imagine Bravo won't want to continue building on the show's viral success post-Scamanda, so if Ciara is in, it seems feasible that she could return to her starring post and be joined by a new coterie of vacationers. We'll have to wait and see who is checking in soon.

Where will 'Summer House' season 11 be set?

While it seems likely that some familiar and fresh faces will make up the ensemble, Summer House season 11 may be in for an overhaul in a different way. The Sag Harbor house that's been the home base for the series since season 6 (and a character in its own right) has notably been put up for sale. That, coupled with a report by US Weekly that producers are looking for a new location, seems to indicate we'll be spending our summer somewhere new.

What will 'Summer House' season 11 be about?

The season’s storylines and drama will rest entirely upon which cast members return, so we’ll have to stay tuned for the casting announcements later this year. If Carl returns, we’ll surely see more dispatches from his non-alcoholic bar Soft Bar and potentially more of his relationship with newcomer Bailey. Both KJ and Ben found love in season 10, so if they return for an eleventh season, hopefully we’ll see more of their budding relationships.

Outside of 2023's Vanderpump Rules "Scandoval" bombshell, there had never been a reality TV reunion as anticipated as the three-parter for Summer House season 10. And with all the off-camera drama and revelations this year surrounding "Scamanda," it's understandable that fans couldn't wait to hear directly from the cast. Amanda Batula and West Wilson were in attendance and had to face their respective exes and former friends, Kyle Cooke and Ciara Miller, for the first time on camera since the earth-shattering news about their coupling broke on March 31, 2026.

The reunion itself has had its own share of drama beyond the cast's interpersonal relationships; a day after the April 23 recording, audio from the Bravo special was leaked by an unnamed member of production. Host Andy Cohen spoke out about the leak, calling it “disgusting and illegal for someone to leak or distribute this.”

Now, finally, the first two parts of the season's 3-part finale have aired, and the two hours gave us many of the answers we've been craving as it pertains to Amanda and West's relationship as well as Amanda and Kyle's breakup. But some things were still left unanswered, and will hopefully be addressed when part 3 airs on Tuesday, June 9. In the meantime, here are the storylines and questions we still have for the reality show's remaining reunion.

Why did West want to commit to Amanda?

When West is asked about his on-again-off-again relationship with Ciara, his most sturdy defense is that he wasn't looking for a relationship. The reunion plays back a few clips from season 10 in which West reiterates to different parties that he's not trying to be anyone's boyfriend right now, despite "having a crush" on Ciara. Part 2 of the reunion complicates this further when Ciara calls West's ex Meija during the cast's lunch break, who confirms that she and West were exclusive last summer during filming, but that he didn't want to go public with their relationship because he was allegedly afraid that he'd get kicked off the show.

His fear of a public relationship goes out the window in March 2026 when he and Amanda confirmed their relationship. While the Instagram statement didn't use the words "boyfriend" or "girlfriend," it did indicate a level of seriousness that runs counter to his previous statements and actions. Neither Andy nor anyone in the cast poked holes in this excuse in part 1 of the reunion, and in part 2, Amanda says that they've talked privately about what their entanglement would look and feel like. But we still haven't heard directly from West about how he's defining the relationship. It feels like the type of admission that could heal some wounds for Ciara—so here's hoping we get a better look inside West's mind in part 3.

Why did Amanda and West lie—and did they know how much they were risking?

Parts 1 and 2 of the reunion dive into some of the juicy details of their courtship, but we still don't have a concrete answer as to why they would do something so seismic to their friends (and, honestly, to us).

Amanda and West also acknowledge that they lied to everyone about their budding romance (Ciara does an incredible live reading of the text messages between her and Amanda from early March), which suggests they knew what they were doing was wrong. In part 2, Amanda doubles down on her defense that she had to follow her strong feelings for West. But there's much more to unpack about how they came to the decision to pursue each other, what they expected the fallout to be, and how they plan to make amends.

What is the exact timeline of Amanda and West's emotional relationship?

Amanda and West gave us some important details during part 1: West made the first move, they shared their first kiss at the end of February, and didn't sleep together until April, after the statement was released. But after the news about their coupling broke to the public, many fans began picking up on Amanda and West's physical proximity and "friendly" touching in the back half of season 10, raising the question of when each of them began having feelings for the other and whether it dated back to last summer.

Amidst all of this, Ciara also publicly revealed on the reunion that she and West had a few sleepovers in the fall and that West was dating someone else in January. January is when he allegedly first admitted his feelings to Amanda and when Ciara first realized something might be up when she clocked Amanda's location at West's apartment.

Part 2 didn't reveal much more about West and Amanda's timeline, but it did give us some more background on her breakup with Kyle. Kyle confirms that he didn't realize they were breaking up until the day the statement was drafted and released (he claims he barely even had time to tell his family), while Amanda says she knew she was done with the marriage on New Year's Day, when she found out that Kyle wound up in a Hoboken hotel after a night of DJing.

With their separation and impending divorce in the mix, and we might need to pull out a calendar and a ball of yarn to unpack the exact timeline and pinpoint the overlaps.

Does Amanda realize how much she hurt Ciara?

The reason that this scandal became the only thing the internet could talk about is that it violated the golden rule of girl code: don't date your friend's ex. After two parts, Amanda continues to be defensive and hasn't acknowledged how hurtful her actions were—even as Ciara continuously points out the juxtaposition of how good of a friend she was to Amanda.

As Marie Claire Fashion Features Writer Emma Childs said in our live Part 1 coverage, "I'm hoping Andy asks Amanda to reflect on how duplicitous she’s been to her so-called ‘best friend.’" So far, the jury is still out and the clock is ticking.

Will Amanda and West apologize to Ciara and Kyle (and the rest of the housemates)?

Near the beginning of the first hour, Amanda tells Andy that she's "prepared to own up to what I’ve done, take accountability, apologize—especially to Ciara and Kyle—and just hopefully be able to explain to everyone’s face what went on and where I’m coming from." But after two full hours, we still haven't heard the words "I'm sorry" come out of either of their mouths (nor have we gotten closer to understanding where she's coming from). With only one hour left, we're getting skeptical as to whether Ciara and Kyle will get an apology at all.

Are KJ and Dara still together?

We got major relationship updates from a few members of the cast: Ben Waddell leveled up his relationship with Sabrina Belle when he took her to Australia to meet his family, Mia Calabrese broke up with her boyfriend Scott Robert Williams and is in her single era, and Bailey Taylor and Carl Radke are keeping the door open.

The first part of the reunion didn't address KJ Dillard's relationship with Dara Levitan, which turned official during the filming of season 10. Instead, KJ shared a deeply personal update about his mental health, revealing that he was hospitalized due to self-harm in the fall and was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Thankfully, he says he's doing well and focusing on himself with the support of Ciara and Mia.

Dara joins the cast onstage in part 2, giving KJ a kiss while confirming their relationship, calling it the "strongest relationship" that she's had. But fans are wondering if the pair are still together after noticing that they no longer follow each other on Instagram and she didn't attend Carl's reunion watch party at Soft Bar. (After all, the reunion was filmed over a month ago.) To complicate things even further, Dara and KJ posed together at Ciara's DSW partnership party last week, so until they release a public statement, it's unclear where they stand.

What's going on with Kyle's DJ career, his drink company Loverboy, and Carl's non-alcoholic venture Soft Bar?

They're far from the juiciest parts of the season, but we'll likely still get some business update from both Kyle and Carl—especially because Kyle's DJ career was a driving force in his separation from Amanda. Kyle's lack of investment in Soft Bar also created some tension between him and Carl, though they mostly squashed that beef at the end of season 10.

Part 2 touched on the success of Soft Bar, which had been open for 10 months at the time of the recording with some admitted ups and downs, but so far we haven't checked in on Kyle's businesses at all. That's understandable, given there's much more heated discussions around him and his personal relationships to be had, but it would be nice to get a check-in on where Kyle's ventures stand today.

Who will return for 'Summer House' season 11?

Bravo officially announced that Summer House will return for season 11 next year, but there's no confirmation regarding which cast members will return. There's almost no chance that Ciara, Amanda, West, and Kyle will share another room, let alone a whole summer house, so we're hotly anticipating what cast shakeups are in store for the next season.

Bravo fans, it’s time. After months of debates, thinkpieces, and calls for “receipts, proof, timeline,” the Summer House season 10 reunion is about to begin. And we, the resident reality TV experts on Marie Claire’s team, are here live to discuss the minute-by-minute revelations.

Since Amanda Batula and West Wilson went public with their relationship on March 31, every reality TV fan with a pulse has followed along with the genre’s biggest phenomenon since Scandoval. The mess was layered: Amanda was freshly separated from her soon-to-be ex-husband, Kyle Cooke, and West’s attempted reconciliation with Amanda’s bestie Ciara Miller was playing out on the currently-airing season 10. Despite whatever Bravolebity reactions, buzzy profiles, meme-generating interviews, or unprecedented leaks have dropped over the past two months, it’s been clear from the start that the full story wouldn’t be revealed until Amanda and West were seated in front of God, Andy Cohen, and the rest of the Summer House cast to be grilled.

With the grilling set to commence in just a few minutes (and continuing on June 2 and June 9 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT), I’ll be sharing updates on all the jaw-dropping revelations, devastating shade, and instantly-iconic quotes throughout the night. Get ready to full send it. —Quinci LeGardye, Culture Writer

In February, Marie Claire Fashion Features Writer Emma Childs interviewed Amanda Batula about her divorce from Kyle Cooke. In that interview, she said she felt “unstoppable” in her new single-girl era, and spoke about building her confidence with the support of “one of the kindest, most loving, loyal friends,” Ciara Miller. Amanda also spoke openly about West Wilson, praising how “supportive” he was during season 10’s filming, “sometimes in ways [she] wasn't even aware of when filming.”

Two weeks later, in an Instagram post responding to fan speculation, Amanda announced that she and West were dating—and had allegedly been since the Super Bowl in early February. (The timeline is one of the biggest burning questions heading into the reunion.) The profile soon shifted from the triumphant start of a second act into a primary source for the unfolding scandal, as Bravo detectives pulled the star’s words apart to speculate on the breadth of her and West’s alleged deception. —QL

“Oh, boy, have I been waiting for this day. I left my February interview with Amanda feeling like I had gained a new friend. Three months later, in the wake of the joint statements, Deux Moi’s assorted blind items, the reunion audio leaks, and resurfaced podcast clips, I feel confused, unsettled, and like I’ve been played a fool. In our chat, Amanda mentioned how supportive Ciara is as a friend—exact quote: ‘It would have been a very difficult summer to get through without Ciara.’ Other pop culture outlets and Bravo sleuths have repeatedly cited this point from our conversation, and I’m hoping Andy asks Amanda to reflect on how duplicitous she’s been to her so-called ‘best friend.’

What I’m also hoping for tonight: clarity on the timeline, West to speak in complete sentences, and tips on Kyle’s skincare routine. What I don’t want is to hear Andy say, ‘I want to move on.’ There will be no moving on tonight.” —Emma Childs, Fashion Features Writer

"None of this makes sense!" I'm so glad that Lindsay's first words following Amanda and West's announcement—and the immediate group call with her, Kyle, and the rest of the cast—were captured on camera so we can see the housemates have the same reactions as the rest of us. What an excellent way to begin this reunion. —QL

Seeing West and Amanda’s names on a shared greenroom gave me chills—and not the good kind. We’re talking about people who frequently pile into a bed together in their outdoor clothes, but now they can’t even share a dressing room? The whole thing is heartbreaking. —CD

I love seeing Kyle and Ciara coming together in this moment. After he rode so hard for her last time West screwed up, it’s good to see he’s still showing up for her and that they’ll (hopefully) have each other’s backs tonight. And might I just say, I’m still waiting for Kyle to drop the skincare routine. The man is aging in reverse! —CD

Despite the black-and-white thinking that reigns on social media, Kyle is not the hero in this. Both he and Amanda have allegedly done dirty in their relationship. That being said, Kyle has had ten toes down for Ciara since the first talk about microaggressions in season 6, and it's great to see them keep that bond. —QL

And of course, some commotion for the dress (and the red hair)!! You can read more about Ciara's "Jessica Rabbit" ensemble in our breakdown. —QL

"I'm glad you could say our names this time," Ciara references the omission in Amanda and West's statement. Ms. Miller is ready and I need these commercials to pass faster.

Ciara adds a new entry to the timeline: On January 17, Ciara called Amanda, and Amanda didn't answer while her location was at West's house. Mia chimes in that it seemed like Amanda was prioritizing West over their friendships (which is rough after the entire past season). Amanda denies, and West keeps his mouth shut. —QL

Though West admits that he lies and takes accountability, Ciara says that he lives a different life on-camera then off-... before dropping the SECRET GIRLFRIEND. —QL

Oop! Not “you had a girlfriend.” Ciara is wasting no time tonight. She’s not buying any of it (and neither am I). We need the receipts, proof, timeline, screenshots, etc. ASAP! —CD

I know we all heard this audio already, but seeing it in action is next-level. Between the look on Amanda’s face and Ciara spitting absolute facts, it’s so clear how deep this betrayal goes. We’re nearly halfway through Part 1 and I don’t think I’ve heard an “I’m sorry” yet, so I’m not convinced Amanda fully understands the damage she’s done. —CD

Andy asking the important questions! Amanda and West have admitted to lying on the record, and now their first kiss was allegedly after a brunch in February. Amanda adds that they didn't sleep together until after the statement went out, and based on the cast's reactions, that seems to be the truth.

Meanwhile, shout out to Bailey for pointing out how West isn't saying anything while Amanda answers to the rest of the cast.—QL

"We might as well address the questions before I put them in the ground and cover them with dirt." Ciara's always been witty, but I need to know if she workshopped that dig at Amanda and West before the reunion. —QL

Levi's here!!! (I'm still confused whether she's a main cast member, but good to see her!) —QL

Mia Calabrese is absolutely the MVP, or Most Valuable New Member, of Summer House season 10. I'm so excited to follow single Mia next season! (Fingers crossed that gets confirmed soon.) —QL

Ahead of the reunion, Marie Claire got a chance to catch up with Mia and answer some burning questions.

Bailey has some words for Ben, accusing him of "reprimanding women," including his girlfriend Sabrina, and not having the same heat for men. Another year, I'd want another five minutes unpacking this, but we'll have to wait see whether Bailey will continue her journey on Summer House next season. —QL

It’s absolutely gut-wrenching to hear about what KJ went through after filming. It takes serious guts to be this vulnerable with so many people watching. It’s that heart-on-his-sleeve attitude that we’ve fallen in love with this season, and I’m just so glad he has the support he needs. We’re rooting for you, KJ! —CD

We already know that Ciara is booked and busy, with Love Island: Aftersun, Dancing With the Stars, and Summer House season 11 on the horizon, but Lindsay Hubbard has stolen the spotlight in every commercial break. Hubb House may be on In the City now, but she'll forever be in our Summer House hearts. —QL

A diabolical one-two combo from Kyle and Ciara. After Kyle tells West, "Sometimes it feels like you know what to say to win people over," Ciara says that West's romance with Amanda is the "best type of revenge" for his resentment towards Ciara. "Claps to you" has joined my fave quotes of the night. —QL

According to West, he had a conversation with Ciara after season 10 and ended their flirtation. But he and Ciara had "sleepovers" and kissed in the fall, according to Mia. So he basically pulled a season 8 again?? —QL

Activated Lindsay has entered the chat. Fortunately for us—and unfortunately for West—she finally reached her tipping point listening to West talk his way around the technicalities of his relationship with Ciara. I have a feeling that was just a taste of the Mother Hubbard reads to come, and I’m absolutely here for it. We can’t forget, she was the one to bring West into the group in the first place, so she’s coming into this reunion with a certain set of emotional baggage herself.

I’m usually firmly against a three-part reunion. But this? Give me every last second. It feels like part one only scratches the surface of what’s gone down since filming wrapped last summer. After that brutal final read by Ciara, I’m already seated for next week’s episode. —CD

Ok, rude for Bravo to just cut the reunion off there, but at least it's very clear that there's much more drama to hash out in the next two episodes. My biggest question: Do Amanda and West have any other defense besides, "I'm just a girl/boy in love; I can't be held responsible for my actions"? If not, it's unclear how they'll move forward with any of their housemates.

My second biggest question: Who's confirmed for Summer House season 11?? Please let us know sooner rather than later, Bravo!

Until next week, Bravo fans! —QL

For reality TV fans, it's hard to remember a time when Love Island didn't dominate summer—or pop culture, for that matter. Since the dating show launched in the U.K. in 2015, with the U.S. version spinning off and debuting in 2019, it's become a full-blown, appointment-viewing phenomenon. The show, which airs on ITV2 in the U.K. and Peacock in the U.S., has launched bona fide stars, introduced phrases into the lexicon, inspired countless memes, and its near-real-time release schedule has made it unique in form—all of which contributed to the seventh season of Love Island USA to become the most-streamed show on TV.

This year, fans will need to make time between watching LIUSA and LIUK because a different kind of bombshell is set to arrive: The first-ever Love Island book. Titled Enter the Villa: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island, the nonfiction release from Vanity Fair contributing editor Anna Peele explores how the reality show is made behind the scenes and what has led to its international success. Compiled with over 100 interviews with cast members, producers, and experts, it marks the most comprehensive deep dive to date of the reality hit we can't stop watching.

As Enter the Villa hits shelves on May 19, below, read an exclusive excerpt about the appeal of LIUK season 5 breakout star Maura Higgins, who's gone on to host the aftershow Aftersun and compete on The Traitors. In it, Higgins herself weighs in on how she feels now about the iconic moment in which she stood up to Tom Walker.

Maura Higgins’s star power was obvious to her castmates before she walked into the Villa; well before their season, Curtis [Pritchard] DMed Maura when he was pro on Dancing with the Stars Ireland and she was a local hottie. The twenty-eight-year-old Monster Energy event model came into the Villa on day ten after producers told her she had the personality to be a bombshell. Though Tommy [Fury] and Molly-Mae [Hague] were already a tight couple, Maura made her intentions for Tommy clear as soon as she stepped into the Villa, announced he gave her "fanny flutters," and went on a date with him as Molly-Mae watched from the balcony. Molly-Mae was aggravated to her emotional peak, whisper-shouting in annoyance to the other women.

After the date, Maura told Molly-Mae she was freezing, and Molly-Mae reverted to a more typical mode of operation: killing descension with kindness and co-opting the threat with fashion by offering Maura her jacket—which meant Maura was wearing the white leather moto when she pulled Tommy for a chat in front of Molly-Mae. Maura’s brazen interest in Tommy and her lack of intimidation at Molly-Mae’s presence activated Molly-Mae’s normally fluster-proof personality.

Molly-Mae was understanding on paper if not in practice, in that she recognized that, technically, it was Tommy’s decision whom he pursued, and Maura was doing her job. “A bombshell has every right to come in and just do your thing. That’s what you’re there to do,” Maura says. Molly-Mae became much more understanding when she realized Tommy was obsessed with her; even during the conversation with Maura where she flirted with him in Molly-Mae’s clothing, he’d kept looking over at Molly-Mae with a look that registered somewhere between longing and extreme anxiety about pissing her off.

After Tommy let down Maura, the two women became close. “We couldn’t deny our friendship,” Maura says. “We just got on so well, so all of that stuff, it never affected us.” Maura moved on to Tom Walker, a twenty-nine-year-old model who was youthfully handsome and immature, and whose mouth would soon get him in trouble.

In a scene that would become indelible, Maura was surprised to learn her fellow Islanders had chosen for her to a date with Tom in the Hideaway after they’d known each other only for a few days. “I really didn’t wanna go in there with him,” Maura says now, reflecting on the situation. “I wasn’t at that stage. Like, we had kissed a few times, but it kind of felt very early for that.” They weren’t even in an official couple yet. While it isn’t mandatory to hook up in the Hideaway, the building is strongly associated with the activity, and Maura was unusually sex positive even for an Islander. As he walked to his date, Tom was oozing with entitlement. He told the boys, “It will be interesting to see if she’s all mouth or not.”

Maura had gone downstairs to grab lingerie to wear to the Hideaway and saw that the men were gasping and clutching each other at the sight of her, thinking she’d overheard what Tom had just said. She had not and asked Tom to repeat it. For some reason, he did, to which a horrified Maura replied, “Are you fucking joking?” Tom, realizing his gaffe, tried to reframe it as a miscommunication. “You said it, making me feel like a piece of shit,” Maura yelled in the dressing room as the other women turned their backs in an effort to do something between disappear from this mortal coil and eavesdrop more effectively. The camera kept zooming in on a mirror, where Molly-Mae hid her face with knit fingers as Tom sputtered, no longer brave enough to slag off Maura now that they were face-to-face. “What? ‘Uh, uh’?” she said, mocking his inability to articulate. The shot cut to Molly-Mae’s reflection again, shown shaking with silent laughter. “They ‘asked you a question’?” Maura said. “Maybe you should have been a gentleman.” Cutting Tom to ribbons was what Maura could do with her mouth.

Along with the rest of the show’s fandom, Love Island USA host Ariana Madix became enraptured with Maura while watching this play out on-screen. “That’s my favorite Maura moment, because you know what? That is who she is through and through. She is an Irish queen,” she says of her friend and Aftersun castmate. Maura also enjoys it as a viewer. “Every time it comes up, I still watch it to this day,” she says. “You do really forget that the cameras are there, and you don’t know what’s being shown, what’s not. The way it was all edited together was just brilliant.”

Episode after episode and quip after flame-up, Maura generated evidence that she was a Hall of Fame Islander. She was incautious in a way that allowed her to role with the extemporaneous production style and social milieu; when Tom tried to make her look foolish or she managed to do that herself, Maura never felt embarrassed. After she decided she liked Curtis, she voraciously pursued him. Though Chris Taylor was ostensibly a much better match for someone who loved to spar through quips, Maura spent her date with him spying on Curtis, who was telling his own partner that he was interested in Maura.

Once he submitted to her crush, Curtis also relaxed into Maura's improvisatory approach to things. “She brought out a more fun side to me,” Curtis says. “I felt like with Amy [Hart], I was a married man. With Maura, I felt like I was more my age.”

She even got the not-always-quotable Molly-Mae to start riffing. “Maura’s going to literally destroy Curtis in the Hideaway,” Molly-Mae said when the pair got together and Maura was finally headed to the bungalow with someone who wasn’t using her sexuality to make himself look big. (Curtis did briefly workshop a joke referencing the “all mouth” line with the other men before deciding maybe it wasn’t the time, though as a bit, he did borrow Chris’s kimono, with the caveat that Curtis needed to fold the silk, not crease it.) “He’s going to come back with a limp,” Molly-Mae insisted.

When Maura returned, she issued her verdict: “It was fanny-tastic,” she said.

Spending less time in his head—not striving to be the group’s parental figure or barista but a guy flirting with one of the funniest Islanders ever—took Curtis to the end. “Maura’s vote probably got me to the final,” he says, now that he’s had time to reflect on it. “She had the whole of Love Island behind her. People loved her, so knowing all of this now, like, it wasn’t me [who] got to the final; it was bloody her.”

Excerpted from ENTER THE VILLA: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island by Anna Peele. Copyright 2026 Anna Peele. Published by Atria Books.

Spoilers for all of Perfect Match season 4, including the finale. On Netflix’s Perfect Match, singles from a multitude of reality shows—both Netflix series and not—arrive at an island destination to fall in love. The dating-show stars couple off and compete in compatibility challenges that win them one-on-one dates and control of “The Boardroom,” where they decide which new players to introduce to the game. At the end of each night, everyone must decide who they want to “match” with, and anyone left without a partner must leave the villa.

In Perfect Match season 4, Marissa George from Love is Blind’s Washington D.C. season and DeMari Davis, who won season 6 of Too Hot to Handle, couple up immediately and prove their compatibility by winning the first two challenges. But as more singles get added—including DeMari’s Too Hot to Handle ex Bri Balram—their sturdy foundation seems to have a few cracks. The finale delivers their biggest test yet, but they still end the season together. Here’s everything to know about Marissa and DeMari’s journey on Perfect Match season 4, and whether they might still be together after filming ended.

What happens between Marissa and DeMari on 'Perfect Match' season 4?

When Marissa, 34, and DeMari, 29, arrive in the villa, their attraction is immediate. Though other women express interest in DeMari, he chooses to get closer to Marissa—first in a card game that ends with them making out, and later when he asks to match with her for the first night. He says he feels chemistry with her, while Marissa compliments his personality, saying that’s the most important thing to her.

During the first compatibility challenge, Marissa and DeMari are in tune with each other and win the challenge easily. DeMari notices that Marissa is a bit territorial of him, but says he doesn’t mind—in fact, he says it makes him feel more connected to her, even though that is a bit scary. When they get to The Boardroom, Bri is an eligible option to come in and shake things up, and even though it might shake up their relationship, Marissa pushes to add Bri. But DeMari holds his ground, and Bri stays out of the game (for now).

Still, that doesn’t stop DeMari from getting to know the new girls they did add. Too Hot to Handle season 4 alum Kayla Richart asks DeMari if he’s committed, and he says he’s still open. Later, when he’s talking to Alison Ogden (Building the Band), Marissa attempts to interrupt the conversation but gets denied. DeMari says he feels like Marissa is acting messy, but he still asks her to match with him again on the second night.

DeMari and Marissa win the second compatibility challenge too, showcasing they’ve gotten to know each other beyond just physical attraction. They go on another solo date and seem to be locked in on each other. To the camera, Marissa expresses that she doesn’t want them to see other people, but she doesn’t say that to DeMari, and therefore, their relationship remains open. When they return to the boardroom, they’re tasked with bringing three women (and no men) into the experiment—and this time, Bri makes the cut. But Bri isn’t the only one Marissa is worried about; they also bring in another THTH season 6 alum, Katherine LaPrell, whom DeMari had eyes for. When asked if Marissa should be worried, DeMari answers, “Maybe.”

Katherine and DeMari talk almost immediately, which visibly irks Marissa. Wearing her heart on her sleeve, she tells him that she senses the dynamic between them changing and posits that she’s allowed to be possessive. He gets irritated and asks how it would be if it were the other way around, which she doesn’t like. Instead of talking things out, she tells him she’s going to go match with someone else, while he expresses the need to test their relationship with the new people coming in.

He chats with both Katherine and Love Island USA's Kassy Castillo, but none of the new girls chooses DeMari for their solo date. But when Katherine is rejected by TikTok star Jimmy Sotos, she tests the waters about matching with DeMari, telling him he’s her best option. DeMari doesn’t take the bait and instead goes back to Marissa, whom he asks to match that night, even though they are still at odds with one another. Before she says yes, Marissa expresses that she felt like he was rejecting her and doesn’t want him to only like her because of how she uplifts him. He thinks she’s self-sabotaging and that they’re too old for this. “If we’re going to argue with each other, I’m done,” he says.

At the end of the fifth episode, another twist is revealed: the single girl contestants will have a chance to mingle with all the unmatched men not in the villa—including those who have not entered the competition yet—and vice versa for the male contestants. During this, DeMari finally comes face-to-face with Bri, though she gives him the cold shoulder and doesn’t seem interested in rekindling their romance. Meanwhile, Marissa connects with Love Island USA alum Weston Richey, who shares a similar outlook on life. She says she sees potential with him, and when she is dared to make out with him later, she dives right into a prolonged kiss that surprises everyone.

When the series returned on May 20 with two new episodes, the aftermath of Marissa's kiss was immediately on display. She admits what she did to her match right away, but he's clearly miffed. DeMari is already in a weird headspace from a confrontational conversation with Bri, where they rehashed the details of their break-up and he revealed that he felt stifled in that relationship. Marissa is there for him and gives him space to parse through his emotions, which he appreciates, and they double down on the relationship.

The next challenge is a blindfolded kissing one (which is exactly what it sounds like: everyone in the villa has to make out with each other)—and both DeMari and Marissa have high compatibility scores with other people—Kayla for DeMari and Weston for Marissa. Both suitors "kiss their way in" to the villa based on their scores, and as the new singles, they both get to choose one person for a date. They obviously choose DeMari and Marissa, respectively, causing the first rift in their solid relationship.

Marissa and Weston do acrobatic yoga on their date, getting both physically and emotionally close as they share their outlook on the world. It's a bit of a contrast to Kayla and DeMari's, who have a more superficial conversation while going boating and eating oysters on their date. Despite having nice dates with other people, both DeMari and Marissa seem drawn back to each other, though things immediately become tense when they get back to the villa.

During their discussion, DeMari gets irritated by Marissa's constant interruptions—even when she tries to stop herself. She calls it progress, while he questions how much grace he's required to give her. They spend the entire night stewing in anger in different corners of the villa, occasionally seeking advice from other cast members, while others around them pair off (including their suitors Kayla and Weston, who got tired of waiting around for Marissa and DeMari to make a decision). By the end of the night, Marissa and DeMari match reluctantly after she admits her jealousy and he says he just wants to be "heard" in the relationship.

While Marissa says she thinks it's beneficial for them to have these difficult conversations, she admits to the cameras that she has doubts about their relationship going the distance. And once they're inside the bedroom, the episode ends with Marissa telling DeMari that she'll "just leave tomorrow," spelling trouble in paradise for what was the season's most solid couple.

Thankfully, the finale shows them communicating as partners. DeMari says that he doesn’t like how their disagreements are happening, but is fighting for it because he cares; Marissa admits she didn’t handle the situation with grace and acknowledges that he holds her accountable and challenges her in a productive way. They reconcile, but go on to lose the final compatibility—the first time they’ve lost this season.

The compatibility winners, Dave Hand and Sophie Willett, deliberately choose to bring Bri back into the mix to complicate DeMari and Marissa’s reconciliation—and sure enough, when Bri reenters the villa, she immediately chooses to discuss her and DeMari’s “unfinished business” on a one-on-one date. The former partners rehash more moments of their relationship (including Bri’s assertion on a podcast that he cheated on her, which he vehemently denies), and they both admit that they still love each other.

In a confessional, he says that when he and Bri were good, it was some of the best times he’s had with a partner. She was his best friend, and he misses her, and he’s open to seeing if this could happen again. But when it comes time to choose whether he’s taking Bri or Marissa to the final challenge, where a winner will be crowned, he chooses Marissa.

Do DeMari and Marissa win 'Perfect Match' season 4?

At the Perfect Match final judgment, both Kayla and Bri question DeMari’s behavior (Kayla says he ignored her after they had a great date, and he said he was open to exploring it more, while Bri tells everyone he told her he still loves her), but he and Marissa still stayed locked in. Unfortunately, despite being the frontrunners all season, Marissa and DeMari lose the Perfect Match crown (and all-expenses-paid vacation) to Dave and Sophie.

Are Marissa and DeMari still together after 'Perfect Match' season 4?

DeMari and Marissa certainly caused a stir among fans while the show was airing, since they seemed to be on good terms and even seemingly flirting on social media. Eagle-eyed viewers couldn’t help but notice when costar Jimmy S. shared a video with DeMari and Marissa and wrote in the caption, "When everybody happy for the winning couple but I’m a sore loser." He clarified in the comments that he was referring to their winning challenge, but the pair also chimed in. Marissa playfully replied, "haters were hating hard," while DeMari added, "yk I would too if we couldn’t win a challenge.

What really caused speculation, however, was a photo Marissa posted of herself on a beach in February. In the shot, she’s grinning ear-to-ear, and the caption reads, "It’s because I’m looking at him…" implying she was with someone special. Of course, she didn't indicate who was behind the camera, but it certainly implied she is in a relationship, or at least was earlier this year.

As it turns out, Marissa is, in fact, taken…and married. While speaking with Tudum upon the release of the May 27 finale, the reality star confirmed she and DeMari left Perfect Match still in touch and “spoke briefly, but just left it as a friendship.” She instead tied the knot with someone else who had been in her “life for a long time.”

“Sometimes timing really is everything, and it feels like we finally found ours,” she told the outlet, explaining they dated over 13 years ago, reunited once filming wrapped (reportedly in November 2025), and walked down the aisle in March 2026.

DeMari, meanwhile, is single and told Tudum that he’s ready to find the one. “The next person I date, I want to be my wife,” he said. “I am much more intentional about evaluating partners as such.”

Spoilers for all of Building the Band season 1 and episodes 1-5 of Perfect Match season 4 ahead. Avid Netflix reality show viewers are likely well aware of the streamer’s music competition series Building the Band (not to be confused with Making the Band, which was a seminal hit during MTV's heyday). Hosted by AJ McLean, the series debuted in 2025 and discovered 50 singers, organizing them into six bands—one of which was crowned a winner. Though her band, Sweet Seduction, was eliminated early on, Alison Ogden was one of the show’s breakout stars for her sassy personality, drive for perfection, and her onscreen romance with a fellow contestant.

Now she’s back on our screens in Perfect Match season 4—and while Alison is no stranger to reality TV, it marks her first time on a dating show. She's looking for “someone who loves every part” of her and is ready to find her life partner, and thankfully, she has her bestie, Kayla Rich, by her side in the process. Ahead, get to know Alison from Perfect Match season 4.

Alison is a lifelong musician and performer.

Growing up in Maryland, Alison, 25, knew at an early age that she wanted to work in music. “The second I learned to speak, I knew that I wanted to pursue a career as a recording artist,” she told Canvas Rebel in 2023. “Most little girls say they want to grow up to either be a princess or a pop star, but with me, it stuck.”

She attended dancing, acting, and singing lessons, and often spent more than 30 hours rehearsing. By the time she was applying to school, she had a one-track mind, but felt pressured by the adults in her life to have a backup plan. “I was always sort of dumbfounded by that mindset,” she revealed to the site. “Of course, I can see how that may seem like the responsible choice to them, but isn’t putting all of your eggs in the basket of your backup plan, the same as opting out of working your ass off for your dream?”

Alison majored in Commercial Vocal Performance and Music Business at Belmont University in Nashville, and moved to L.A. shortly thereafter.

Before participating in 'Building the Band,' Alison auditioned for 'American Idol.'

After moving out west, she appeared before American Idol judges Katy Perry, Lionel Ritchie, and Luke Bryan in a televised audition for the 21st season of the long-running music competition series, scoring the golden ticket to the show’s Hollywood week. “The first thing I ever said I wanted to do when I grew up was to be on American Idol and I DID IT MOM,” she celebrated on Instagram on March 26, 2023.

Unfortunately, despite an audition that ended with a standing ovation and “yes” votes from all three judges, she didn’t get to compete during the national broadcast.

She used to struggle with trichotillomania.

While Alison had a supportive family around her, she told Voyage LA that her dreams weren’t always taken seriously in the small, rural town where she grew up. The anxiety that caused her manifested in trichotillomania, a version of obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorder where people obsessively pull out their hair. “Some people affected by this pull out the hair on their heads, and my areas of choice were my eyelashes and eyebrows,” she told the site in 2023. “Trichotillomania is a shame-filled, vicious disease that is hard to break out of and led to a horrible amount of bullying in my youth as well as lost opportunities in the performing arts due to the way I looked.”

She no longer has trichotillomania, telling Voyage LA that “after years of struggling, and countless specialists, I found comfort in like-minded people and accepting myself through music. It sounds cliché, I know, but I truly found so much love and appreciation for myself through the release of great music and great friends; that was the end of my Trichotillomania.”

Her 'Building the Band' group, Sweet Seduction, never had a formal breakup

Following their exit from the reality competition show, Tudum reported that the group disbanded shortly after, without an official break-up conversation between Alison and her Sweet Seduction bandmates, Elise Kristine and Haley Gosserand. “We never had a closing conversation,” Alison told Tudum. “All of us had an unspoken, mutual understanding.”

Her bandmate Haley added that the band never talked about staying together. “We all had different paths, so we moved forward individually,” she said.

Still, Alison’s “harsh communication” style could’ve been the trigger for the band’s break-up. According to the Netflix site, Haley and Elise confronted Alison about her attitude right before their final live performance together, which surprised Alison as the group had had a heart-to-heart the previous night. All three maintain that there’s no bad blood between them, and that the door is open for a Sweet Seduction reunion, even though Alison is working on solo music, Haley is studying cinematic composition, and Elise has her sights set on music and acting in film and TV.

She dated her 'Building the Band' co-star Conor Smith.

The former Sweet Seduction singer and Midnight Til Morning member Conor Smith fell hard for each other on Building the Band. However, it didn’t exactly end with fireworks. Their dalliance in the music competition series nearly threatened Conor’s inclusion in the band—one of his bandmates likened Alison to Yoko Ono—but Conor remains a member of the still-active group.

Alison told Betches that she “just really liked him really fast,” and the pair even spent a week together in Paris after filming for their show ended. Ultimately, distance became too big a factor (Conor is based in Australia, while Alison lives in L.A.), and the pair decided to remain friends. Fans still wondered if her single “sweet surrender” was about Conor, but she maintains that she “separates her artistry and personal life.”

Alison connected quickly with social media influencer Jimmy S. on 'Perfect Match' season 4.

Coming into the Perfect Match villa, Alison was several men's object of affection—including Million Dollar Secret winner and finance bro Nick Pellecchia and Jimmy Sotos, a former basketball player who's now an influencer. She initially showed interest in Too Hot to Handle and Battle Camp alum Demari Davis, but because Demari matched with former Love Is Blind contestant Marissa George, Alison paired up with Yamen Sanders (Temptation Island, Love Island USA, and Love Island: All Stars) on the first night.

After the first villa shake-up that brought in a few new faces, Alison connected with Jimmy S., and by the end of the first batch of episodes, they seemed like a pretty solid couple that not even some innocent mingling with the opposite sex could break up.

Spoilers ahead for all of Perfect Match season 4, including the finale. In a reality dating show like Netflix's Perfect Match—which returned for season 4 on May 13—you can more often than not, group couples into buckets. There are the day ones who lock in early on. They could waver, but their spark remains strong enough that viewers want to root for them. There are also the convenient couples born of a scarcity mindset. And then there's a fair share of matches who seem to like each other enough and have chemistry, but you have to keep tuning in to see just how genuine their connection is. Among the Perfect Match season 4 cast, Ally Lewber and Jimmy Presnell are prime examples of the latter.

The tarot-reading, astrology-loving Ally of Vanderpump Rules fame and Love Is Blind season 6 alum Jimmy P. come together as she searches for something special and he hopes to rewrite his love story while exploring his options. "I'm shooting my shot with every single girl that walks up," Jimmy says in episode 1. The two circle each other on the first night before ultimately matching up. When Ally’s head is turned, Jimmy leaves the house but returns in the final days of the show, and the two end the show in each other’s arms. Seems romantic enough—a narrative only bolstered by their post-show social media activity. But that hasn’t stopped the public from speculating whether they’re truly each other’s perfect match. Below, we're breaking down Ally and Jimmy's relationship on Perfect Match season 4—and whether they might still be together post-finale.

What happens between Ally and Jimmy P. on 'Perfect Match' season 4?

Jimmy and Ally express interest in each other early on. Within minutes of entering the villa, they kissed in a challenge and pulled each other for a chat. But there's also a dating game to play—and both Ally and Jimmy spend most of the season deciding whether to play the field and try things out in pursuit of their perfect match, or embrace the security. During night one, for example, Jimmy chats with Temptation Island season 1 star Natalie Cruz, prompting Ally to get anxious and try to catch Jimmy's attention. Ultimately, the two pair up for the first night, sharing cuddles and flirty banter in bed.

In episode 2, however, Dave Hand from Married at First Sight Australia makes Ally's head turn. They talk and kiss, which incenses Jimmy. “I’m a Libra moon, and I’m very indecisive,” Ally tells the camera. “It's hard because you want to meet the singles, meet your match. But also, I'm actually starting to really like Jimmy, and I can tell that he likes me too."

The next day, the couples must decide who they'll match with to lock their spot on the show for another episode. Jimmy confides in a few of the men that Ally “snuck up on me." He's still considering his "number two," Natalie, with whom he briefly chats. However, he admits to the camera that he's built something real with Ally and that he wants to “try to lead with my emotional connection first” because he’s dated superficially in the past.

After Dave matches with Mackenzie from Squid Game: The Challenge season 2, Ally and Jimmy decide to match with each other again. Jimmy says it's the "direction I want to go," while Ally admits, "I did test the waters...but I feel confident in our match, and I do really like where we’re going.”

Their peace is short-lived. The next night, host Nick Lachey visits the contestants and inquires about everyone's current matches. Jimmy replies that "this is a game" and his goal is to "win." When Nick presses him on what a "win" looks like, Jimmy says it's "staying in the house and continuing to grow my relationships with everybody here." Fellow contestant Too Hot to Handle season 4 star Kayla Rich interjects that a "win should be the girl he's with."

The group appears a little unsettled by Jimmy's answer, creating the perfect storm for Nick to reveal they must vote for the man and woman they think aren’t there in pursuit of a genuine connection. The man and woman with the most votes will then have to leave the house. Jimmy gets four votes—but is saved from elimination when fellow contestant Chris Dahlan from Age of Attraction receives five.

The next day brings three new women and a few shake-ups to Jimmy and Ally's relationship. First, Dave tells Ally he's attracted to her personality. Then Jimmy chats with all three new girls—Kassy Castillo (Love Island USA season 5), Katherine LaPrell (Too Hot To Handle season 6), and Sophie Willett (Love Is Blind U.K. season 2). “She’s done some things that have agitated me," Jimmy tells Sophie of Ally. "And I have [seen] some signs that have made me question where we’re at.”

A jealous, nervous Ally turns to Dave to gauge how serious he is about her. “You’re the one that has to figure out how serious you are, not me,” Dave replies. The next day, both Dave and Jimmy are pulled for dates by Sophie and Kassy, respectively—leaving Ally anxious about her fate on the show. On the date, Jimmy tells Kassy that while he likes where things are going with Ally, he’s going to “embrace” the experience and proceeds to kiss Kassy. Back at the house, Ally admits to the girls that she misses Jimmy.

Ally confesses this to Jimmy later that night, adding that she “doesn’t want to be open anymore.” “I like where things are going. I like you,” Jimmy tells Ally, and they match for the night.

Peace is once again short-lived when Nick tells the group that the next day, the men and women will spend time separately with the remaining singles in place of a compatibility challenge. When Jimmy flippantly tells Ally to do her thing, Ally gets frustrated at his apparent apathy and desire to remain open—compounded by the fact that the two of them were intimate the night before. With a mission to do as Jimmy suggested, Ally kisses another contestant, former Temptation Island tempter Hashim Moore.

The kiss rattles Ally and makes her question her current relationship. She’s even more thrown to find out Jimmy didn’t kiss anyone at the men’s house. He tells her he’s hurt, but not mad, and that he cares for her. Ally similarly tells the camera she likes him too, but isn’t “feeling an urgency” to pursue her or wow her. Hashim, on the other hand, was quite forward to her.

“I wasn’t being open through this to get her to do something,” Jimmy says. “I genuinely just wanted to see if she felt the same way about me as I did her. Now we’re kind of in a place where, ‘where do we go from here?’”

Jimmy grows even more nervous the next day after a kissing challenge—where all the contestants and singles kiss each other while blindfolded, and then rank their best kisses to see which singles get to compete to become someone’s new match—allows Hashim to score his way into the house.

With just a few days left until the cast must pick the perfect match, Hashim takes Ally on a date—sending Jimmy into “combat mode” to try to win her back. When they return, Jimmy pulls Ally for a chat. She tells him it makes her “question” their relationship to see everyone else “elevating” while she and Jimmy are "plateauing." Jimmy responds, saying he can see himself with her. He continues saying he’s “going to be pissed” if he’s not in her bed tonight, because he’s “really, really, really into you” and wants to match with her right now.

Ally tells the camera it’s everything she wants to hear—she just wishes he’d said it sooner. Still, the words shake Ally, who spends the rest of the night overwhelmed by indecision. Jimmy, meanwhile, says he wanted to lean into the experience and test their relationship to the fullest because he wanted someone who wanted to choose him. However, he’s feeling a little blindsided because he didn’t think she would “be this indecisive.”

Do Ally and Jimmy stay together on 'Perfect Match' season 4?

After a night of ping-ponging back and forth (literally and figuratively) between Hashim and Jimmy, an impatient Jimmy pulls Ally for one last conversation to ask where her head’s at. “I want to leave here with you,” he says. “So how can I give you what you need?”

A visibly exhausted Ally replies that she doesn’t know. This frustrates Jimmy further, who says he likes her a lot and that her indecision hurts. “You don’t owe me anything, but you do owe a conversation,” he says.

When Hashim approaches to pull Ally, Jimmy finally breaks. He tells a shell-shocked Ally this isn’t fair to him, so he’ll decide for both of them and leave the house. With Jimmy gone, Ally and Hashim match. “The rejection tonight stings,” Jimmy tells the camera as he exits. “I really wanted her to choose me, and I feel a little betrayed, honestly.”

Still at the house, Ally says she was overwhelmed by the decision. While she leaned towards Hashim, she says the night was hard because her heart was telling her to pick Jimmy.

But the audience should know by now that nothing on Perfect Match is ever set in stone—even in the show’s final days. When couple Sophia Willett and Dave Hand end up in the boardroom after a compatibility challenge in the finale, they bring Jimmy back at the 11th hour. “The other night sucked. I left here feeling hurt. I lost something really important to me, and I’d be robbing myself if I didn’t continue to talk to you again and see what’s left for us,” Jimmy says before taking Ally on a date—their first on the show.

Finally alone after days spent circling each other, all the unspoken thoughts and feelings that had simmered between the two over the course of the season finally bubble over. Jimmy apologizes for walking out on her the other night. He explains that he couldn’t fight for her that night because she wasn’t giving him any clarity on what she wanted, but that he’s here to fight for her now and wants to “re-explore” their connection. He wanted to remain open and test as much as possible, but now that they've done “the damn thing,” he realizes she’s who he always wanted to end his nights with.

Ally seems hopeful, but skeptical—wondering out loud if there’s a chance Jimmy’s being strategic and saying what she wants to hear to maintain his spot on the show. She even grows annoyed when Jimmy mentions wanting to “lock things in.” “I wanted to be locked in, and you still were like ‘No,’” she explains. “That was my whole thing.”

Despite her reservations, Ally ultimately selects Jimmy to take into the finale of the show. “The person that I choose is someone who makes me laugh, someone that I feel like I can fully be myself around, someone that I feel like I could see us in the outside world continuing to grow together,” she says. “We were tested, and we still made our way back to each other, and I think that that’s really telling me a lot.”

Do Jimmy and Ally win 'Perfect Match' season 4?

Jimmy and Ally do not win Perfect Match season 4. Far from it, in fact. The two are actually put up to the fire during the finale’s bonfire deliberations, during which the whole cast—both matched and unmatched—meet to discuss the events of the show and determine the winners. Both Kassy and Hashim grill the couple, with Hashim even revealing he and Ally were physically intimate past just kissing—something Jimmy hadn’t previously known about. Allison also chimes in to accuse Jimmy of seeming “wishy washy,” while Marissa says that his “vagueness left Ally spiraling every single day about what was really going on.”

Are Ally and Jimmy still together after 'Perfect Match' season 4?

Ally and Jimmy are not still together—but they gave it a shot. Ally spoke to Tudum in an interview shared on the day of the show’s May 27th finale, in which she confirmed the two tried dating long-distance after filming wrapped (reportedly in November 2025), with nightly FaceTimes, Jimmy visiting her in L.A. on several occasions, and even meeting her friends. She explained that it ultimately didn’t make sense: “He had just moved to Miami, and remember, he’s fresh out of the glow up, so he was having fun…I wasn’t ready to really date either. I feel like it was one of those things where we knew, but we didn’t want to admit it, and we did like each other.”

She also revealed that Jimmy and castmate Natalie Cruz, who also recently moved to Miami, are seeing each other—and she has thoughts. “Now, he’s hanging out with Natalie all the time,” the reality star said. “It’s a big old confusing thing, but we’re fine.”

It makes sense that the pair gave it a go after filming ended, considering the hints they had been dropping on social media. The biggest hints came from Jimmy’s TikTok, where he shared videos of Ally cuddled up with him and poking fun at their time in the house. That’s not to mention the speculation that the two might have taken a vacation together, which seems quite possible, given they did try long-distance.

Still, Ally also previously admitted to Tudum that dating Jimmy helped break down her walls and feel more open. She said, "[Because he had] already been on a dating show, I think Jimmy was good at getting me to open up, as much as it sometimes annoyed me."

Calling all Netflix reality fans—Perfect Match season 4 has come early this year. The hit dating show that brings together stars from all corners of the Netflix Reality Universe decided to avoid getting name-dropped on Love Island USA by outpacing the show entirely, and offering a quick dose of reality mess before the jam-packed summer starts in earnest.

If you missed the first three seasons, Perfect Match gathers alums from shows like Love Is Blind, Temptation Island, Too Hot to Handle, and more to compete in a chaotic search for their titular match. This year builds out its ranks of Netflix stars with some new faces to the streaming giant, hailing from franchises like Love Island, Married at First Sight, and even Vanderpump Rules. With the season premiering on May 13, viewers can expect both familiar and unrecognizable faces to fuel a new round of love triangles and dating drama.

Read on for everything you need to know about the cast of Perfect Match season 4, including the TV personalities's most memorable moments and any pre-existing connections.

Alison Ogden

Age: 25

Astrological Sign: Cancer

Previous Show: Building the Band

Best Known For: Her former girl-group, Sweet Seduction; her situationship with Building the Band co-star Conor Smith

Instagram: @itsalisonogden

TikTok: @itsalisonogden

Ally Lewber

Age: 30

Astrological Sign: Capricorn

Previous Show: Vanderpump Rules seasons 10 and 11

Best Known For: Her love of astrology; her tumultuous relationship with Vanderpump villain James Kennedy

Instagram: @allylewber

TikTok: @allylewber

Bri Balram

Age: 28

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius

Previous Show: Too Hot to Handle season 6 and Battle Camp

Best Known For: Winning THTH with her ex (and now once-again co-star) DeMari Davis

Instagram: @thebriannabalram

TikTok: @thebriannabalram

Chris Dahlan

Age: 27

Astrological Sign: Leo

Previous Show: Age of Attraction season 1

Best Known For: Dating a woman 15 years his senior

Instagram: @chrisdahlan

TikTok: @chrisdahlan

Danny Spongberg

Age: 24

Astrological Sign: Virgo

Previous Show: Temptation Island season 1

Best Known For: Successfully tempting Ashley Moore away from her boyfriend

Instagram: @danny_spongberg

TikTok: @dannyspongberg

Dave Hand

Age: 38

Astrological Sign: Scorpio

Previous Show: Married at First Sight: Australia

Best Known For: His controversial post-show breakup with bride Jamie Marinos

Instagram: @dth_9

TikTok: @davethomas9

DeMari Davis

Age: 29

Astrological Sign: Libra

Previous Show: Too Hot to Handle season 6

Best Known For: Winning THTH with his ex (and now once-again co-star) Bri Balram

Instagram: @demaridavis4

TikTok: @demaridavis_

Hashim Moore

Age: 31

Astrological Sign: Leo

Previous Show: Temptation Island season 1

Best Known For: Playing basketball and football at Princeton University

Instagram: @hashimmoore_

TikTok: @hashimmoore_

Jimmy Presnell

Age: 30

Astrological Sign: Scorpio

Previous Show: Love Is Blind season 6

Best Known For: His romances with Jessica Vestal and Chelsea Blackwell, prompting two legendary LIB moments; his transparency about his five-figure hair transplant and other cosmetic work

Instagram: @jimmypresnell

TikTok: @jimmypresnell

Jimmy Sotos

Age: 27

Astrological Sign: Virgo

Previous Show: N/A

Best Known For: Getting 1.4 million followers on TikTok.

Instagram: @jsotos1

TikTok: @jimmysotos4

Kassy Castillo

Age: 25

Astrological Sign: Capricorn

Previous Show: Love Island USA seasons 5 and 6

Best Known For: Her short-lived romances with Leo Dionicio and Rob Rausch

Instagram: @kass.c

TikTok: @kass.c

Katherine LaPrell

Age: 30

Astrological Sign: Aquarius

Previous Show: Too Hot to Handle season 6

Best Known For: Being the biggest rule-breaker on her season

Instagram: @katherine_laprell

TikTok: @katherinelaprell

Kayla Richart

Age: 25

Astrological Sign: Libra

Previous Show: Too Hot to Handle season 4

Best Known For: Dating her THTH co-star Seb Melrose for two years before a messy breakup (featuring Micah Lussier)

Instagram: @kaylarichart

TikTok: @kayla_richart

Mackenzie Bellows

Age: 25

Astrological Sign: Libra

Previous Show: Squid Game: The Challenge season 2

Best Known For: Sticking to her values and becoming a fan-favorite

Instagram: @mackbellows

TikTok: @mackbellows

Marissa George

Age: 34

Astrological Sign: Aries

Previous Show: Love Is Blind season 7

Best Known For: Her heartbreaking split from Ramses Prashad

Instagram: @rissa.george

TikTok: @official_marissag

Natalie Cruz

Age: 24

Astrological Sign: Leo

Previous Show: Temptation Island season 1

Best Known For: Tempting Grant Larsen away from his girlfriend

Instagram: @natcruzzz

TikTok: @natcruzzzz

Nick Pellecchia

Age: 24

Astrological Sign: Leo

Previous Show: Million Dollar Secret season 2

Best Known For: Winning the competition's million-dollar pot

Instagram: @nickypill

TikTok: @nickypill

Sophie Willett

Age: 30

Astrological Sign: Scorpio

Previous Show: Love Is Blind: UK season 2

Best Known For: Walking out of the pods when she felt like a second choice

Instagram: @slw.3

Weston Richey

Age: 32

Astrological Sign: Cancer

Previous Show: Love Island USA season 1

Best Known For: Being a day one Islander and the villa cowboy

Instagram: @westonrichey

TikTok: @westonrichey

Yamen Sanders

Age: 31

Astrological Sign: Virgo

Previous Show: Temptation Island season 1, Love Island USA season 1, and Love Island: All Stars season 3

Best Known For: Being a serial dating-show contestant

Instagram: @yamensanders

TikTok: @yamensanders

The Traitors is the latest in a long line of reality TV hits that were already phenomenons in their home country before coming to the U.S. Like Love Island, The Traitors began in the U.K., with an extravagant social-deduction game populated by ordinary people. When Peacock brought the show to America, the spinoff swapped out the civilians for a celebrity cast, filled with buzzy stars ranging from Real Housewives and former Bachelors to Survivor and The Challenge legends. Now, fans regularly debate whether the U.K. civilians or the U.S. reality stars make for better TV.

With the popularity of both shows, it was only a matter of time until each country leaned into the other's strength. While Peacock has an all-normie season of The Traitors coming this fall to the U.S., last year the BBC premiered The Celebrity Traitors, a spinoff in which host Claudia Winkleman leads beloved British actors, comedians, pop stars, and athletes through the game of betrayal. (Not a reality star in sight.) After the smash-hit first season, The Celebrity Traitors UK is gearing up for a sophomore installment with an even bigger star factor, including several names sure to lure in viewers from across the pond.

Read on for our breakdown of everything to know about Celebrity Traitors UK season 2, including how to watch the upcoming season if you live in the U.S.

Who is in the cast of 'The Celebrity Traitors UK' season 2?

The Celebrity Traitors UK season 2 cast includes 21 stars across TV, film, music, and social media, who will "play the ultimate game of deception and betrayal in the hope of winning a cash prize of up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice," per the BBC. This year, several of the stars are familiar faces who've crossed over to the U.S. through music or acting, as well as two Americans.

The actors U.S. viewers may recognize include The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey, Twilight and Good Omens actor Michael Sheen, Saltburn and Loki alum Richard E. Grant, and Industry lead Myha'la. Meanwhile, former Little Mix member Leigh-Anne Pinnock and "You're Beautiful" singer James Blunt are the musicians competing this year. Some other familiar faces include Love Island UK host Maya Jama and 1970s supermodel Jerry Hall.

The rest of the cast includes comedians James Acaster, Joanne McNally, Joe Lycett, Rob Beckett, and Romesh Ranganathan; actors Sebastian Croft, Miranda Hart, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Sharon Rooney, and Ross Kemp; broadcasters Amol Rajan and Hannah Fry; and boxer and YouTuber King Kenny.

When does 'The Celebrity Traitors UK' season 2 come out?

The BBC has yet to announce the official release date for The Celebrity Traitors season 2, but the reality hit is expected to return in fall 2026.

The competition show's first season debuted on BBC One on October 8, 2025, at 9 p.m. BST, with episodes airing on Wednesday and Thursday nights until its season finale on November 6.

How can I watch 'The Celebrity Traitors UK' season 2 in the U.S.?

All international seasons of The Traitors are available to stream on Peacock, so it's expected that Celebrity Traitors UK season 2 is also headed to the streamer. However, U.S. viewers will likely have to wait until the entire series has aired in the U.K. Last year, Peacock got season 1 two weeks after the show concluded.

If you're the impatient type or don't want to get spoiled by an IG reel, The Celebrity Traitors UK season 2 will stream live, without a delay, on BBC iPlayer, free with TV license. If you don't have a VPN, you can use one like Nord VPN.

Bravo's fanbase knew exactly where Ciara Miller would sit at the Summer House Season 10 reunion weeks before it aired: directly across from Amanda Batula. But Miller's reunion outfit remained under lock and key until Bravo shared teaser images of the tell-all special on May 8.

Over a month after Batula and West Wilson (Miller's ex) confirmed their "very new" relationship, stylist Marc Eram secured the ultimate armor for Miller, his star client. She looked ready for the reunion's big reveals in a beaded white bikini top, coordinating with a champagne slip skirt. Wavy fringe detailing dripping from her waistband to the reunion set's floor mimicked the swirls in her beach-ready top. To finish, she added an emerald choker necklace and a few dainty diamond rings.

Bravo hasn't yet shared the release date for Summer House's sure-to-be explosive reunion. On a first glance, this outfit says Miller has nothing to hide (unlike her co-stars).

Being dragged into Summer House's biggest scandal since Season 9's "toe-gate" didn't make Miller a reality star to watch. Her reunion style proves she's always been that girl. Case in point: Miller's skirt set at the 2023 special, which served major Zendaya energy.

On top, the peekaboo bra trend emerged ever-so-slightly from beneath her cropped, white button-down. Her chiseled torso was on full display before a low-rise, sequin mermaid skirt nailed Summer House styling. Whether or not Miller was inspired by Zendaya's 2022 Oscars look (which debuted one month prior), she was well on her way to becoming one of Bravo's best-dressed.

Another season of sun, themed parties, and high-stakes drama later, Miller returned to that Bravo couch in head-to-toe lavender. "I wanted something ethereal, dainty, and just beautiful," she told BravoTV.com before the reunion. She achieved all that and more, beginning with a bralette connected to a single, semi-sheer sleeve. Then, Miller's low-rise thong was unmissable beneath a matching, satin slip skirt.

The 2025 reunion's theme was "Snoozefest," but Miller's outfit was anything but sleepy. “I think I'm giving goddess,” she shared backstage. "Like Greek goddess, very ethereal vibes, which was kind of my vibe last year so maybe in a different way." Miller floated onto the New York City set in a stark white, halter-neck gown from Italian label Taller Marmo. Minimal accessories maintained the maxi's elegant fluidity. Feathers atop her bust and a single silver cuff ended her reunion 'fit on a Eurosummer note.

As of her April 2026 interview with Glamour, Miller had had one fitting, but no concrete plans for her 2026 reunion outfit. Instead of channeling the theme, she chose to "wear whatever I want," adding, "I think what I pick out is going to be a statement of where I stand."

Miller shared she had a "different mindset" going into this reunion, as opposed to two years ago when her accidental revenge dress went viral. "But I still don’t really think about a revenge look," she shared. "I just think about what’s a proper representation of who I am right now."

Editor's note: This is a developing story. It will be updated with full outfit credits when available.

Every summer, dating show fans face the ultimate decision: Love Island USA or Love Island UK? Millions of new viewers have joined the Love Island fandom in recent years, thanks to the skyrocketing popularity of LIUSA seasons 6 and 7. But longtime reality fans know that LIUK is required viewing, as the franchise's original show was putting out legendary seasons before the American spinoff was a twinkle in an executive's eye. If you want to start a passionate debate among reality obsessives, just ask one question: Which Love Island do you watch?

New fans interested in watching the upcoming seasons of both shows may not know what they're signing up for. Since 2024, LIUK and LIUSA have debuted their seasons around the same time, with both countries claiming early June as the start of the summer. Typically, juggling shows like Love Is Blind or The Bachelorette is nothing new, but those reality hits only claim one or two days per week. Watching both versions of Love Island means signing up to binge two to four hours of vicarious romance drama every night for two months. It makes sense why many fans choose one to watch live, and maybe catch up with the other at a later date.

However, some fans watch both LIUSA and LIUK live—a true feat of dedication and endurance. Each series is returning this summer after massive success last year, so 2026 may bring each show's biggest year yet. Odds are, once TikTok is flooded with viral clips from both sets of Islanders, the allure may be too hard to resist.

With both shows starting in less than a month, read on for everything to know to tune into Love Island UK and Love Island USA in 2026, from each show's premiere dates to ways to watch Love Island UK in real time.

When do 'Love Island UK' and 'Love Island USA' start in 2026?

Get ready for a very busy June. This year's installment of Love Island UK, season 13, kicked off on Monday, June 1—just one day before Love Island USA launched its season 8 on Tuesday, June 2. (Last year, there was at least a week's gap between the two shows's premieres.)

Love Island UK season 13 sees Maya Jama return to the Spanish island of Mallorca for her fourth year as host, while Love Island USA season 8 welcomed Ariana Madix back to Fiji for a third year.

As of now, neither series has revealed details about how many episodes the season will run. However, LIUK is typically longer than LIUSA; UK seasons 7 through 12 have each clocked in at 49 episodes, while USA seasons 5 through 8 ran for 37.

How can I watch 'Love Island UK' in the U.S.?

Love Island UK is set to stream its season 13 on Hulu and Disney+ in the U.S., and all 12 previous seasons are available to binge on the platforms. However, U.S. viewers won't get the episodes at the same time they air in the show's home country. Per Decider, LIUK will stream daily on Hulu starting on June 4, so fans watching on the streamer will be three days behind the U.K.

If you're the impatient type or don't want to get spoiled by an IG reel, Love Island UK will stream with no delay on ITVX, free with TV license. If you don't have a VPN, you can use one like Nord VPN.

How can I watch 'Love Island USA' live?

Love Island USA will stream every night at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET on Peacock. Since LIUSA is a Peacock Original, it's only available on the Premium tier at $11/month, or the Premium Plus tier at $16.99.

(If you need a more comprehensive guide to Love Island USA season 8 or the season 8 Islanders, we've got you covered.)

Reality TV fans, Love Island USA is fully underway. For the past two years, the Peacock dating show has grown into a cultural phenomenon, with iconic friendships like PPG and catchy memes like "Mamacita" becoming inescapable online. Last year saw the U.S. series reach its highest highs—Nicolandria's romance, Amaya Papaya's soundbites, 2025's most-watched show—and its lowest lows—racism scandals and toxic fandom behavior. If you're like me, LIUSA season 7 left you quite exhausted and a little wary: What can season 8 possibly have in store?

For everyone following the goings-on in Fiji from the comfort of your couch, we're tracking all the breaking news about Love Island USA season 8 so far, from this year's release schedule to the season 8 Islanders. (If you're also looking for a guide about how to watch Love Island UK this summer, we've got you covered.)

When will 'Love Island USA' season 8 start?

Love Island USA season 8 began airing on Tuesday, June 2 at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET. This will mark the second year that LIUSA begins on the first Tuesday in June.

Last year, the season 7 premiere hit a speed bump when the episode was delayed on Peacock for 40 minutes. Fingers crossed that season 8 will continue to run smoothly.

What is the release schedule for 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Love Island is notorious for its jaw-dropping release schedule: New episodes hit streaming nearly every day of the week at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET, with the series filmed as close to real-time as possible. (There's only a one-to-two-day delay between events occurring in Fiji and hitting our screens.)

This year, LIUSA season 8 will release episodes every single day of the first full week of streaming; following June 9, episodes will arrive every day except Wednesdays. On Saturdays, starting on June 13, the series airs Love Island Aftersun—a companion show featuring unseen footage and interviews with dumped Islanders.

As for the length of season 8, LIUSA typically doesn't confirm the finale date until midway through the run. Both seasons 6 and 7 ran for 36 episodes (not counting the reunion), so it's likely that season 8 will end around July 12.

Who is in the 'Love Island USA' season 8 cast?

The first batch of Islanders has entered the villa! Love Island is notorious for not announcing its cast until right before the season begins, so Peacock finally teased who the first heartthrobs headed to Fiji are on May 28. The streamer shared a “Meet the Islanders” teaser in which host Ariana Madix introduced the stars whom she described as having “a high chance of charm and flirtation.” In the clip, six men and six women introduce themselves and express their excitement and hopes of finding the one. (A handful of fans have sounded off in the comments at being pleasantly surprised with how "normal" the cast seems, considering they're not exclusively models and influencers, as many reality casts have become.)

Eagle-eyed fans have already done some digging and found the first set of Islanders's Instagrams. Here's who you can expect to meet:

• Aniya Harvey, daughter of NBA player Donnell Harvey and former college volleyball player
• Beatriz Hatz, professional athlete
• Kenzie Annis, nursing school graduate
• Melanie Moreno, manager at a bikini store
• Trinity Tatum, makeup artist and model
• Vasana Montgomery, business owner
• Bryce Dettloff, music teacher/DJ/handyman
• Gabriel Vasconcelos, model hailing from Brazil
• KC Chandler, nursing assistant
• Sean Reifel, police officer
• Sincere Rhea, former NCAA track and field athlete
• Zach Georgiou, British content creator and brother of Love Island USA season 7 alum Charlie Georgiou

Of course, more bombshells will enter the villa, but we'll have to hang tight to see who else is coming to Fiji! In the meantime, start your sleuthing and get ready to play matchmaker!

Who has left the 'Love Island USA' season 8 cast ahead of the premiere?

Before season 8 even began airing, an Islander was dumped from the villa. Soon after this year's OG Islanders were revealed, videos surfaced of Vasana Montgomery using a racial slur. On May 31, three days after the cast reveal, Peacock confirmed to Deadline that Montgomery had been dismissed from Love Island USA season 8.

A Peacock spokesperson told the outlet that "videos of the incident, in which the 25-year-old Montgomery uses the n-word, appear to be privately owned and were not shared publicly until following her announcement, and as such were inaccessible to vet prior to her ousting."

On June 3, Montgomery posted a public apology via an Instagram Story, addressing what she described as "a couple videos from my teen years [in which she] used a racial slur." She continued, “I take full responsibility for what I said and understand why it has hurt and upset people. Since then, I have grown a lot as a person and taken the time to educate myself, listen, learn, and better understand the impact that language can have. That growth does not erase my mistake, and I am not asking anyone to excuse it. I believe people should be held accountable for their actions, but I also believe in growth, learning, and becoming better. To anyone I hurt or disappointed, I am truly sorry.”

Montgomery is the latest Islander to be dismissed after facing allegations that they used a racial slur. Season 7's Yulissa Escobar left the series due to her use of the n-word after appearing in last year's premiere. Meanwhile, season 7 frontrunner Cierra Ortega departed in episode 30 after posts resurfaced where she used a racial slur towards Asian Americans.

Who will host 'Love Island USA' season 8?

Vanderpump Rules alum Ariana Madix will return to host Love Island USA season 8 for her third consecutive year. She'll also be joined once again by comedian Iain Stirling and his iconic narration.

Meanwhile, Aftersun has recruited an exciting new hosting duo: Summer House star Ciara Miller and pop-culture commentator Tefi Pessoa will co-host the recap show, taking the reins from Love Island UK legend Maura Higgins (A.K.A. Miller's future Dancing With the Stars rival).

Speaking with Marie Claire ahead of season 8, Madix dished about the upcoming season—as much as she could, since the show's producers were still building the cast. "This happens in such real-time with Love Island, I don't even think they know a lot of stuff to be able to tell me," Madix said. "I'm excited we're going to be back in Fiji, and I think we're going to be in the same villa. I'm really excited to learn who the cast is going to be, but I'm probably going to be finding out about that a day before the world does. I'm living it along with you guys."

Is there a trailer for 'Love Island USA' season 8?

The first teaser for Love Island USA season is here! Peacock posted a short clip on May 6, in which weather forecaster Ariana alerts that a major Love Island heatwave is heading our way. Surprisingly, the teaser ends with the host promising the show's "hottest summer yet," before the camera cuts to a handsome, swimsuit-clad man wearing headphones and holding a clipboard. "See?" Ariana adds.

Could this unnamed PA be one of season 8's Islanders? He wasn't among the first group of Islanders announced, but that hasn't stopped fans from theorizing. It's worth noting that there's no precedent for LIUSA debuting a cast member in a teaser; as Redditors pointed out, last year's promotions seemed to include only Ariana and hired actors. However, the mystery man did ID himself in the post's comments on Instagram. According to his own page, Seth Wilmoth is a fitness influencer who recently ran 13 marathons across 13 different ecoregions in California. We'll have to wait to see if Peacock confirms his casting later on, which would certainly mean season 8 is gearing up to surprise us.

When is Casa Amor for 'Love Island USA' season 8?

This year, Love Island USA is doing things differently for Casa Amor, the mid-season melodrama that tests all of the villa's couples. Peacock has announced that "the jaw-dropping moments from Casa Amor" will be shown in theatrical screenings on Monday, June 22 at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT. This marks the first time that the reality TV phenomenon will be shown in cinemas nationwide.

It also marks the first time viewers have gotten this much advance notice that Casa Amor would take place on a certain date. (LIUSA typically doesn't reveal Casa until a day or two before it starts.) It's currently unclear whether the 22nd will mark the start of Casa, but the second villa usually opens in each season's fourth week.

If you can't wait to catch the chaos on the big screen, more information regarding the Love Island USA screenings can be found on Fandango.

We'll be updating this breakdown as developments continue.

For the past three years, Netflix's reality-TV hit Perfect Match has challenged Love Island USA for the title of the ultimate summer dating show. (Our choice? Why not both!) Each season of Perfect Match drops cast members from shows like Love Is Blind, Temptation Island, and Million Dollar Secret into a tropical villa to compete in ridiculous challenges while dating each other in search of their (you guessed it!) perfect match. Despite the odds, the romance chaos has spurred long-lasting relationships and even a marriage. And if you only care about the drama, there's plenty of love triangles and crash-outs to go around.

As Perfect Match season 4 approaches, Netflix has teased what the new installment has in store, from exciting new stars from outside the Netflix Reality Universe to new twists in the competition. Read on for everything to know about Perfect Match season 4 so far.

When will 'Perfect Match' season 4 come out?

Grab your goblets and sunscreen: Netflix has confirmed that Perfect Match season 4 premieres on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. After the premiere, the eight-episode season will release every Wednesday for three weeks, up to the finale on May 27.

Here's the full release schedule for Perfect Match season 4:

• Episodes 1-5: May 13, 2026
• Episodes 6-7: May 20, 2026
• Episode 8 (finale): May 27, 2026

Who is in the cast of 'Perfect Match' season 4?

On April 15, Netflix revealed the full cast of Perfect Match season 4 and confirmed that the series had once again recruited cast members from outside the Netflix Reality Universe. Of course, many standouts from the streaming giant's both popular and underrated series will also be on hand to mix and mingle at the tropical villa.

The cast members hailing from Netflix's biggest reality hits include Love Is Blind's Marissa George (season 7) and Jimmy Presnell (season 6); Too Hot to Handle season 6's Bri Balram, DeMari Davis, and Katherine LaPrell; Temptation Island season 1's Natalie Cruz, Danny Spongberg, and Yamen Sanders; Building the Band's Alison Ogden; and, from across the pond, Love Is Blind: UK season 2's Sophie Willet.

Some familiar faces made their Netflix debuts earlier this year: Age of Attraction's Chris Dahlan and Million Dollar Secret season 2 winner Nick Pellecchia.

Meanwhile, some of the notable non-Netflix alums include former Vanderpump Rules astrologer Ally Lewber; Love Island USA regular (and Rob Rausch's past fling) Kassy Castillo; Married at First Sight: Australia season 12's Dave Hand; and Jimmy Sotos of...TikTok. (Guess 1.4 million followers cancels out the absence of reality TV experience.)

Is there a trailer for 'Perfect Match' season 4?

Viewers who are versed in Netflix reality history know there's a lot of potential drama among that cast. We have a pair of exes reuniting (Bri and DeMari stayed together for several months after winning Too Hot to Handle season 6); a pair of besties-turned-competitors (Alison from Building the Band and Kayla Richart from THTH season 4); and a cast member who has been very open about his recent cosmetic procedures. (Raise your hand if you didn't recognize LIB's Jimmy.)

Netflix released the trailer for Perfect Match season 4 on April 28, and it's packed with shots of everyone kissing everyone, and stars like Sophie and Jimmy proclaiming that they're not afraid to step on people's toes or break a few hearts. Will season 4 give us another A.D. and Ollie? We'll have to tune in and see.

Whitney Leavitt has officially grown past #MomTok. The villain-turned-fan-favorite announced her departure from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on May 3, after starring in the Hulu reality show for four seasons.

The Dancing With the Stars alum revealed the news in a theatrical fashion: During her final night playing Roxie Hart in Broadway's Chicago, Whitney integrated her departure into a scene during which her character reads newspaper headlines. "What is that?" she said while pointing to the paper, per TMZ footage. "Whitney…let me see… 'Whitney Leavitt Announces She’s Leaving The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives!'"

News of Whitney's exit comes days after Hulu resumed production on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 5 after a month-long pause. It's currently unknown whether Whitney will be featured as a full-time cast member on season 5; according to Variety, she filmed scenes "documenting her Chicago experience" ahead of the filming pause.

Since SLOMW's debut in September 2024, Whitney has pursued wider opportunities in entertainment, including Dancing With the Stars season 34, Chicago, and her upcoming holiday movie All for Love. Her run in Chicago broke box-office records, with the musical earning its highest recorded total ticket sales when Whitney's former DWTS partner, Mark Ballas, joined her as Billy Flynn for her final month of shows.

In a February interview with Variety, Whitney hinted that she was open to leaving the Hulu reality show while sharing her experience juggling SLOMW and Chicago. "They’re following me while I’m in New York, but I don’t know how that would look for future seasons. It wouldn’t make sense. People want to see the group together," she told the outlet. "Part of me is like, ‘I can’t do both,’ because both are so time-demanding. Even filming season 5 has been really hard."

When asked whether she would leave the series, she said at the time, "I don’t know. Because this is what I wanted, and I wasn’t shy about sharing that. So at what point do you move on to the next journey?"

As for what's next for Whitney so far, she and her husband, Connor Leavitt, put their Utah home up for sale in late March, with plans to permanently relocate to N.Y.C. Though Whitney's next steps are unknown, Connor is set to follow her theater footsteps; per PEOPLE, the Mormon dad has joined the off-Broadway show 11 to Midnight for a three-week engagement.

Netflix's reality competition Million Dollar Secret returned for its second season in April 2026, dropping a new cast of strangers into a lakeside mansion to compete for the titular fortune. After seven episodes of manipulation and betrayal, four players were left standing during the season 2 finale: content creator Kat Ellis, stay-at-home mom Lauren Gierth, cattle farmer Kaleb Moon, and pageant bro Nick Pellecchia.

Even though Nick ultimately walked away with the million-dollar prize, 26-year-old Kat was the biggest threat heading into the final episode, having been outed as one of the season 2 cast's most cunning players. But who is the bubbly blonde outside of the game? Below, read on for what to know about Kat Ellis, from her exciting career in sports to her thoughts on the power move that got her eliminated.

Kat Ellis is a content creator who celebrates women in sports.

Though Tudum described Kat as a "beverage cart attendant," the Boston native has an impressive social media career. According to her LinkedIn, Kat studied media and broadcasting at the University of Alabama before transferring to Boston University in her sophomore year. After earning a degree in television and film in 2021, she worked as on-air talent for companies like Barstool Sports and Fallen Media, hosting podcasts and Snapchat shows.

Since late 2023, Kat has been a full-time lifestyle and sports content creator, working with the MLB and the NHL, as well as companies like ESPN, Betches, and The Today Show. She's also the creator of Out of His League, an independent series highlighting women in sports. In one standout episode, Kat covered the first-ever all-women broadcast of a Boston Red Sox game by the New England Sports Network in 2025.

Kat and her hockey-player boyfriend are devoted dog parents.

In addition to being a sports content creator, Kat is also dating a professional athlete. She met her boyfriend, Jake Wise, while attending Boston University, and they've been together since 2019. The 26-year-old forward currently plays in the American Hockey League (the NHL's developmental league) for the Colorado Eagles.

In 2024, the couple adopted a puppy named Rookie from their local Humane Society. Since then, Kat has been a vocal advocate for pet adoption. She wrote in a recent tribute, "2 years ago today, we made the best decision of our lives.. to spend $175 on the oldest dog in the shelter. This little rascal has made me smile every single day since. Please consider adopting if you’re looking for your soulmate!"

Kat has second thoughts about the "million-dollar mistake" that got her eliminated.

Kat entered the game with a strong strategy, pretending to be a harmless "dumb blonde" at first. She was able to fly under the radar, even as she formed strong alliances and survived eliminations. "I really just want to cruise along as a passenger princess for as long as I can, until I am forced to take over the driver’s seat and start making big moves," she said on the series.

Her gameplay changed in episode 7, when she received a clue that would make everyone think she was the millionaire. Instead of leaving herself vulnerable, she decided to make up a fake clue on the spot to target Daisy Skarning. The ruse successfully got Daisy eliminated, but on her way out, the stay-at-home mom revealed the fake clue to the rest of the cast. Ultimately, Kat was the next person eliminated and missed out on joining the top 3.

Speaking to TV Guide, Kat reflected on the fake clue, which she described as her "million-dollar mistake."

"With six people left, I didn't think it was good to still be looked at as a suspect for the millionaire," she explained. "And off-camera 24/7, all I was talking about was fashion, so I really thought the clue was going to point to me. But maybe in hindsight, I should have just told them the real clue. And maybe everyone would have kept me around if I was the millionaire, because they would have thought it was easier to get the money from my box to theirs at the end."

Kat really did skip her brother's wedding to compete on 'Million Dollar Secret.'

Before she went home ahead of the final round, Kat made it clear how much she wanted to win by revealing that she had missed her brother's wedding to compete on the show. In an interview with Decider, Kat revealed that her brother, whom she called her best friend, was actually "so supportive" of her decision.

"He was like, 'This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It is life-changing, opportunity-wise. It could be life-changing money-wise,'" she told the outlet. "They were so, so supportive."

Her family also took the news well when she revealed she didn't win. "When I FaceTimed them after getting eliminated, the first thing I said was, 'I lost,' because I didn’t want them to have hope for one second," she added. "They didn’t care at all."

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is headed to the O.C.

On April 22, 2026, Hulu confirmed that the pop-culture phenomenon that brought #MomTok and dirty soda to the masses will get the franchise treatment. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County will follow "a new group of dynamic young mothers in Orange County collide in a community where beliefs are not just their religion; they are their identity," per the loglline.

It continues, "While some defend their way of life, fighting against modernity, others embrace change, becoming a platform to disrupt the status quo. Scandals and secrets will be revealed, facades will crumble, and families and friendships will change forever on both sides of the battlefield as this group of strong, game-changing influencers comes together to build their answer to #MomTok."

Though it's still early days for the new spinoff, it seems like Hulu's set to continue the breakneck production schedule that brought us four seasons of SLOMW within 18 months. Read on for everything to know about The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County so far, from the veteran influencers in the cast to which original #MomTok member is switching cities.

When will 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County' come out?

Though Hulu has not announced an official release date for SLOMW: Orange County, the streamer confirmed that the reality spinoff will premiere in 2026.

On April 28, just days after the series's cast was revealed at Hulu's Get Real event, the O.C. Mormon Wives were spotted filming. According to TMZ, eagle-eyed fans saw production out and about in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach on the Monday and Tuesday after the announcement.

Who will be in the cast of 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County?'

Hulu has announced the main cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County will include longtime influencer Aspyn Ovard, 30; former nurse and TikTok star Avery Woods, 31; Utah influencer Salomé Andrea; Mayci McNeely's sister McCall DaPron, 36; family YouTuber Madison Bontempo, 34; and newcomers Chandler Higginson and Ashleigh Pease, 32.

It also appears that podcaster Bobbi Althoff, 28, will appear on SLOMW: OC in some capacity. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the "Really Good Podcast" host was not included in the original cast list, but she attended Hulu's Get Real event with the rest of the stars.

Like the original #MomTok women, the Orange County cast includes a mix of Saints and Sinners. Both Aspyn Ovard and Avery Woods have openly distanced themselves from the Mormon church in the past, though they both married and had children young. Bobbi Althoff has never publicly identified as Mormon, but she has described herself as "very Christian," per Decider. Both Ovard and Althoff have also been divorced.

Meanwhile, Salomé Andrea, Madison Bontempo, McCall DaPron, and Chandler Higginson have all either identified as Mormon, grown up in the faith, or been involved in the church to certain degrees. The religious background of Ashleigh Pease is unclear.

Will any members of the 'SLOMW' cast appear on 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County?'

After weeks of speculation, it seems that one SLOMW star is making the jump from Utah to SoCal. On April 26, Jen Affleck shared a video introducing the SLOMW: Orange County cast with a sitcom-style opening credits sequence set to the Full House theme. (Notably, Althoff was shown filming the rest of the cast, suggesting a bit of distance from the main group.)

It makes sense that Jen will appear on the spinoff: She previously revealed in an October 2025 PEOPLE interview that her family was moving from Utah to California.

As for the rest of Utah #MomTok, Disney exec Rob Mills hinted that the O.C. is open to more appearances from the flagship cast. "There’s definitely room for not just Jen, but many members of the Utah Mormon Wives," Mills told Variety. "That’s all being discussed. We’re really just starting the show, but as you see, Mayci’s sister is on there! I think in a perfect world, it’s something where there’s room for everybody to kind of pop in and out.

It's official: Bravo's new series In the City will be required viewing for everyone who's dedicated their feeds to following "Scamanda."

Since Amanda Batula and West Wilson went public with their romance, sending the internet and Bravoverse ablaze, the fate of the all-new Summer House spinoff has been a bit uncertain. But now we know that, not only will the show about the N.Y.C.-based cast—including Amanda Batula, Kyle Cooke, and Lindsay Hubbard—continue to air in May as planned, but it will also include recent footage captured amid the ongoing drama surrounding Amanda and West.

In an April 29 interview with The Ankler, Bravo chairman Frances Berwick confirmed that the network did, in fact, pick up cameras after Amanda and West confirmed their relationship on March 31. Though In the City concluded filming before the pair's announcement, the spinoff's premiere is now set to include footage addressing the drama, a la how Vanderpump Rules tackled "Scandoval."

"In the City, which launches in a couple weeks, you’ll see in the first episode we have a new scene that we shot with a couple of the cast members," Berwick revealed, per Us Weekly.

Before this news, In the City was not expected to include scenes reflecting the aftermath of "Scamanda." The spinoff was reportedly filmed in early fall 2025 and was expected to center on the dissolution of Amanda and Kyle's marriage. (The spouses announced their divorce in mid-January.)

Despite initial fan excitement that the footage could highlight the cast's reactions to West and Amanda's betrayal of their co-stars (and exes and friends), Kyle and Ciara Miller, questions remain just how much was filmed in the immediate aftermath and will make it to air.

“We did pick up [cameras] there, but we just didn’t feel like that was the right thing to do on Summer House,” Berwick explained to The Ankler.

She added, "It does come back to the emotional well-being of the cast members, and we didn’t think that was right. We did take a beat before we covered that. And that was obviously in the [Summer House season 10] reunion last week; as everyone now knows, we taped the reunion last week."

It is also unclear whether Ciara or West will appear in the new footage, as neither is included in the official cast of In the City. While West makes a short appearance in the In the City trailer, Ciara has only hinted at the possibility of making a cameo.

In addition to Kyle, Amanda, and Lindsay, the main cast of In the City includes Summer House alum Danielle Olivera, as well as Eoin Heavey, Andrea Denver, Lexi Sundin, Nick Barber, Yvonne Najor, Georgina Ferzil, Whitney Fransway, Kenny Martin, Gavin Moseley, and Katie Arundel.

In the City is set to premiere on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at 9 p.m. ET, following the season 10 finale of Summer House.

In Million Dollar Secret, ordinary people are pitted against one another in a game of secrets and betrayals that ends with one person holding a box with one million dollars. The first season, released on Netflix in 2025, saw In-n-Out line cook Cara Kies outplay her fellow contestants for the prize money. The second season saw a new group of 12 contestants travel to a lakeside mansion known as The Stag, and recently wrapped up on the streamer in April 2026. Who came away with the big prize?

Nick Pellecchia, a 27-year-old finance account manager originally from New Jersey, was the lucky winner of Million Dollar Secret season 2. In the final episode, he beat out finalists Kaleb Moon, a cattle farmer and real estate agent from Arkansas, and Lauren Gierth, a sales operations manager from Washington. The goal of the competition is to end the season with the $1,000,000 in cash in one’s own box. In the final game, two players have a chance to switch the contents of any two boxes, not necessarily certain which box the prize money is in.

Heading into the final round, the money was in Kaleb’s box. He had the chance to switch it, but chose to keep the money in his own box. Then, Nick decided to switch the contents of his own box with Kaleb’s, which landed the money in Nick’s own box. The risky move paid off big, and Nick walked away with one million dollars.

Marie Claire talked to the champion himself about surviving The Stag and what he plans to do with the money. Read on for everything you need to know about the Million Dollar Secret season 2 winner.

'Million Dollar Secret' season 2 winner Nick Pellecchia is Mr. New Jersey

In the first episode of Million Dollar Secret season 2, Nick raised suspicions when he named Miami as his hometown, then—when pressed—said he actually grew up in New Jersey. While it may have looked like he was lying to avoid revealing true details, Nick is really from Mendham, New Jersey, but went to school at the University of Miami and currently lives in Florida.

The hesitation may have come from the fact that Nick isn’t just from New Jersey; he is Mr. New Jersey. Nick will compete in the Mister USA finals in Las Vegas on July 25th, where the man who's crowned Mister USA will advance to the Mister Universe competition.

Nick has been trying to get on a reality show for a while

Nick isn't just a reality TV fan; he absolutely loves competition series. In fact, while speaking with Marie Claire over Zoom before the finale hit streaming, he says it's long been one of his goals to compete in one. He explains he had “going back and forth with the casting director, trying to get on one for a year or two” before he landed a spot on the second season of the Netflix series.

"I'm so grateful that some of the earlier ones didn't work out, so that I ended up on Million Dollar Secret with the best cast, the best production team, the best platform," he adds. "[I’m] just grateful how it all played out."

He’s a total gym rat

As you may have guessed, Nick likes to use his muscles. In his bio as Mr. New Jersey, he mentions training in the gym, competing on the basketball court, and flowing through yoga as regular activities. Many of Nick’s Instagram videos and photos are taken at the gym—even training alongside his fellow Million Dollar Secret contestant Hunter Call. The two reality stars quickly became comrades on the series before Hunter was voted out.

He is especially proud of his Altie move

Nick played a smart game on Million Dollar Secret, but he's especially proud of one play: pointing the finger at Altie Holcomb as the millionaire at the first elimination dinner. "[It] was a big move that I didn't plan on doing at all," he says. "I was actually trying to avoid doing something like that and just cruise under the radar for the first few dinners. But something compelled me to call that out and save a couple innocent people.”

Nick’s suspicion was right. By sending Altie home, he saved a second person from elimination by the millionaire’s kill shot and shifted the money to a new box. The move gave Nick a lot of cred in the house, which helped him get to the end.

The TV personality says, "From there, people maybe felt like they owed something to me—slash they also trusted what I had to say."

He has aspirations to appear on more reality shows (and will very soon)

Filming on Million Dollar Secret wrapped up about seven months ago, which means Nick has had a lot of time to think about what he might want to do next. “My life hasn't necessarily changed that much,” he says of the interim between filming the show and its release. “You have to go back to doing your day-to-day life and keep your head down and try as much as you can to forget about it.”

However, he does have plans for his winnings. "I've been building businesses and been entrepreneurial for the past few years, and realized that's what I want to do," says the finance graduate. "I didn't know it was going to end up being on reality TV, but it's a great way to build your audience and grow a personal brand. I hope to keep doing that, invest in experiences, maybe get on other shows, and take it day by day."

As it turns out, his Netflix reality reign isn't over: Next, the millionaire is headed for Perfect Match season 4, which is already set to premiere on May 13.

Receiving birthday advice from Stassi Schroeder is like getting communion from the Pope. And here, on the eve of my 36th birthday in early December, sitting poolside at a Hollywood Hills mansion—the setting of today’s photo shoot—I receive the blessed words: “Go to Magic Castle.”

I side-eye her. “It's like a haunted house,” explains the reality star, “but with magic everywhere and alcohol and food.” I’m familiar with the venue. It could be fun, sure, but not exactly the over-the-top spectacle, the near-religious experience, I’d anticipated from her. Because long before Scamanda or Scandoval, before Mormon Wives or Love Island, Schroeder’s birthdays were the stuff of reality TV gold: maximalist, dramatic, almost mythic. “It’s my fucking birthday” might as well have tolled like church bells across the Bravoverse, separating the anointed OG fans from the newer reality converts.

Sensing my hesitation, she pivots, quickly upgrading her recommendations to something more on-brand: The Polo Lounge for caviar towers, McCarthy salads, and martinis? Or maybe Sunset Tower? It is haunted, she adds, as a draw.

She keeps workshopping options, trying to land on something suitably extravagant. I stop her. It’s not that her suggestions are lacking; it’s just that I’ve come in expecting a version of Schroeder that no longer quite exists. “I resent my birthday now,” she says. “I feel so embarrassed by how big of a deal I made [my birthdays] on TV that if I were to do that now, it feels like I’m playing into a character or a trope.”

She’s acutely aware of her lore as a 20-something chaos agent immortalized on eight seasons of Vanderpump Rules. But now things have changed: she’s 37; a married mother of two; a podcaster (with episodes streamed on Netflix); a host (The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 3 reunion); an author (three memoirs-slash-advice-books); and an internet personality (3.5 million Instagram followers).

And the most significant change from early-twenties-reality-days? She’s now an executive producer, calling the shots on her return to TV with a new Hulu series, coming July 29, titled House of Stassi.

Even the show’s name—a change from the previously announced Stassi Says—signals a departure from the self-absorbed persona that once defined her. The original title reminded her of “bossy Stassi.” Instead, she needed it to reflect her current life. “It’s not just about me. It’s about my family and my chosen friends…the people in my home that make up the house.”

But just as Schroeder has evolved, so has the reality genre. When Vanderpump Rules first started airing in 2013, dysfunction felt novel, not commodified (consider: Schroeder was the original girl on reality TV whose best friend slept with her ex). In today’s attention economy, cheating scandals, legal drama, and on-camera implosions are practically table stakes across every franchise. So did Schroeder still have what it takes to compete in the new landscape?

Yes, she reassures, because reality TV is her bread and butter; what she was raised on. “I started doing it when I was 16 years old—that is more than half of my life,” she says. (Her on-screen career began in 2005 with The Amazing Race, then TeenNick’s Queen Bees.) “[Reality TV] excites me. I feel passionately about it…I will bleed out for this.”

She still knows that audiences may be expecting a bit of that old birthday tyrant Stassi, but she’s standing strong in her growth and excited for fans to witness it. “The last time people saw me, I was this crazy girl…crashing out, dark passengering,” she says. “I work really hard. I try really hard and I’m constantly trying to build the most for my family, and I’m proud of what I’ve done in the last five years.”

But, she admits, there’s still some edge left: “I still crash out. It just looks different.”

Nowhere is Schroeder’s evolution more apparent than in front of the cameras. The lenses may be trained on the star—both Marie Claire’s from this shoot and Hulu’s, who are filming today to use as footage on the show—but Schroeder is focused on the people there supporting her: her husband, Beau Clark, her 5-year-old daughter, Hartford, and her sister, Georgi. During a particularly sweet moment, Schroeder has to stop shooting to console Hartford, who doesn’t want to leave set. (It’s not fully clear what Hartford’s more sad about saying goodbye to: her mom or the cameras.) While it’s clear Schroeder is well-versed in good TV and had a built-in audience, this second act didn’t just materialize for her. Networks weren’t clamoring to give her carte blanche on a new project. “That’s not how Hollywood works,” she explains. “You really have to fight for things.” It was also because her entré back into the spotlight came with a caveat: she didn’t just want to be cast, she wanted to be in the driver’s seat. “I was very certain that if I'm going to do reality TV again I need to be able to say, ‘No, you can't show this with my kids.’ I'm protecting my family at this point.”

So she set out on a three-year “arduous journey” of pitch meetings and developing sizzles, alongside two producing partners and friends from her Vanderpump Rules days, before landing with Scout Productions (the team behind Queer Eye) who were willing to let her step into an executive producer role. She was involved in every stage from funding to filming. “I have marched my ass into Disney studios and the Hulu offices countless times,” she says. And being an EP wasn’t meant to dull or censor. In fact, her pitch was that she knew what made the genre tick: “I can see where the cracks are. Why a certain show doesn't do well or why one does.”

The result is House of Stassi, which will mark the first time audiences will witness her world in nearly five years—not the heightened drama of her twenties, but something more intentional. “People have seen my lowest moments, my highest moments, all of it,” she says. “This is the first time they’re seeing what my life is actually like now.” That life, she says, includes a role-reversed household where she’s the primary breadwinner and Clark, 46, is the stay-at-home dad, and friendships that have fractured and reformed over time—including with former VPR co-star Katie Maloney.

“No one knows that we had a falling out for years,” she says of her relationship with Maloney. “Now we're rebuilding our friendship after growing in two completely different directions.” The situation with Maloney is exactly the kind of impetus for the show’s concept. “I don't see TV shows out there that explore how when you get to a certain age and you all choose different paths in life, how that affects your friendships and then how you come back together.” In developing the show she didn’t want the glossy escapism of shows like The Kardashians or a completely dark portrait of adulthood. “We’re starving for something that’s not just aspirational or depressing,” she says. Instead, she wanted something that is messy but functional, ambitious but grounded.

“This is what it’s really like when you grow up.”

By the time Schroeder and I chat next, in early March, production has wrapped on House of Stassi. She Zooms me from her home office; I’m expecting a shell of who I met on set—someone nursing an emotional hangover after weeks spent performing for the cameras. But she sounds almost buoyant from the experience.

“Damn, I feel good,” she says. “It felt like one long therapy session.” Reality TV, she argues, works best when it forces you to face head-on what you’d sweep under the rug in real life. “You have to say what you’re thinking out loud—otherwise there is no show,” she says. But this time there’s no drink-throwing-fist-fight-level antics. “We just got all of our shit out on the table in a constructive way, being respectful of each other while being open and vulnerable and honest.”

Those open and honest conversations extended not just to her castmates but within her marriage. She and Clark (previously a casting director) have been together since 2017, even giving fans a glimpse of their courtship during seasons 7 and 8 of Vanderpump Rules. But just because Clark has been a part of the reality circus before didn’t mean he wasn’t cautious to re-enter the fray. Schroeder was confident their relationship could withstand the pressures of TV: “We’re a solid, stable marriage,” she says. Still, she’s protective of him, especially when it comes to the scrutiny that can follow reality TV. She kept reminding him: “What people in the comment section say, it doesn't matter. We need to just know that we always have each other, we're each other's priority.” And like any good executive producer, she also advised him to focus on honesty “because that is what makes a good reality TV show. And that is what people relate to and want to see.”When I ask if there were boundaries that she and Clark had in place ahead of picking up cameras, whether around their relationship or their kids, she says no. Everything was fair game, until it wasn’t, an open-ended conversation. Mainly, because that’s how she likes to live her real life.

“I don't like living with skeletons in my closet. I don't like living with secrets. It stresses me the fuck out. I prefer to live very openly so everyone knows my shit,” she says. “Because then it's like, ‘you can't catch me on anything.’”

Speaking of skeletons in closets, it’s impossible to talk about Schroeder’s reality TV legacy without reckoning with how abruptly it unraveled. In 2019, she was on a career high: Vanderpump Rules had just aired a season that culminated in her on-camera proposal from Clark; she was a featured speaker at Glamour’s “Women of the Year” event; her book, Next Level Basic, landed on The New York Times best-seller list; and a filmed destination wedding in Italy was on the horizon.

Then, in June 2020, amid the Black Lives Matter movement, she was fired from Vanderpump Rules after past racist actions against a former co-star resurfaced. A wave of scrutiny followed about previous egregious actions and insensitive comments made on her podcast. She lost her management and brand deals, retreated from public life, married Clark in their backyard, and quietly had her first child. A 2021 appearance on Tamron Hall intended as a public reset landed with a thud. In 2022, the tone began to shift. Schroeder released her second book, Off With My Head, a more candid accounting of that period and the work she did to recognize her ignorant behavior, including intensively working with a diversity coach. Gradually, she re-entered the public sphere—reviving her podcast, launching a book tour, and picking up hosting gigs for series like Tell Me Lies and The Gilded Age. She even waded back into reality TV in 2025 with cameos on Vanderpump Villa.

“I didn’t realize how privileged I was,” she says of her past self. While it was a “powerful, extreme” year for her, she is thankful for the scrutiny and the firing, a forcing mechanism to grow. “I was incredibly selfish and chaotic and I just feel like I didn't consider other people before I did things or said things. And if I were still in Vanderpump Rules, I'd probably be the same person. This time away from reality TV has shaped who I am now.”

But that doesn’t mean she’s left it behind; the experience still shapes how she moves through the world. “There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about the canceling,” she says. “I have this insecurity: Is this person I'm meeting, do they think these things about me? And that's my burden to have, and I'm okay with it. But it's not like it just happened and then I came back. No, I will live with this for the rest of my life.”

Particularly, she’s glad she can now parent from a place of more mindfulness. “These are things that I can teach Hartford. These are things that I can make sure that she is now aware of.”

Like most moms, Schroeder is often thinking about what she passes on to her kids. (In addition to Hartford, she and Clark have a 2-year-old son, Messer.)

For one, that big birthday energy is now redirected to her daughter: “I'm just creating a birthday monster,” she says, adding with a laugh, “so I can live vicariously through her.”

But there’s also the not-so-sterling parts of her TV reputation that Schroeder will have to answer for. For now, Hartford has seen only a sliver of her Vanderpump Rules reel (her parents’ proposal scene) and Schroeder is not planning on introducing her to more any time soon. It’s not that she’s running from her past—Schroeder has made peace with the show that launched her. She hasn’t watched the recent reboot (she’s been busy) and avoids popping into SUR, joking it would feel “like Mickey Mouse going to Disneyland,” but ultimately she embraces it. “There was a time when I would try to escape it and be like, ‘I don't talk about Vanderpump Rules. Let's pretend it never happened.’ I'm past that phase. I'm now at the phase where I really appreciate it and I know that’s why I am where I am. I have a lot of fond memories of that experience and I know that it'll always follow me.”

But that doesn’t mean she wants her kids to take cues from it. “I don't want Hartford to watch it and then be like, ‘Oh, that's how we act when we're 20 years old.’ It's not. I was kind of a dick,” she says. “So I’m hoping she watches it once her frontal lobe is formed.”

It’s clear becoming a mom has fully evolved Schroeder’s grasp on fame and ambition. A younger Stassi might have pointed to Kim Kardashian as a career north star, now it’s Kris Jenner—someone who built a family empire. “When you become a mom, all you want to do is give your kids everything that you didn't have, or every possible advantage, set them up for success,” she says. She still regularly wavers about putting her kids in the harsh lights of Hollywood and agonizes over if she should be posting them on social media. But she says her decisions to film them for the show were cemented when she reframed reality TV in her mind as her “family business.”

“This is what I'm good at…I'm just hoping that, you know, I'm able to protect them throughout this process.” She hopes the exposure and the access from these current opportunities will help set them up for whatever path they choose when they grow up.

Still, Schroeder’s selective when it comes to her career: she has no interest in becoming an Andy Cohen-style host; won’t slap her name on just any product or collab; and is turning down book deals until she has something new to say. And while a stint on The Traitors seems perfectly attuned to her brand (murder, macabre, exposing liars) she’s definitely not interested in going on a competition show. She hasn’t even watched it. “I just go based on gut feelings…does this make me feel excited and peaceful? And when I imagine going on a challenge game show I get a pit [in my stomach].” Not to mention, Traitors is an NBCU entity, and she doesn’t trust the network anymore. “It would be like throwing me to the wolves.”

She looks to peers like Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner as inspiration for what Bravo girls can accomplish, but she can’t be sure what the future of content creation looks like. “The old rules are out,” she says. “There are no new rules yet.”

For now, she’s focused on what she’s already done: getting House of Stassi made, filmed, and on air. “Even if it were to flop—which it won't—but even if it were, I'm so proud of myself to have been able to make that happen. That's a win.” It might not be her birthday, but that sounds like reason enough to celebrate.

Photographer Joelle Grace Taylor | Stylist Maren Taylor | Hair Stylist Bradley Leake | Makeup Artist Diane Buzzetta | Creative Direction Alexa Wiley | Entertainment Director Neha Prakash | Producer Erin Corbett

Ariana Madix and Ciara Miller are ready for a refreshing summer.

The Bravo stars have united in a new campaign for Sonic's latest Frozen Refreshers, kicking off what's sure to be an eventful season. Madix is heading into her third year as host of Love Island USA—the show that marked her career revival following the reality-TV phenomenon known as Scandoval. Meanwhile—after being at the center of a highly scrutinized love triangle—Summer House star and red-carpet correspondent Miller is gearing up for the season 10 reunion and the forthcoming season of Dancing With the Stars. So, get ready for the fan favorites to dominate this summer of reality TV.

Ahead of the Sonic campaign's launch, Marie Claire caught up with Madix over Zoom. Though thousands of fans are waiting for news about the upcoming season 8, the Love Island USA host also has to be patient.

"This happens in such real-time with Love Island, I don't even think they know a lot of stuff to be able to tell me," Madix admits. "I'm excited we're going to be back in Fiji, and I think we're going to be in the same villa. I'm really excited to learn who the cast is going to be, but I'm probably going to be finding out about that a day before the world does."

She adds, "I'm living it along with you guys."

Madix and Miller's Sonic campaign features several TV ads and a special teaser, which hit social media on April 21. In the quick clip, the stars catch up over Frozen Refreshers...but Miller stays coy about recent events. "Yeah, life is honestly chill right now," the Summer House star says, before Madix replies, "That's refreshing to hear, cause I thought..."

Of course, Madix—a reality-TV fan herself—is up to date on Miller's drama with Amanda Batula and West Wilson. When we asked if Madix had any post-Scandoval advice for Miller, she said she thinks Miller has it all figured out.

"We've chatted a little bit. Honestly, Ciara does not need my advice," Madix says. "I feel like she's at such a great time in her life in general. You see her on carpets interviewing people, and doing so well. I think that she's in such a great place in her career that she's so above and beyond any advice I would be able to give her."

Beyond her busy hosting duties, Madix also spends the summer hitting the music festival circuit—and she does have advice on how to have the best time. Having just come off Coachella, the star says her festival essentials focus on comfort. She swears by comfortable shoes that can get her through 25,000-step days, a portable fan to provide a breeze in the middle of a crowd, and a reviving Frozen Refresher in her go-to flavor, strawberry passion fruit.

"We actually had Sonic Refreshers Sunday morning. When I tell you I was on death's door that morning, and the second I had my first sip, I was brought back to life like a vampire in a coffin," she says of the thirst-quencher made with real fruit and green tea. "I was up and ready to go."

Fans of dating shows like Netflix's Temptation Island know that the season isn't fully over until fans get the final word on which couples (if any) survived past filming. Season 2 of the chaotic reality series arrived on the streaming giant on April 10, 2026; in the days since, the online fandom has been buzzing with rumors of what the cast has been up to and which romances may have fizzled out over the past several months. While shows like Love Is Blind typically answer fans's pleas for a reunion within a week of the finale, Temptation Island's viewers have been left to wait (and petition for host Mark L. Walberg to return to our screens).

Finally, after 10 days—practically a month in reality-drama time—Temptation Island season 2 has a confirmed reunion on the way. Read on for everything to know about the upcoming special, including which of the former (and current?) couples will be in attendance.

When does the 'Temptation Island' season 2 reunion come out?

According to Tudum, the two-part Temptation Island season 2 reunion hosted by "The Viall Files" will be released in two parts. Part 1 will come out on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, followed by Part 2 two days later on Friday, April 24, 2026.

The special pre-recorded episodes will drop each day at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on YouTube, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.

Is there a trailer for the 'Temptation Island' season 2 reunion?

Yes! "The Viall Files" (and Age of Attraction) hosts Nick Viall and Natalie Joy dropped the official trailer for the Temptation Island season 2 reunion just days before its release. The short clip is packed with hints at the upcoming drama: both Sydney and Jack appear to shed tears; Natalie Joy mentions a mysterious DM; and it looks like Summit walks off set at one point. We'll have to wait to see just how much new information is shared, as the Vialls needed two parts to hash it all out.

Which cast members will attend the 'Temptation Island' season 2 reunion?

According to the trailer, all four main Temptation Island season 2 couples—Kaylee and Summit, Scarlett and Cole, Sydney and Mikey, and Shyanne and Jack—attended the reunion's taping. (Last year, the season 1 reunion featured only three out of the four couples, so this year's special is already more comprehensive.)

It's currently unknown whether any of the Tempters and Temptresses will appear in the two-part reunion, but a couple have already gotten their time on "The Viall Files." Xzavier was a guest on the April 14 episode, while Carter and Jesenia appeared on the April 16 installment.

Who stayed together in the 'Temptation Island' season 2 finale?

A quick recap, if needed: Temptation Island doesn't have a great track record of saving relationships. Kaylee and Summit were the only couple to leave the island together; in addition to continuing their romance, the pair had plans to move in together and get a dog. Another pair left the island together, though not an original couple: Sydney broke up with Mikey and chose to leave with her new connection, Xzavier.

Of course, it's been a long time since season 2 was filmed, and the finale may not have been the end of the remaining original couples' love stories. (At least, if you look at season 1 couples.) Notably, Shyanne and Jack's social media activity in the days since season 2's release has fans wondering if they could have patched things up. Hopefully the reunion will clear up all of our burning questions (or at least hold us over until season 3).

Netflix's reality series Million Dollar Secret is back for a new dose of pulse-pounding social gameplay. The streaming giant's answer to The Traitors debuted last year as a brand-new competition in which ordinary people investigate and deceive each other in hopes of walking away with a million dollars.

For anyone who missed season 1, Million Dollar Secret host Peter Serafinowicz invites 12 everyday people to a gorgeous lakeside mansion, and gifts one unlucky player $1,000,000 in cash. That player now has a target on their back, as the others try to root out and eliminate the millionaire. At the end of this expensive game of hot potato, whoever has the money walks away with the life-changing fortune. (For example, see season 1's winner, former In-n-Out line cook Cara Kies.)

According to Tudum, the series has gathered another group of aspiring masterminds from across the U.S. Will this year's winner be the shrewd Miami pageant boy, the stay-at-home mom and town gossip, the military vets flying under the radar, or someone else we'll least expect? With the season finale out on April 29, read on for everything to know about the Million Dollar Secret cast—including where to follow them after the show.

Altie, 54

Instagram: @eaglesincali

Hometown: Philadelphia / Menifee, California

Occupation: Deputy chief of staff to the mayor of Riverside, California

Background: A former US Marine with more than 20 years of military experience

Biggest Strength: "Altie loves...staying plugged into the latest gossip—a key skill in this game of deception."

Daisy, 50

Instagram: @daisyskarning

Hometown: Edina, Minnesota

Occupation: Stay-at-home mom of two teen boys

Biggest Strength: "Her uncontested position as the town gossip means her social game here will be unmatched."

Hunter, 24

Instagram: @hppunts

Hometown: San Diego, California

Occupation: Student / professional poker player

Biggest Strength: "Behind that laid-back exterior is a poker player with sharp instincts and a need to prove everybody wrong."

Kaleb, 44

Instagram: @wkalebmoon

Hometown: Lead Hill, Arkansas

Occupation: Cattle farmer / real estate agent

Background: "The high school athlete turned rancher can admit there’s still one thing in this world that stumps him: how to navigate life with a teenage daughter."

Kasey, 33

Instagram: @itskaseycoffey

Hometown: Brooklyn, New York

Occupation: Freelance art director

Background: "Between creating dynamic campaigns for beauty brands, Kasey loves learning new languages, cooking with her husband, and walking Butter, her Bernese mountain dog who’s a local celebrity."

Winning Plans: "If she wins, she hopes to open a Thai snack bar."

Kat, 26

Instagram: @katellisss

Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts

Occupation: Sports and lifestyle content creator

Background: "Don’t let Kat’s bubbly exterior fool you—underneath it is a tough Boston native who isn’t afraid to let everyone know what she’s thinking."

Winning Plans: "If Kat emerges victorious, she wants to help her father retire and open an animal shelter."

Kevin, 26

Instagram: @kevin.moranz

Hometown: Topeka, Kansas

Occupation: Supercross racer

Background: "The pro athlete from a blue-collar family in Kansas—who’s often mistaken for Tom Cruise when he wears aviators—is confident that the determination he pours into racing will get him far in Season 2."

Lauren G., 43

Instagram: @laurengierth

Hometown: Richland, Washington

Occupation: Sales operations manager / content creator

Background: "A lover of historical fiction and quality time with her two kids, she finds the spice in life wherever she goes, including reality TV."

Lauren T., 25

Instagram: @laurentennery

Hometown: South Lake Tahoe, California

Occupation: Yoga instructor

Background: "After modeling in Sydney, bartending in Los Angeles, and traversing Asia as a yogi, she’s confident that her globe-trotting adventures will give her an edge in the competition."

Melissa, 61

Instagram: @homewithatwist

Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas

Occupation: Retired nurse

Background: "She can take your blood pressure, soothe your worries with the charm of a Southern mama bear, and host a mean cocktail party all at the same time."

Natalie, 29

Instagram: @natalie_noisom

Hometown: Miami, Florida

Occupation: Marketing manager

Winning Plans: "The bird mom...plans to acquire a military macaw as a bestie for her parrot if she wins $1 million."

Nick, 27

Instagram: @nickypill

Hometown: Mendham, New Jersey / Miami, Florida

Occupation: Finance account manager

Background: He's currently Mister New Jersey and set to compete in Mister USA 2026.

Biggest Strength: "An avid reader and proud mama’s boy, [Miami frat boy] Nick plans to use other people’s assumptions about him against them."

Tarek, 24

Instagram: @tarekupdated

Hometown: Los Angeles, California

Occupation: Daycare worker

Background: "After spending his childhood bouncing between the U.S. and Egypt, Tarek now works at his family’s daycare business in California."

Biggest Strength: "A natural-born nurturer who’s used to chaos, Tarek plans on slipping past everyone’s drama and straight to the cash prize."

Umeko, 27

Instagram: @umekopeterson

Hometown: Kapolei, Hawaii / Virginia

Occupation: Student

Background: "A former intelligence analyst in the US Navy, Umeko is back in school and starting a new chapter in life."

Biggest Strength: "Will her ability to handle pressure and her innate talent at gathering and interpreting information put her a cut above the other contestants?"

This article contains spoilers for the entirety of Temptation Island season 2. In every season of a Netflix dating show, there's one couple that seems doomed from the start. On season 2 of Temptation Island, Shyanne Blankenship and Jack Mason are both the longest-running couple to arrive and one of the quickest to implode. (They and Sydney and Mikey are truly neck-and-neck.) After five years together, the entrepreneurs joined the reality series in hopes of moving on from a previous cheating incident. But spending time in a luxury paradise surrounded by temptation only tore the codependent couple apart.

Despite their rough time on the island, Shyanne and Jack's post-show relationship is a big question mark to viewers, and has left fans wondering whether they could have worked out after all. Read on for a breakdown of Shyanne and Jack's time on Temptation Island season 2, and whether they could have gotten back together after the show.

What happened between Shyanne and Jack on 'Temptation Island' season 2?

Shyanne, 23, and Jack, 25, arrive on Temptation Island five years into their relationship; the Kansas City-based entrepreneurs met in college and became inseparable. But three years in, Shyanne found out that Jack had cheated by going through his phone and texting the woman, pretending to be him. Though they stayed together, Shyanne's lack of trust in him never fully came back. In the Temptation Island premiere, they say they're there to test Jack's loyalty, but Jack also admits that he's unsure whether they're actually meant to be together or if they're just too afraid of walking away.

The pair initially have polar-opposite experiences in their respective villas. Jack immediately hits it off with 22-year-old Carter, who's into him and doesn't have any of the resentment that Shyanne still holds post-cheating. Meanwhile, Shyanne can't stop thinking about Jack, and she realizes she depends on him so much that she's unsure of how to prioritize herself as an individual anymore. The first bonfire is very rough, especially when Shyanne reveals that coming on to the show was Jack's idea.

It doesn't take long after that for Jack and Carter to get physical. Temptation Island's diabolical sound mixing makes another appearance; the pair turns off the lights in the confessional room, but you can still hear their lips smacking. At the next bonfire, Jack says that his time alone has made him realize how much judgment he's felt with Shyanne, and that their relationship seems "unfixable." It's not a wrong take, but it also seems like he doesn't consider at all that Shyanne goes to see him with Carter.

The make-out clip (and their sharing a bed) leads to Shyanne's ultimate breakdown. After she gets her rage out, yelling that Jack's a "fucking loser" and a "bum" who'll never amount to anything, it seems like she turns a corner. That turn includes taking Preston, the only male tempter she's connected with so far (and a Squid Game: The Challenge alum), into the fuck tent—sorry, Temptation Haven—to make out and set off the alarm at the men's villa. Still, however toxic, a healing journey has begun.

For the rest of her time in the women's villa, Shyanne stays focused on Preston. They get more physical (including a moment in bed where she calls him "giant"), but he also helps her process the end of her five-year relationship. Throughout the last bonfires, Shyanne laughs off Jack's switch-up from Carter to Jesenia, and she doesn't send him a video message when given the chance. Host Mark L. Walberg also gets her to admit that she wants someone more ambitious and secure financially, so she can identify her needs in the next relationship.

Meanwhile, Jack is doing a lot. One night, he takes Carter into the Temptation Haven, which feels inevitable. The next night, he takes a different girl, Jesenia. Carter lets him off the hook for this, though it essentially ends their romance, since he's supposed to be "living the single life" and finding himself. He spends the rest of the show getting to know Jesenia and seeming pretty chill about the bonfire clips of Shyanne and Preston. (Instead, Cole's the one to say "fuck this chick.") Though Jack says in a "perfect world" he and Shyanne could get back together, he seems like a single man at heart.

Did Shyanne and Jack leave 'Temptation Island' season 2 together?

To the surprise of no one, Shyanne and Jack officially break up at their final bonfire. They each get to say their piece at first: Jack tells her that he has always loved her but that he feels they were just "stuck." Shyanne goes in on him, explaining how betrayed she feels and how she knew deep down that the show would be the end of their relationship. She asks him to explain why he'd hurt her so blatantly, but instead of apologizing, he points out how they were unhappy and that they now both realize they don't need each other.

Despite the hurt, the now-exes are both able to acknowledge how much they've meant to each other, and that time will heal the pain. They both leave the island alone, and they even hint that they can return to a good place at some point. "Hopefully, whenever time does heal us, we can... I don't know," she says, at a loss for words. A crying Jack replies, "Once I grow and be the man that I saw you talking about that you want, you never know what can happen."

Are Shyanne and Jack still together after 'Temptation Island' season 2?

Shyanne and Jack seem to be on better terms than one would think after watching their time on Temptation Island. Not only do they still follow each other on Instagram, but they've also been making content together, including a jokey skit with Mikey and a shared post promoting the season. They could even be in business with each other; they seem to share a mysterious account called Baggy Dads, with no content but a bio reading "Work in progress" with needle-and-thread-emojis.

Most telling, their shared post includes a notable comment from Shyanne. "Keep your head up and show the world a side of you they didn’t get to see. No matter how things went, I’ll have your back," she wrote.

Despite the above, Shyanne and Jack say that they have not reconciled since filming Temptation Island. During the two-part Temptation Island season 2 reunion, the pair revealed the rocky aftermath of their final bonfire. Apparently, after filming ended, Shyanne evaded security to call Jack's hotel room and ask him to have a conversation (or fight). He refused to meet her, but Shyanne claims that she could hear Carter in Jack's room. (Apparently, Jack went back to Carter after hooking up with Jesenia, but this was left on the cutting room floor. Jack also revealed that he "kissed everyone" on the island.)

Jack and Shyanne added that they eventually spoke once they returned home and decided to break up after revealing everything they did on the island. They were also supportive of each other during the reunion, with Shyanne agreeing when Jack attributed much of his behavior to drinking and saying he was in "emotional distress" during filming. (The other men also said that they were encouraging Jack to cheat, based on what they saw of Shyanne at the bonfires.)

At the end of their segment, Jack apologized for taking Shyanne for granted and said that he hopes to win her back one day. Shyanne responded that it was better for them to be single at that time, but she added, "If everything could go my way, I would want to be with Jack."

Meanwhile, Carter shared a very different take on events in a new interview with Reality Steve. According to Carter, Shyanne and Jack allegedly got back together "basically the second they got home." Carter also said that she and Jack spoke casually for about a month after filming, before he and Shyanne decided to "cut everyone off" and Carter was blocked. Carter also claims that Shyanne and Jack "don't want people to know" that they are still a couple. Of course, all of this is hearsay, but even without Carter's claims, it wouldn't be much of a surprise if Shyanne and Jack found their way back to each other in the future.

If all this isn't complicated enough, Shyanne has also addressed claims that another man is in her life. Throughout 2024 and 2025, Shyanne appeared in several posts with Jackson Mahomes, the controversial brother of NFL quarterback (and Travis Kelce's teammate) Patrick Mahomes. These include an Instagram post from May 2024, in which Jack appears on the second slide, a TikTok from April 2025 with the caption "hard launch," and an Instagram post from September 2025 with the caption "happy w/ u." (There are reports of Jackson appearing on Shyanne's Instagram, but they all seem to have been archived or deleted.)

On April 19, a few days before the reunion's release, Shyanne addressed her relationship status in a TikTok live. During the live, Shyanne briefly clarified, "Me and Jackson are not together. We've never dated. I'm not gonna let that keep going, 'cause it's not true."

Four couples in rocky relationships and a dozen tempters—what could go wrong? On Temptation Island, this threat of seduction could be the ingredient that makes the questioning couples double down on their existing relationship, or the very thing that makes them realize what else is out there.

First debuting to controversy on FOX in 2001, Temptation Island found a new home on Netflix, where two new seasons have aired since 2025. As always, Netflix doesn’t reveal actual viewership numbers, but with its cornering of the unscripted dating-series market, it's fair for fans to wonder whether the hit will be back for a third installment. Read on for everything we know about Temptation Island season 3.

Is 'Temptation Island' renewed for season 3?

Just under a month after Temptation Island season 2 premiered on April 10, 2026, Deadline reported in early May that the hit had been renewed for another installment. The renewal was all but inevitable; according to Deadline, the reality show's second season debuted in Netflix's Global Top 10 ratings and earned 2.5 million views in the week after its release.

Even before the show was officially confirmed for more episodes, fans had a pretty good sign that there was more to come. Not only has Netflix consistently invested in its reality dating programming, but shortly after the season 2 premiere, casting calls were already going out. At least now we know it's confirmed that more chaos will be headed to our screens soon!

When will 'Temptation Island' season 3 come out?

Reality TV is typically low-lift in terms of production and editing, and Netflix seems to be on a yearly cadence for Temptation Island. With that in mind, it seems likely that season 3 could arrive around spring 2027, in line with the previous two installments.

That seems especially likely based on the casting announcement. According to the open call, any participants must agree to be "in production of the Program for a period of approximately four weeks during the months of late May through the end of June 2026." While it notes that the filming dates are "subject to change," if it takes place at all in summer 2026, it still seems feasible that episodes could debut next spring.

Who will be in the 'Temptation Island' season 3 cast?

The main cast usually turns over each season—although Netflix's reality dating ecosystem often encourages cross-pollination, meaning we could see familiar faces popping up as temptresses and tempters in a future season 3. (For instance, season 1 tempters/temptresses Olivia Rae, Cody Wright, and Alex Zamora all later popped up on season 3 of Netflix’s Perfect Match.)

However, it seems most likely the show will stay true to form and find new couples and singles. Based on the casting call, the producers are looking for U.S. citizens over the age of 21 with few other requirements beyond "couples who want to prove their commitment to one another and singles who are looking for love." As Tudum states: "Soon you too could be taking a trip to prove your fidelity, or bringing the heat to the beach." So if that at all sounds appealing, apply ASAP!

While it may be a while until the ensemble is confirmed, according to Tudum, fan-favorite host Mark L. Walberg will definitely be back. He's hosted the series since its inception in 2001, and it surely wouldn't be the same without him!

What will 'Temptation Island' season 3 be about?

Temptation Island has no plans to shift the concept of the show in season 3, so expect a new batch of couples-on-the-rocks hoping to test their partner’s fidelity and their overall compatibility by stepping into the den of temptation. Seasons 1 and 2 were both filmed in the same luxury locales in Kailua-Kona, a community on the west coast of Hawaii's Big Island, so you can probably also expect to return to paradise for more vacation inspiration and, well, trouble in said paradise.

As we find out more about the reality hit's return, we'll be sure to update this story.

Netflix's Temptation Island would be the perfect romantic getaway—if it wasn't for the temptation part of the equation. The streaming giant's reboot of the 2000s dating show brings four struggling couples to a tropical paradise, where they stress-test their relationships by mixing and mingling with a group of hot singles. After a series of bonfires where each person gets to see what their partner is up to, the pairs have to choose whether to try to make it work, leave single, or embrace a new connection they found on the island.

The reality series does know how to bring the romance when necessary, thanks in large part to the natural beauty of its location. With season 2 out and offering a new dose of wanderlust, read on for everything to know about the filming locations for Temptation Island.

Where is 'Temptation Island' filmed?

Both seasons 1 and 2 of Netflix's Temptation Island were filmed in the island paradise of Hawaii. Specifically, the villas were located in Kailua-Kona, a community on the west coast of Hawaii's Big Island.

In addition to the villas, the reality show also ventures out into town for special dates. According to Hawaii Activities, some of the locales featured in season 1 include the restaurants Cheeky Tiki and Magic’s Beach Grill, the gelato shoppe Gypsea Gelato, and the store Ali‘i Gardens Marketplace.

Can you visit the 'Temptation Island' villas?

The season 2 villas are currently unknown, but both the men's and women's villas in Temptation Island season 1 are private properties rented out to the public. The women's villa, Wander Kona Bay Shores, has five bedrooms and six bathrooms and sits right on the waterfront. According to its website, the minimum stay is three nights, and the price ranges from $11,000 to 15,000. The men's villa, called the Hokukano Bayhouse, has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms and charges $4,000 per night and $26,500 for a week.

For those wondering how a dozen singles fit into the remaining two or three bedrooms after the main cast claimed their rooms, producer David Freeman told Variety last year that the female tempters slept in bunk beds in a large room, while the male tempters slept in a guest house.

Spoilers for all episodes of Temptation Island season 2 ahead. On Netflix’s reboot of the popular reality series Temptation Island, couples at odds spend time apart (and in the company of tempters of the opposite sex) to decide once and for all whether they’re meant to be together. For fashion account executive Kaylee Needham and fitness coach Summit Wallace, the series was an opportunity to test whether their opposing personalities were compatible, or if the differences were too big to bridge.

Though Summit battled his commitment issues throughout the series, he makes a grand gesture in the finale by not just asking Kaylee to leave the island with him, but also to move in with him and get a dog together. All nine episodes of the series are now streaming, so read on to get a recap of Kaylee and Summit’s journey on Temptation Island season 2, whether they might still be together, and whether they ever got that dog.

What happened between Kaylee and Summit on 'Temptation Island' season 2?

Kaylee, 24, and Summit, 25, arrived on Temptation Island when their one-year, on-again-off-again relationship hit its breaking point. Self-proclaimed opposites, the couple agreed that their incompatibilities were more front and center than their similarities. Kaylee told Tudum, “Summit and I are like fire and rain,” while Summit added, “Sometimes that difference is what makes things exciting. Other times, it drives us completely insane.” Still, they reveal in their intro that they said “I love you” to one another very quickly; they want to test whether their immediate obsession with each other is a sign of infatuation or true love.

But their differences are only the tip of the iceberg—Summit admits that he’s also afraid of commitment, as this is only his second serious relationship. He and Kaylee had a cycle of breaking up and making up, and he hopes that Temptation Island will finally allow them to see things clearly.

When the experiment begins, their time apart allows both of them to voice the things that have bothered them about one another. For Kaylee, Summit’s outgoing personality can sometimes come off as flirtatious, while Kaylee’s “glass half empty” mentality was off-putting to Summit at times. Kaylee’s reflections also lead to a larger realization: Summit has occasionally made offhand comments about her body and personality that have left her feeling like she’s not enough.

Both parties remain loyal to each other even while making other connections—Kaylee with Zach and Kris, and Summit with Julianne—though the first "bonfire" implies that Kaylee is taking this more seriously than Summit. The gathering, in which the cast members see video clips of their partners’ actions in the opposite villa, reveals Summit flirting and getting handsy with some of the women in the men’s villa, and Kaylee feels like the men’s villa is less respectful of boundaries than that of the girls. Summit, meanwhile, sees tape of Kaylee voicing her feelings of inadequacy, and he owns up to contributing to her feeling that way.

While host Mark L. Walberg encourages both Kaylee and Summit to dissect their emotions, Summit continues to flirt with various girls in the villa. After losing in a game of Never Have I Ever, he pretends to kiss Jesenia but swerves at the last second to go for fellow coupled contestant Mikey instead. That scene is shown at the next bonfire, which leads Kaylee to believe that he’s not thinking of her during his experience and is not digging deep enough to work through their issues. Summit sees a clip of Kaylee questioning whether the prospective father of her children would “treat her like shit,” and he feels frustrated that he doesn’t understand how he’s making her feel so unsupported.

The couple feels like they’re largely running in place through the third bonfire, as Kaylee continues to harp on her experience of feeling “worthless” in the relationship, while Summit is still struggling with his commitment issues. Prior to the final bonfire, they send each other videos, which is their first contact since arriving on Temptation Island. Summit conveys his sadness about her not appreciating or having pride in the man he is; Kaylee says she needs to see more from him in order for them to move forward together.

Did Kaylee and Summit leave 'Temptation Island' season 2 together?

As the rare example that the show’s forced separation could actually work in mending a relationship, Kaylee and Summit recommitted to one another in the finale of Temptation Island season 2, and left the island together as a couple. Even more impressive, Summit makes a big gesture to prove that he’s ready to commit by presenting Kaylee with a dog collar and a key, symbolizing that he wants to get a dog with her and move in together after filming ends.

Are Kaylee and Summit still together after 'Temptation Island' season 2?

Kaylee and Summit are officially among the most successful couples in Temptation Island history! The N.Y.C.-based pair confirmed at the season 2 reunion that they're still together eight months after filming.

In an interview with Swooon, Kaylee discussed how their relationship has changed, especially regarding comments Summit would make about her body. "I feel like at the final bonfire, it was very clear to me anything that had been said in the past was honestly just coming from a place of him not realizing what his words meant to me," she told the outlet. "And when we got back together, and he was like, 'I just love you for all of you, and I have no doubts in you.' I didn’t feel like that sense of doubt in who I was anymore. And I think it’s also because I found a lot more confidence within myself that I was like, I’m not fearful of these words or these things that were said anymore."

However, there has been a snag in their post-Island plans: They've yet to move in together, nor get a dog. "It's just kind of the realities of life that can prolong that process," Summit explained in the season 2 reunion. The pair now plan to move in together after relocating to California, and to adopt the wiener dog they mentioned in the finale. Summit told Swooon, "We know that’s what we want. We know it’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of it working out for us in the right time. Yeah, but as soon as possible is the answer."

This article contains spoilers for the entirety of Temptation Island season 2. The Netflix reality series Temptation Island—a reboot of the popular early 2000s series in which troubled couples spend time with available singles to pressure test their relationship—is the ultimate assessment of trust and commitment. So it makes sense that aesthetician Sydney McGregor initially arrived on the island with her then-boyfriend, live music event host Mikey Bivens (both 24), after infidelity threatened their foundation. But despite joining the dating show with the expectation of coming out stronger together, Sydney immediately connected with 26-year-old product manager Xzavier Odom, whom she eventually left the island with hand-in-hand.

All nine episodes of Temptation Island season 2 hit streaming on April 10, so we're breaking down Sydney and Xzavier's journey on the show—and whether they might still be together.

What happened between Sydney and Xzavier on 'Temptation Island' season 2?

Sydney arrives on Temptation Island intending to mend her relationship with Mikey, which has been rocky since he cheated on Sydney in college. He was a self-proclaimed “ho” in college and wants to prove that his days of sleeping around are over, while Sydney wants to see him truly break his patterns rather than being all talk.

Things get off to a difficult start when Mikey immediately flirts with the female temptors during their introduction. Sydney isn’t surprised when, later, he seems to give her the cold shoulder when they have to choose a suitor to spend their first date with. But it’s actually Sydney who forms a quick connection with one of the male contestants: She chooses Xzavier to go on a date with, and they connect over their North Carolina roots and the ability to have a deep conversation. Mikey, meanwhile, gets friendly with a few of the girls in the villa and dubs them the “three amigos,” but doesn’t seem to be interested in making things romantic with them just yet.

During the first bonfire—a ceremony where the couples see clips of what their significant other has been up to in the villas—Sydney sees Mikey make flirtatious comments to the “three amigos,” including joking that he might accidentally catch feelings for one of them. The frontrunner seems to be India, who tells him not to friend-zone himself by acting too goofy. The clip sends Sydney into a tailspin, leading her to storm out of the bonfire, crying. “Spots on a leopard don’t change,” she says, explaining that this type of behavior is nothing new for Mikey but not something she wants to keep putting up with.

When she gets back to the villa, she tells Xzavier that she’s done with Mikey; she was looking for clarity and got it at the first bonfire. Xzavier doubles down on his feelings and gives her a gift with a card that calls her “the prize,” which makes Sydney realize that she’s not asking for too much—she’s just asking for it from the wrong person.

Meanwhile, Mikey’s bonfire includes clips of Sydney badmouthing his “three amigos” bit and getting closer to Xzavier, which makes him emotional. He cries and says he wants to punch Xzavier, and host Mark L. Walberg rightfully calls him out for trying to avoid talking about his feelings. Mikey admits that it’s really scary when you love someone, and he can feel Sydney slipping through his fingers. India is there for him when he gets back to the villa, noticing that he’s battling his emotions.

Unfortunately for Mikey, Sydney’s feelings about him don’t change now that she’s interested in getting to know Xzavier better. He asks when her most joyful recent memory was, and she remembers a Galentine’s party she threw, which is notably not something she did with Mikey. She’s “on a high” from the conversations with Xzavier and visibly swoons when he dedicates a song to her during a group outing, later telling the confessional that everyone tells her she’s glowing. While they’re still friends at the time, she says she could see it becoming something more.

At the second bonfire, Mikey sees clips of Sydney moving on with Xzavier and has a markedly different response for Mark. “If that’s the guy for her, I commend her on that. If I’m not the guy for her, I have to understand that,” he says in front of the men. He wants her to live in her truth, though he wishes he were experiencing it with her. Though he kept it together at the bonfire ceremony, he later cries to the camera, saying he wants to respect the fact that she’s found someone, but is hurt that it’s only been a week and her love for him hasn’t gotten stronger.

Mike’s bonfire clips are of him and India, and Sydney is unbothered. She says she’s happy that he’s found a connection and leaves it at that. It helps that she’s fully moved on with Xzavier, whom she finally kisses in the sixth episode of the season. Mike sees development at the third bonfire, and, as expected, he breaks down, hung up on Sydney being at his sister’s wedding next to his mom two weeks ago, and that he thought they’d ride off into the sunset together after this experience. To make matters worse, the clips of Mikey that are shown to Sydney during the bonfire don’t faze her at all.

When the couples send each other videos near the end of the experiment, Sydney and Mikey have extremely different messages for their significant others. He pleads for her to reconsider their relationship, while she tells him that she’s putting herself first. She calls his video “too little too late,” and he says he didn’t want to come here and didn’t know what he was getting himself into.

Did Sydney and Xzavier leave 'Temptation Island' season 2 together?

By the time the final bonfire rolls around, it’s extremely apparent that Sydney won’t be leaving with Mikey, even though he begs her to. She points out that he has a lot of growing to do because this is the first real conversation they’ve ever had. Through tears, he says that he needs to leave the island alone, while Sydney reveals that she would like to leave with Xzavier, who accepts her proposal.

Are Sydney and Xzavier still together after 'Temptation Island' season 2?

If you walked away from Temptation Island season 2 envisioning Sydney and Xzavier walking off into the Hawaiian sunset together, maybe skip the reunion. In the special "The Viall Files" reunion episode, Sydney revealed that she broke things off with Xzavier just four days after returning to the mainland—and got back together with Mikey. "I wasn’t going to jump into another relationship, although I was dating him on the island," she explained. "Mikey was my best friend."

However, the resumed romance only lasted three months, as Mikey couldn't move past what happened on the show. "Everything was going good, it was phenomenal, but I was holding onto what I experienced on the island," he said. "That was not fair to her whatsoever. Any inkling, any argument, I’d be throwing that jab at her. It was tearing her down."

He added of their eventual split, "I could see her heart was hurt. I would say it was the immaturities because I didn’t seize that opportunity. It’s something I have to live with."

As of the reunion's taping, Sydney described herself as single, saying, "I am just focusing on myself." However, it's unknown whether the door is fully closed on Sydney and Xzavier. She also revealed at the reunion that she had reached out to her Temptation Island fling four months before inviting him to coffee. "We spoke about everything. I told him everything me and Mikey went through," she explained. "I told him I’m really working on myself and trying to process everything."

For anyone holding out hope, Sydney and Xzavier do seem to still be on good terms. They still follow each other on Instagram (though she and Mikey also follow each other), and they even filmed content together in mid-April. In one fun Reel posted on tempter Clint's page, Xzavier steals Sydney from Clint, with the caption reading, "When I'm trying to get to know her, but my bro genuinely might have fallen in love at first sight."

Even more reason for hope: On April 13, Sydney and Xzavier sat down for a joint interview with Swooon, in which they revealed that they are "figuring things out relationship-wise" after that coffee date. Though they've been long-distance—Xzavier lives in L.A., while Sydney's in North Carolina—they both want that to change.

"With the pressure of the show being public and just us entering this new space where we’re in the real world, all the other factors, we’re not putting the pressure on that," he continued. "That being said, we are intentional. We’re growing what we do have and seeing what that looks like."

Sydney added, "I’m very big on just being with my person, and then doing whatever it is, if it’s a walk on the beach, if it’s a picnic, like whatever it is. Just doing things with him is what I’m really looking forward to. And it’s been really hard not being in the same area or the same space anymore, so my goal is to move to L.A. and move out there, and we’ll see where it goes from there."

Spoilers for all episodes of Temptation Island season 2 ahead. Last year, Netflix's Temptation Island joined Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum in the streaming giant's roster of psychological torture—I mean, can't-miss dating shows. The reality show's revival quickly topped the Netflix charts, as longtime host Mark L. Walberg returned to guide four shaky couples through "the ultimate test of temptation:" spend several weeks living in gender-separated houses with dozens of sexy singles, and see if your relationship can last. (Unsurprisingly, season 1's success rate wasn't great.)

Out on April 10, Temptation Island's second season follows four new couples with different levels of trust issues as they test whether grass is greener on the other side. Will this year's men approach the chaos of Brion and Grant? Will host Mark once again have us all in the feels? Below, read on for everything to know about the couples, tempters, and temptresses of Temptation Island season 2.

Who are the couples of 'Temptation Island' season 2?

Kaylee and Summit

Kaylee's Instagram: @kayleeenneedham

Summit's Instagram: @summitwallace

Fashion influencer Kaylee, 24, and fitness coach Summit, 25, dated for a year before arriving on Temptation Island. The pair describe themselves as complete opposites; while Kaylee craves stability and commitment, spontaneous thrill-seeker Summit wants to be "very sure" before settling down. The couple didn't set any rules for themselves ahead of the experience, so they could take the time to figure out what they want out of a relationship.

Did They Leave Temptation Island Together? Yes, Kaylee and Summit stayed together.

Sydney and Mikey

Sydney's Instagram: @thesydneymorgan

Mikey's Instagram: @jussmikey

24-year-olds Sydney and Mikey have been together for a year and a half, after the aesthetician and the live-event host met in college. Sydney is ready for Mikey, a self-described former "player," to grow up and have "emotionally uncomfortable" conversations. While Sydney's looking for Mikey to back up his words with actions, Mikey's afraid that she'll be the one to cheat. Her take? "I’m loyal, but I know my boundaries, so if something happens that breaks that trust, I won’t hesitate to move on."

Did They Leave Temptation Island Together? No, Sydney left Temptation Island with Xzavier.

Scarlett and Cole

Scarlett's Instagram: @scarlettbentley

Cole's Instagram: @colemueller8

Marketing whiz Scarlett, 29, and real-estate agent Cole, 27, have spent two years building a life together, from collaborating on projects to going on runs and hitting the gym. Their trust issues stem from Cole's habit of telling small lies to avoid confrontation. As they head into Temptation Island with strict rules ("Nothing physical with the singles. No cheating. Have fun but be respectful."), the pair hopes to strengthen their communication and repair that trust.

Did They Leave Temptation Island Together? No, Scarlett and Cole each left Temptation Island alone.

Shyanne and Jack

Shyanne's Instagram: @shyanne.blankenship

Jack's Instagram: @jackk.mason

Entrepreneurs Jack, 25, and Shyanne, 23, first got together in high school; five years later, Shyanne describes Jack as her "first great love and first big heartbreak." Though Shyanne forgave Jack after he cheated three years ago, the trust never seemed to be fully repaired—especially since Shyanne found out about the infidelity by snooping in his phone. The couple hopes to move on and be loyal to each other, but Shyanne admits that it'll be a "miracle" if they can make it past temptation.

Did They Leave Temptation Island Together? No, Shyanne and Jack each left Temptation Island alone.

Who are the men of 'Temptation Island' season 2?

Bradley

Age: 30

Occupation: Bartender

Fun Fact: "My biggest turn-on in a woman is emotional intelligence."

Instagram: @bradward_3

Braeden

Age: 25

Occupation: Sales associate

Fun Fact: "The wildest thing I’ve ever done is getting freaky in a fitting room."

Instagram: @braedenhollidayy

Clint

Age: 27

Occupation: Model / Influencer / Entrepreneur

Motto: "If a connection can be broken, it’s already loose…and I don’t mind being the one that proves it."

Instagram: @clintsmitty

Donny

Age: 28

Occupation: Actor / Model

Fun Fact: "I was recently named Mister Kentucky USA."

Instagram: @donny.aviles

Ethan

Age: 23

Occupation: Acrobat

Motto: "In my day-to-day life, I catch stares and smiles."

Instagram: @mac.cirque

Kai

Age: 29

Occupation: Software company CEO

Fun Fact: "I used to play video games professionally, but girls didn’t think that was cool, so I quit."

Instagram: @kaistone808

Kris

Age: 28

Occupation: Personal trainer

Motto: "I’m more about connection than just attention. If there’s chemistry, I lean into it. If there’s not, I’m not forcing anything."

Instagram: @kristelhami

Malik

Age: 28

Occupation: Artist

Fun Fact: "My biggest turn-on is good eye contact and my biggest turn-off is bad hygiene."

Instagram: @malik_quisenberry

Peter

Age: 29

Occupation: Consultant

Motto: "I’m naturally charismatic and easy to talk to, so people tend to gravitate toward me. I don’t go out of my way to tempt anyone, but my personality and confidence definitely get attention."

Instagram: @petercipriano1

Preston

Age: 26

Occupation: Sportstech entrepreneur

Motto: "I’ve never let a goalie stop me from scoring. Honestly, if I can take your girl, I’m doing you a favor."

Instagram: @prestonviltz

Xzavier

Age: 26

Occupation: Product manager

Fun Fact: "My biggest turn-on is a great smile and laugh, and I appreciate someone with good music taste. A major turn-off for me is someone who is unkind to others or takes themselves too seriously."

Instagram: @xzavierodom25

Zach

Age: 25

Occupation: Medical marketing

Motto: "If I had a warning label, it would say, 'Warning: I bite.'"

Instagram: @zacharyguzman

Who are the women of 'Temptation Island' season 2?

Carter

Age: 23

Occupation: Bartender / Bottle service

Motto: "I’m here to have fun, flirt a little, and enjoy every second…and if I happen to find a real connection (or two or three), I’m definitely not mad at it."

Instagram: @cartererin19

Christelle

Age: 26

Occupation: Property management

Motto: "I am Haitian American and can be spicy but super sweet!"

Instagram: @itshaitianbarbie

India

Age: 24

Occupation: Consultant

Motto: "My personality and physical attributes are very tempting on their own—everything about me speaks for itself. It’s usually hard for people to resist me without me having to do too much."

Instagram: @indiaakelly

Jesenia

Age: 28

Occupation: Content creator

Motto: "I’m not going in with the intention of breaking anyone up…I’m just focused on being myself and making genuine connections."

Instagram: @seniaax3

Julianne

Age: 26

Occupation: Marketing / Model

Motto: "It's usually easy for me to get a guy I want, but I’m not usually the one chasing."

Instagram: @julianne_herring

Kennedi

Age: 25

Occupation: Flight attendant

Motto: "I really just want to get the most out of life and not take everything so seriously."

Instagram: @kmc.kbull

Lexy

Age: 29

Occupation: Nightlife / Content creator

Motto: "The world starts to reward you when you leave behind people, places, and things that no longer serve your best interest."

Instagram: @lexy.puhlick

Lulu

Age: 24

Occupation: Model / Private jet flight attendant / Influencer

Motto: "Naturally, I do fit the role of temptress because I’m so sexy and a Playboy Bunny, but I’m actually a lover girl."

Instagram: @theluluwilliams

Maya

Age: 24

Occupation: Digital creator

Motto: "I’m someone who speaks my truth and goes after what I want, so heads up, I’m not afraid to keep it real."

Instagram: @mayaallegra02

Sindi

Age: 27

Occupation: Bartender

Motto: "Sometimes I don’t even notice when I’m flirting."

Instagram: @sindiceta

Sydney

Age: 25

Occupation: Endodontic assistant

Motto: "All the couples came to the island for some reason or another. They chose to be here, so I think they should stand on business."

Instagram: @sydneywwilliamss

Tiffany

Age: 28

Occupation: Director of Marketing / Photographer

Fun Fact: "As a Leo, I’m a magnet for attention. I’m also a Libra rising, which makes me a huge flirt."

Instagram: @tiffanyyoconnor

Amid long-running Netflix shows like Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum, Age of Attraction felt like a bit of fresh air when it premiered in spring 2026. The all-new reality show, hosted by Nick Viall and Natalie Joy, put a new spin on the LIB format by focusing on a much-discussed topic: age-gap relationships. After meeting at a retreat, six couples with double-digit age gaps returned to the real world and met each other's friends and family, before deciding whether to commit to each other, societal expectations be dammed.

Despite that wild premise, Age of Attraction offered a more mature take on the typical dating-show drama, and even ended in some lasting relationships (and an engagement!). Of course, there is still messiness, as age gaps of up to 35 years can bring a bit of tension. Now that season 1 has wrapped up, it's time to look toward the show's future. Read on for everything we know about Age of Attraction season 2 so far.

Has 'Age of Attraction' been renewed for season 2?

On March 31, 2026, Netflix announced that Age of Attraction will return for a second season. The news came the day before the season 1 reunion arrived on "The Viall Files" podcast. Per the streamer, the inaugural season stayed in Netflix’s English TV Top 10 throughout its release, and also charted in 26 countries.

"We love concepts that are impossible to look away from, and Age of Attraction nailed that from day one," executive producers Jennifer O’Connell and Rebecca Quinn told Tudum. "It’s messy, it’s real, and that’s what makes it fun to watch. Huge thanks to Netflix for embracing this dating experiment with us. The response has been incredible, and we’re excited to push it even further in season 2."

When will 'Age of Attraction' season 2 come out?

It's too early to tell when a new season of Age of Attraction will arrive, but Netflix is known to act quickly when it knows it has a hit unscripted series on its hands. For example, after Temptation Island's smash-hit debut in March 2025, season 2 followed just one year later. If Age of Attraction follows a similar trajectory, the dating show could be back by spring 2027.

Where will the 'Age of Attraction' season 2 location be?

Upon its debut, Age of Attraction quickly joined the ranks of reality shows that inspire viewers's next getaway. Though Netflix hasn't given any word, season 2 will likely also be filmed in Whistler and Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. For anyone wondering, the initial dating retreat took place at Brew Creek Centre in Whistler, before production moved to Vancouver locales like Queen Elizabeth Park and Pemberton Valley.

Spoilers for all episodes of Love Overboard ahead. Hulu's new reality show Love Overboard is just what we need among the current dating-show landscape: something frothy, hot, and unserious. Hosted by Gabby Windey and produced by Alex Cooper, the series drops 22 beautiful singles onto a mega-yacht off the coast of Malta, where four couples get to live the life of leisure as Topsiders, and the rest have to live below and serve them as Downsiders. Through challenges and dates, the Downsiders can fight for the chance to claim one of the eight Topside spots. And yes, if a Downsider shoots their shot and forms a love triangle, someone will have to go overboard.

After eight episodes of flirting and scheming, three couples were left in the running for the grand prize, a trip around the world worth $100,000. When it was time to choose the most compatible couple, Gia Aldisert and Tim Demirjian received the cast's votes. Though it took them a bit to couple up, their growing bond left the cast predicting they'd have a great future together.

So, what happened to Gia and Tim after winning Love Overboard? Read on for everything to know about the couple, including whether they're still dating a year after the show (and whether they've gone on that prize vacation).

What are Gia Aldisert and Tim Demirjian's ages and jobs?

Though they grew up on opposite sides of the country, both Gia Aldisert and Tim Demirijian have entrepreneurial mindsets. 30-year-old Tim grew up outside of Boston; he now lives in L.A. as a content creator and the co-founder and CEO of all-natural vodka-seltzer brand Dezo.

Meanwhile, 23-year-old Gia is a luxury realtor and influencer known for her TikTok advice. Not only did Gia have a following before joining Love Overboard, but it also turns out the reality-TV world is surprisingly small. She's the best friend and former roommate of Iris Kendall from Love Island USA season 7.

What happens to Gia and Tim on 'Love Overboard'?

Upon boarding the Chakra, Gia and Tim have different trajectories. Tim gets to pair up with Enna and stay Topside, but unlucky Gia is sent to the Downside. As Tim's getting to know Enna, Gia forms a connection with another Downsider, Beau. Still, Tim and Gia find chances to chat when she comes to the deck to serve meals, much to the dismay of Enna.

In episode 2, the dynamics flip during a Sink or Swim challenge, where the men get a chance to "rescue" the Topside women. Andrew successfully saves Enna, but he quickly tells her he's interested in bringing Sofia up with him. When she's given the chance to stay topside with Andrew or go downside with Tim, Enna chooses to keep her spot topside, since she knows Tim has a wandering eye. In the same challenge, Beau saves Lexi, who chooses to go Downside with her man, James. So Beau chooses to bring Gia to the Upside.

Of course, in episode 3, Tim lays on the charm with Gia and receives a date card from host Gabby. In a confessional, Gia admits that her and Tim's humor matches, and they can talk for hours, while Beau appeals to her because he's so calming. During their grape-stomping winery date, Gia draws a line at kissing Tim out of respect for Beau, though she's "dying" to kiss him. They later chat over wine about their "immediate" spark, as Tim asserts that he's done with his fuckboi era and ready to settle down.

Gia's extremely torn before that night's plank ceremony, and even cries that someone's going to end up getting hurt. As Beau and Tim stand 30 feet over the ocean, Gia says, "I'm struggling right now with the battle of my head and my heart. In the past, I've always gone with my head. Today I'm gonna be going with my heart." After she dumps Beau (literally), Tim hugs her as she cries and tells her, "I promise you, I'm not going to hurt you."

The rest of Love Overboard is mostly smooth sailing for the couple, as other cast members bring the drama (cough David, Val, and Lo cough). Even during the beach party with the exiles, Gia and Beau only talk to get closure. There is a hiccup when Tim's fuckboi tendencies come out during a game of spin the bottle, but he listens to Gia's concerns. He even cries during a confessional when he says he never wants to make her feel disrespected or upset.

In episode 8, they're among the five couples who get to stay on the boat after a compatibility vote. The pair gets to have a date night off the yacht in Malta, but the men also have to go through a dating-show tradition: getting grilled by friends and family. Gia's twin brother, Louie, comes through for a tearful reunion with his sister, and gets directly to it, asking Tim if he's ready for "day-to-day Gia" rather than yacht Gia. We don't hear Tim's answer, but when Gia later tells Louie that Tim told her he was falling in love with her, Louie responds, "Was he drinking champagne?" (Love Louie. Stan Louie.) Louie does give Gia his blessing, but he's very realistic about them possibly being a fling.

In Love Overboard's ninth and final episode, the final three couples are narrowed down to Gia and Tim, David and Val, and James and Lexi. The debates about who should win get pretty brutal; David even votes against Gia and Tim because they haven't had sex yet. (Gia's furious response is legendary.) The final decision comes down to the exiled cast's votes, and when it's all over, Gia and Tim walk away with the prize trip.

Are Gia and Tim still together after 'Love Overboard'?

Though all episodes of Love Overboard landed on Hulu on March 26, Gia and Tim, it took a week for the pair to drop a big hint about their relationship status. On April 1, the pair shared a throwback clip from last Halloween, where they wear couples vampire costumes as Tim lip-syncs to "My Chick Bad" by Ludacris. Though the date of the post is suspect, they've since shared more couples content, so it looks like they're still going strong.

A few days earlier, Tim gave an interview to PEOPLE where he coyly spoke on their relationship. "Obviously, a lot happened on that boat that was incredible and amazing, and a lot of stuff has happened post-show, post-boat, real life that's been equally amazing," he said, adding, "[Gia] lives down the street from me so, yeah, we spend a lot of time together."

Tim also revealed that the pair haven't actually gotten to go on their prize trip, but that they plan to "very soon."

"As far as the trip — that end montage of all the photos and stuff was really just a funny gag thing that we did with production. We were just going through Malta and eating a bunch of food and taking fun pictures. ...From after filming until now, we had to keep a lot of things very much under wraps. [Now] we can plan the trip."