‘Love Island USA’ Host Ariana Madix Unpacks Shocking Casa Amor Return, Spills Tea On Contentious Islander Dumping

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[ThisStoryContainsSpoilersfor[ThisstorycontainsspoilersforLOVE ISLAND USA Season Seven Through Episode 24.]

Ariana Madix May Be The Host of LOVE ISLAND USAbut shee going through all the same imotions as the Viewers WHATHER they’re watching from their couch or any of the watch parties pop.

Following the Success of Season Six of the Peacock Reality Series – Which Became A Cultural Phenomenon – Season Seven Has Big Shoes to Fill. As the New Season Enters ITS FIFTH WEEK, There Have Been Plenty of Jaw-Droping and Emotion Moments, Leaving Nota on Islanders in Shock But Also The Fans.

More Recently, The Girls Returned from Casa Amor (Also Called The Ultimate LOVE ISLAND Test), and some Original Coupples Were Reunned While Other New Couples Were Formed. EITHER WAY, The Vanderpump Rules ALUM, WHO HAS BEEN HOSTING The SINCE SINE SIASON SIX, Admits She Actual Was “Not Surprised” at All by Taylor Choosing New Islander Clarke Over Olendria, Who’s Has Been in The Villa.

As for the New Casa Amor Format this Season, Madix Tells The Hollywood Reporter“I Really Thought It Was Necessary to Shake Things Up. I ALSO LIKE Shaking Things Up Because It Makes It So That Next Season, No One Knows Whats Gonna Hape. don’t want to see anybody pulling anything that we’ve seen before.

Below, Madix Unpacks that Shocking Return of Casa Amor, and Spills “Insider Tea” on the Viral Jeremiah and Hannah Dumping, As Well As Her Thought.

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Going Back to Casa Amor, What Are Your Thought On The New Format this Season?

I’m obsessed with it. IT WAS SO NECESARY BECAUSE IN THE PAST, YOU SEE CASA AMOR PEOPLE Come In, You Barely Get To Know Them And Ten They’re Gone. Or if they brough Back to the Villa, they’re somehow villains, and it feels so unfair to them to have to go through that process. YOU ALSO SOMETIMES SEE ASLANDERS BE LOYAL IN SITUATIONS WHERE SHOULDNN’T, OR NOT REALLY PARTICIPATATE, OR SOMETIMES MAYBE Someone Thinks, “Oh, If I DO CANTER. with Certain Things and Coast Through to the Finale. ”

There’s Been Sprinklings of All of That Thugh So Many Seasons, SO I LOV The FACT THAT WE DID THIS IN A WAY THAT GAVA with. I ALSO LOVE The WAY WE DID IT BECAUSE IT MADE IT THERE WAS NO WAY to Villainize Any One of Them. Everyone’s Gonna Get To Know People; Everyone’s Coupled Up, No One Can Be Pointed Out or Singled Out to Be Villainized or Harassed or Whatever. I Thought It Was Necessary to Shake Things Up.

What was your initial reaction to taylor choosing Clarke Institute of Olandria, and Do You Try to Hide Your Reactions in the Moment of When You’re in the Villa?

I do because i don’t want anyone to feel bama for makeing any type of decision. But at Same Time, If Someone Is Having A Really Hard Time, I TRY TO LET THEM KNOW THAT EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE OK. I was not surprised by that at all thorough (Laughs). That was not shocking. Taylor and Clarke Really, You’re Watching Them Really To Know Each Other and, In My Opinion, Get ImmediaTely Much Closer Than He and Olandria.

I Felt this this was gonna be great for olandria because it was going to free her from Thinking about taylor, for trying to be love to this man who I was hoping that taylor wold make that decision and stand on it because sometimes i feel like he’s a bit wishy-wyshy Liked. I Just Want Him to Say, “Hey, I Feel Really Strongly About Clarke. She’s Who I Want. The End.” So we’ll see how things Progress. Of Course, Things Changed So Fast in that Villa, But I Predicted that.

There’s Also Some Tension Now Between Chelley and Huda After the Heartbeat Challenge on Sunday Night. Some fans are speculating that Viewers Didn’t See All of Huda’s Performance, Which May have a caused the fellow islanders’ shocking reactions. Can You Confirm If There were Anything Cut from Her Turn?

I have no idea. If i was there watching in real time, i would be able to say. But I Only Saw What You Guys Saw, SO I HAVE NO IDEA UNTIL ONE OF THE ISLANDERS MAYBE comes out and Tells US. I was Impressed by the Acrobatics of It All (Laughs).

Do you find it challenging to Balance Playing It Cool WHEN YOU’RE IN THE VILLA, SINCE YOU TECHNICALLY KNOW WHAT AMERICA THINKS, YET the ISLANDERS DON’T?

There have been some moments where it was challenging. There Was The Night That America Voted Whoed They Wanted The Bombshells to Couple Up with, and Obviously the islanders Had No Idea that vote was happering at all, and I knew. I KNEW Iris Was Gonna Be Put with Jeremiah, I Knew Hannah Was Gonna Be Put with Pepe, and I Knew Jalen and Olandria Are Gonna Be Together. I DID NOT KNOW The ISLANDERS WOURT CHOOSE as Far as Who to Send Home. And Even as I was announting the results of America’s vote, My Heart Was Beating Out of My Chest. MOSTLY FOR HANNAH AND CARLIE, BECAUSE I WAS IN THE DRESSING ROOM BEING TOLD I HAD TO WAIT. I was swaped to come in earlier, but hannah and charlie were having this incredible conversing on the Balcony and they’re [producers] Like, “wait just wait a second.” So i’m in full glam, watching on the tv going, “Oh my god. Oh no, this is going to be horrible!”

THEN WHEN [Charlie] Asked me if he could speak, I was like, “yeah, speak. Please.” I was shocked no one else spoke. I Thounght, Oh, He Spoke, He’s Good. They Going to Understand He and Hannah Just Had this Moment. They’re’re totally going to get it. No One’s Gonna Poor for Charlie. ” THEN they voted for Charlie and I Was Trying to Be Cool, But Even Then, I Feel Like You Could See I Was Like, “I’M So Sorry.” And THEN I WANT TO BE LIKE, “Are they Really Sending HIM HOME? CAN HE STAY?” THEN The NEXT TWO EPISODES I DIDNN’T WATCH UNTIL I HAD TO BECAUSE WHEN I GO TO AFTERSUN, USUALLY I’M Watching Them As Soon As I Get Them, But I Had to Wait Beneh and Waita. PEPE. I’m still stuck on Hannah and Charlie. ” And then eventualally, i Need to get over it and i did.

One of the most Controversial Episodes Was Was Hannah and Jeremiah Got Sent Home by their fellow islanders, Leaving Fans UPPET and Calling for them to make a Surprise Roturn.

I’m shocked, too. If you’re moad, who didn’h you vote for him to be your favorite? I’m so confused as to how all of a suudden America was up. I don’t understand (Laughs).

DID YOU AGREE WITH THE DECISION TO SEND THEM HOME?

It’s Tough Because I Think That No Matter What Happens, There’s Always One of these votes of every season that you’re like, “Who did the islanders Choose This Person?” And of Course, People Watching the Show Different Thought Thought and Opinions on the Reasons Who or Whoy Think Should Have Gone Home. Insider Tea: Jeremiah Was The Absolute Last for the Boys. SO if it was just going off of America’s’s vote, he would have a gave gone home anyways. The reasons whoy they chose him to go home as fellow islanders, that i do not know.

I THINK We Always See this Every Season Where Is Not Just About Your Romantic Connections. It’s Your Relationships with The Other Islanders that Also Always Comes Into Play, and You Never Know Who’s Gonna Come Into Play, But It Always Does. We’re Gonna Lose Them All Eventualally (Laughs). Eventuly Everyone’s Gonna Go Home and SomeTimes Is Gonna Be Really Touch, and that’s The Nature of the Show and that’s Who We Love It, Because We Do Fall in Love.

Now the Season Is More Than Halfway Over, Do You Find ItCerning Thats Not The Not Many Strong Couples, and More Newly-Formed Couples?

It is what it is. Our Team Finds the most Amazing People to Put in and You Never Know What’s The Dynamic Gonna Be Until They’re All Together. This person and this person person, you might THINK they’ll hit it off and then they don’t. That is the special sauce to the show is that dynamic that you cannot predict.

This Season Is A Little Bit Different than Last and then Last Season Was A Little Bit Different than the One Before, and I Think That’s What Makes It Fun. We’re Just Here for the Ride and so i’m Enjoying Seeing How Things Are Playing Out. I love that west into casa [Amor] Without Too Many Strong Couples. IT MAKES FOR ANJOYABLE TIME FOR ME AS A VIEWER.

Looking Ahead, Can You Confirm If There’s Going to Be A MOVIE NIGHT AND A Tweet/Social Media Challenge Later This Season?

I have no idea. I Know We Have A Couple of More Weeks Left, and I KNOW that OUR Team Out Here Is Always Pulling Things Out of Their Sleeve, and They Have So Many Plans. SomeTimes Those Plans Are Diabolical, SO WHO KNOWS WHAT’S TO COME? I have no idea.

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LOVE ISLAND USA Season seven is currently streaming on peacock.