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One other season of Love Island USA has come to conclusion.
On Sunday night time, Peacock aired the newest finale of this actuality sensation, with host Ariana Madix revealing the grand prize winners to the viewers.
Anybody on the market care to begin a drumroll?
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In the long run, Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales acquired essentially the most votes and have been named season 7 champions.
Nic Vansteenberghe and Olandria Carthen have been the runners-up, whereas Huda Mustafa and Chris Seeley got here in third place and Iris Kendall and Pepe Garcia-Gonzalez completed in fourth.
When it got here right down to determine who received the $100,000 money prize, Bryan let Amaya decide the primary envelope from Madix… which contained no cash.
From there Bryan opened the $100,000 envelope, however he agreed to separate the money prize evenly with Amaya. What a man, huh?!?
In celebration, Amaya received the “zoomies” one final time, as Madix referred to it — after which the entire solid jumped within the pool to mark the ultimate night time of their time in Fiji.
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This was a time that was not with out controversy.
Not lengthy earlier than the finale aired, Cierra Ortega left Love Island as a result of backlash she acquired over racially insensitive feedback from a number of years in the past.
“I am deeply, truly, honestly, so sorry. I had no idea that the word held as much pain as much harm, and came with the history that it did, or I never would have used it,” the 25-year previous not too long ago mentioned on social media. “I had no ill intention when I was using it. But that’s absolutely no excuse, because intent doesn’t excuse ignorance.”
This mea culpa got here within the wake of previous submit made by Ortego that not too long ago went viral.
In it, the content material creator references her eyes, utilizing a racial slur on the time that has been used to denigrate the Asian group.
Cierra Ortega addresses her exit from Love Island USA. (Instagram)
The Ortega scandal and quasi firing passed off few weeks after Yulissa Escobar additionally departed the identical Peacock actuality program after we discovered she had mentioned the N-word throughout two separate podcast appearances.
Nonetheless, Espinal and Arenales had 100,000 causes to be grateful when all was mentioned and completed.
“I feel like I’m flying in the sky right now. To feel so seen and validated and for people to see how powerful our connection is… And like, boy, was this a ride, here on Love Island,” Amaya mentioned on the finale.
“But this, man, I would do this ride all over again if it led me to him,”
Bryan, for his half, added:
“I don’t even know how to put it into words. Meeting Amaya here turned my experience around ridiculously. I’m so thankful to meet this person. I would do this experience a hundred times over. It feels surreal.”
