Fancy Island USA Season 7 Winners Revealed
Fancy Island USA unveiled its season seven winners on the July 13 finale after it got right here down to castmates Amaya Espinal, Bryan Arenales, Huda Mustafa, Nic Vansteenberghe, Olandria Carthen and extra.
This chronicle contains spoilers for the Fancy Island USA season seven finale.
The United States has formally picked Amaya Papaya.
The sun has situation on this rollercoaster season of Fancy Island USA, and the Peacock relationship unusual crowned its season seven winners on July 13, revealing Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales earned the most votes and walked away with the $100,000 prize.
“Boy, became this a lag,” Amaya said after winning. “But, man, I would enact this lag right through but again if it lawful led me to him.”
“Right here’s a message to all individuals accessible who is misunderstood,” she persevered. “No one must ever be tamed, and that there's continuously someone accessible for you—who's going to love you for you—and like all of your craziness or whoever you is also. Don't ever resolve for no one.”
In the intervening time, islanders Nic Vansteenberghe and Olandria Carthen were the runners-up; Huda Mustafa and Chris Seeley—who determined to lawful be chums—positioned third, whereas Iris Kendall and Pepe Gonzalez got right here in fourth rep.
And even supposing costars Chelley Bissainthe and Ace Greene were shockingly despatched home in the July 11 episode and did no longer arrive to the finale, followers can even fetch to notice them on their screens as soon as extra, because Peacock announced Fancy Island USA will host a reunion special for season seven.
Cohosted by Ariana Madix and Andy Cohen, the special drops Aug. 25 that comprises the winners, fan-favorites and extra bombshells “for an up-shut and non-public survey help at their expertise in the Villa,” in accordance with a press start.
The villa became rocked by several scandals this season, including early exits from day one contestant Yulissa Escobar after resurfaced podcast clips showed her the exercise of racial slurs, to boot to Nic's accomplice Cierra Ortega following alleged screenshots of her the exercise of a racial slur on social media.
“First, I are looking out for to relate regret for the exercise of a observe I had no excellent in the exercise of,” Yulissa wrote in a put up on Instagram in June. “In these clips, I extinct a observe I in no way must’ve extinct, a racial slur. I extinct it ignorantly, no longer fully understanding the burden, history, or difficulty on the help of it. I wasn’t looking out for to be offensive or inferior, nevertheless I acknowledge now that draw doesn’t excuse affect.”
The 27-year-used later situation the file straight about the circumstances surrounding her departure from Fiji, denying the rumor she became eradicated from the villa overnight.
“Hassle twist: I wasn’t dragged out at uninteresting evening,” Yulissa captioned a July 3 TikTok video. “I walked out in grand daylight hours head excessive, lashes on.”
And other than their exits, there were plenty extra bombshell moments that shook the villa. No one can even neglect Huda's explosive breakup with Jeremiah Brown, who became shockingly dumped from the island alongside Hannah Fields right throughout the June 22 episode.
“I'm worship, ‘This has to be a in unpleasant health shaggy dog chronicle,’” Hannah beforehand advised E! News in an unfamiliar interview. “Of course, I did no longer put together myself for it to be me. When my title became known as, I needed to enact a f–king double take. I'm worship, ‘What enact you imply?’ It honestly blew my thoughts.”
And whereas Hannah said the ladies apologized for vote casting her off, she silent doesn't fully tag the choice to separate her and Pepe, who were coupled up on the time.
“I became pissed off. I judge I had every excellent to be pissed off,” she explained. “I know that that they needed to produce a decision and I know that became a troublesome decision, nevertheless it in no way feels excellent when it's your mates vote casting you out.”
Now, derive right throughout the fire pit and skim on for added steamy secrets from Fancy Island.
(E! and Peacock are each piece of the NBCUniversal household.)
How Fancy Island Comes Together So Rapid
Offered by 85 hidden cameras, there’s a surplus of pictures to be whittled into an hour-long episode on the pause of every day.
But that’s how they roll, with editors taking Monday’s pictures that evening and in an instant turning it into Tuesday’s episode, and lots others.
Fortunately, Fiji—where the US unusual’s first season became situation and where it’s been since season 5—is 16 hours ahead of East Waft time, which suggests a late-evening lift out ability it’s silent the day old to this’s morning in the U.S., giving the team treasured extra hours to fetch the new episode lawful excellent.
“The islanders fetch up, the regulate room [will be] commissioning scenes in accordance with what’s going down,” executive producer Claudine Parrish advised The Wrap in 2024. “They’ll mark them worship, ‘Boys produce breakfast for the ladies,’ and quarter-hour after it’s came about, it’s in our edits—and editor [is] on it and making it into a scene.”
And it takes a village: Parrish said there are about 30 editors and 20 producers, and a chronicle team figures out which moments and conversations needs to be woven together into a elevated chronicle.
Though on occasion, Parrish admitted, what appears tantalizing doesn’t continuously scamper wherever. “We don’t continuously fetch it excellent,” she said. “We’re continuously making that name on, ‘Is that this essential or is this going to swap by the following day?’”
What Raise out Islanders Spend on Fancy Island?
Breakfast is clearly an essential meal of the day on this unusual. And with the guys to blame of getting ready food and low for the ladies on Fancy Island USA, it’s was a subject subject of international fascination.
But what does all individuals eat for lunch and dinner, you request?
Correctly, on a peculiar where the actual food isn’t the purpose (unless it’s undercooked pancakes or your first-ever omelet), it’s no longer a spotlight nevertheless it’s readily accessible.
“There are no longer any menus,” Fancy Island UK season four winner Dani Dyer advised HELLO! in 2021, “it is catering, so obviously breakfast you cook dinner your self, so that it is probably you’ll also have worship eggs, bacon, toast and that roughly stuff.”
Season eight’s Luca Bish had no idea who did the cooking, pronouncing in a July 2023 TikTok it became “some mystery chef out in the sphere somewhere,” and the food became introduced to the villa.
Bish wasn’t if truth be told keen on the food, so, he shared, “More in overall than no longer I would relate I became having, for lunch and dinner, hummus and crisps.”
Males and Ladies Don’t Spend Together on Fancy Island
As a pair of contestants have printed over time, the boys and girls folks eat one after the other, with the exception of on dates.
“We eat with the producers nevertheless it runs worship a boarding college,” Fancy Island UK season three alum Olivia Attwood advised The Sun in 2022. “When now we have dinner, it's worship them telling us we want to neat the bedroom, that laundry day is the following day and asking us what we favor for our breakfast the following day, all lawful things that produce the dwelling mosey smoothly.”
And valuable worship being on a jury, they’re no longer allowed to keep in touch about the case amongst themselves.
“It became angry,” season eight contestant Samuel Agbiji advised Closer in 2024, “because if you happen to’re ingesting you would prefer to keep in touch about what’s occurring, nevertheless that it is probably you’ll’t since it impacts the filming.”
Is There a Drink Limit on Fancy Island?
It’s probably you’ll presumably think that ingesting to flirty extra will seemingly be, if no longer impressed, then no longer frowned upon, nevertheless contestants are restricted to 1 drink per evening, and most tantalizing beer, wine or bubbly.
Given the sequence of a tumbler of crimson or white wine at dinner, Phoebe Siegel of Fancy Island USA’s fourth season said in a June 2024 TikTok, it became “no longer a generous pour.”
When there is what looks to be an inaugurate bar, equivalent to right through a Casa Amor subject accumulate birthday party, Siegel said, the drinks were “fully watered down.”
Who Is That Witty Scottish Announcer on Fancy Island?
Iain Stirling pulls a double shift because the narrator of each Fancy Island UK and Fancy Island USA—and right through filming, he’s also on a excellent time table.
“At 12 in the afternoon U.K. time, I’d scamper on-line to Fancy Island UK,” the Scottish comic detailed to TODAY in 2024. “By that time, the unusual’s all nevertheless completed. Then we'd write for two or three hours. Done by about 4, half of 4. Then I'd fetch a child dinner, bathtub time, mattress time—I’d love for it to be extra rock ‘n’ roll than that, nevertheless that became my existence. Then I’d have some food, and then I would scamper on-line to Fancy Island USA at half of past 8, which is on the general early Fiji time.”
Stirling watches a tough reduce from home over Zoom, exec producer Parrish explained to The Wrap, and he and the writers are “lawful looking out at comic things in the scene, or reminders of what’s came about in the chronicle, that gets recorded…at home on his microphone.”
His narration is added to the episode sooner than the episode is disbursed to Peacock’s legals and standards team (which does on occasion have notes that require final-minute changes).
“We’d attempt to attend out by about 12 or 1 in the morning, then I’d find yourself till half of to three — which is silent no longer the pause of the present for the U.S.,” Stirling advised TODAY. “In a dream world, I’d be staying up ‘til worship, 5, 6, in the morning, nevertheless that may perhaps on the general remember me in no way drowsing.”
Proof that the franchise can set aside a eternally bond: Stirling married aged Fancy Island UK host Laura Whitmore in 2020 and to boot they welcomed a daughter in March 2021.
How Does Fancy Island Pick out Its Music Soundtrack?
From the outlet strains of Janelle Monae’s “Homicide Me Feel” to the unusual’s first price theme track, “From Fiji With Fancy” by The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra and your complete pop songs cued in between, the Fancy Island USA song has was a complete vibe.
“It if truth be told became seeing Fancy Island UK for the first time where I became worship, ‘Oh, it lawful is a leveling up of truth and how we can pronounce tales if you happen to can even have this non-public connection to a pop track and likewise you come right through it extinct in context of a chronicle that you just’re staring at on TV,” Fancy Island USA executive producer James Barker advised Rolling Stone in a June 2025 interview. “I judge that right here’s where my brain straight said, ‘One, right here’s unparalleled, and extra presentations needs to be worship this. And two, how enact I work on Fancy Island?”
While songs must be selected to suit the scenario at a moment’s gaze, a song clearance firm goes to work months ahead of time to make certain that, as Barker rep it, an “arsenal of tracks” from the likes of Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX and Olivia Rodrigo are licensed long sooner than they’re wanted.
“We work to fetch hundreds or on occasion thousands of songs ready to scamper, because we don’t know where the chronicle’s going,” Barker explained. “‘OK, this track is going to be mountainous for when someone finally breaks up with someone, or this track is going to be the excellent first-kiss track when that comes up.’”
Is There Music in the Fancy Island Villa?
Ironically, the islanders can’t hear to song in the villa, no longer least on chronicle of the clearance headaches that may perhaps motive, nevertheless also because that will also produce conversations extra difficult for the hidden cameras and microphones to earn.
There are exceptions by reach of songs heard in right time, equivalent to right through clear challenges or a behind-motion dance social gathering—or in the occasion that they fetch into a cab to scamper on a date and the motive force is taking part in song.
How Raise out the Ladies Salvage Their Hair, Nails and Make-up Done on Fancy Island?
To guarantee the ladies feel digicam-ready always, the production affords makeup and pores and skincare gadgets in the dwelling—and obviously they’ll lift their like, nevertheless any sign names on their non-public gadgets will seemingly be lined up in put up-production.
But for added demanding grooming, there are professionals in the combine. “Every two or three weeks we’d have nails, hair, that roughly element carried out,” Fancy Island UK season 5 alum Lucie Dolan advised Capital FM in 2021. “Being in there that long, the nights are very long and no one sees how long they’re, so it is probably you’ll presumably like rather of a down day and rather of a sit down back.”
And on their Saturdays off, “when there’s no longer any unusual on,” aged host Whitmore advised OK!, “their eyelashes and acrylic nails fetch redone.”
Aid in the day, islanders would have to scamper in other locations, nevertheless now the unusual can't have the contestants out in the wild right through filming.
“It looks in the first sequence, [they] left the villa to scamper to a salon to have their hair carried out,” Whitmore said, “nevertheless now, because the unusual is so immense, they’ll’t, so that they’ve a girl who comes in to enact their roots.”
Raise out Fancy Island Producers Manipulate the Hassle?
Producers relate they’re completely stammer to lag the waves of romance.
“We play alongside side what’s going down in right time in the villa,” Fancy Island USA executive producer Ben Thursby-Palmer advised The Wrap in 2024. “If all individuals’s if truth be told contented of their couple, there’s no right camouflage recoupling.” On the flip facet, “In the occasion that they’re all drowsing in varied beds all right throughout the villa…We’ve got to reset and rep them help together.”
The unusual wasn’t scripted “at all,” Fancy Island UK season nine alum Samie Elishi said in an April 2023 YouTube video. But when producers “didn’t motivate us to scamper and focus on alongside with your couple or someone you’re having an argument with or the leisure worship that, then there may perhaps be no unusual. You enact fetch impressed to have clear chats, nevertheless what’s said within them is fully as much as you.”
What Raise out the Fancy Island Telephones Raise out?
Manufacturing affords the islanders telephones for calling and messaging every other, snapping pictures and getting signals about upcoming happenings that are intended to be be taught out loud.
“They supply you with these neatly-liked dinky telephones where that it is probably you’ll textual stammer every other nevertheless no one if truth be told uses them,” Fancy Island UK season two alum Liana Isadora Van Riel advised The Sun in 2019. “They’re most tantalizing if truth be told there for your complete ‘I’ve obtained a textual stammer’ facet.”
In every other case, Fancy Island USA’s Siegel renowned in a TikTok, “It’s probably you’ll presumably also’t Google, that it is probably you’ll’t survey TV, that it is probably you’ll’t fetch admission to your socials, that it is probably you’ll’t textual stammer any one [outside the show].”
Ariana Madix Is Imagined to Remain Neutral on Fancy Island
In the gigantic tradition of truth competition peacemakers, Fancy Island USA host Ariana Madix has to fake she doesn’t feel a reach about what’s unfolding on her survey.
“It’s hard because piece of me needs to jump in there on occasion,” she advised The Wrap in 2024. “But to boot as a host I must be considerably fair, on the least in entrance of them.”
At the similar time, she did weigh in when Andrea Carmona became voted off in season six and Rob Rausch impulsively added that he’d leave alongside with her. Madix gently told him to rethink and he ended up staying.
“I don’t judge that making a immense decision worship that in a highly emotional moment is the actual element to enact,” Madix explained. “Also, piece of me felt worship I desired to name his bluff because I didn’t if truth be told judge that he desired to scamper away.”
Where Are the Cameras on Fancy Island?
“There are no longer any cameramen wherever shut to the islanders,” Madix—who lives in a within sight resort with a search of the villa right through filming—renowned. “There are cameras situation up right through your complete villa, and then there are partitions where they’ve sliders and there are cameramen on the help of the wall that may perhaps well circulation, nevertheless the islanders in no way if truth be told come right throughout the cameramen and there are no longer any areas of the dwelling—other than the grisly worship the lavatory or the bathe—that are blind spots, and so it is probably you’ll presumably judge you’re having a secret conversation in a corner that’s no longer the case.”
Are There Areas of the Fancy Island Villa With No Cameras?
Some other rep with out a cameras: The kitchen pantry where the snacks are, in accordance with Fancy Island UK’s Elishi. Where, she said in her April 2023 video, most tantalizing one individual is allowed in at a time, because “some stuff came about in the pantry with a pair sooner than.”
Are Contestants Given Condoms on Fancy Island?
Multiple Fancy Island UK contestants have shared that there are unusual-branded condoms positioned right throughout the villa and replenished upon request.
Raise out the Bombshells Watch Fancy Island Sooner than Entering the Villa?
Sooner than the bombshells unusual as much as doubtlessly alter the lay of the land, they’re allowed to survey the unusual to brush up on the motion to this point.
Fancy Island UK bombshell Chloe Burrows said on an April 2023 episode of her podcast Chloe vs. The World that they’ll survey every episode with the exception of the one who airs sooner than they fetch there—and then provide their high three choices amongst the unusual islanders.
Why Doesn’t Fancy Island USA Descend Contemporary Episodes on Wednesdays?
While the cameras in no way end filming, the contestants enact fetch one atomize day per week to lawful dangle out.
Which also ability, nonetheless, that the mealtime rule applies, in that there’s no gossiping and any confrontations have to wait till the following day. And, since there are no longer any dates on their off-days, the ladies folks and men can’t fragment beds that evening.
“What happens is if you happen to take your mics off, you’re no longer allowed to keep in touch about the leisure to enact with the unusual,” Kem Cetinay from Fancy Island UK’s third season, advised Britain’s This Morning in 2017. “It’s probably you’ll presumably also all sit down and chat nevertheless they’re barely careful about what you discuss because they’re looking out for to attend it so all individuals at home can come right through and fetch it on video. It’s extra a atomize day from your complete intense games, your complete intense dates, deciding who you worship and don’t worship.”
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