After nearly six weeks of recouplings and challenges, four couples made it to the “Love Island USA” Season 8 finale. Here’s who reigned as America’s favorite couple of 2026.
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Another couple has joined the ranks of “Love Island USA” winners.
Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff were revealed to have received the most votes from fans and were thus named the winners of Season 8 during the Sunday, July 12, finale
As confetti fell all around Trinity and Bryce, the runner-up couple, Aniya Harvey and Carl Schmidt, celebrated the fan favorite couples’ win.
Melanie Moreno and Sincere Rhea came in third, and Zach Georgiou and Kayda Bosse were in last place. Of course, the entire cast bookended their stay in the Fiji villa by partaking in the annual tradition of jumping into the scarcely used pool, fully clothed.
The big reveal capped off nearly six weeks of divisive challenges, dramatic recouplings, endless “Corbin GPT” memes and “French fry” references.
What do you win on ‘Love Island?’
Each year, the winning couple takes home a shared prize pot of $100,000.
Bryce and Trinity each netted $50,000 – minus taxes – as they reigned supreme as America’s favorite couple.
Which couples made it to the ‘Love Island USA’ finale?
- Aniya Harvey and Carl Schmidt
- Bryce Dettloff and Trinity Tatum
- Kayda Bosse and Zach Georgiou
- Melanie Moreno and Sincere Rhea
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“Love Island USA” has weathered several controversies in recent years, including one that dropped right before this season premiered at the beginning of June.
Vasana Montgomery, a 25-year-old business owner from Oregon, was removed from the starting cast days ahead of the June 2 premiere after a video of Montgomery appearing to use a racial slur while singing along to a song was made public. The clip came out right after the cast was revealed on May 28.
Days later, Montgomery took to social media to apologize for the videos, which she acknowledged “hurt and upset people.”
Weeks later, Alannah Keyser, a 21-year-old college student from Miami, was ousted on June 25, just days after her debut as a Casa Amor bombshell. Shortly after her debut, a video and screenshots of messages purportedly showing Alannah using a racist slur started circulating on social media. In a Snapchat video recording, she appeared to sing along to a song that uses the word.
She addressed the circumstances around her exit in a June 27 TikTok video, in which she said, “I do want to say directly that I do not support racism or discrimination of any kind, and I never have.” She added, “The video is from six years ago, and that word is just not in my vocabulary.”
Keyser also said that screenshots of messages purportedly showing her using the slur were not real.
