‘love Island Usa’ Winners Amaya And Bryan React To Discovering They’ve Become Tv Darlings

“Love Island USA” winners Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales person emerged arsenic reality TV megastars aft America voted them Season 7’s favourite mates complete nan play — and nan 2 are only just learning conscionable really beloved they’ve become.

The 2 joined TODAY connected Tuesday morning, unrecorded from Los Angeles, for their first TV question and reply since nan show’s finale Sunday night. They conscionable returned to nan U.S. aft spending six weeks isolated successful a luxurious villa successful Fiji, on pinch dozens of different azygous twenty-somethings wished to find love.

Amaya told TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie and Willie Geist that they’re conscionable “digesting” really nan show became a phenomenon.

“I deliberation we haven’t realized really large it is yet,” Bryan said. “Our first calls were to our families. And past we haven’t really checked thing retired different than that. So catching up.”

“It’s amazing, nan support and nan emotion that we have,” Amaya added.

“We person each different (and) support each other. That’s astir important thing,” Bryan said. “Super grateful conscionable proceeding that.”

Amaya, 25, from New York, and Bryan, 28, from Massachusetts, were chosen arsenic winners of “Love Island USA” Season 7, based connected votes by U.S. voters. They became a mates successful nan backmost half of nan season, aft nan celebrated Casa Amor episodes, erstwhile groups of caller formed members — amended known arsenic “bombshells” — are added to nan show to trial connections.

As winners, Amaya and Bryan were fixed a $100,000 prize that they decided to stock betwixt each other. They said connected TODAY really they scheme to usage that money.

“We some want to put it, but we besides want to put it to charity,” Bryan said. “I cognize she wants to do a Thanksgiving drive, and I decidedly want to donate immoderate to intelligence wellness awareness. That’s thing that’s highly important to me. I struggled pinch it arsenic a kid increasing up, truthful I conscionable want to thief kids look their emotions and cognize really to woody pinch them.”

“Love Island USA” is simply a show that airs successful real-time, astir each nighttime of nan week for six weeks — truthful nan events viewers saw successful each section took spot conscionable days before. Dozens of islanders rotated successful and were dumped from nan villa earlier nan finale dwindled down to 4 couples. Those runners-up were Iris Kendall and Pepe Garcia-Gonzalez, Huda Mustafa and Chris Seeley, and Olandria Carthen and Nic Vansteenberghe.

Bryan and Amaya were crowned nan winners — galore acknowledgment to Amaya, who joined nan show early successful Season 7 arsenic a bombshell and captured nan hearts of viewers pinch her animated characteristic and one-liners.

Bryan said connected TODAY that Amaya’s quirks are what drew him to her.

“I retrieve location was a situation wherever they were benignant of trying to dim their ray a small bit,” he said. “The worldly that they were saying are pros to me, (and) what I’m looking for successful my life. And I was like, let’s spot wherever it goes. And present we are now.”