Nothing says Love Island USA reunion like just a little drama — however this season, the most important sparks flew between Andy Cohen and Netflix.
Throughout the extremely anticipated season 7 reunion, Andy put the streamer on blast after contestant Huda Mustafa claimed she wasn’t allowed to speak about her love life. “I can’t discuss my relationships exterior the villa,” Huda informed him, including that there have been “authorized causes” behind her silence. She clarified, “It’s Netflix, I’m not allowed to speak about it.”
Andy regarded shocked and pressed additional, asking, “Netflix received’t allow you to say whether or not you’re courting any person?” He even tried to coax out some particulars, saying, “You have been on a purple carpet with any person….Is that somebody you’re seeing?” However Huda stood agency, refusing to spill. Finally, Andy quipped, “Inform Netflix this was the primary streaming present of the summer time.”
It didn’t take lengthy for Netflix to clap again. The streamer up to date its Twitter bio with a cheeky response: “DON’T @ ME IDK!!!” Followers instantly clocked the transfer, calling it Netflix’s approach of throwing shade proper again on the host.
In the meantime, hypothesis about Huda’s relationship standing has solely grown louder. The 24-year-old North Carolina native, who entered the villa on Day 1, was noticed holding palms in July with fellow actuality star Louis Russell — identified from Too Scorching to Deal with and Good Match. The pair later made a purple carpet debut on the *Weapons* premiere and shared refined TikTok hints, fueling rumors of a budding romance.
The timeline solely provides to the drama. Netflix’s Good Match season 3 was nonetheless airing when Huda and Louis have been seen collectively, and contestants are usually required to maintain courting lives non-public till episodes end dropping. That will clarify the strict silence Huda cited on the reunion.
Nonetheless, the couple hasn’t precisely saved issues low-profile. On Aug. 1, they have been photographed hand-in-hand on the Hollywood Weapons premiere. Weeks later, Huda appeared in Louis’ Instagram content material, with followers noticing her hand in considered one of his music promo movies. The lyrics of his new single, “She Fairly,” additionally raised eyebrows with traces like: “TikTok know she fairly / IG know she fairly / Going viral ’trigger she fairly / They observe ’trigger she fairly.”
Louis’ Good Match companion Sandy Gallagher, nonetheless, wasn’t impressed. On her What’s the Actuality podcast, she admitted she was blindsided: “They fairly actually hit a purple carpet and hard-launched their no matter relationship the day that our present premiered.” She continued, “While you’re on courting reveals, it’s important to hold your courting life on lockdown till the present is completed as a result of it ruins the present.”
Sandy confessed she was “upset” by the way it performed out — not personally, however for the sake of the manufacturing and its viewers. “It was, like, just a little little bit of a aid in a approach, however for the sake of the present, the opposite castmates, our story line and, most significantly, the viewers, I believed it was a very, actually massive slap within the face and a disrespect to the entire manufacturing.”
