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Warning: Love Island USA Season 6 spoilers forward. They formally closed off their relationship in week 4, however are Kendall and Nicole nonetheless collectively after Love Island USA Season 6? Their off-camera drama might pose an issue.
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Kendall Washington, a 27-year-old from Dallas, Texas, and Nicole Jacky, a 26-year-old from Sacramento, California, have been one in every of 4 {couples} within the Love Island USA Season 6 finale, together with Kordell and Serena; Leah and Miguel; and JaNa and Kenny. Kendall was an authentic islander who entered the villa on day one, whereas Nicole was a bombshell who arrived on day six.
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Kendall and Nicole coupled up on the fourth recoupling after Kendall’s breakup together with his authentic companion, Hannah Smith. They remained collectively till the Love Island USA Season 6 finale, the place they have been introduced because the fourth place finalists, and even made it official within the fourth week after Kendall requested Nicole to be his girlfriend.
Kendall and Nicole have been additionally one in every of two {couples} who bought alone time within the hideaway. (JaNa and Kenny have been the second couple.) Although Kendall and Nicole gave the impression to be probably the most strong {couples} on Love Island USA Season 6 and the one couple within the finale to not recouple as soon as, what followers (and Kendall’s ex-girlfriend) assume is one other query.
Are Kendall and Nicole nonetheless collectively from Love Island USA Season 6?
Kendall and Nicole additionally confirmed they have been nonetheless collectively throughout the Love Island USA Season 6 reunion, the place Nicole revealed they have been on the rocks after Kendall lied to her a couple of nude video leak that occurred after the finale. Nicole claimed that Kendall informed her the video was despatched to an ex-girlfriend from years in the past earlier than admitting that it was to a random particular person on a relationship app at a lodge earlier than he went on Love Island.
Kendall additionally revealed he and Nicole have been nonetheless collectively—for now—in an interview on “The Viall Information” podcast on July 30, 2024, although he didn’t know on the time whether or not they would nonetheless be collectively by the point of the Love Island USA Season 6 reunion on August 19, 2024.
“Nicole and I actually wish to simply work on what now we have at present and modify that to actual life,” Kendall mentioned. “Proper now, outdoors the villa, sure, we’re collectively, and it’s simply an adjustment of, ‘OK, what’s our life? How can we make this work on the skin?’”
In the course of the interview, Kendall confirmed that he and Nicole have continued to make use of the “love” phrase with one another—which they first informed one another within the Season 6 finale—and that their relationship “for certain” felt totally different outdoors of the villa. “We’re actually simply taking it day-to-day as a result of being within the public eye and seeing everybody’s opinions, it impacts individuals in a different way,” Kendall mentioned. “After I see any adverse feedback about me or Nicole and me, I simply brush it off. However Nicole takes issues in a different way.”
When requested whether or not he thought he and Nicole would nonetheless be collectively by the point of the Love Island USA Season 6 reunion, Kendall informed the podcast. “It’s not 100 I’d say as a result of there’s no ensures on what is going to occur. I don’t know the longer term. I don’t know what’s going to occur in every week or a day. It will likely be a lie if I mentioned 100% probability as a result of I simply don’t know. However I consider that when now we have these conversations, it could actually go properly.”
That very same week, Nicole additionally shared an Instagram Story during which she requested followers for his or her understanding amid claims she used Kendall to get to the finale of Love Island USA Season 6. “A few of you may have observed that I’ve been quiet and never posting a lot so simply needed to supply an replace,” Nicole wrote. “Whereas Love Island was a tremendous expertise, issues haven’t been simple since leaving the villa.”
She continued, “There’s rather more to share on what has occurred since coming house, and for now, I’ve been taking time to course of – these are actual emotions and my actual life. Thanks for understanding. Love y’all.”
Kendall and Nicole’s feedback are a stark distinction to their interview with Us Weekly the day after the Season 6 finale aired, during which they revealed their plans for his or her relationship now they have been again in the true world. (Kendall and Nicole additionally observe one another on Instagram, on the time of writing.)
“[Sacramento] will not be far. It’s good that she lives in California as a result of I’ve quite a lot of household there — my sister and my mother are in California,” Kendall mentioned, referring to Nicole’s hometown, which he described as a “three- [or] four-hour airplane trip” from his hometown of Dallas. “So it’s a win-win state of affairs after I go there, I get to see Nicole and I additionally get to see my household.I do know my household finally desires me to maneuver again to California so my mother, particularly, is worked up that Nicole is from there.”
Nicole additionally confirmed that she and Kendall had moved previous their awkward second within the finale the place he informed her “I like you” and he or she didn’t say it again. “Kendall caught me without warning on the date. I’m not gonna lie. These phrases imply lots to me. I simply don’t say them to anyone,” she mentioned. “I simply wanted a second to course of it. It’s scary. I don’t know if anybody else on the market can relate, however these phrases, they imply lots. I’ve been burned prior to now, and I believe by the point the finale got here and I’m writing my speech, that’s while you go away all of it on the desk. I didn’t wanna have any regrets. And I’ve identified how I felt about Kendall for a very long time, so I did my massive one. I simply mentioned it. It scared the residing s–t outta me, however it’s good to know that it’s reciprocated and all is properly and I actually couldn’t be happier.”
Kendall added, “She’s a more durable shell and that’s one of many the explanation why I do love her and why it was simply such a giant second for us. I’ll all the time do not forget that.”
After the Love Island USA Season 6 finale, followers speculated that Kendall and Nicole weren’t collectively after they have been lacking from a TikTok video a fan shared of the opposite three Love Island USA Season 6 {couples}—Kordell and Serena, Leah and Miguel, and JaNa and Kenny—at a restaurant after filming ended. Kendall and Nicole’s lacking look was seemingly because of his nude video leak.
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A nude video of Kendall leaked on Twitter the day of the Love Island USA Season 6 finale, which led followers to name on the present to guard him, which will be the motive why he and Nicole weren’t seen in public like the opposite closing {couples}. Kendall’s sister, Taylor Washington, additionally shared an Instagram Story calling on Love Island USA to deal with Kendall’s psychological well being. “I should not have the capability to answer everybody individually however I recognize everybody reaching out involved about Kendall’s psychological well being. I’m too,” she wrote. “@LoveIslandUSA I actually hope y’all have critical psychological well being sources in place for him so he doesn’t come again from the excessive of this expertise to seeing he’s been unfairly uncovered on high of the overall actuality TV backlash. If y’all have a historical past of suicide from individuals in your present, I’d actually hope you all get a deal with on this expeditiously.”
Kendall additionally addressed the nude video leak himself in his first Instagram Story since getting back from Love Island USA. “What a approach to get my cellphone again y’all,” he wrote. “I simply wish to tackle the content material that got here out from my previous. That was one thing I shared to somebody in confidence and belief. It’s unlucky that it’s not personal however it’s what it’s.”
Not a lot time has handed since when the Love Island USA Season 6 finale filmed and when it aired. The Love Island USA Season 6 finale aired on July 21, 2024, whereas voting ended for the winner on July 19, 2024. That meant that, on the time the episode made it on Peacock, the ultimate 4 {couples}, together with Kendall and Nicole, had solely been out of the villa for a day or two. Coye Simmons, an authentic contestant on Love Island USA Season 6, additionally confirmed to The Solar that episodes air solely a “matter of days” after they’re filmed.
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The chances for Kendall and Nicole’s relationship, sadly, don’t look the perfect. Solely three {couples} from Love Island USA’s previous 5 seasons are nonetheless collectively on the time of writing: Marco and Hannah (Season 5 winners); Bergie and Taylor (Season 5 finalists); and Kyra and Will (Season 3 runners-up),
Distance can also be a primary motive that many Love Island USA {couples}—in addition to {couples} cross the franchise internationally—break up after leaving the villa. Kendall is from Dallas, Texas, whereas Nicole is from Sacramento, California. That mentioned, it’s potential for Kendall and Nicole to make it work. All three of the Love Island USA {couples} who’re nonetheless collectively in the present day are from totally different states—and even totally different nations. Marco is from Ohio, whereas Hannah is from California; Bergie is from Minnesota, whereas Taylor is from California; and Kyra is from Hawaii, whereas Will is from Colombia. As compared, Texas to California is lots much less additional than a few of these distances.
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One other benefit is that Kendall is an authentic islander who arrived within the villa on day one, whereas Nicole entered as a bombshell lower than every week in a while day 6. Of the three Love Island USA {couples} who’re nonetheless collectively now, all three of them have not less than one member who’s an authentic islander.
The largest impediment to Kendall and Nicole staying collectively, nonetheless, might be Kendall’s alleged ex-girlfriend, Miami Dolphins cheerleader, Ariana McClure, who shared a since-deleted TikTok claiming that Kendall broke up together with her to go on Love Island USA Season 6. “Me realizing that his karma for ending it with me to go on Love Island is having to say my identify each time he sees the host,” Ariana wrote in a TikTok video.
Although Ariana didn’t verify that her ex-boyfriend was Kendall, many followers speculate that he was the ex she was referring to due to the place Kendall’s hometown is. Previous to cheerleading for the Miami Dolphins, Ariana was a cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys based mostly in Dallas, Texas, the place Kendall is from. Although Kordell, who was coupled up with Serena, and Kenny, who was coupled up JaNa, are additionally from Dallas, Kendall is the one Love Island USA Season 6 contestant to observe Ariana on Instagram, in accordance with TikTok account @therealkatherine. “This makes me consider that this TikTok is 100% about Kendall,” the account mentioned. He’s taking part in Nicole in order that he’ll win. I don’t assume he truly likes her which makes me so unhappy as a result of I like Nicole. She deserves higher.”
Customers on Reddit additionally speculated that Kendall is Ariana’s ex-boyfriend as a result of he additionally follows Ariana’s sister and good friend. The consumer additionally cited Netflix’s docuseries, America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, during which Ariana talks about her different profession in medical system gross sales, the identical business that Kendall works in.
“If Kendall has no haters, I’m useless. This man is SO FAKE and he’s actually been bouncing and giddy by way of all his pals’ breakdowns. He def thinks he’s ‘high canine’ due to his relationship with Nicole being the one strong one in the home, however I believe they’re pretend af and a boring couple,” a Reddit consumer wrote.
One other consumer added, “He isn’t even good at hiding it at this level… He thinks he’s lots smarter than he’s. And the message that he’s pushing is definitely fairly dangerous. It annoys me that they maintain giving him the display time. PLEASE don’t vote for this clown. He has to go.”
Love Island USA is offered to stream on Peacock.