The villa simply bought a model new “bombshell” as Ariana Madix makes her Love Island USA debut.
“I can’t imagine i’m popping within the @loveislandUSA villa this week! like … i’m GATHERED across the hearth pit! 🥹,” Ariana, 38, captioned a pic of herself sitting on the sequence’ iconic hearth pit by way of Instagram on Monday, July 24. “You may watch the enjoyable on @peacock 🦚.”
Within the sneak peek snap, Ariana is glowing whereas posing in entrance of the present’s “It Was At all times You” register a white cutout costume with bejeweled accents. Very similar to the islanders, the Vanderpump Guidelines star opted for pure glam and beachy waves, finishing her look with a pair of metallic strappy heels.
The present’s official Instagram additionally teased Ariana’s visitor look on Monday. “I bought a textual content! You may say there’s a sizzling new bombshell coming into the villa, me,” Ariana quips in a promo. “Don’t miss me drop into the villa on an all-new episode of Love Island USA tomorrow solely on Peacock.”
Whereas Ariana sported her identical white look within the promo video, she donned a teal halter mini costume in a Love Island USA Instagram Story video. “I’m so excited. I’m nervous, too,” she tells the present’s social ambassador, Maura Higgins, noting that Love Island is her “favourite present.”
Earlier this month, Ariana introduced she would seem within the actuality sequence’ new season by way of TikTok. At some point prior, it was revealed the Bravo star can be becoming a member of the forged of Dancing With the Stars season 32.
“This season on Dancing With the Stars, we’re going completely mad — mad for Madix,” choose Derek Hough shared on the July 7 episode of Good Morning America, throughout which he joined Ariana in her and Pump Guidelines costar Katie Maloney’s One thing About Her sandwich store to announce the information.
Ariana’s slew of actuality TV appearances come after main drama between her and ex-boyfriend Tom Sandoval on Pump Guidelines season 10. The top of the milestone season centered across the fallout of the previous couple’s breakup — a.ok.a. “Scandoval” — as information broke in March that Tom, 40, cheated on Ariana with their costar Raquel Leviss.
Maura Higgins and Ariana Madix Courtesy of Love Island/Instagram
With filming for season 11 formally underway, producer Alex Baskin questioned whether or not the unfriendly exes will have the ability to keep away from one another throughout manufacturing. “We at all times take care of pushback if totally different events don’t wish to shoot with one another due to strained relations,” Baskin stated in a current interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “Clearly, that is extra excessive. However Ariana and Tom Sandoval, I might hasten to level out, they nonetheless stay collectively.”
He continued: “The concept that they wouldn’t shoot collectively is just a little bit onerous to digest. They’re in the identical house.”
Followers believed Ariana — who has since moved on with boyfriend Daniel Wai — moved out of her and Tom’s house in Could following a social media partnership with the finance firm SoFi. In keeping with Baskin, nonetheless, she has but to formally depart their shared residence.
Baskin went on to state it’s time to “transfer on” from Scandoval. “This present’s by no means been static, and we’d disappoint the viewers if we began simply sleuthing,” he defined. “Everyone seems to be attempting to maneuver on with their lives. If that creeps again in, then it creeps again in.”
