NEED TO KNOW
- Iris Kendall and Pepe Garcia-Gonzalez confide in ipromiseyoumedia about their plans for the long run
- After followers noticed Iris and her ex TJ Palma meet up when she returned house from the present, she shuts down hypothesis that they’re getting again collectively
- She and Pepe additionally share that they aren’t relationship different individuals to allow them to deal with their relationship outdoors of the villa
Iris Kendall is clearing the air about her present — and previous — relationships.
Nonetheless a brand new couple, Iris, 25, and Pepe Garcia-Gonzalez got here in fourth within the Love Island USA season 7 finale. Now, they inform ipromiseyoumedia that they’re “excited” for the long run as they be taught to navigate their relationship in the actual world.
“Clearly, with how all the things blew up, we’re simply attempting to make it as regular as potential and take issues like we usually would have two months in the past,” Pepe, 27, explains.
Their pairing got here as a shock to some viewers, who beforehand noticed Pepe coupled up with Hannah Fields and Iris with TJ Palma.
Whereas Hannah’s exit occurred mid-season, it wasn’t till TJ was voted off by his fellow islanders simply 10 days earlier than the ultimate episode that Iris was left single and determined to discover a reference to Pepe.
“TJ and I had an incredible connection within the villa, and it was actual, and it was very heartbreaking for me,” Iris recollects. “I used to be undoubtedly unhappy about it, and I cried for days, and I felt very heartbroken and upset with my pals for not standing behind me. And it felt like my solely expertise that I had in right here up to now that it was ripped away from me.”
Hours after returning house from Fiji, TMZ captured a video of an emotional reunion between Iris and TJ.
Whereas followers speculated that the previous couple had been rekindling their romance, Iris reveals what really went down.
“I needed him to know that, mics off, no cameras round, this was actual, but additionally what I’ve with Pepe is actual as nicely,” she shares of the meet-up. “I simply wanted to get that closure with him and have that dialog, as a result of I do care about him, and I believe that he was undoubtedly owed a dialog. And I have never watched any of the episodes, so I do not know what he has seen, however I simply wanted to say — I am all about honesty, and I believe being upfront with individuals is one of the simplest ways to go.”
“I believe it is good to get issues off your chest, and that is one thing I at all times stay by, and I needed to try this with him,” she provides.
Iris admits “it didn’t seem to be time glided by” between TJ’s exit and transferring on with Pepe, however she says that was not the case.
Nonetheless, she understands why followers proceed to root for her and Pepe to get again along with their earlier companions on the present.
“I believe it was anticipated,” she notes. “We knew that it was going to occur, and I knew what to anticipate, and it isn’t awkward in any respect. All of us love one another.”
“Yeah, all the things’s cordial,” Pepe says of their relationships with their costars. “All the pieces we did within the villa was out of as a lot respect as we might have in these moments of excessive emotion. And even transferring outdoors the villa, it is the identical factor. It is simply respect and love.”
Trying ahead, Pepe and Iris say they aren’t relationship different individuals, though they don’t really feel the necessity to put a label on their standing.
“We each date in very comparable methods,” Pepe explains. “We simply need to deal with one individual proper out the wave, or if the wave simply continues to go, then simply be collectively, however simply be completely happy. That is all we care about for one another. And like she simply stated, we’re each very sincere with all the things. So simply take pleasure in time collectively. It is arduous to take pleasure in time with one individual and provides that one individual your all if you’re speaking to any individual else.”
“We simply need to be collectively and hang around collectively and simply see what occurs,” he continues. “Attempt to take it as regular as potential.”
By no means miss a narrative — join ipromiseyoumedia’s free day by day group to remain up-to-date on the most effective of what ipromiseyoumedia has to supply, from movie star information to driving human curiosity tales.
Love Island USA season 7 may be streamed in full on Peacock.