A number of {couples} emerged from Love Island USA Season 5, together with the present’s winners, Hannah Wright and Marco Donatelli, and fourth-place couple Carmen Kocourek and Kenzo Nudo.
Carmen and Keenzo have been Bombshells through the Fiji expertise, with Carmen arriving on the villa just some days in together with Hannah.
She and Hannah entered the sport with a returning Carsten “Bergie” Bergersen, and Carmen appeared to discover a connection immediately.
Nevertheless, it was a shortlived coupling with Victor Gonzalez as issues between them didn’t work out after drama involving Carmen, Victor, and Bergie. Victor was in the end despatched dwelling by a vote, and Carmen informed Bergie she and him have been higher off as buddies.
It wasn’t till Day 10 within the season that Kenzo arrived and have become coupled up with Carmen quickly after. With each islanders dwelling in Arizona, it appeared like an ideal match as they may proceed courting after the present.
Their coupling appeared nearly too coincidental and excellent for some followers and gossip websites. Many steadily referred to as their Love Island USA relationship out on social media through the season, suggesting they already knew each other.
With that in thoughts, they addressed the “wild” rumors, very similar to the present’s winners lately did relating to the validity of their Love Island USA story.
Carmen and Kenzo deal with sudden and ‘wild’ rumors about them
Whereas on the Fijian villa, the Love Island USA contestants are minimize off from the remainder of the world. With no telephones and no method to discover out about any information, they don’t know what is going on on-line.
There was loads of chatter over on-line rumors about Carmen and Kenzo having recognized each other earlier than attending to the villa. The hypothesis was pushed by the very fact they’d been dwelling in the identical state and each labored out on the similar gymnasium in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Nevertheless, they’ve since addressed these rumors, calling them “wild” and shutting down the gossip about them pre-gaming in an try and rip-off the present for TV money and time.
They each answered “No” when requested if they’d recognized one another earlier than they arrived at Love Island USA’s villa in Fiji. In addition they shared that they’d found they’d labored out on the similar gymnasium in Scottsdale through the present, however that dialog was by no means aired.
“It was wild to come out and see all those rumors. We weren’t expecting that,” Carmen informed the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
“There’s nothing we can honestly do,” Nudo stated. “We didn’t know each other. For them to think that and still keep thinking that I don’t know where they’re coming up with all this stuff, but we’re alright.”
“But yeah, no, I don’t really take the hard comments personally,” he stated. “I know what we have going.”
Are Carmen and Kenzo nonetheless collectively after Love Island?
A fan vote decided the Love Island USA 5 winners to be Hannah W. and Marco Donatelli, and the profitable couple obtained $100,000 in prize cash. In the meantime, Carmen and Kenzo completed fourth within the voting, however that didn’t finish the romantic relationship they in-built Fiji.
The 2 are nonetheless courting based mostly on their latest interviews, and their post-show itinerary has included a visit to Disneyland and Carmen’s dwelling in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In her dwelling state, Kenzo is attending to expertise the Milwaukee Public Market and take a look at the Third Ward and Harley-Davidson Museum.
Kenzo stated he was “very happy” he appeared on Love Island USA but in addition indicated that he felt “sooner or later” he and Carmen would have met.
Whereas they didn’t win any cash, Kenzo additionally stated his “prize” was Carmen turning into his girlfriend on the villa and confessed he “could have left” the present then.
“Honestly, all of the couples, we really forgot there was like a prize,” Kocourek informed MJS, including, “All the couples deserved to be there. Whoever won we would have been happy for.”
Love Island USA Season 5 is offered on Peacock.
