By Itzel Luna
“Love Island USA” culminated a tumultuous summer full of explosive breakups and shock exits in its season finale Sunday.
A public vote (spoilers ahead) crowned Amaya Espinal, 25, and Bryan Arenales, 28, as the winning couple of its seventh season.
The Peacock reality series has had a chart-topping run since the season premiered on June 3. “Love Island” brings young singles together in a remote villa in Fiji to explore connections with the ultimate goal of finding love.
Espinal and Arenales formed a connection late in the season, bonding over their shared Latino culture. Espinal, a New York City native, is Dominican, and Arenales is of Puerto Rican and Guatemalan descent, according to his Instagram page.
“I often said how much I wanted to provide that safe place here for you, but little did I know that you would do that for me, too,” Arenales said during his final speech before the
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