{"id":72,"date":"2026-08-26T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:00:00","slug":"love-island-usa-renewed-for-season-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love Island USA&#8217; renewed for season 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-08-26\/E_LoveIslandUSA_071326.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff are crowned the winners of &#8216;Love Island USA&#8217; season 8. (Ben Symons\/Peacock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I got a text! It says that <em>Love Island USA<\/em> has been renewed for season 9 on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>Emmy nominee Ariana Madix is set to return as the host of the popular reality dating competition series in the ninth season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Love Island USA<\/em> follows singles who go on a search for love while living in a Fijian villa. &#8220;Throughout their stay in a tropical oasis, Islanders will couple up to face brand new heart-racing challenges and bigger twists and turns than ever before,&#8221; according to an official synopsis. &#8220;Temptations rise and drama ensues as new &#8216;bombshells&#8217; arrive, forcing Islanders to decide if they want to remain with their current partners or recouple with someone new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Love Island USA<\/em> season 8 ended its run on July 12. Fan-favorite contestants Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff were crowned the winners.<\/p>\n<p>The season 8 Islanders are set to reunite at the <em>Love Island USA<\/em> reunion special, which will be co-hosted by Madix and Andy Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>According to Peacock, the reunion special will bring together &#8220;this season\u2019s winners, fan-favorite couples, and this year\u2019s bombshells for an up close and personal look back at their experience in the villa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d7HEckaSKuM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trailer<\/a> for the reunion was released alongside the show&#8217;s renewal announcement. It finds Islanders such as Aniya Harvey, Carl Schmidt, Melanie Moreno, Sincere Rhea, Kayda Bosse, Zach Georgiou and Kenzie Annis discussing all the shenanigans from the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just rolled your eyes,&#8221; Annis tells Moreno in the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Moreno says, before bombshell Jenn Terry says, &#8220;So messy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The season 8 reunion special will premiere Aug. 31 on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>Season 8 of <em>Love Island USA<\/em> has garnered 19 billion minutes of views since its premiere on June 2, according to numbers from Peacock. The show ranks as the #1 streaming title for summer 2026 to date and the #1 streaming reality title for six consecutive weeks, according to data from Nielsen.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff are crowned the winners of &#8216;Love Island USA&#8217; season 8. (Ben Symons\/Peacock) I got a text! It says that Love Island USA has been renewed for season 9 on Peacock. Emmy nominee Ariana Madix is set to return as the host of the popular reality dating competition series in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}