Is it over for Love Island USA couple Iris Kendall and Jose “Pepe” Garcia-Gonzalez?
The pair's relationship standing was put underneath the microscope on Sunday, August 24, after an X consumer observed that Iris, 25, unfollowed Pepe on Instagram.
Us Weekly additionally confirmed that night that Pepe, 27, not adopted Iris. Us reached out to each events for remark.
Followers of the season 7 Love Island USA finalists took to social media that night to share concern over a possible cut up, with one Instagram user telling her followers she was “so upset” to listen to the rumors.
That publish led to additional followers sharing their distinctive takes within the publish's feedback part, with one particular person noting, “I believed so as a result of she had extra pics and movies of him on her web page. He stopped commenting on her pictures too and he was all the time one of many first.”
Pepe lately addressed his relationship with Iris throughout an interview with TMZ, revealed on August 8. The skilled basketball participant informed the outlet on the time that he and Iris have been “each doing nice.”
The remark got here simply two weeks after the couple spoke completely to Us about their future, revealing on the time that they each wished to reconnect with their Love Island USA exes, Thomas John “TJ” Palma and Hannah Fields.
Iris informed Us, “I do wish to have a dialog with TJ. I really feel like I positively owe him an evidence for all the pieces that has occurred. It's positively totally different within the villa than the skin world. It was positively rather a lot.”
As for Pepe's friendship with Hannah, 23, he informed Us that he “positively” wished to name her sooner or later. “She stated one thing very good about … all of us got here in right here as strangers and it doesn't matter what, we should always go away as pals. I positively wanna give her a name sooner or later, attain out and simply see how she's doing,” he stated on the time.
Pepe shared perception into his relationship with Iris through his Instagram account on August 16. Sharing a video of himself and Iris cuddling as much as each other as they mirrored on their emotions, Pepe joked that he “preferred” Iris relying “on the day,” in response to a fan query.
He added, jokingly, that Iris solely preferred him on “days that finish on y” which appeared to confuse Iris. The pair's interplay led to a lighthearted second that noticed them break down in giggles collectively in entrance of the digicam.
