Love Island USA's Pepe Garcia and Iris Kendall have known as it quits.
“We're not collectively anymore and it's simply the best way it goes,” Pepe revealed in a Thursday, August 28, interview with TMZ. “It's a tricky factor when there's numerous eyes on you 24/7. It's demanding. Being within the limelight isn't at all times the perfect factor on the earth.”
Pepe, 27, added that the help of his family members have helped him.
“I wish to say, my family and friends and the folks that help me, they know who I'm as an individual,” he stated. “And that's truthfully the most important and most necessary factor for me.”
Is it over for Love Island USA couple Iris Kendall and Jose “Pepe” Garcia-Gonzalez? The pair's relationship standing was put below the microscope on Sunday, August 24, after an X person observed that Iris, 25, had unfollowed Pepe, 27, on Instagram. Moreover, Pepe now not follows Iris. Us Weekly has reached out to each events […]
When requested if the rumors circulating on-line that he had been untrue had been true, Pepe denied the allegations, reiterating that he solely cares about what his “family and friends suppose.”
“You win some, you lose some,” he mirrored. “You're not gonna win and also you're not at all times gonna be proper in everybody's opinion. Everyone's received their opinion.”
Pepe additionally shared that he's not centered about transferring on or trying on the messages in his DMs right now.
“Proper now, it's simply specializing in the current,” he stated. “Specializing in the subsequent steps, the subsequent alternatives and the subsequent issues I wanna do.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Iris for remark.
Iris, 25, and Pepe met on Love Island USA season 7 which aired earlier this yr. Whereas the pair finally got here in fourth place, they determined to pursue their connection exterior the villa.
“If I'm speaking to somebody critically, I'm speaking to them and I don't need to discuss to anyone else,” Pepe informed Us completely in July 2025. “[Iris] is an exquisite and unbelievably wonderful lady, so it could be dumb of me to not attempt to see this to the top and see what can really occur with us.”
The pair had been seemingly nonetheless collectively once they filmed the season 7 reunion in early August. Nonetheless, they sparked breakup hypothesis weeks later when eagle-eyed followers observed simply days earlier than the reunion aired.
Love Island USA's Iris Kendall and Jose “Pepe” Garcia-Gonzalez haven't forgotten in regards to the different connections they made in Fiji. Days after the season 7 finale of Peacock's addictive actuality present aired, the couple stated they've plans to attach with their exes, Thomas John “TJ” Palma and Hannah Fields, respectively. “I do need to have […]
Iris and Pepe usually are not the one couple from season 7 to name it quits. Earlier this week, winners Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales additionally confirmed their cut up.
“Bryan and I are now not collectively,” Amaya wrote in a press release shared by way of her Instagram Tales on Wednesday, August 27. “After leaving the villa, it turned very clear that we had been on two totally different journeys.”
Bryan, for his half, echoed comparable sentiments in his personal assertion.
“Amaya and I've determined to go our separate methods,” Bryan wrote by way of his Instagram Tales on Wednesday. “Sadly, we weren't on the identical web page, and that's OK. We each gained readability that we're on totally different paths proper now. I'm grateful for the time we've spent collectively, and I want her nothing however the perfect transferring ahead.”
