Serena Page is opening up about the upcoming Love Island USA spinoff series Love Island: Beyond the Villa !
The 25-year-old season six star is reuniting on-screen with several of her castmates for the spinoff, following their lives outside of the villa as they “navigate new careers, evolving friendships, newfound fame and complex relationships outside of the Love Island Villa.”
In a new interview ahead of the show’s premiere, Serena opened up about their decision to return for the spin-off, turning it down at first, their family dynamics, and why her boyfriend Kordell Beckham is only featured on the show as a guest star.
Read on to find out more…
“At [first] he was going to do this to me. I had totally confirmed it, signed the contracts and everything, and he was booked,” she told Teen Vogue . “I was really proud of him, but I was sad, and it made me really anxious about filming because I was like, ‘Damn, I’m going to be alone.’ Granted, I have my girls, Leah [Kateb] and Jana [Craig] , but their men were on the show doing this to them. There were a lot of times where I was like, ‘Damn, I don’t know. We’re supposed to be navigating our relationship, but you’re about to be in a whole different state. What am I going to do?'”
“We’re all family,” Serena added. “At the end of the day, you fight with your family, you argue with your family. You may have been broken up for a year or more, but we’ve all been through this experience together that no one else will understand. I think there will always be a level of love in our hearts, no matter what. I feel like you can tell there’s always love there.”
Serena also shared that she and her PPG girls — Leah and Jana — had a sit-down to talk about the spinoff, because doing Love Island USA was “a lot.”
“It was a lot for everyone with the amount of eyes and opinions on us, the amount of thought pieces. So we were like, ‘Do we want to go through this again? Is this something we want to put ourselves through mentally?’ It was a no for a long time,” she reveals. “And then the more conversations we had about it and the more we talked about why we’re here, what our supporters want to see, things of that nature, we were like, ‘You know what? Let’s suck it up. If what is what is.’”
Love Island: Beyond the Villa is set to premiere this coming Sunday (July 13) at 9 p.m. ET on Peacock, with new episodes airing every Thursday following the premiere.
Watch the trailer here!
