“Love Island USA” has become an obsession for viewers, with a particular couple capturing hearts.
It was quite summer for Olandria Carthen, 27, and Nic Vansteenberghe, 24, a couple who met in the show and was nicknamed “Nicolandria”.
Not only are they objectively (and ridiculously) attractive, but the pair has sparked cultural conversations on interracial relationships and the support partnership they model.
If you are one of the few still uncommon with “Love Island USA”, the series is the American branch of a reality meeting of the United Kingdom in which a group of men and women live together in a villa in the hope of finding love and winning a prize in cash.
As expected, there is also a lot of drama.
“Nicoland” was the stars of the rupture last season, causing the big titles and the accounts of fans.
Their reputation arrives at a moment of division, in particular with regard to breed problems in the United States, and their obvious affection has provided a joy and summer distraction to the public of “Love Island”.
Their popularity has indicated immense recognition, as well as approval agreements.
Last week, NYX’s professional makeup teased a collaboration with the couple after Vansteenberghe revealed in an interview that he maintains the Lip Combo of Carthen with the brand’s shine in his pocket. Vansteenberghe, who was missing that the Australian swimsuit brand Kulani Kinis since 2021, now has its own collection on their site and presents Carthen in the countryside.
Carthen said that it does not only represent “Love Island” in these campaigns – it also represents black women.
“Before getting into this world, black women already had a label. They are so quick to call us angry black women,” said Carthen, describing how she had to put a “strong suit” in the villa during the recent “After Show” by Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens: Live”.
But in her relationship with Vansteenberghe, she said she was able to let him take the wheel, where he helped set up two photo sessions so that she could model in Europe. “The support I have of this guy is unreal. So it allows me to be the sweet woman I always wanted to be,” said Carthen.
It was not the first time that a pair that has been encountered via reality TV captivates the zeitgeist. Here are some other couples:
Pam Ling and Judd Winick of “The Real World: San Francisco”
Consider the OGs on this list.
Pam Ling, who is now a doctor, and Judd Winick, a designer, connected in 1994, when they were both actors of “The Real World: San Francisco” by MTV, which was the third episode of the then dwarf reality show. Although they only started to go out together after having finished filming, the fans were delighted to learn during the reunion of the season in 1995 that they were a couple.
They got married in 2001 and are the parents of two children.
In February 2025, Winick posted to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the meeting on the first day of filming “The Real World”.
“It was my 24th anniversary. And exactly 31 years ago that we started filming the real world of San Francisco. My life would change forever in many ways,” he wrote on social networks. “But the most important thing is by far that I met Pam Ling. She is my partner. My hero. And the smartest and most courageous and most beautiful and best I know. ”
Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter from “The Bachelorette”
Heartbreak led to love for the old rehn.
The physiotherapist was a competitor of season 1 of “The Bachelor” in 2002, and became the very first advance of “The Bachelorette” the following year.
As the reality tale does, the former professional football player and firefighter Ryan Sutter won her heart. ABC launched a big marriage to the couple in 2003 in which millions.
The parents of a son and a daughter now live in Colorado.
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jionni Lavalle of “Jersey Shore”
Gym, tanning, linen and love.
In the midst of all the holidays as a member of the distribution of season 3 of the successful series MTV “The Jersey Shore”, Polizzi met the Laval entrepreneur during the shooting in 2011.
They got married in 2014 and are now the parents of three people.
Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich of “Survivor: All Stars”
The Mariano, now Amber, has not only won “Survivor: All Stars”, she also took out a husband.
She met Rob, alias “Boston Rob” Mariano, during the shooting in 2003 in Panama.
They got engaged during the final of the program in 2004 and married the following year.
The couple is now the parents of four girls.
Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton of “Love is Blind”
Netflix’s first “Love is Blind” season had one of the happiest meetings of all time.
The premise of the series of reality meetings revolves around candidates talking – and ideally to fall in love with the other invisible in the hope of getting married. (It worked for some, like this pair.)
As the scientist of Hamilton data had shaped towards the content creator and the speed of the entrepreneur, it was literally all love.
They were married in the program in 2018 and are currently waiting for their first child.
Jojo Siwa and Chris Hughes of “Celebrity Big Brother Uk”
This was a shock for Siwa fans.
The former former star, singer and 22 -year -old dancer was in contact with the Australian actor Kath Ebbs when she joined British reality TV earlier this year
Siwa is now going out with Hughes, with whom she linked herself in the house “Big Brother”.
To make everything curl, he is a former member of the distribution of – wait for him – the British version of “Love Island”.
