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- Love Island USA couple Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales are fueling break up rumors
- The pair, who won the Peacock reality show’s seventh season, which concluded on July 13, have both unfollowed each other on Instagram, sparking speculation amongst fans
- Neither Amaya nor Bryan weighed in on the rumors
Is it over for Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales?
The Love Island USA season 7 winners are fueling break up rumors after fans noticed that they both unfollowed each other on Instagram.
As of Monday, Aug. 25, which is the day the season 7 reunion airs on Peacock, neither Amaya nor Bryan follow each other on Instagram.
Neither has addressed the rumors, and they both still have posts on their accounts that feature one another, but Amaya’s TikTok activity seems to point to her current headspace.
Among her recent reposts from the last 48 hours include a post about feeling “disappointed but not surprised.”
Another, an edit from the show Scandal said, “When I finally pick myself back up and never let my walls down like that again.” She also reposted one that said: “how it feels when you know you have to leave him alone.”
During the Love Island USA season 7 finale, Amaya said she’d found her “personal Prince Charming” in Bryan.
“Some paths made me feel misunderstood, and as if the love I had to give the world needed to be watered down. But every decision led me to find my personal Prince Charming,” Amaya said in her final speech to Bryan.
Calling him “a man who fills up my cup and embraces the waterfall of my emotion,” she said, “You make me believe fairytales are true because I am currently living in one with you.”
Bryan also offered kind words to Amaya and said that meeting her “turned my experience around ridiculously. I’m so thankful to meet this person. I would do this experience a hundred times over.”
He continued, “I often said that I wanted to provide that safe place here for you, but little did I know that you would do that for me, too. You said I was the water to your fire, but you are my peace to this madness.”
Following their win, they said they were taking things “step by step” as they transitioned to a relationship outside the villa.
Amaya told PEOPLE they’re “not nervous at all” as they step into the real world together.
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“I feel like we both feel confident in what we have and we have an open dialogue, healthy communication, so we’ll definitely just be communicating to each other throughout this whole journey,” she said.
“We’re taking it step by step. I know he definitely needs to visit his family, and so do I,” she continued. “But we’re talking about meeting each other’s families soon, so after that, we’ll plan his New York City trips.”
Bryan was on the same page and said they were planning to continue to “prioritize each other” and “keep taking the necessary steps, because we took all the right steps in the villa.”
The pair previously squashed rumors of a split with a sweet date night at a Boston Red Sox game.
The couple stepped out together in Bryan’s hometown of Boston on Aug. 4, as they threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game at Fenway Park.
The MLB team posted a carousel of sweet photos of the couple from the night, where both Amaya, and Bryan were smiling from ear to ear and posed with some Red Sox players, including Garrett Crochet and Justin Slaten, before they both threw out the pitch.
Amaya also shared a solo shot of Bryan holding up his drink as she added red hearts around his face and called him “my crush.”
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The outing came amid speculation that Bryan had been unfaithful to Amaya and while neither Bryan nor Amaya have weighed in, Bryan’s dad made sure to quell the rumors.
“Please stop the lies and rumors!!!! That’s absolutely not true,” he wrote in a comment on a fan page’s post. He signed it, “Bryan’s dad,” per a post on X.
In a second comment, he doubled down, writing that they’re still “together and spending time with family and friends.”
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In the trailer for the upcoming Love Island USA reunion, Bryan appears to finally address rumors he cheated on Amaya when co-host Andy Cohen called him out directly.
“Chris, you were out with Bryan on the night of the alleged cheating,” Cohen said, and Bryan admitted, “I had a lapse in judgment.”
Love Island USA season 7 can be streamed in full on Peacock. The reunion airs Monday, Aug. 25 at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET on Peacock.