Serena Page Talks 'Love Island: Beyond the Villa,' Why Boyfriend Kordell Beckham Is Only a Guest Star, Saying No Initially & More
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 spinoff, turning it down at first, the family dynamics and why her boyfriend Kordell Beckham is only featured in the show as a guest star.
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“At [first] he was going to do it with me. I had fully confirmed, signed the contracts and everything, and then he got booked,” she told Teen Vogue. “I was very proud of him, but I was sad and it made me very 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 it with 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 are all a family,” Serena added. “At the end of the day, you fight with your family, you argue with your family. You might have fallen out for a year or so, but we all went through that experience together that nobody else will understand. I think there will always be a level of love in our hearts for each other 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 think pieces. So we were like, ‘Do we want to go through that again? Is that something that 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 the reason 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. It is what it is. Let’s try it out, just like we tried it out last summer. If we hate it, we’re never doing it again.”
Love Island: Beyond the Villa is set to premiere THIS upcoming Sunday (July 13) at 9pm ET on Peacock, with new episodes airing every Thursday following the premiere.