Month: July 2019

The original Love Island has become a runaway favorite of reality TV fans in the U.K., with each season garnering blockbuster ratings since its premiere in 2015.

The gleefully vapid show has now come to the U.S., where a group of single, 20-something hotties are put in a private villa in Fiji where they need to couple up or else they’ll get kicked off the island. The guys and gals then try to stay together while competing in assorted challenges and facing public votes, and whoever makes it through wins $100,000. Got that? 

Even though CBS’s Americanized version of the show has so far notched lower ratings than its UK counterpart, it has still introduced an impressive cast of attractive female contestants, so it’s got that going for it. 

Below, meet the women of the 2019 season of Love Island.

Elizabeth Weber

A New York City based advertising executive, the 24-year-old was born in Michigan and says her celebrity crush is Shawn Mendes. Her life motto is: “If it is something you want bad enough, then do everything you can to achieve it. Don’t let things hold you back and don’t be afraid to go after the things you want.”

Alexandra Stewart

Stewart is a self-proclaimed tomboy who grew up playing hockey in Pennsylvania. Now a Los Angeles-based publicist, the 25-year-old thinks tattoos are sexy and enjoys drinking white wine, eating smelly cheese, and listening to Taylor Swift. 

Mallory Santic

Santic is a 25-year-old from Vancouver, Washington who works as an analyst for Nike. She says John Mayer is her celebrity crush because he “is the perfect man because he is intelligent, talented, and sooooo sexy.”

Alana Morrison

Morrison is a 21-year-old student at Bowdoin College and from New Haven, Connecticut. She won prom queen in high school but has never been in a relationship, and wants everyone to know she is “a very optimistic person that tries to look for the lessons in everything.”

Kyra Green

Green is a 22-year-old musician living in LA, but she’s a New York native who used to spend her time singing on the subways with her siblings. She wants a guy who does volunteer work and makes her laugh.

Caroline Viehweg

The 21-year-old marketing student lives in LA, and has lived in lived in six different countries and speaks English, German, and Portuguese. and is looking for “someone who is hardworking, spiritual, loving, friendly, funny, and authentic.”

Love Island airs weeknights at 8/7c on CBS, and streams on CBS All Access.

A heated online exchange between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is fueling speculation that the two boxing icons might actually agree to a rematch of their record-breaking 2015 superfight. 

Pacquiao, 40, won raves from boxing fans when he beat the previously undefeated Keith Thurman in an exciting WBA welterweight title bout last Saturday night, improving his record to 67-7-2. 

The retired Mayweather, 42, saw it live at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena. But instead of congratulating Pacquiao on his age-defying performance, “Money” shared a stinging critique of his former rival’s legacy on Instagram. 

“I find it real ironic how every time Pacquiao’s name is brought up in the media, my name is always attached to it. This man’s entire legacy and career has been built off its association with my name and it’s about time you all stop using my brand for clout chasing and clickbait and let that man’s name hold weight of its own.” 

Mayweather continued, “For years, all you heard was that ‘Floyd is afraid of Manny Pacquiao.’ But what’s funny is, when we finally fought, I won so easily that everyone had to eat their words! 

“All of the so called boxing experts, critics and jealous American ‘fan base’ either went mute and ran for cover or made every excuse in the world as to why I should give Manny Pacquiao a rematch.”

Forbes notes that the Mayweather’s analysis of Pacquiao’s career is “ridiculous,” as Pac-Man is still the only eight-division champion in boxing history. But Mayweather didn’t exactly shoot down the idea of a rematch, so Pacquiao went ahead and dropped a “#MayPac2” hashtag on Twitter. 

“You come to my fight and then use my name in a post but I’m the one that is trying to stay relevant? If you want to be relevant again…#MayPac2,” Pacquiao wrote. 

Mayweather fired back in a second Instagram post. 

“Bottom line, I make more money than you; I beat you, then I signed you!” he wrote in reference to the fact that Pacquiao’s promoter, PBC, and Mayweather Promotions fall under the same umbrella, according to USA Today.  

“I was only at your fight supervising you, my employee, as any real BOSS would do.”

Pacquiao challenged Mayweather’s claims. 

“Excuse me Floyd, your name has not been on any of my PBC contracts,” he wrote. “But if you would like to be on the next one, I will have one drawn up and sent to you. #CounterfeitMoney.”

The last time these two were in the ring, Mayweather won by unanimous decision in a hotly-anticipated fight that racked up a record 4.6 million pay-per-view buys but was panned by the vast majority of boxing fans as a disappointing snoozefest. 

Would you watch Mayweather vs. Pacquiao II?