Nic Vansteenberghe auditioned for Love Island USA primarily for the sake of the bit. When producers sent him a message on Instagram in January 2025, he thought there was no way it would actually work out. “They kept offering interviews, and I kept doing the interviews, but I was still taking it as a joke,” he says. “All of a sudden, I was getting my blood work done and doing psych tests and thinking, ‘OK, this could be serious.’ Honestly, I didn’t believe it until the whole thing finished and I saw I was on TV.”

For the two months he spent filming Season 7 in Fiji, Vansteenberghe suspended disbelief that he was being filmed 24/7. “They just take our phones, and we never know what’s going on,” he says. “I had a good summer. It was sunny; I got to eat free food and live for free.” He

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