{"id":597027,"date":"2026-08-26T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/597027\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:28:08","slug":"love-island-usa-season-9-confirmed-ariana-madix-returning-as-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/597027\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island USA Season 9 Confirmed, Ariana Madix Returning as Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/love_island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Love Island USA<\/a> will crack on next summer.<\/p>\n<p>The fan-favorite dating experiment was renewed for a ninth season by Peacock, as this year&#8217;s hot and heavy competition comes to a close.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following a record-breaking summer,&#8221; the network said in an Aug. 26 press release, &#8220;Peacock announced a season nine renewal of the hit cultural phenomenon Love Island USA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for whether Ariana Madix will return to Fiji, the statement added, &#8220;Emmy-nominated host Ariana Madix set to return.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The beloved Vanderpump Rules personality herself hinted that her role in the Villa was secured earlier this month following rumors she could be departing the gig.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do [see that]. And obviously I can\u2019t speak yet to what\u2019s going to be happening next season,\u201d the 42-year-old told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/ariana-madix-debunks-love-island-host-theory-exit-concerns-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Us Weekly<\/a>. \u201cWe did announce already that I will be hosting Love Island Games next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peacock also previously confirmed the return of Beyond the Villa&#8217;s third iteration, in addition to the challenge-focused spinoff.<\/p>\n<p>But before fans can start exploring with the upcoming series, a first look at season eight&#8217;s highly anticipated Aug. 31 reunion, co-hosted by Andy Cohen, promises to bring the heat in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another season of Love Island USA will crack on next summer. The fan-favorite dating experiment was renewed for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-597027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}