{"id":232789,"date":"2026-04-03T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:28:07","slug":"love-island-star-spotted-on-south-padre-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232789\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Love Island’ star spotted on South Padre Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you happened to spend part of your spring break on South Padre Island<\/a>, you might have had an \u201cas seen on TV\u201d moment. That\u2019s because you may have seen a \u201cbombshell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iris Kendall, the 26-year-old social media influencer and spray tan artist who competed on season 7 of Love Island USA last summer, made an appearance at the best beach in Texas<\/a> during spring break last month. Kendall\u2019s trip wasn\u2019t made on a whim, nor was it a fluke. Instead, it was actually part of a promotional partnership with\u00a0Smirnoff Ice, which launched a new variety pack of drinks called the Smirnoff Ice Icy Island Variety Pack.<\/p>\n

The variety pack includes flavors like Paradise Punch, Tropical\u00a0Tiki, Strawberry Sunset and Watermelon Wave. As part of the product launch, Smirnoff teamed up with Love Island stars, like Kendall, Nic Vansteenberghe and Jeremiah Brown, to visit some of the hottest spring break destinations across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re bringing a taste of the tropics to wherever fans are this summer,\u201d\u00a0Smirnoff Ice director Fergus McCarthy said in a news release<\/a>. \u201cFrom beach hangs and boat days to kicking back with friends at home, Icy Island captures the vacation vibes we all crave.\u201d<\/p>\n

On South Padre Island<\/a>, Kendall put her skills as the former owner of 310\u00a0Glo, a Beverly Hills, California-based mobile spray tan business, to use by offering spring breakers spray tans just feet from the surf.<\/p>\n

\u201cIris Kendall brought the glow, treating\u00a0beachgoers to impromptu free spray tans while serving up Smirnoff Ice Icy Island along the way,\u201d Smirnoff officials said.<\/p>\n

Kendall starred in season 7 of Love Island USA, which was filmed in a custom oceanfront villa in Fiji in June and July 2025. Kendall first appeared on the show on day 9 as a so-called \u201cbombshell\u201d \u2014 a surprise contestant that comes into the competition at an unexpected moment. She wound up making it to fourth place with partner\u00a0Pepe Garcia-Gonzalez. However, the couple broke up soon after the season ended.<\/p>\n

Kendall ultimately reconnected with fellow season 7 costar,\u00a0TJ Palma \u2014 something the pair made official via a series of romantic photos on Instagram in late November. The pair began filming season 2 of Love Island: Beyond the Villa around the same time, NBC announced. The first episode of the spinoff series premieres on Peacock<\/a> on Wednesday, April 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you happened to spend part of your spring break on South Padre Island, you might have had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-232789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}