While Love Island USA ended its eighth season last month, a reunion is still arriving this August. Host Ariana Madix sat down for an interview with Entertainment Weekly, which was published this week. In that interview, Madix hyped up the upcoming reunion.If the host is to be believed, the upcoming Love Island USA Season 8 reunion will be an emotional affair for all. She hyped up the reunion as the perfect conclusion to the eighth season, and teased a reunion filled with laughter, screams, and tears.Thus, the marketing campaign for the upcoming reunion is slowly ramping up.Love Island USA Season 8 reunion: What did Ariana Madix say? View this post on Instagram Instagram PostIt seems that the upcoming reunion will give fans a peek into the contestants. Teasing that viewers will see contestants letting their guard down in the Love Island USA Season 8 reunion, the host said:“Everybody came there ready to say exactly how they feel, and if they had a chip on their shoulder or something they wanted to bring up, they were ready to come and talk about it. And, of course, in talking about it, depending on who you’re talking about or the situation, it went many different directions, but I think that it was the perfect conclusion to the season.”Madix then went on to add that the reunion will also include footage that hasn't been seen throughout the eighth season. The host surprisingly said that the unseen footage cleared up several things for her as well. It wasn't until the filming of the reunion that she saw them.Ariana Madix went on to tease a reunion filled with laughter with co-host Andy Cohen. She further teased that Casa Amor's Sydney Eugene might appear in the reunion most unexpectedly. She also addressed the rumor that season 8 winner Trinity Tatum was kicked out of the reunion set while filming.Was Trinity Tatum really kicked out of the reunion set? View this post on Instagram Instagram PostLast week, it was rumored that Trinity was kicked out of the reunion set because of a conflict with Sol Dean. However, Trinity herself denied that this happened, and now Ariana Madix has also done the same. The Vanderpump Rules actress said:“People go online and they post things just for the engagement because I was seeing a lot of things posted that were very off and untrue, and those people need to just wait and see and watch because making things up about Trinity needing to be taken, that’s just silly. Come on.”She went on to point at another infamous event from the previous season. It seems that one of the fake flowers from the previous season fell on the floor, and the internet was filled with rumors that the piece was a device used for birth control.All in all, it seems that this interview was scheduled to hype up the upcoming reunion, which is streaming in a week and a half.The Love Island USA Season 8 reunion streams on Peacock on August 31, 2026.