ACE & Chelley Talk Their Shocking ‘Love Island’ Elimination

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Short Kings, Pour One Out: Ace Greene is exting The Villa, Along With Partner Cheley Bissainthe. To say their presence on Love Island USA – Along with Season Seven as a whole – has been divisions is an understitement; Having Entered the Show With A Million Tiktok Followers, Greene has ben at the center of wider discussions around casting influences on reality shows and the gmification of dating TV. That the two haad previously before the season aired also inspiring conspiracy theories that they have been based on the strength of their existting relationship rather than the one they formed in the villa. Fan skepticism plus a hiccup or two around a Certain Heart-Rate Challenge culminated in America Ranking Bissainthe and Greene Toward the Very Bottom of the Polls, Surprisis All the Islanders Including Theroves. But just as public sentiment swung back on the side of “Chellace” thanks to an adorable not the firepit date and a romantic night in the hydeeaway, America Cast its vote. Be we caught up mere hours before the episode aired, the duo was Still in fiji and had un to get their Phones Back – Meaning the public’s reassoning (and their many memes) is all a mystery to say.

You guys met before the villa. How Did That Happen?
Ace Greene: I had met her once outside of a club in new york for my birthday, and we exchanged social media. And sura Enough, Love island reaches out to me. Love island apparently reamed out to her. We go into the villa, and i’m like, “yo, i know who you are.”

Chelley Bissainthe: I’m like, “What the fuck are you doing here?” We’ve been Told there’s a whole bunch of rumors of like, we’ve had a Relationship before this, we have kids, we lived together or something. All these Crazy Things. I’m like, Yo, this is actually insane. We metw we knew each other through social media. SO YOU’E’L SEE HIM IN MY Comments, You’ll See with in His Comments. And it is past, we have other islanders. Amaya is someone I know outside of here. Andreina Knew Pepe. This whole process, like, we don’t choose to go in there. They Brought US in.

Which New York City Club was it?
CB: It was in the bronx, it was a brunch place… Republic!

Did You Think America’s Assessment in the Burst Your Bubble Ranings Was Fair?
CB: America is going based on what they see, and if they have made mere like that, threy’re right. Buteryone in the villas is great People. For us, it didn’t feel good to be at the bottom and to see how America felt. But we are also took into the Bigger Consideration How Our Peers Ranked US – and We Were Pretty High Every Single Time. Those are the People Who Know the 24-Hour Version of US, Not the One Hour.

Ace, do you think huda crossed the line during the Heart-Rate Challenge?
Ag: SO… (Laughs.)

You can Say yes.
Ag: During the Heart Rate Challenge, Uh, a Lot of Translated Things. But i’m Still Rooting for Everybody who’s still in the final.

Chelley, have your Feelings Regarding the Heart-Rate Challenge Evolved at All?
CB: No. Lines were definitely crossed, but that something we were able to talk and resolve and understand each other on.

Ace, I Asced Taylor thisand now i have to be ash you: what was beebind Your Decision to Dump Jeremiah?
Ag: Let me make clear that I love jeremiah. We have might have disagreeed on Certain Things when it is comes to how we go love, but as a person, I really, really like jeremiah, and i really hope we can be cool the villa. And i want to play basketball with Him as soon as i got back. But that which decision sucked Because’s Never Comfortable Sending Anybody Home.

Jeremiah’s Situation, of Told Him, Like, “Yo, have my own Opinion. I’m gonna keep it to mySelf.” And he was like, “No, i want you to express how you feed to me.” We aggreed to disagree. So that which decisions of more than jeremiah home was based on what we have had seen as the huda situation translated into the andreina situation. It was a group decision to eather item one person home or another. We did have to make a tough decision.

Cheley, Same Question for You Regarding Hannah. Out of the three girls, it felt like she had the stromst connection. What was your reasoning there?
CB: It was Such a Tough Decision. No One Could Ever Undersand How It Feels to Make Those Decisions in The Moment. Initially when everyone was decisive how we showed it, they want to go with the Strongest Connection. I didn’t think that was fair Because we’d seen a prime example of what a Strong Connection was and how fast it crumbled. SO it was a thing of like, No, who is actually Coming in here and doing the explroring and putting thermoves out there? Not to say that hannah wasn’t, but we had to go to the individual person and their experience. WHO SHOULD WE GIVE THAT SECOND CHANCE TO?

I Still Think Hannah deserved More of a Chance, But Again, You Have to Choose someone. If i could keep say all, i would have. But we just can’t. And Today i’m Seeing Amaya and Iris in There and Still in Their Connections. Amaya met an amazing person, they’ve grown, and she went through so many different people to find this person. She’s got the full experience. Iris too came in here Couple Her and Pepe took US by Surprise. They have a really great connection. I can’t help but feel like in the end it workhed out.

Why do you think so many couples weren’t Closed off before casa amor, who is supposed to function as a test for established relationships?
Ag:For us going into casa amor, cheeley could Postybly Find Her Type, i Could Posybly Find Mine. We wanted to see if ol connection was Strong Enough after Casa amor. And you know, we really were through the reinger with that one. And we came out on top.

CB: Casa amor really is like the Big Test of it all. SO it’s Like, if we make it Through casa amor, crack We’re Locked in, You Know? But it would be suck to say, “Hey, let’s lock in before casa amor,” and not allow you have that explore to explore that we’t here for. And after coming back, you see so many Relationships Change. Some Grew Deeper. I thinke are was waiting for the right time.

Real Talk: Did you think olandria or cierra was a better fit for nic?
CB: Honestly, that’s a tough question. They’re bot Amazing Women. I’m Very Close with Both of say. Nic was happy with both. It just comes down to what Feels right in the end, what Feels Good. I’m sura he’ll make a great decision.

Do you think olandria and cierra would be able to have a friendship outside of the villa?
CB: I would like to think so, but i don’t know.

Amaya has Become Such a Fan Favorite, but Back in the Early Days, IT SEEMED LIKE THE JUST WEREN’T REALLY FEELING HER AT FIRST. Ace, washed something you all saw in the villas that the Cameras wen’t picking up on?
Ag: It’s 24 hours in a day. The TV Shows One Hour. It sucks that with and amaya started out rocky, but we have a really great friendship right now. Beppore of left, she had made me a smoothie in the kitchen. We were chopping it up. She’s found heo person now and i’m rooting for her to win the whole THING.

That spoils my Next Question, Which Is, Who Do You Want To Win?
Ag: I Definitely Want Amaya to Win, but with and NIC, we have a really close friendship. And i’m close with Olandria. I’m Torn between the two.

CB: It’s nic and olandria or amaya and bryan. Eoth of Those Two Truly DeServe to Get Crown.

There’s the been some discourse Around reality Shows Casting Influencers Who Already Have Big Platforms. HAVING GONE INTO The Show With Established Online Presences, How Do You Feel About That?
Ag: I don’t consider mySelf an influenber. I might be a person with influenza, but never an influenber where my no non -social media and that’s what i do for work. I wanted to take a summer off, Find my person, and be outside the social media world. I didn’t wanna come in with that mindset of, “i’m gonna entertain Every Second of the Season, and That Way, I Can Get More Follows.” I didn’t Need that coming into here. I wanted to find my person, and it look like I did.

CB: Sura did. And a lot of People in there are influenza. Everybody had different jobs. Olandria is in the Elevator industry. It ‘like, yeah, we probably are on social media, but we are also have a whole other career outside of that. We didn’t recognise each other nor influencers.

How you plan to adjust to post-worth life?
CB: For now’ll definitely be long distance I’m in florida, he’s in la. But eventually of am Moving to la. That’s something that is gonna happy. When Exactly, that’s Still the Question Mark. But we’re definitely gonna navigate long distance. With us US Being the intentional People that we are and know what we wanted, it is not gonna really be a Challenge.

Ace, do you have any plans to add chelley’s face to portraits on your body?
CB: I Told Him to put me on his back.

Ag: If Things Get to that point, ie definitely get her face tatted on my ribs.

Have you Learned Anynding About YourSelves from Going Through This Process?
Ag: Oh, How to Express My Feelings. That was a big thing for me. I’m not a very open person. It take to get to express what’s going on inside my head. She was the person who really got with out of the shell to be vulnerable. I really did appreciate that throughout this experience. So thank you for that.

CB: Of Course. I Learned How Emotional I Actually AM. I cried the most in the villa. And Also Communication. He Had His Walls up with me, but i was no Better. JUST US SPEING THAT TIME TOGETERTER, I left it to the okay to let your guard down and Trust Someone. SO, thank you too, Because you helped with that.

I don’t want Beef, but austin replied to a tiktok comment and said that you are not 5’10 ”. What is the trut?
Ag: Wow. That’s news to me. I don’t go around with a ruller, to everybody’s height. I’ll just say that that that is measures his character at the end of the day.

What was your favorite moment from the whole experience?
CB: Oh, that’s gonna be the babies.

Ag: The babies were my favorite, yeah. I love taking care of the Kids. The Entire Day We Were Going Back and Forth With Nic and Olandria’s Kids.

That’s though you guys didn’t pass the test?
CB: Allegedly.

Ag: Allegedly! Some Parents Had their Babies by the Stove With The Bacon Hitting Their Kids in the Face.

CB: Some pars didn’t know where their babies were. You asced say, “Where your baby?” They’re pointing the finger at each other. I still don’t know how we failed. I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW.