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As soon as Serena Page and Kordell Beckham locked eyes in theLove Island USAvilla while clad (coincidentally?)
in matching neon-green ensembles, viewers were locked in.
TikTok hailed the couplesBlack love, swooning overclips of Page doing Beckhams hairanddramatic edits of the couples fights.
Pretty good, considering the pair never thought theyd win.
I thought it was either JaNa and Kenny or Kendall and Nicole, Beckham says.
Even when it got to the final two, I thought ithadto be Leah and Miguel.
Youve just gotten your phones back.
:We started to get an idea when we made it to the final four.
I was like,Maybe theyre sick of our asses.
Kenny really likes that woman and JaNa really likes that man.
Kendall and Nicole was a love story too.
Was it a surprise to you both that they werent?S.P.
:Only a little bit.
Nobody likes a liar.
I love Aaron to death, but thats probably what steered America away.
Its like he forgot people at home were watching or that there were cameras around.
Is that easy to do, though?K.B.
:Literally day two I forgot there were cameras all around.
Kordell, you seemed to forget that there was even a prize for winningLove Island.K.B.
:Yeah, I forgot you had to win.
I was just so locked in.
:But thats how he is.
:I can be in my own world a lot.
Theresa popular tweetthat says, Kordell really came toLove Islandas a boy and will be leaving as a man.
Do you think thats true?K.B.
:Thats the truth.
Im not even going to sit here and lie.
I did come in a boy, even though my mind-set was already mature.
I have grown in ways that I didnt know I could grow.
I also sawa lot of discussionabout why theres so much goddamn avocado toast.K.B.
:That was my first question when I got in there!
Everybody was talking about avocado toast.
I dont even fuck with avocados.
Serena eats avocados, though, so I was like,You know what?
Let me make this little avocado toast and Ill try it myself.
And Ive got to say, its pretty good.
We cant spend all day making a buffet.
:I will say, I would make Serena real breakfast literally every day.
Did you just not want to wear them?K.B.
:I have glasses, but theyre the wrong prescription.
On one pair, one of the arms is gone and on the other, it broke halfway.
:It depends on the person.
It can be a few weeks or a few days.
:Yeah, it was always like, You never know when youre going to go in.
Do whatever you better now so that you have enough time.
Have you talked about whats next for you both?
Are you going to do long-distance?
Are one of you moving?S.P.
:We definitely talked about it in the villa.
L.A. wasnt on my radar, but I met her so now its on the radar.
:Everything that happened just made us stronger.
We dont really think about the past.
We actually joke around on it.
We found out during the finale that theres aLove Island USAreunion coming up on August 19.
Do you have any questions for the others yet?S.P.
:Wejustgot our phones.
I havent even had time to catch up.
Maybe once I do a deep dive into social media, Ill have questions.
But right now, were just having a blast.
This story has been updated to remove a question with a factual error.
