On March 29 Peacock officially announced that Vanderpump Rules star Ariana Madix would officially be taking over for Sarah Hyland as host of Love Island 2024. A move that made longtime Ariana fans thrilled for her. The upcoming season premieres on Peacock on June 11, 2024.
Ariana has been quite the busy bee for the last year or so. From Lifetime movies to Broadway. And now to host one of her own personal favorite shows, Love Island. It seems that Ariana is the best at turning lemons into lemonade.
During the fifth season on Love Island, Ariana made a special guest appearance and surprised the cast. She later on served as a guest host in the episodes on Love Island USA Games, season one. All this to lead up to the incredible announcement that Ariana would be hosting the upcoming season of Love Island.
Ariana Madix was born and raised in Florida. She eventually moved to New York City and found work as a bartender, while pursuing her dreams of acting, and even of Broadway. During this time, Ariana appeared in comedy skits for CollegeHumor, however while struggling to find substantial acting roles, she decided to move to Los Angeles. While working in Lisa Vanderpump’s restaurant Villa Blanca, as well as SUR, Ariana was cast on the reality show Vanderpump Rules, and the rest as they say is history.
Ariana quickly became a fan favorite, in large part due to her personality. She never went along with the ”mean girls”, and she was quick to call out the misogyny with the men in the cast. All while being down to earth, funny, and relatable. From her start on the show, all the way up until season ten, Ariana was in a relationship with fellow cast member Tom Sandoval. The show was chock full of break ups, cheating scandals and divorces, with Tom and Ariana seemingly being the only couple to actually love each other and weather the storms. This was until March 2023, when a scandal known as Scandoval made headlines all over the world…literally.
It turns out that their relationship wasn’t much different than the others, as Tom was also a lying cheat like most of the men on the show. Tom had been having a seven month affair with Raquel Leviss, who was not only one of Ariana’s best friends, but also a fellow cast member. As well as a former fiance of yet another cast member and friend, James Kennedy. Messy messy. Viewers were left stunned, not being able to believe it. Not knowing what the future would hold, and not knowing how Ariana would be able to get over this betrayal.
It seems that not only did her friends rally around and support her, viewers and the country did as well. Ariana was able to turn her devastation into something even better. She quickly booked the Lifetime movie Buying Back My Daughter, in March 2023. On July 7th, 2023 it was announced that she was joining Dancing with the Stars, in which she finished in third place. Then in January 2024 she made her debut on Broadway starring as Roxy Hart in Chicago.
Oh, and if that’s not enough, Ariana’s time as Roxy Hart has been record breaking. So much so that she will be returning to the role once again and in August 2024 she will hit the Broadway stage once more. I for one can’t wait to see Ariana Madix on the upcoming season of Love Island, premiering June 11, 2024 on Peacock. As well as her second run of Roxy Hart on Broadway in August 2024. Our girl is set for another busy year.
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