The Spice Girls, Destiny’s Child, Paris and Nicole: it’s a cruel fact of life that some of the most iconic girl groups prematurely implode. Luckily, it’s also hard to miss that many of these female friendships have found their way back together with time and grace, which is hopefully on the docket for Love Island USA besties, Liv and Kaylor.
Liv and Kaylor didn’t have the best luck with romantic relationships in Fiji; Liv’s connections didn’t quite spark, and Kaylor’s situationship with Aaron devolved into one brutally long downward spiral. But their relationship with each other (two blondes against the entire internet) gave the girlhood content fans lived for. When I asked the duo what they missed most about their glory days in tropical dating boot camp, Kaylor told me, “I guess I just miss waking up to people every day. I don’t like being alone, so I love sleeping in the same room as everyone, as weird as that sounds.” Later, Liv shared, “I would miss how we would be in the makeup room, we’d come back and it was tidy.” But are these two missing each other?
With Beyond The Villa graciously thrust upon us thanks to Peacock, news has hit the mainland that Love Island’s season 6 blonde baddies are beefing stateside?! I chatted separately with both Kaylor and Liv about the Beyond The Villa friendship breakup that I sure hope is a temporary separation, not a divorce.
What did Kaylor and Liv fight about?
In the first episode of Beyond The Villa, Kaylor explains how she’d been feeling distant from Liv after they left their off-grid era in rural PA, and Liv started acting shady in Kaylor’s eyes. On the spinoff, Kaylor says Liv straight up lied to her about taking a gift from a mutual influencer job they were meant to share (Liv says the business owner asked her to keep it quiet). Kaylor also got upset over feeling left out of Liv’s new social life with a new pro baller mystery man.
After their public spat at the season opener party, Liv runs to the corner of the rooftop bar, demanding that Kendall get the cameras off of her. Were Liv’s emotions about her newly fractured friendship or more about her image as a girl’s girl? “I feel like I’m someone who says it how it is, and I’m real and I’m confident,” Liv explained to me, meaning she isn’t “really afraid of what people think,” because if she were, she “would choose to be more reserved and shut [her] mouth.” With that in mind, Liv thinks it’s pretty obvious that while she “cares to some degree what the public thinks,” that’s never her main concern on or off camera.
When I asked Kaylor if she stands by that insinuation, Kaylor wasn’t sure. “I think both. I think she didn’t like how it was in front of the camera,” but also that it only added “that we weren’t getting along,” since they were once “best friends attached at the hip,” and this argument was the beginning of that firmly changing.
When did Liv move to Pennsylvania?
After Love Island, Liv stayed with Kaylor’s family in Pennsylvania during the winter of 2024, as she got her feet under her in America. When reminiscing on their extended slumber party, Kaylor said there were “so many amazing memories” from that time.
“Just being in the kitchen with my family and Liv and her trying to teach my family about the Australian culture. Then she’d be washing dishes, and my dad would be like, ‘See, look, she’s a better daughter than you,’ and I’d be like, ‘Chill out.'”
Liv also got her first property in Pennsylvania. It was essentially a “storage unit because her PR was taking over my room,” Kaylor says with a laugh.
For Liv, remembering a priceless first with Kay brought a smile to her face. “My favorite memory probably was when it snowed,” she says. “It doesn’t really snow where I’m from, so that was insane to me how… this might sound stupid, but how soaked and wet you actually get from playing in the snow!”
What happened with Aaron, Kaylor, and Liv?
It’s no secret that Aaron was not Liv’s favorite roommate, given all the chaos that went down between her best friend and the UK player. Aaron told the cameras that Liv was a big reason that Kaylor’s whole attitude changed in New York when he still thought there was a chance for a romantic recoupling. “Wherever there’s Liv, there’s drama,” Aaron said on Beyond The Villa. When I asked Liv her thoughts on Aaron’s comments, she mused, “Am I the drama or are you boring?”
Kaylor also disagreed with Aaron and some of the group’s beliefs, as seen on Peacock, that Liv is a big (and maybe bad) influence on her. “I think at the end of the day, I’m my own person. I’m a big girl. I can speak up, and I’m there for myself,” Kaylor says. Still, she added, “Of course, when you’re around people, you bounce off their energy. But I don’t think that Liv is what Aaron made her seem like. Liv is a lovely person. She’s my best friend. We lived together for months.”
Is Kaylor over Aaron after Love Island?
While Liv was adjusting to the wildest things about relocating to America (“You can turn on a red light, that is crazy!”), Kaylor was recovering from her experience with Aaron. On Beyond The Villa, the former couple mourned the IRL Barbie energy Kaylor was used to giving, before that man dragged her to hell and back on national TV. “Whenever I had that conversation [with Aaron about being happy], I was just not having a good week. So, I was just on a roller coaster,” Kaylor says.
Today, she affirms, “I’m so happy and I’m so blessed and I am a really happy person.” But “when there are just things that are going on, I can be a pessimist sometimes and make it way worse than what it seems,” Kaylor continued. Like when she was going through “a tough time” while filming BTV. “I gained my confidence back after what we just went through and everything,” Kaylor confirmed, adding that she considers this reality experience “overall worth it.”
