The Love Island USA stars aren’t just participating in sponcon deals at New York Fashion Week — it looks like they’re getting back with their exes, too. On Monday, Iris Kendall and TJ Palma were spotted hand-in-hand at the Luar Fall/Winter 2025 show together, prompting rumors that the two were rekindling their romance. Kendall and Palma appear to have confirmed this via a joint Instagram post with InStyle magazine — the video shows them seemingly on their way to find their seats and includes the caption, “Love Island’s Iris and TJ make the Luar NYFW show their date night.” Sure looks like a hard launch to me.
According to the comments, fans are ecstatic about this news. “The recoupling the people really wanted,” one person wrote, while another wrote, “They’re my roman empire like I’ve been waiting for this ugh.” Kendall and Palma had previously gotten together in July, after the show ended, causing speculation that they wanted to give their relationship a try outside of the Villa. Apparently, the meetup was an opportunity for them to talk things out. “I just needed to get that closure with him and have that conversation, because I do care about him, and I think that he was definitely owed a conversation,” she told People.
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Kendall was most recently coupled up with Pepe Garcia, with whom she placed fourth in the series. Shortly after the season-seven reunion, rumors began to swirl that Garcia had cheated on Kendall. While he’s since denied being unfaithful, Kendall’s only public reaction to the situation was unfollowing him on Instagram and posting a sunset photo to “Silver Springs” by Fleetwood Mac. Telling …
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Shortly after their debut at NYFW, Kendall and Palma posted a very couple-y hotel photoshoot on Instagram set to “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes. I guess sometimes people really do need to fall apart to come back together.
