Love Island USA Season 7 spoilers forward. After they had been sufferer to certainly one of Love Island USA Season 7’s most brutal dumpings but, followers have one query on their minds: Are Austin and Jaden nonetheless collectively? They’ve one major problem to face after leaving the villa.
Austin Shepard, a 26-year-old from Northville, Michigan, and Jaden Duggar, a 25-year-old from Los Angeles, California, had been two of 5 contestants eradicated on the July 3, 2025, episode of Love Island USA Season 7, together with TJ Palma, Gracyn Blackmore, and Andreina Santos.
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Whereas the dumping broke up TJ and his associate, Iris Kendall, Austin defined in a confessional interview after his elimination that the optimistic to him and Jaden being dumped is that they may no less than go away the villa collectively. “It’s a bittersweet second. I’m unhappy to go, however I’m glad I get to stroll out of right here with Jaden. I’m very blissful about that. So I wouldn’t take something again right here,” Austin stated. Jaden added, “I don’t have any regrets, and I’m blessed to have been right here.” However the place are they now?
Are Austin and Jaden nonetheless collectively from Love Island USA Season?
Provided that Love Island USA airs new episodes round two to a few days after they’re filmed, it’s doubtless that Austin and Jaden are nonetheless collectively and in Fiji on the time of writing. Whether or not they keep collectively is the true query. Austin is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whereas Jaden is from Los Angeles, California, in order that they have the difficulty of distance going towards them since they dwell on reverse coasts.
Distance can be the rationale that almost all {couples} on actuality TV courting reveals, together with Love Island USA, break up, so Austin and Jaden have an uphill battle to climb. After Love Island USA Season 5, runners-up Kassy Castillo and Leonardo Dionicio introduced that that they had break up because of the distance between them. (Kassy is from Fort Value, Texas, whereas Leo is from West Hartford, Connecticut.)
“No Leo and I are usually not collectively, I feel it’s simply finest that we do our personal factor proper now. It’s long-distance, it’s quite a bit. I nonetheless take care of him and want him all one of the best. Actually. He was my Love Island expertise so he has a particular place in my coronary heart,” Kassy stated in an Instagram dwell in 2023.
She continued, “The whole lot was actual and real, that’s what makes it tougher now. Breakups suck. All that I ask is for everybody to offer us time as a result of it’s so new. I take care of him a lot and I want it didn’t go this manner however I actually do suppose that is for one of the best. I hope quickly… who is aware of? I’m open to something sooner or later nevertheless it’s simply not aligning. He doesn’t deserve any harsh phrases or feedback.”
Two months earlier than their breakup, Leo informed USA Right this moment that he would transfer to Texas to be with Kassy. “I might gladly go dwell along with her out in Texas, after which do faculty on-line and make content material and stuff collectively, and spend day-after-day along with her as a result of that’s really my finest good friend,” he stated. “Being right here with out her doesn’t really feel proper. … I actually did every part along with her. Attempting to regulate to that is sort of a overseas feeling.”
Kassy additionally confirmed Leo’s intentions to maneuver for her, “Leo did say that he would transfer down right here and stuff for me. I do know he would love Dallas and Fort Value. I wouldn’t thoughts residing with him as a result of I lived with him already for what, a complete month and a half? Nevertheless it felt longer.”
Whereas Austin and Jaden dwell in separate states and will face the identical destiny as Leo and Kassy, it’s additionally doable for his or her relationship to work lengthy distance, like Season 6’s runners-up, Leah Kateb and Miguel Harichi. Leah is from Los Angeles, California, whereas Miguel is from London, United Kingdom.
In an interview with StyleCaster in February 2025, Leah defined that she and Miguel made their relationship work post-Love Island USA as a result of Miguel virtually instantly moved to Los Angeles to be nearer to her. “It’s at all times been my dream to have a barn so I can absorb foster animals,” Leah informed StyleCaster about her and Miguel’s plans to construct a home collectively. “Miguel will get to choose one animal. He needs a cow. I would like fainting goats.”
On the time of writing, each Austin and Jaden comply with one another on Instagram, which might be an excellent signal of their relationship post-show.
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