Peacock viewers will finally get to see what actually happened during Love Island USA‘s controversial Heart Rate Challenge when the season 7 reunion airs.
During the Wednesday, August 13, episode of Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen confirmed that the “extended version” of the challenge was shown to the Islanders at the reunion.
“I thought it was interesting that you [Olandria Carthen] and Chelley [Bissainthe] saw Huda [Mustafa] for the first time since you left the villa,” Cohen, 57, told Olandria, 27, one day after filming the special, which airs later this month. “I think that was pretty dramatic.”
He continued: “And also we showed the extended version of the Heart Rate Challenge, which was revelatory to the group.”
Love Island USA fans know that things started to go south between Chelley, 27, and Huda, 24, after the Heart Rate Challenge. During the episode, which aired in June, each couple had to tease their fellow Islanders as a way to get their heart rates up and win the game.
Huda ended up at odds with multiple people — including Chelley — in the villa after her performance for Ace Greene. Those of Us watching at home saw a snippet of Huda’s sultry dance for Ace, 22, which ended with her getting on top of him as Chelley watched.
Once outside of the villa, Huda and Chelley had different accounts of whether boundaries were crossed.
“I needed my space from her. We all stand on being a ‘girl’s girl’ and having each other’s backs. At that moment, I didn’t feel like that’s what happened,” Chelley told Variety at the time. “But once we got a chance to sit down and talk to each other, it was something that we could work through. Our relationship is good. We’re friends. I just needed my space from her, but now everything is good. We understand each other. Boundaries were set.”
Despite Chelley saying she was on good terms with Huda, the two didn’t appear to have any contact after filming the hit Peacock series. Olandria, for her part, sided with Chelley both in the villa and off screen.
Huda has stood by her version of events, exclusively telling Us Weekly in July, “The thing I did with Jeremiah in the dominant/submissive challenge — the tongue thing, where I licked all the way up [their body] — I did that with every single guy [in the Heart Rate Challenge]. People were like, ‘Oh no!’ Every dude was very happy during the whole thing. Afterwards, they saw the girl’s reactions and that’s when they’re like, ‘She was doing too much.’”
She added: “It wasn’t personal. I wasn’t trying to take someone’s man, I wasn’t trying to do anything like that. It was literally a challenge that I was trying to win. I didn’t even win!”
Love Island USA is currently streaming on Peacock. The season 7 reunion airs Monday, August 25, at 9 p.m. ET.
