Love Island: Beyond the Villa returns to Peacock on April 15, and this season the spinoff will turn its cameras on the Love Island USA season 7 cast instead of the season 6 group that opened the series last July. Nic Vansteenberghe, Olandria Carthen and Huda Mustafa are not in the new cast.
The timing matters because the show’s hook has always been what happens after the villa lights go off. Beyond the Villa follows former Islanders as they test real-world relationships, work through unfinished business with exes and try to make sense of life outside the resort bubble. Season 1 tracked the season 6 cast after they left Fiji; season 2 changes the lens and follows the newest group as Peacock brings the spinoff back into the spring TV lineup.
Vansteenberghe, who has been building a music career under his DJ name Nic Vans and dabbling in acting, said during a December 2025 appearance on the Roommates Show that he would not go on Love Island USA again and was trying to land ABC’s Dancing with the Stars next. Carthen has kept a busy schedule of her own, making her New York Fashion Week debut in September 2025 and appearing in campaigns for brands including Reebok and Ugg. In December 2025, she told Glamour she was booked through May and preferred not to speak too soon about what was coming next, adding that she likes to “pop out when I pop out” and had “some really exciting things” ahead that year.
Mustafa, meanwhile, walked the runway during New York Fashion Week and has been teasing new music on Instagram. She is also part of the debut cast of Alex Cooper’s Unwell Winter Games, which premiered on the Unwell YouTube channel on April 6.
The three are absent from the new season even though at least two of them have stayed highly visible since Fiji. Vansteenberghe and Carthen still appear to be together more than eight months after leaving the villa, and they attended the Super Bowl in February 2026. Carthen has said the attention around their relationship has been draining, and that the couple keeps up regular check-ins about each other’s mental health. She said she is grateful they have one another, even if she wishes they did not have to manage that pressure so often.
There is also a practical wrinkle behind the romance: Carthen is still living in Houston, while Vansteenberghe technically still considers his parents’ house in Jacksonville, Fla., his main residence. That split underscores the premise of Beyond the Villa better than any trailer could. The show is not really about what happens after reality TV. It is about whether any of these relationships can survive once the cameras stop pretending the rest of life is simple.
