Ariana Madix Cries While Talking About Tough ‘Love Island’ Season

Ariana Madix has numerous love in her coronary heart for the members of “Love Island” … and, this ordeal of a season has actually damaged her down.

The host of the favored actuality TV present opened up concerning the troubles on the Netflix hit throughout an interview on “Love Island USA: Aftersun” Saturday … an ‘LI’ companion speak present.

Madix calls it a “robust season” — an understatement, if we’re being trustworthy — and, she’s clearly making an attempt to blink again tears at first … earlier than she lets the emotion out.

She says it is affected folks nonetheless on the island, islanders who’ve been eradicated … and, even herself. Ariana dabs tears from her eyes and says she needs all of the contestants to know the way a lot she loves each considered one of them.

Madix jokingly calls herself “The Glam Reaper” — typically she’s gotta axe folks from the present, in spite of everything.

In fact, the casting bother this season is well-documented … as a result of two of the contestants — Cierra Ortega and Yulissa Escobar — acquired kicked off the island for earlier racist commentary.

We spoke with a casting director — ITV’s Pleasure Tenenberg — who put the blame squarely on manufacturing for permitting a number of contestants with checkered pasts on the present.