- Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE, Ariana Madix said she has experience hosting. Love Island USA Season 6 was “really great”
- After Sunday’s finale, the Peacock TV personality also took to Instagram to congratulate the series on a successful season.
- Maddix also exclusively revealed to People that she’s been rehearsing for her return while filming the show. Chicago On Broadway next month
Ariana Madix feels grateful after hosting Love Island USA!
of Vanderpump Rules The 39-year-old star reminisced about his first season as host of the Peacock series in an Instagram post on Monday, July 22, the day after the Season 6 finale, which was won by Serena Page and Kordell Beckham.
“Thank you to everyone at @loveislandusa for all you do to make this show happen, from the art department to the music to the music that plays in my ears every night 🥰,” she wrote about filming in Fiji.
Maddix also Love Island The superfan also expressed his gratitude to the cast, saying: “Thank you to all the Islanders for giving us all that magic.”
In an Instagram post, Maddix posed next to the winners, runner-up couple Miguel Harichi and Leah Kateb, third place couple Jana Craig and Kenny Rodriguez, and fourth place couple Kendall Washington and Nicole Jackie.
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“Each and every one of you has made this season so special and you are all amazing. 💖,” she concluded. “We miss you all already!”
Maddix was beaming beside the group of eight as they all jumped into the villa’s pool together to celebrate the end of the season by getting soaking wet.
The Bravo star described the past six weeks hosting the series in Fiji as a “really special summer.”
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Her post came after the July 21 final, in which season’s favorites, Serena and Cordell, were crowned winners and recipients of the $100,000 prize.
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“Hosting this season has been amazing,” she said in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE.
“From the first night, it just felt magical and like there was an energy igniting,” she explained. She noted that she would have liked to see more of the Islanders’ conversations throughout the series, adding that it was then that she got to know the cast. “Obviously, you can’t show everything, but in those moments, I really enjoyed those conversations and I enjoyed getting to know them in those moments.”
“Especially on the first night, you really get to see who’s sitting across from you and making eye contact and stuff like that,” she says, “so I really love that part, and so I think if there was a director’s cut of this episode, I would make that part longer.”
Maddix has been in Fiji for the past six weeks, but is now back on Broadway: People magazine exclusively reported in May that she would be reprising her role as murderous adulterer Roxie Hart in the Tony Award-winning revival. ChicagoFrom August 1st to September 1st.
In a recent interview with People magazine, Maddix revealed that while she was in the villa, she was preparing for her upcoming return to a Broadway musical in August. Maddix told People that while she “didn’t have a lot of time to rehearse,” she was able to practice her musical skills while in the South Pacific country.
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“I was doing these vocal warm-ups that my voice coach sent me, and yesterday I started dancing to ‘Hot Honey Rag’ in the mirror at the hotel gym,” she said of the Fosse-esque dance scene at the end of the musical. “But I was so nervous that people were going to walk in! Like, ‘What is this weird woman doing?'”
She added that she “only has two days to rehearse” before going on stage, but has prepared her dance moves because she “doesn’t want to scare” anyone.
Her Broadway return follows her debut in the show in January, which ran for 10 weeks and broke box office records.
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Tickets for Chicago are on sale now at chicagothemusical.com .
a Love Island USA The reunion episode, hosted by Maddix, will premiere on Peacock on August 14.
