LOS ANGELES — ''Love Island USA'' culminated a tumultuous summer full of explosive breakups and shock exits in its season finale Sunday.
A public vote (spoilers ahead) crowned Amaya Espinal, 25, and Bryan Arenales, 28, as the winning couple of its seventh season.
The Peacock reality series has had a chart-topping run since the season premiered on June 3. ''Love Island'' brings young singles together in a remote villa in Fiji to explore connections with the ultimate goal of finding love.
Espinal and Arenales formed a connection late in the season, bonding over their shared Latino culture. Espinal, a New York City native, is Dominican, and Arenales is of Puerto Rican and Guatemalan descent, according to his Instagram page.
''I often said how much I wanted to provide that safe place here for you, but little did I know that you would do that for me, too,'' Arenales said during his final speech before the winners were announced. ''You said I was the water to your fire, but you are my peace to this madness.''
Each contestant in the winning couple randomly picked from two envelopes, one which contained the $100,000 prize and the other nothing. Arenales got the full prize, and chose to split it evenly with Espinal.
Olandria Carthen and Nicolas Vansteenberghe were the runners-up, and Huda Mustafa and Chris Seeley — who went through an awkward and emotional breakup during the finale — came in third place. Iris Kendall and Jose ''Pepe'' Garcia-Gonzalez placed fourth.
The show's host, Ariana Madix, also announced that the entire cast of Season 7 will come together again for a New York reunion, which will be released on Peacock on Aug. 25, she said.