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Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff are officially out of the villa after winning ‘Love Island USA’ Season 8 together this week. Now, the former is making headlines, speaking out for a fellow islander.
Since leaving the villa, Trinity Tatum has taken to social media to speak out against the hate Zach Georgiou has been receiving.
In a statement shared to her account, she wrote, Coming out of the villa, I want to say Im very blessed and appreciative of all the love and support everyone has given me. With that being said, I want to say the hate and ignorant comments some of you guys are making regarding Zach are absolutely not okay and need to stop. Its very disheartening, and we are people just like everyone else. We genuinely have love for each other inside and outside of the villa, and hes one of the most amazing people Ive met, so please have some empathy.
@zachgeorgio @brycealakai @melanieelisa @aniyaharvey02 @carl_witness_lee @sincere.rhea
The statement was also reposted by several fellow Love Island USA Season 8 finalists. Including Bryce Dettloff, Aniyah Harvey, Carl Lee, Kayda Bosse, and more as they echoed Trinitys message.
Folks gathered across the timeline in response to the joint statement shared by Trinity Tatum. Some commended her for speaking out in support of her fellow co-star. Others felt the statement should have addressed every islander receiving hate, not just one.
Instagram user @on.regular wrote, But yet Kc is getting death threats, racial slurs, and getting the absolute hateful comments. I’m praying for these hateful people and also praying for Ko and Titi.
Instagram user @beebuzzing added, Can you also do this for KC and also watch the episode when Zach doubted your feelings towards Bryce and also the episode of what KC really said vs what Bryce told you to create the hate you have for KC.
While Instagram user @luhhyonee wrote, girl speak on the hate and slurs they saying about your people of color
Instagram user @itsme.shy wrote, mind yall trinity never liked ko so why should she speak on his behalf??? be frl
Instagram user @lillianilli wrote. I miss when love island was private. Yall are ruining the show!! The comments etc just doing to much.
While Instagram user @yousounserious wrote, I still don’t get the hate toward Zach
Instagram user @_telorvskarma wrote, She’s good and unfollowed generalize it! Nobody should be getting hate! I barely see any Zach hate because KC & titi getting dragged to the ground everyday this sad
Instagram user @wwwspicymami2.0 added, If 3 black men left love island with white women while their black costars were subjected to cruelty, racism, etc and said nothing… but notably came online just to defend a white women, we’d be having an entire different conversation on social media but imma let yall have it.
While Instagram user @dripglosss wrote, I can’t believe people are this mentally ill to where a show can cause them to leave hate comments under peoples post. I could never give af that much. Way too deep in Chile TV
Following Zach Georgious time in the villa, his brother and former ‘Love Island Season 7’ star Charlie Georgiou has remained vocal while defending him against criticism online.
On Threads, one user wrote, If @charliegeorgio had a good PR team he shouldve been acting like Gals team seeing the mess his brother is creating. Instead of blindly supporting, you can support and still call him out, even if its in a cute satire way. That wouldve won people over
Charlie responded, You want me to ridicule my brother online whilst Im receiving vast amounts of insane hate towards him to win people over? Wrong family. I dont care to be liked by fanatic cult obsessed deluded people online.
Close the end of the season, Charlie shared another lengthy statement, writing, To all the people who dont like me anymore for defending my brother, Im glad. Genuinely I dont need support from people that bully my brother online for absolute minute reasons. Youd think hes been cancelled for something illegal the way you are talking about him. I have received death wishes, homophobic slurs and people even telling him to take his ass back to the Byzantine empire the region in which our heritage comes from. These are probably the same people who mocked Parmidas Persian name. Ethnic names dont deserve to be mocked just because they are different… For all the people who have said Zach withheld food from Kayda and has starved Kayda as farfetched and ridiculously dramatic that statement is, Zach did make Kayda breakfast that morning it just wasnt shown.
Amid Trinity Tatum’s joint statement, Charlie also revealed that Zachs TikTok account had been banned after being reported en masse. He wrote, TikTok has banned Zachs account because everyone is reporting it, wtf is wrong with people? The truth about the false narratives portrayed about his time there will be spoken on soon.
Zachs TikTok account has since been restored and is now back up and running.
