After what felt like a lot too lengthy of a wait, Netflix’s second season of Temptation Island dropped on April 10, introducing the world to 4 new struggling {couples} and two dozen new tempting singles. One of the {couples} was 24-year-old aesthetician Sydney McGregor and 24-year-old DJ and host Mikey Bivens, who met at North Carolina A&T and appeared on the present after nearly a year-and-a-half of relationship. And whereas (spoiler alert!), the couple didn’t find yourself making it out of paradise collectively, Sydney did get one thing (and somebody…) out of the expertise.
During an unique interview with Cosmo forward of the season 2 premiere, Sydney revealed that—when a “casting producer reached out” and requested her to be on the present—she was totally on board. Mikey, nevertheless, wanted some convincing. “We got on a call with [the casting producer], and he’s telling us how the show with run, and everything that happened last season, and how one couple got engaged,” she defined. “And from that conversation, Mikey was like, ‘Okay, you know what? We’ll do it.’”
According to Sydney, she had each intention of leaving Temptation Island alongside Mikey. “We went in like, ‘Oh, this is going to be a cake walk, and we’re going to leave together,’” she mentioned. She hoped the expertise would make their relationship stronger…and ideally, give Mikey an opportunity to “do deeper digging on himself.”
As she defined it, “I really wanted him to show me a different side of him, somebody that wasn’t just trying to make everybody happy and live in a bubble.” But then the primary bonfire rolled round, exhibiting Mikey with the “three amigos,” and Sydney determined she was carried out.
“The whole three amigos thing really made me feel triggered from our past,” she mentioned, including, “Just see him talking to them in a flirtatious way really triggered things inside me, and it showed me, ‘Oh, he hasn’t changed. So why am I still putting myself back in the same cycle?’ So I chose to move on with my experience and make it a personal one.”
Cue: Xzavier Odom, who was greater than able to make Sydney really feel like a prize. “One of my love languages is words of affirmation, and just seeing how hard he had worked on that [card] really spoke volumes to the person that he was and what he thought of me, and what he saw in me,” she mentioned of her connection.
And no, btw, she positively did not anticipate to fall in love with another person on Temptation Island. “When I first met Xzavier, it really felt like a friendship. And I didn’t look at him in terms of like somebody I could possibly like, somebody I would possibly date, or anything like that,” she mentioned, including that when she did fall for him, “I was just shocked. I was blown away.”
So…had been Sydney and Xzavier capable of make their love final after leaving Hawaii collectively? Unfortunately, it looks as if we’ll have to attend till the inevitable reunion particular to seek out out!!
