Three Love Island Season 7 Couples Still Stand Together
love island season 7 ended with three couples still together, and that postshow count now gives the season a clear result beyond Fiji. Serena Vansteenberghe and Kordell Carthen, Hakeem Williams and Olandria Carraway, and JaNa Kendall and Kenny Palma have all stayed linked after the finale.
Vansteenberghe and Carthen even returned for Beyond the Villa Season 2, where she said, "I think maintaining a long-distance relationship was difficult." That leaves this group as more than a reunion storyline: these couples are trying to turn a reality-TV ending into something that survives distance and constant attention.
Serena Vansteenberghe and Kordell Carthen
Serena Vansteenberghe and Kordell Carthen are still together after Season 7, and their relationship has already moved into a second chapter on Beyond the Villa Season 2. Vansteenberghe told Us Weekly that he felt pressure to share details of their relationship with the public but would not always do so, which is the sort of friction most dating shows never have to deal with once filming ends.
That pressure sits alongside the long-distance problem Vansteenberghe named on the show itself. The couple is trying to manage a relationship that now has to work outside the villa, where privacy is thinner and every update becomes part of the public record.
Hakeem Williams and Olandria Carraway
Hakeem Williams and Olandria Carraway are still together after leaving Fiji, and their relationship has also been shaped by distance. Carraway described Williams's horse riding accident that left him hospitalized, then explained her approach with a line that makes the stakes personal: "I like to think that when I’m in a relationship, I can hold my man’s hand, close my eyes, and know that he’s going to lead me in the right direction, and that I’m going to be safe and taken care of."
For this couple, the complication is not just geography. A long-distance relationship would already test a pair that met on television; a hospitalization adds a separate stress point and shows how quickly postshow life can move away from the easy structure of the villa.
JaNa Kendall and Kenny Palma
JaNa Kendall and Kenny Palma are the third surviving Season 7 couple, and their path was the least direct. Kendall was matched with Pepe Garcia in the Season 7 finale, then reconnected with Palma after that relationship fizzled out.
Their public timeline is tighter than the others: they hinted at their romance in September 2025 and went Instagram official in November 2025. For viewers tracking where the season's couples landed, that sequence turns a loose postshow link into a public pairing with a dated trail.
Three couples lasting out of one season is a solid retention rate for a format built to separate people as quickly as it pairs them, and Season 7 now has a clean answer for anyone asking which matches made it past Fiji. The next question is which of these relationships can keep absorbing the same pressures that have already tested them: distance, publicity, and the gap between a televised ending and real life.
