Love Island final 4 voting arrived at the end of Episode 31, with Iain Stirling telling viewers they need to choose their top four couples to decide who stays in the villa. With Love Island USA Season 8 down to three episodes left, the vote now controls which couples get the path to the finale on Sunday, July 12.
Tess Higgins on Zach and Kayda
Tess Higgins said she would have expected Zach and Kayda to be safe earlier in the season, but the bottom placement earlier that week changed her view. “If you had asked me at the start of the season, I would have said that (Zach and Kayda) were probably making it to the end, but now I’m not so sure, especially since they were in the bottom earlier this week,” she said.
She also pointed to the way Kayda talked about the relationship. “There seems to be some back and forth, or some hesitation with Kayda about what being exclusive means, or how that’s being perceived with the others in the villa,” Higgins said. Kayda later shed tears after Zach asked her to be exclusive with him until they enter the real world, which makes their spot in the final vote less secure than it looked at the start.
KC, Titi, Trinity, Bryce
By the end of Episode 31, KC and Titi joined Trinity and Bryce as the only two couples in committed relationships. KC also asked Titi to be his girlfriend, after Tess Higgins said he had orchestrated an elaborate plan to do it. Higgins added, “I think that they have both done a big 180 since the destruction that happened because of their entrance during Casa.”
Sally Darr Griffin put the pair in a stronger lane. “But I personally think that they deserve to be in the final four,” she said of Zach and Kayda. Her view matters because the top four couples vote is not a popularity contest in the abstract; it is the mechanism that decides who remains in the villa and keeps the finale door open.
Sally Darr Griffin on the closing stretch
Griffin also said her favorite recent moment involved the competition, while Higgins singled out another beat from the season’s endgame. “My favorite moment in the recent episodes was seeing the karaoke challenge,” Higgins said. “The best moment was Sincere waking up alone in the hideaway,” Griffin said. Those reactions frame how narrow the field has become: with only three episodes left, every relationship beat now feeds directly into the vote.
The practical takeaway is simple. Viewers are not waiting for another reset; they are deciding the final shape of the season now. Episode 31 turned the remaining couples into a short list, and the next cut depends on which four names the audience keeps in the villa.
