Love Island Australia viewers might’ve thought the finale was a nail-biter but according to insiders, the winning couple Yana and Kye may have already been popping imaginary champagne a full week before the public vote even opened.
Sources claim the lucky duo were quietly telling people they’d won the show well before the finale aired and that confidence didn’t exactly go unnoticed inside the cast.
“They weren’t saying ‘we could win’,” a source close to the cast told PEDESTRIAN.TV. “They were saying ‘we’ve won’.”
Naturally, this has sparked plenty of confusion, suspicion and group-chat discourse among their fellow contestants and reignited long-running fan debates about how Love Island Australia actually films its endings and how much power the public vote really holds.
Unlike many reality shows, Love Island Australia doesn’t involve public voting throughout the season. Viewers only get a say during the final episode, which insiders say can have some unintended consequences.
“Audiences are basically out of practice by the time the finale comes around,” an insider told P.TV. “The voting numbers aren’t comparable to shows where fans are voting week after week.”
According to multiple cast members, Yana and Kai’s confidence reportedly came from watching the show play out on TV. Including screen time, edit and online reaction.
“They felt very sure based on how they were being portrayed,” the insider says. “But that level of confidence hasn’t exactly won them many friends.”
The situation has also reignited familiar fan theories about Love Island finales, with some viewers convinced the show films multiple endings in the same order each year, making it easier for cast members to read the signs early.
To be clear, insiders insist there’s no suggestion rules were broken or anything was rigged. It’s more about perception and what happens when contestants start believing the edit tells them everything they need to know.
“It’s not that the show is fixed,” the source explains. “It’s that without ongoing public voting, people start assuming the outcome is obvious.”
While Yana and Kye did ultimately take out the win, their pre-finale certainty has added another layer of drama to a season insiders are already calling one of the messiest in years.
And if the post-show tensions are anything to go by, the villa doors might be closed but the discourse is very much still open.
