While it’s been nearly a year since the latest Temptation Island cast left the final bonfire, it appears that they still have scores to settle and tea to spill.
Alexa Santamaria and now-fiancé Lino Troisi sat down with Tyler Breshears, Tayler Byrd, Grant Larsen and Ashley Moore during the Thursday, March 27, episode of “The Viall Files” to rehash all the drama from season 9.
“[Joining the show] honestly seemed like a God-send,” Lino said on Thursday, referring to joining Temptation Island with then-girlfriend Alexa. “It was, you know, either we were ready to make that next big step and having this test was exactly what we needed. Going in, we knew exactly what we wanted to get out of it and we did it.”
On Temptation Island, couples are forced to live apart in side-by-side villas with a cast of “tempters” or “temptresses” hoping to come in between the preexisting relationships. While Lino and Alexa didn’t set any “boundaries” going into the experiment, they ultimately weren’t interested in entertaining other options and they got engaged in the finale.
Temptation Island questioned whether established couples could stay together despite obstacles — such as meeting hot single people — but which are still dating and who has broken up? The reality TV show originally debuted on FOX and followed four unmarried couples who traveled to a tropical island to have their fidelity tested. The couples […] However, none of the other couples passed the same test — and they still conflict over what went wrong. Keep scrolling for a full recap of the biggest takeaways from “The Viall Files” cast reunion: How Lino Picked Alexa’s Dream Ring — And What Went Down During Proposal
Tyler Golden/Netflix “On the show, it showed him ring shopping [and] he hated all the rings that the producers offered, so he told them to get an emerald-cut [with a] gold [band],” Alexa recalled. “They made it in L.A., overnighted it to Hawaii and he proposed the next day! He was not going to do it without something I didn’t like.” Lino, meanwhile, quipped that all the offerings were “horrendous” — and didn’t match the specifications he thought Alexa would want. “They overnighted it the next day,” Lino added. “It came together beautifully.” Throughout the final days on the show, Lino was secretly been planning to pop the question and even practiced his speech to all of his villa’s temptresses. Alexa, meanwhile, was caught off guard when Lino proposed after leaving the last bonfire. “I definitely thought it was on the radar,” Alexa said. “So, the final bonfire was done … we get in the car, our bags are there [and] the producers are with us. They’re like, ‘Let’s go back to the hotel.’ I think all of this is over. Parts of me thought I could potentially get engaged but once it was all over and we’re in the car on the way to the hotel, I’m like, ‘OK, I guess we just left together,’ and that’s like, ‘Woohoo, happy ending.’” After Alexa and Lino’s 45-minute drive back to the hotel, one of the producers revealed that they “forgot to [tape our] final interview” and asked the driver to turn the car around. Once they arrived at the confessional taping, Lino got down on bended knee to ask for Alexa’s hand in marriage. “I hadn’t prepared anything to say to her at the final bonfire,” Lino said, “All I had in my mind was, ‘OK, I need her on my left side when we turn the corner [so] I can get down on my right knee, so the camera can see me from the side [and] I need to get the ring without her seeing it.” Lino had intentionally wanted to “misdirect and surprise” Alexa, so she didn’t even know that he called her dad beforehand to ask for his blessing. “[I wanted] to make it as special as possible,” Lino gushed. Source link
