E1139 - Love Island's First Crashout, BTS Conversations With Anna Peele, Calabasas Confidential With Jemma
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
3.8 • 26.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Viall Files: Reality Recap!
Early reports from Fiji have told us the villa is villa-ing and we are soooo excited to have THE preeminent Love Island journalist and author of Enter the Villa: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island, Anna Peele join us to break down our first dumping (rip Sean, we hope you say hi to the mayor). Plus, we get into some Summer House drama, RHORI and more! Before that, however, Calabasas Confidential's Jemma stops by to make some BOLD claims about who on her cast may or may not be a yacht girl… stay tuned, girls.
"The games within the game change constantly…"
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
12:18 - Jemma Joins
29:36 - Anna Joins
02:07:38 - Outro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, everybody. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome back to another exciting episode of the Valfiles reality recap edition. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm your host, Nick, joined by the household and my wife |
| 0:24.9 | it sounds so weird when you just say white i know it's it's because you're so much more you're so |
| 0:30.8 | much more yeah it just feels like stylish hot sexy you sexy, cool, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny. Funny, funny, funny. Yeah. Wonderful. We got a fantastic episode lined up for you today. It's so much love island to get to. Obviously, we have all the drama of the weekend to talk about Kyle is a free man, and he is starting to spread his wings, Kyle Cook. Leaning over. Leaning over. Kissing over the DJ booth. Kind of giving Maddie Healy, to be honest with you. Oh, that's a read. Lots and lots and lots of stuff to get into. We have a fantastic episode for you. Anna Peel is with us. And if you don't know who Anna Peel is, you will after this episode. She's a very accomplished journalist who also just wrote a very exciting new book called |
| 1:14.3 | Enter the Villa. |
| 1:15.2 | She had full access to the production of Love Island. |
| 1:19.4 | And she interviewed, I think, many, many hundreds, even cast members, producers, really got |
| 1:25.6 | all the tea on the history of Love Island. |
| 1:28.3 | She's here to talk about the show, share with us her insights of Love Island, what she learned |
| 1:33.2 | to help give you guys a little behind the scenes of the history, the production, how it all |
| 1:37.5 | works inside the villain. |
| 1:39.6 | Obviously, here also to talk with us about what we're watching unfold on season eight of Love Island. |
| 1:46.0 | Maybe she'll have some deep spiritual thoughts about the Melanie crashout. The Melanie |
| 1:52.1 | crash out. That wasn't really a crash out. Yeah. Lots and lots again, too. She's also just a big |
| 1:57.2 | fan of all things. Bravo. So she's here to talk with us about some Rhode Island. I've never in my life said, I need a stack of ones. I don't think I've ever done that. When Rula's husband, when she came out for her party, and Rula's husband was like, wow, I wish I had a stack of ones. Words that never come out of my mouth. You really, you really know you love a strip club when that's the first thing. I've never said Alex. When you see your wife dressed up for a party. Right. And you need a stack of ones. And you're like comparing her to looking like she's entering a strip. Like that's entertainment for the night. That's where your mind goes. Not like, honey, beautiful honey beautiful wow if your husband's really focusing |
| 2:36.7 | on a getting a stack of ones and that's in his vernacular might be a deal breaker ladies he also |
| 2:41.8 | said ho ellen sorry jo ellen is not our friend he practiced that he did he pitched that to a producer |
| 2:48.4 | for sure when he was a ruler in the in, you could feel, I felt that he could feel the cameras around him. |
| 2:56.5 | Yeah. |
| 2:57.1 | He was doing a scene. |
| 2:58.0 | Tomorrow we have a fantastic going deeper. |
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