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Baby, this is Keke Palmer

What REALLY Happens In the Villa? with Love Island’s JaNa Craig

Baby, this is Keke Palmer

Wondery

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We all fell for JaNa Craig on Love Island USA last season, and today, she’s revealing what really goes down in the Villa. From swerving producers’ “suggestions” to run-ins with HR and how those Islander cliques actually form, JaNa is spilling all the behind-the-scenes secrets. And trust—she is NOT holding back. As if that ain’t enough, she’s dishing on the new spinoff Beyond the Villa, including lasting love with Kenny, which castmate she’s actively dodging, and why Keke just might be the next PPG recruit.

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0:00.0

My guest today is someone I have been dying to talk to since the moment she walked into the villa last season on Love Island, U.S.

0:13.4

Now, she may have taken a few als in the beginning, but she came out on top with a new man and a girl's by her side.

0:19.2

Shout out to the Power Prove gang.

0:21.3

She is the queen of confidence and an inspiration for so many black women who don't want to settle in love or life.

0:27.8

That's the power of representation in reality TV, y'all.

0:30.5

Now, she's revealing what's next.

0:32.4

So, Janay, welcome to the show.

0:36.2

No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling, popo Amazon music, sit back and listen.

0:40.8

Life, love, sex, science, covering it all, especially the back, because money always involved.

0:45.3

No matter what it is, we gonna make it make sense.

0:47.3

Nothing else to do but kick it with the homies and key.

0:49.8

So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only want is...

0:53.3

You know it's your only one this is cool.

0:54.7

Baby, this is, this is Kiki.

0:58.7

Baby, this is Kiki Poma, yeah.

1:04.5

This episode is presented in partnership with Airbnb.

1:08.3

Baby, Summer's calling, and she's got one thing on her mind, your next getaway.

1:13.3

My take? Playing your trip by searching guest's favorites on Airbnb, because these most love

1:17.9

homes are ready for your next adventure. Let's get into it.

1:22.8

Hey, boo! How are you? How are you? How are you? Oh my God, I'm loving this ball. Steve was like the band list. Thank you, baby. How are you, girl? I'm good. I'm so excited to tell you the show. You know, I talked to Serena. I knew I couldn't go any further. I had to also talk to you. Thank you. Thank you for coming to the show. It's been a year since Love Island premiered. I mean, time flew by so fast. How are you? How are things with Cannes?

1:48.8

We're good. Everything's good. We just been chilling. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, isn't it so weird, like, you go from being on this villa, cameras in your face, everything being so on 10 to then having the the calm of, like, real life. Yes. How was that adjustment initially? Because now it's settled in. You're right. It has settled in now. Thank God. Everything was so fast. Like, I kind of don't even remember, like, if I'm being honest, August to, like, December. I look at pictures. I'm like, oh, my gosh, I did do that. I'm like, can you remember

2:20.6

when we went here? He's like, no. I'm like, me either. But wow, get to know that we went to Japan, you know what I mean? Like, stuff like that. Yeah, it was a lot. But like, now that we slowed down. It's so weird. Like, um, we're still, like, learning more about one another.

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