Belle-A Reveals the One Connection She Wishes She Explored on Love Island USA

Published: June 12, 2025

The 22-year-old tells PEOPLE that she had "crazy strong chemistry" with one surprising islander "that neither one of us really explored."

The Islander Who Got Away

Belle-A Walker, the first Islander dumped from the Fiji villa when Nic chose bombshell Cierra, might have only seemed to have interest in the 24-year-old, but really, she had her eyes on another islander too.

"Taylor and I had this kind of crazy strong chemistry that neither one of us really explored," she tells PEOPLE, referring to the cowboy who's been coupled up with Olandria since day 1.

Belle-A says she and Taylor didn't explore their connection because of how close she was to Olandria. Though she felt a connection to the cowboy, she didn't "want to feel like you're stabbing your girl in the back because you're pulling her man for a conversation," and given that Olandria was "one of my closest friends in that villa," Belle-A says her "loyalty to her really, really stopped me from exploring things with Taylor."

"Being a girl's girl in that villa is really, really difficult," she admits.

Taylor's Small Gestures

Taylor always "kept me in mind" and "made sure I was okay," Belle-A says, so a romance between them "could have been really, really good." There were a lot of small things Taylor was doing for Belle-A that the cameras either didn't catch or that simply didn't make the cut.

"He always kept me in mind and always made sure I was okay. He brought me coffee every single morning. He asked me to teach him how to [use] the espresso machine so that he could make me my coffee, which, coffee is one of my love languages," she says.

"He would always help me up and down the stairs. He would compliment me. I wasn't coming down those stairs looking forward to seeing the other person I'm coupled up with, because I wasn't coupled up since day 2. So Taylor always made sure that I wasn't missing out on any love."

Regrets and What-Ifs

Looking back, she wishes she'd let herself explore things with Taylor rather than prioritizing Olandria's feelings over her own.

"A connection I wish I explored more [is] Taylor. I think that we did have a good chemistry and we just didn't allow ourselves to explore it. So I think that I would've done that a little differently, second time around."

"Ultimately, it is Love Island and not friend island, and I think I owed it to myself to have done that."

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