When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - Love Island's Hannah Wright & Marco Donatelli

Episode Date: September 21, 2023

Season 5 Winners of Love Island USA Hannah Wright & Marco Donatelli join Jax & Brittany to share who THEIR favorite couple was on the island, their interaction with ARIANA MADIX, which couples split up after the show, their biggest hurdles after leaving the island, AND MUCH MORE! Check out our great deals!! Draft Kings: Download the DraftKings app and sign up with code REALITY - New customers can bet just $5 to get TWO HUNDRED INSTANTLY IN BONUS BETS! AG1: Get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 Free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase at DrinkAG1.com/realityhits  Factor: Hungry? Head to FACTORMEALS.com/realityhits50 and use code realityhits50 to get 50% off OSEA: Rejuvenate your skin! Get 10% off your first order with code "BRITTANY" at OSEAMalibu.com Jenni Kayne: Get 15% off your forever pieces when you use code "reality" at jennikayne.com 

You too. Hello everybody and welcome back to Win Reality hits with Jackson Brittany. Hey everybody how's it going? We are so excited because as we've been talking about for a couple episodes in the past, we became obsessed with Love Island because my mom came to visit us and got us hooked. And now we have the winners, the beautiful couple, Hannah and Marka. Yeah.

Hey guys. Congratulations guys. Congratulations. Congratulations. We've, I was voting for you guys the whole time. Just FYI, I was on the phone texting. We are in out of the whole time. We're like, Marka and Hannah are our favorites.

We want them to win. Nothing against everybody else. Everybody was really, really cool, but we just loved you guys. It just seemed really, really natural with you guys. It just seemed like the flow. It seems like you guys were dating for like years. It really just seemed right? It did. I just, I, I, it worked for, that's what my boat was for anyway. How did you guys feel? Like, I want to know what attracted you to each other from the start other than physical appearance because obviously you're both very beautiful people

But you seem to just click so easily Yeah, no definitely uncle first Mark we think very similar. I think that's the main thing like personality-wise is weird because we're both very much people who are kind of like To themselves believe it or not like we have small circles on the outside. Like we don't trust easily, but like with each other, we're able to open up really easily. So it's weird how stuff works out like that. So that's what attracted me to him. Like how easy he was to talk to for sure. Yeah, like I said, you guys seem like you just have known each other forever. It was just it just worked well with you guys. Marco, how about you? For me, it was just like how much deeper she dug

to get to know me, kind of like the insides of me. I remember our first conversation. It was like one of the worst conversations I had in the whole villa. And she just said, there's more to you. Like, you're not telling me, did you have a long day? What's going on? So that's when I first started, you know,

really liked her besides the attractive side She like checked every box on the attractive side like right away and I do have a tight I know a lot of the guys went into the bill and they said, uh, you know, they're into Everybody everybody here is beautiful, but for me, I think that's bullshit You know, I know what I want and you know what it looks like and I'm gonna go get it So I felt like that's where I came from but definitely just her, you know, big and deeper on to me, trying to figure out, you know, my roots. And, you know, I eventually was able to open up. And that's why it felt so real.

And that's why it felt so, you know, I would say ahead of everybody else that early in the game. Oh, I love that. Yeah. You guys definitely, like I said, seem to click from the start. Um, what's it like? What's it been like outside of filming now? Because you guys obviously started dating on a reality TV show. We kind of shared that experience.

We didn't go through a show like you did, but our whole first five years of our relationship was on VaynerPump Rules. So I wonder once the camera stopped rolling, how have things been for you guys? You're obviously in different locations right now. I've got so many questions from fans asking you if you're going to move in together. I mean, there's just so many questions. I'm so excited to hear about. So wait, Marco, you are in Pennsylvania. You said. Yeah, I took Hannah up to Ohio, Pennsylvania area, kind of called penal, Ohio, because 30 minutes from each other. And I had to meet all my family this past week and Steelers are kind of like a non-negotiable for my family, so last night I had to go to Steeler game,

but she went home, so. I'm here until tomorrow, then I go back to Florida. Okay, is that where you guys are gonna post up? That's your spot? Oh yeah, we're out and posted up. She's coming. Florida's awesome, man. It's one of my favorite questions.

She's coming to Florida, which part of Florida are you guys living in? I love that. Boka? Oh, good. Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful. Florida's my favorite place in the entire world.

I'm still trying to get there. I've been living here since 2005. And I've been trying to get to Florida for the last five years, I feel like. We just love Florida. We love it so much. I'm so jealous that you guys are going there. One of these days, one of these days we'll get there.

Yeah, but how different has it been though without the cameras? Like are you able to connect even more? What's it been like for you guys? We kind of had to like start again because it's like we always called it. We joked and called the villa our simulation because it's not real. You know, what we feel is real, but you're not working. You don't have the outside. You don't have all the outside noise.

You don't have your phone. So it's kind of like we have to see each other on the outside. But it's just made me love Markle even more. Seeing where he comes from and see his friends and seeing his family. But we didn't have all that in the villa. So that was definitely adjustment. I've talked to people from the show too. Like, yeah, we did kind of have to restart. Like we're thrown back into real life and it's just very, we went to Walmart one of our first nights being back. That was a lot. Did people recognize you? Did people recognize you at Walmart?

Did people recognize you at Walmart? Oh yeah, well we went but no the weird part about that was kind of just like we were always a team in the villa but now we're in Walmart and I'm going to get milk and she's going to get the real life stop yeah it's like real life it's so weird I used to say the same thing. I used to say thing when I used to watch,

when I watched the Bachelor back in the day, like you go on these elaborate dates on these private islands and now you're back home, go to TGI Friday's on a Friday night and you know, breadsticks and chicken fingers as opposed to like crab legs on a private island. So yeah, now it gets real, now it gets real. Yeah, but we absolutely loved you guys, and it was so fun watching that show.

And I just wonder what it was like filming. Did you guys film 24 hours a day? I'm gonna bounce off that question, piggy bank off that question. How much, so did you film 24 hours a day and did you have a lot of downtime? Oh man. Yeah, yeah. So I would say technically the cameras were on 24 hours a day, they caught me some

farts in the middle of the night, so clearly they're recording 24-7, but the downtime kind of came around lunchtime. We probably had an hour before lunch, an hour after lunch, and then that was like really only downtime on true filming days and obviously we have off days For like the fans to vote or catch up. So we did have a lot of downtime I would say but the only bad thing about the down down time is I couldn't be with Hannah It was like guys were separated from girls As a viewer I'd never knew that I never knew that so did you were you guys aware of how anything is how the voting went at all Like do you guys kept in the dark with that? Or you knew it was going on, correct?

Well, we kind of caught on to it. So if we had a challenge, like bombshells came in, or there was a recoupling, we're like, okay, and then we take those pictures, I don't know if you see them on the app of us posing. Yeah. So we're like, okay, every time we take those pictures,

we're like, okay, there's probably gonna be voting soon. But then we didn't know how long the voting would last. Like Fiji's like a day ahead of the state. So it's like you kind of catch on to the pattern. Like challenge, recoverings, so yeah, we were, but we kind of guessed. And then we guessed sometimes it would be completely wrong. So we kind of never knew.

That's so interesting to hear about. Cause we know how reality TV works, but you guys were in a different situation where you're stuck in a house with your partner. So on those days with the voting and everything, you guys can even see each other. Because that's that's so interesting. Yeah, basically we couldn't. We had to just be in separate rooms. And if you talk to like they'd separate us.

We didn't. I would definitely like I would sneak to the bathroom. She would tune me in there. Like we would try to hang out there. Oh, I got yelled at so much. So I just, what is, what was it like? Like I just got off of another reality show called

House of Villains and I had to sleep in room with two other contestants. And what did you guys, how did you feel about sleeping in rooms with everybody? I mean, I, I was like 20 people. There was like sleeping in rooms with everybody? I mean, I- That's like 20 people. There's like 20 people in a room. I mean, everybody's got different ways to sleep.

They're noisy, they're loud, they make, you know, it's just weird. It's just weird sleeping with that many people. I just sleep with two people and I lasted one day and I said, fuck, after this, I'm going downstairs. So I- how did you handle that? Um, I'll go with this one, because I didn't handle it well. You know, I was, you know, I was, can you swear on this thing? I don't know. I was MF and everybody because they would, it's like, a lot of, a lot of Islanders were selfish around bedtime.

Bedtime something very important to me. Like, I want to get to bed when I want to get to bed get the most amount of sleep. As we all know we don't sleep a lot on reality television you know stuff. So now it was it was bad for me because I would be in bed. I would say almost two and a half hours before the last grow would come down and they wouldn't shut the lights off until like the last person made it into the bedroom. Oh my god the lights the lights. I know the last person made it into the bedroom. Oh my God, the lights, the lights. I know. Man, and then we had, again, I didn't want me to cut you off.

We had no doors and lights on all the time. And it was just like, I just, it was like a killer. It was a killer. But yeah, I can, I totally get that, man. They had this, the sleeping thing, whatever. And then you have to wake up whenever the first person wakes up, like the lights come back on in the morning. Yeah.

I'm okay. And they haunt you on on that and they haunt you on your microphone. Get that microphone on. Get that. I'm like, relax. Relax. So let me take a shower. I'll put the mic on when I get up or when I get out. Don't worry.

I'll get them. And they haunt you on that microphone. I know. They started having to like come shake us and the producers me and Marco towards the end we were just so like okay we just wanted to sleep and just give us five more minutes to produce a word come and be like all right get up you too yeah so how long have you guys actually officially wrapped like how is it been like just a couple because I feel like the turnaround is so fast for love Island. Yeah. It's so like the finale aired a day

and a half after it was shocked. Wow. So yeah, that was like three weeks ago, three and a half. Maybe it's coming close. Yeah, not a month. Yeah. But yeah, turn around. With the busy fall season already in swing, you might be

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Was able to spend the entire month of August with us So she was like wanted to watch Love Island every single night and it became like our nightly routine that we were gonna watch you guys So I wanted to ask a couple questions directly from my mom and Her first question was who was your favorite couple on Love Island and are you guys still in touch with each other? My favorite couple at the end was Leo and Cassie and I'm definitely still in touch with Leo. I think I'm going live with Leo tonight at like 10 on Instagram. So yeah, it was so funny today.

I was trying to catch up watching Love Island with my dad just so he could show me at the beginning episodes and you know how we were getting to it and then Leo Leo sent me a picture and watching you know love Island in class so we stay in touch daily and that's definitely was my favorite couple So you're so you're going back rewatching it now you're starting the beginning and rewatch it all because imagine they were they were still gone whatever the episodes were airing they never got to see what Oh my god, you know whenever we film, it would be like six months later. Yeah. And everything was already completed by then.

Are you like, when you're watching this, are you kind of like cringing? Are you happy? I have so far. Are you like, what are you thinking about it so far? Yeah, I'm kind of like texting Hannah throughout the whole thing. It's pretty cringe for me.

Me too. And then I kind of, you remember what you said and what was shown or like, yeah. It was just weird. I don't know. I'm just like, I just kind of roll with the punches watching it. How did you like the editing?

Did they edit you okay? They edited me all right. I think they cut it down better, but they definitely edited me okay. And this is gonna be, I don't mean to keep just firing questions here, but I'm gonna guess because I've never seen this done before but they use and that we watched another

show I think it was called the ultimatum they use the white glasses throughout the whole thing is that so they can for the editors so they can edit scenes together is that why they everybody was where using white glasses the whole time was there a reason for that or am I right with the editing oh no yeah no we we switched it up I think that was just so, I don't, there was no film thing to us that we know about because sometimes it was like clear as well. We put the wine into it. Then the white ones were obviously, or mostly like what are water bottles in the champagne, I would say. So no, white glasses and all of the water bottles.

I was thinking because I had the same question for this other reality show that we watched the ultimatum and they're all always using these silver containers And then I made a question. Why are they always using every drink is in these silver things? And they're like oh that's for editors so they can move around scenes wherever they want. I was like oh man There's those editors are sneaky They can make you look good and they can make you look bad. Oh, yeah Consonuity that was their favorite word Oh, I know

Conson their favorite word. Oh my god. Not to do it. Favorite word. Oh my god. Finger nails have to match everything. Yeah, it's a whole thing. I think it's up to five days in a row from like Holy cow. So as you guys know, Ariana is one of our close friends. I wanted to know how Sarah and Ariana did as host in your opinions and like what it was like to be around them and get to know them

Because I've met Sarah a couple times Jackson's pipe golf with Wells her husband and of course We know Ariana she was a bridesmaid my wedding love her to pieces. Oh Yes, oh, they're amazing like they're just so Real like you feel very comfortable around them like they just feel like you've known them forever Ariana when I saw her come in first first I thought she was a bomb show. So I just see her blonde hair. And I'm like, okay, we're getting a blonde. And then Ariana, like, you see that?

But she was so fun. And like we tried to talk to her like in between takes and stuff. And she was just like so chill. So I loved being around her. Oh, I love that. Did everybody feel super awkward whenever Leo was telling Sarah that she was being rude?

Do you guys remember that moment happening? Leo, it was, oh yeah. Oh yeah, that's right. When Leo told Sarah she was being rude, yeah, was that awkward? It was Mike. Yeah, I think that was Mike. Yeah, I thought that.

At the red wedding? It was at the end, wasn't it, with Mike? Wasn't Leo, it was Mike. No, Leo's the one who told her she was being rude about somebody else. I Sure, yes, I think it was Mike That's right and then Leo apologize after oh Mike said it and then Leo apologize for Mike. Yeah Well, see as a viewer I'm this that because I thought it was Leo the whole time. They were right by each other Okay, but Leo did apologize for Mike.

They Mike did. That's why I thought it was Leo because I saw him apologize to her. But still was that an awkward moment because she's like the host and you're like, oh, shit. We were all just like very like, did he just do that? And like, obviously, like, well, this is behind the scenes too. Like, everything is in the ear. Like Sarah can't obviously remember to ask all these questions. So like they tell her in her ear to ask this question. So the fact that he took it out directly on Sarah was like, what does he do?

Yeah, it wasn't like she's making up these questions on a wrong. Sorry, I got that wrong, but that makes a lot more sense now. Cause I was wondering while Leo was so like mad about that. But that makes so much more sense. I bet because you thought it was Leo too. No, I thought it was Mike. I remember it was the taller guy. Well, shoot, maybe that was just me.

That's what's still. Okay. Sarah was like, what? Yeah, she was taking back. She was like, wait a minute, I'm just getting some stuff in my ear here. Yeah, I knew they had earpieces and I knew they don't, they just kind of feed their lines to them.

So I want to know if you guys did not win, what couple did you think was going to win? Leo and Cassie. That's right. Yeah. Marco, did you take the same? Yeah, I did. Well, I didn't know how America viewed like what he did or how, but also how they viewed him getting her back. So I think he would have probably, he would have probably had it for sure because everybody loved Leo. You know, he got to make a character. He was always a ball of energy. And I knew like, and he was my best friend there. So I was hoping for him. You know, yeah, he would probably want it. I would say.

She did good like standing strong. I feel like she grew so much personally. So I feel like people definitely probably like resonated with that too, like seeing her journey. I saw that as well. I thought she was so strong and she became more and more likable as the season went on. But we still knew Hannah and Marco were gonna win. I mean, did you guys think you were gonna win?

Honestly. Well, when we got to the final, I thought we definitely had a good chance. Yeah. Oh my, come on Hannah. I thought, there's a win, there's a Oh my come on Hannah. I can't wait till we get out of these brewery questions. Are we getting closer? We are but I still want to know. Did you guys did you have a feeling you might win? When the final three when it was us as far as I thought yeah. For sure. Are you kidding? Yes. We always disagreed on this. Wait Mark how you

thought you weren't winning in Hannah? You thought you were? No, I thought I knew we were winning probably. I would just say the way though how fast we grew and compared to everybody else and how we staged dry, I'd say I probably knew after after she came back from Causa that we had like a really good chance. Because I would not say he didn't and he said when did you think you would win? like you were, you didn't think you, oh my God. Hey, you guys want anyway, because obviously you all have actual relationship.

Are the other couples still together, like Carmen and Inzo and Leo and Cassie, are they all still together? I mean, the one I really want to know about, which it's so transparent that she, I'm sorry, the couple just did not match was burgui and Lindsay was it was it Lindsay? Both beautiful people both great people, but no it just didn't I was buying it as I'm a as a viewer as a

Reality person I was not buying what she was selling wasn't buying it. How about you guys do you guys think that? Here to be honest because I feel like everybody, from your point of view, I would say a viewer felt that way. And I kind of like upset me because I obviously believe in Bergen, I believe in this connection, but he did go through, you know, a couple previous efforts, I would say to establish something kind of felt like it ended up at Taylor. But I feel like they, they're still together. I feel like they are. Wow. Yeah, they are.

And I'm just, again, I'm looking this as a viewer because in the beginning, we obviously, Berge wanted to be a fan favorite. So I thought maybe the girl would be like, you know what, I'm gonna get with him because he's obviously gonna be sticking around a long time. I'm gonna put my effort in here.

That's kind of what it looked like for me, but I'm glad they're still together. That's good. I'm glad it worked out. Is it wait, like, did you answer the question? Is anybody not together? Yeah. Oh really? Who? No, everybody in the final four is together, but I would say before then, I don't think any of them are together. I'm carrying an Emily Prize split right away. Not sure to be honest, my son,

I'm all hanging out in Houston. I would say Jonah and Taylor aren't together anymore. Because it's a big deal. Because you guys not only have to, you play this game and you're together, now you gotta go back home and you're most of you guys off from different states. Now you gotta try to figure out where we're gonna move, where we're gonna live, what we're gonna do.

And so now it really, really begins. And I think when you start the show, you don't really realize that until the minute, like, wait a minute, what are we gonna do? We get done with this. Like, are we gonna stay together? Are we gonna move? Where are we gonna go?

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You just what seems sweet as pie. And I just want to know how that's going for you guys. Yes, definitely like we talk all the time and like towards the end of the show is nice because him and Marco got close to and like so as us is like a trio. Yeah. But I love him. It's always good to have like a guy friend in there.

So like for example, when I was at Casa Moore, I was like, if anything happens with Marco and anything, like Berge is going to let me know. So like this is always good having someone in there and like he's someone too, I can confide in now. And it's just always good to get like a male perspective on things like other than like my partner. So yeah, love him, he's killing it out there.

He has some like big things coming up. So like, oh good. Stay tuned in for some time. And where's he, where's he based out of? Where was he based? Where's he live? Where's he live? Minnesota. Minnesota, okay. And is she moving with him? Or based? Where's he live? Where's he live? Minnesota.

Minnesota, okay. And is she moving with him, or is he gonna move with her, or how's that gonna work? I haven't heard much talks about moving together yet. I think it's new for them as well. So we haven't heard anything about that, but who knows, you know. All right, I have another, oh, sorry, go ahead, Marco.

No, I just, I know Bergegy is so down move anywhere besides Minnesota. I'm from Michigan man. So as much as I love that state, you just want to get you don't want to deal with those winners. Those winners are brutal goodness. So I have another behind the scenes questions for you guys. What is the casting process like for a show like Love Island and does everybody have to have amazing beautiful bodies. So it's very thorough. Like I started getting casted last December. And I was going on the show till like a week before.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to cut you off. That's rude me. I'm sorry. I do this a lot. So did you like, how did you hear about the show? Did you, like, hear about it and be like, ooh, I'm going to go online and fill this out and play this? Is that how it started? Or did they reach out to you? So, Marco got reached out to, like, my Instagram platform was like 1500 followers. I was a teacher, so it was like private and like, so yeah, but I saw, like, a sponsored ad from a casting director. Okay, so then I messaged her and then she sent me the Application. Oh, okay. I was wondering how this how it works. So you said that you were talking about this since December And you only found out a week before so every did you know like stages like okay? If we're going I had to be free This this month to this month like if you were gonna be on the show,

cause you have real jobs too. So it's like, I wonder how that part works. Exactly. So the good thing for me is I have summers off. So I was like, okay, if anything this show would be perfect for me to go find love off. Cause I got three months off. So that worked out good.

But like even when you were out there in Fiji, you didn't know if you were gonna go in. So they have all these people in the hotel and then when you get there to meet with producers, then they see if they still want you when they meet you in person. So it's kind of up in the air to like days before. We're like, oh. We're like, oh. You imagine going all the way to Fiji though and being like, oh my god, I'm going to

be on this and then they're finding out there's another step and you're like, you son of a bitch. I got all the way out here. Another step, there was like 120 steps. Oh, for me, I got reached out to through Instagram DM. And I kind of just, I can remember exactly, there's a third quarter of the Buck of New York Cowboys playoff game last year. And I was kind of out with my grandparents.

That's what you're in. Yeah, I just, I messaged them back real quick. And like, you know, I said, yes, I'm interested. I just started going through the marathon of a process, I would say, you know, there's all, all, all bunch of different medical requirements you have to meet to even be eligible. So I had to get all those done first. And then I had to, you know, go through interviews by weekly, I would say. And it came to a point where it's like they're still into you.

They still like you. Just stay positive, you know, you're, it's like they're still into you. They still like you Just stay positive, you know You know, you're still one of our top guys or whatever and I just said okay, and next you know You know a finite interiory pops in my in my email. They didn't even tell me yet They call me like five minutes after my email got to me. Wow. I was like oh shit. I'm going to feed you And how did you tell your job? Were you working at the time? No, I was student, so I do a little bit of work. Remember their young babe. I'm sorry, I don't know.

So, okay. So you said, all right, I'm assuming six in time. Well, it was summer time. Yeah, it's not so. So this worked out perfectly. Yeah, it worked out perfect. So I just went through that process and we flew out to Fiji. And I thought I was the guy, you know, I'm like, oh, I'm already flying out But then I didn't know I had to go through about three more rounds of interviews and tense EP meetings

I would say I'll just keep going through the process and you know, you notice there are a lot of moving parts around you as I you know Was watching kind of when I was bored in the hotel and it just came to a point where I knew there was a lot more guys that were falling out to PG than five so that I'd be able to start the show as truly an honor and I found out the night before I went in. I didn't even know I was going in. That's so interesting, because it shows obviously the first people that get there

and then they keep bringing new people in. So do the people that are being brought in, get to watch you guys, to like know who, what's going on, who they like, whenever they can, because I know they would bring new people in every time somebody was gone off. So like, you could have possibly been from the first people starting or you could have been brought in later on. Like if they're like voted off or whatever. Yeah. And you know, those are annoying. So like, people would come in and they would be like, oh, we saw parts of the show,

or they'd be very like, coi about it. Cause we wanna know what are they showing? Like what's going on? Yeah. We're seeing, but they tell them, they're like, yeah, no, just don't answer too many questions about what it looks like on the outside.

And so they only knew, they knew a lot, but they didn't tell us the other bombshell. Oh, yeah. Wow. And I was like, I was just sitting there there and then every every single bombshell guy would come after Hannah. I'm like what the hell why is it just me and then it started to make sense because she was obviously I didn't see her advice that you would give to the girls and how she would act the way for me.

So then I started to make sense. I'm like oh my gosh. So I just kept taking punch after punch after punch and you know I stayed with her and just kept rallying back. So. You're almost done. That So that was our relationship through that. Yeah, well, you guys were absolutely adorable. You cracked me up whenever you all were making like the, what was it, the hot dogs, the hamburgers?

I was dead. I was dead. You were the one who liked it. What was it like a diner or something? And you were tied into each other. I was dying. Poor Hannah could do nothing. I'm still so happy. I'm still so happy. We were like, Hannah, could do nothing. I'm so poor.

I'm still so angry. We were like, yeah, we were both like poor Hannah. She can't even move. She just gave, she's like, that was so funny. What was your favorite challenge that you guys competed in on the show? If you had to pick one? Marco loved them. Marco loved them.

Every single one, what was yours? But because you had so much fun. I like both of them. Yeah, challenges pissed me off because I'm so competitive and I feel like if I outperform the rest, I wanted to win, but that's not how it went in love. Island. So I would say the only the only challenge where performance was ranked on winning would be Mr. and Mrs. So that was probably my favorite. I again bouncing off off the show that I was just on. I was like, I'm going to dominate because I'm a very competitive person and I'm a athletic person. But they make the challenges good for everybody whether you're a female a male whether you played sports whether you're not and I was like I'm gonna

There's no way I'm I'm gonna crush it. Yeah, but I found that out real quick. That's not how it works I couldn't even sleep at night knowing that they were given wins to people that took 30 times to catch a ball I definitely know I really want to know Did you guys drink on the island? I feel like nobody ever seemed really like drunk or like like were you allowed to? I just wonder how that went because you guys are all in your 20s like so young. I feel like I've been like shot, shot, shot. But I don't really see that from any of you guys. Well, they had to be on film all the time.

So they're probably very aware of that. Well, I know, but that's't really see that for many of you guys. Well, I had to be on film all the time, so they're probably very aware of that. Well, I know, but that's why I want to know. Yeah, I guess that's a great question. We had a two cup minimum, but most nights, I'll be honest with you, was only one cup. That night of the red wedding, though, it was like a big old, what's the three of us? So, you had a two cup maximum or minimum? I'm sorry. Max.

Max. Oh, so you couldn't drink more than two glasses. I mean, I monitored it. They watched what you were drinking. So we got my friends in here. Anna was never a drinker. So Anna's sometimes Anna's wine glass would disappear but we know what he would ever know where it went. And like they would catch us taking it.

Like they only let us have literally one. I'm like, oh, wow. Cause normally reality shows they're like, drink, drink, drink, drink. So much crazy stuff. So no alcohol really technically because two drinks, that's being honest. We're big guys. That's not going to do anything right. So no alcohol, no phones, no TV. How long were you guys there for? I was there for Total yeah, like quarantine everything. Yeah about 65 65 no 65. Hey, oh, yeah That would be oh my god. I would go crazy. I would go crazy. Well, you had your phone though because you would say I got a

Yeah, but that you know those phones were given to you by the producers, right? Those aren't your phones personally. Were they? No. So that was a different to a, yeah, those are their phones. So you can like, you couldn't look at Google really fast, like, what are people saying about me? No, they had no, it was like, it was just like my show. There was no, you have no, to the outside world. Let them tell me, honey, we're here to, we're here to, you know, excited. He's like answering questions for you. I'm like, chill out. Let them answer. It's just, I mean, we're here to, he's so excited, he's like answering questions for you. I'm like chill out, let them answer. It's just, I mean, as I love TV, I'm a big TV guy. I love watching TV.

I had my phone all the time, it was, it's toughs hard. I can imagine going 65 days. Wow. It's great. Yeah. Were you itching to diet, get on your phone when you got off, were you guys itching to get on your phones? Kind of, not really though, because it's like, well, for us, we're in a good situation,

like we won, we want to see the feedback of everybody. Yeah. But still, that brings a lot of anxiety too. Oh, wow. I'm sure the influx of text messages and just everything just came all in at once. You're just kind of overwhelmed, right? Mm-hmm. Very.

And, yeah, I would say would say obviously everybody out there has something to say about you or what you're doing. And so it's very, it was very hard to see, Hannah read these in front of me and stuff. Maybe even if it was just about me, I'm still her boyfriend at that time. Or I'm still her boyfriend at that time. Oh, are you, are you, are you, does Mary now?

No. And at the time she's reading it, you know, it's, it's hard to see her get upset. You know, because people, there's a lot of me, people out there. So lots to rely on. Thanks God, they're just a positive. Yes. And I love that you're relying on each other because it can be brutal

out there, especially for reality TV people more so than like actors because we're being our real selves. So it's a whole different ballgame. But just remember that you are you and do not listen to them because no matter what, even if you're the most perfect person in the whole wide world, you're always going to get hate for something like. Those keyboard warriors.

So don't take it seriously. This is just coming from advice from me who's had to deal with a lot of hate on Instagram. It's just people can really be mean out there. So do not listen to them because you guys are killing it. It's really crazy how people just don't know who you are and they hide behind like a fake picture and they sit in their basements,

they're whatever they're doing and they just wanna go after you and attack you and just things they have known nothing about. And it's just, you know, you'll get 8,000 awesome comments and then you'll get one negative one and that one negative one, I'll just stick with you and you're just kind of like, why? You know, it's sucks, but it's just the one.

Yeah, that's what I learned on that, on that process when I was sitting next to Hannah, a couple of nights after we got our phone, it's like you'll never beat the internet. You have unlimited amount of brains together to find something wrong about you, some, some little scene, something you did, some, some way I look, you know, they found something just little about you. You'll never be the internet. So you just gotta read the other. Yeah, and now. You can use the wrong fork and you don't like funny for it. If I can say.

It's every time we leave the house, it's like, you know, even she goes to the grocery store, we go whatever. She's always like, we have to make sure we, you know, like this and do this and make sure you look like this way. Because someone will say something stupid, you know. It's like, and it's when you're not, even you don't think about it, you remember? That's when they get you. They get you, someone got, you know, at the grocery store or whatever McDonald's and they find you or they say something

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I would say the hurdle was being able to use our platform for the next level or just get more connections and stuff. We got no help. Like, that's the biggest hurdle. We got out of the island. They forgot I was even on the island. I mean, I've got, you know, we have the PR team. It got us in some podcasts like this,

helping us out a little bit, but there was no help. You know, we've been on our own and we've just been trying to reach out to different brands and that's our biggest hurdle. But. Right, they give you this platform, right? They kind of, you know, you go on the show and now you have a platform and now they expect

you to just, okay, go back to normal, but now it's kind of on you to like figure out, okay, I need a publicist, I need a manager, like, where am I going to you? What am I going to use this platform for? I'm going to start a business or whatever, whatever. But yeah, it's, it's really overwhelming because you're given such a cool opportunity now to have and do whatever you want. And now it's just you got to think about what is it going to be? And like who do I, who do I involve in my circle? And you have to be very careful who you bring in your circle too, because everybody, right now you guys are on top of the world.

Everybody wants a piece. Everybody wants a piece of the pie. So you have to be very careful of who you trust. Just take it from us. I mean, in this world for a decade, and I tell you what I've made a lot of mistakes. And if I can help anybody out, I will just very be careful who you trust. Just be very careful who you trust. Hey, and I know what about for you,

what has been your biggest struggle, or is it the same? Yeah, the same, just because like, we have these goals for ourselves, but it's like, who, and then we kind of have to be picky and choosy of who we listen to, which is well, which is kind of hard, because I have a lot of friends who wanna,

well you should be doing this and that, but you don't get it. So I don't know, it's brought me in Marco closer in a way, because only we get it. And I'm sure it's the same for you to, you only get what you go through on the show. For sure. So we can find each other, but yeah, just figuring it out, because we don't know what's right and what's wrong

So just the hoping we find the right connections, but right now that's the point that we are It's like we're in limbo right now. Yeah, take your time definitely take your time on this like I said It's so important to me trust like I said people will come out of the woodwork people you haven't talked to in years Everybody like I said everybody wants to little piece you should do that everybody's got advice Everybody's got advice if you remember. That's what they still do, even to us. Now to the state, they still tell us what they think we should do. And it's like, just forget it. It's just, it's crazy. It is crazy. So.

All right, I got a couple questions from fans that they wanted to ask you. I like to read a couple so that they can get to know you guys better. This is from Spacey Jesse and they said, Hannah, did you expect to find a BFF like Berge? And how did that shape your love, love Island experience? I definitely did not expect to meet someone like Berge, like it's from Minnesota. Like he has been very, he's only known a certain type of like life is whole life. Like I've, we all come from different backgrounds He has been very, he's only known a certain type of life,

his whole life. We all come from different backgrounds, and we were exposed to more. I'll say that, and he hasn't been. I just respected him being thrown into this experience. And then it's crazy how similar you could be from someone who is from a whole different world than you. Because me and him, we just think the same.

We just get each other. I'd say that all the time in the show, me and him, we'd see something play out. That's a little weird. So, yeah, I feel like that's rare to find somebody who thinks like you. And so it's great. I love that. I love that because it was so cute to see you guys.

Here's another question. This is from Jenna underscore Flores. And she says, what was outfit planning like before going to the villa? How many outfits did you bring? And I want to know this too, because you guys had so many like costume challenges. Did they give you a list and let you know

like how many different looks you were gonna have to have? You mean lack of clothing. Yeah. As her mom would put it to like, they're not wearing any clothing. Like you guys were really, I mean. But I really want to know like, yeah, what was the outfit planning like for this show?

Because you guys always looked amazing and you had so many different looks throughout the entire season, you know? And for the guys, do they make you not wear t-shirts? Do they say no t-shirts allowed? So yeah, for the guys, it was definitely painful. The wardrobe process was painful. Shout out Kim for trying to make it happen.

I know that UK got sponsored by whether it's eBay or something else to allow us to be dressed the way we want to get dressed, but they told me, packed for however long you're going to be here. And you never know how long that is. So I'm packing Nike sweatpants. I'm throwing everything in. Thanks, yeah, I know I can't wear anything with a logo. Yeah I get my suitcase in the villa. I don't have one pair of sweatpants

Oh, they went through your clothing before you got in. Oh, they took everything from me. Wow Yeah, I couldn't I'm a big hat guy. I see Jackson's a big hat guy too. I get yelled at all time for worn hats So like no hats today. I'm a yeah, I'm a big hat guy. I see Jackson's a big hat guy too. I get yelled at all the time for wearing hats. So like, no hats today, I'm a yeah, I'm wearing a hat. Sunglasses, the night time time time lock is off lock because of reflection. Yeah, but. The logo on the sunglasses.

Yeah, yeah, no logo. Did they put tape over logos for you guys ever? Or it was just all that stuff was gone? Gone. Oh, he's such a big closet. When I went to his place in Florida, his closet's bigger than mine. I'm like, no, and he couldn't use any of it. Wow. Hey, what was it like for the girls? Because I feel like you guys had full-on costumes and things, you know? Yeah, so wardrobe gave us

like costumes for like a challenge, for example. Oh, awesome. Okay. Like those big nights the red wedding they gave us some gowns. But I have two sisters thankfully so I took a lot of their clothes and then we'd share. So like if Carmen wore something I'd wear it like three days later like vice versa. When I ran out of bikinis I started using other people's bikinis so it was nice for us because there were so many options. After cost more there were so many us. We had so many options to choose from. So that was nice. And everyone was really willing to share. Um, okay. Oh, well, Ludic, because everybody just looks so hot all the time. I'm going to do a couple quick fire questions for you guys if you're down for that.

All right. We're wrapping up, I promise. Yeah. So quick fire questions. We've got just had so many questions for you guys The show was so interesting. All right, here we go If you could be on any other reality TV show, what would it be and why Hannah your first? I would go on The challenge I like to compete, but only if I could do it with Marco. I don't think I could do it without him Reality TV. Yeah reality TV Below deck. Oh, yeah. Captain is on after. Yes. That was so interesting. Yeah, we're going to interview Captain Lee after this.

He's going to be on next week. He's a really, really nice guy. I've known him in the Bravo universe for a very long time and he's just really awesome. I'm excited to meet him, but that's cool. Below deck, I didn't see that one coming. Martin, who's the one about you? Survivor? Oh, yes, survivor. Yeah, I would kind of, I would like that, if it was with Hannah, obviously,

I would probably not do a reality again without, I know you guys are rolling together, you know, ever since your first time together on reality. So I would always want to be with Hannah. She's having the challenge, which is what I was gonna say. So probably survivor, you know, ever since your first time together on reality. So I would always wanna be with Hannah. She's having the challenge, which is what I was gonna say. So probably survivor, you know, I think that'd be something cool and I've always grown up watching it Wednesday nights

with my dad. So that'd be pretty cool to, you know, maybe try that out. I don't know. I love that. I love that you guys said you would only do it together. That's so awesome. Is that a jab at me because I did house surveillance? I didn't wanna go on house surveillance.

So that's fine. go on house a villain. It's fine. I'm not a villain. That was all you, babe. Who is your favorite reality star of all time? Marco, you first. Oh. I'm going to go with my boy Tyler Cameron from Bachelor.

Oh, yeah. I think he, you know, he did a great job in my sister. What, like, was head over heels for him growing up. And I remember I said one day I wanted to be on the bachelor and just watching that and up, you know, running by a few of his friends, Dante, down in South Florida. And he's just a great guy.

And, you know, he's always positive in the environment. So I would say my favorite would be Tyler Cameron from the bachelor. Oh, I love that. Hey, I know what about you? Oh my god. Mimi leaks from real house. Why?

Yes. Just the icon. Yes. Someone's liners. She is. Her one liners are amazing. And I met her at BravoCon. And she was so nice to me.

She was absolutely incredible to me. So that's a good one for sure. Least favorite reality star of all time. Whoever wants to go first. That's one. That's fine. Yeah. What did you say Tom say it all? Mine's Tom say it all. You met Ariana. He's the one who cheated on Ariana.

So, you know, Ariana, you know, is a gem. All right, what actor or actress would you want to play you in a movie? Oh, good question. Okay, that's really good. Well, I know for Mark, I would pick Jason, Jason. What's his name? The guy I like Jason. Jason, I's his name? The guy I like Jason.

Jason mom. I think you're a cool. That would be so cool. I was almost thinking like Vin Diesel, but he doesn't give my energy, but he's just such a bad ass and I've always liked watching him. Yeah, now I couldn't, I don't know if I want Leo to play me. So I don't like Leo, Leo and Leonardo Cappie. I don't know.

Jason mom would be kind of cool. You get, but you get me. Jason Ramon. I see a mix between Jason and Leo. Now that I know that you said that I'm like, hold on. Oh, sorry. No, it's, it just depends whether I'm being sweet in the movie or like fighting bad guys. About your life, it would be playing you. Yeah. Oh, what? Yeah, I'm a woman. Yeah, that would be cool. Hannah, what about you?

I'm going to go big and just weigh, hi, Rihanna. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's pretty favorite. I love Rihanna. That would be absolutely amazing for you. Let's clean. One last question for you guys. Where do you see yourself in five years?

So I look that we want to have a house. Yeah, and we're gonna be a house in Boca We're coming to work for pits. Yeah, yeah What I didn't notice coming back home for like the first time I would say What I didn't notice coming back home for like the first time I would say Extensive period of time would be about four years. I noticed how much cheaper a beautiful property is up here compared to down in Bokka and somewhere You know, it's Hannah just loved it up here. It's new for her. She's in the desert and Palm Springs and up here you get all four seasons A lot of the atmosphere is crazy like last night at high and spiel for a stealer game. I wish you would have came. It was just, you know, and then we went to the pumpkin patches. You get everything here. So I can't yell at her, but I would never

move back the youngstown Ohio. It would probably be Pittsburgh if I would come back up north. There's nothing like the Midwest, especially this time of the year with the leaves and the pumpkins, the cider mills. I know I'm from Michigan originally and my sister and my brother and I just came to visit. I'm so jealous. It's the one. I love California. Don't get me wrong. It's great here, but the weather is wise, but this time of the year the Midwest is just amazing. Well Hannah, you seem awfully close in Palm Springs. Yeah, you're Palm Springs. I can't believe you're out there. It's hot. You got to kind of jacks is where we're opening like really, really soon. So next time you guys come to LA, come visit Jackson, we will take you guys out and have the best time. Can you tell everybody

where to find you and anything that you all want to promote or anything like that? You got the floor. Yeah, you could follow our journey on Instagram, mine, and TikTok. We're real big on TikTok. So you'll see just our day-to-day lives. What's your name on there? Your handles. Your handles? Yeah. So I'm Hannah, M. Right, and then on TikTok I'm Hannah Maria Wrecked. You got three ends, right? Three ends in a hand on Instagram. Three ends in Hannah on Instagram. Yeah, Marko Aidanid on a tele on Instagram, the Marco dot dot tele on TikTok.

Just catch up with us there, see our day to day journey on. Now it's gonna be our path back together. So I'm excited to see her soon. I think it's gonna be roughly two weeks, but she might surprise me and Ken Kun. I'm gonna go out there for a week. And I hope we can have a little fun out on Ken Kun soon.

Oh, that'll come. That's awesome. Well, congratulations on your win. so happy for you all and good luck and everything you do in your future. We thank you as are absolutely amazing. We've been rooting for you and we're going to continue to root for your future. Yeah, so so happy for you guys again anytime you're in California up in our neck of the woods. Please please let us know, love to host you at our place and plus just lots of things and drinks and have some fun. But again, congratulations on everything to you both and much excessive much success. Yes, good luck in everything. And Jack, what do you think you're

going to open it? It's the 29th. 1, this month. Yeah, it's 29th of this month. Oh, yeah, coming out there. Hey, if you want to come out, we're going to have a green opening party. I got 10 big screen TVs. I mean, it's, you know, a sports bar, baby. Sports bar, tab, and lounge. A little bit of everything. I got stuff for the ladies. I got stuff for the guys.

A little bit of everything. Yes. All right, thank you guys so much. All right, thank you guys. Have a great day and talk to you soon. Thanks so much for tuning in to Wind Reality hits with Jackson Brittany. Bye guys, have a great day. mysteries. With thousands of free crime movies and TV shows, Pluto TV is the true home of crime.

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