When star Connor Newsum strolled into the villa, he looked like a man on a mission. He pulled Kaylor Martin for a chat and heavily pursued her, despite Kaylor’s undeniable spark with Aaron Evans. But after an impulsive kiss, Kaylor quickly realized how deeply she felt for Aaron and cut things off with Connor.
JaNa Craig then, unexpectedly, showed interest in Connor. The two shared many similarities and JaNa decided to couple up with him, saving the PR specialist from going home. The pair seemed headed in the right direction, and fans initially voiced their .
However, the excitement was short-lived as Connor revealed he wanted to get to know Leah Kateb after her relationship with Rob Rausch ended. “Leah had kind of come up to me. She was like, ‘I’m going to start grabbing people for chats.
You’re somebody that I want to talk to.’ I was like, ‘Oh, yeah. I’d be super interested in that,’” he recalls in an interview with TODAY.
com His connection with JaNa quickly fizzled as he redirected his focus solely on Leah. But, unbeknownst to him, Leah already caught the “ick,” the moment in the “Love Island” franchise when an islander immediately loses interest in their partner. Connor repeatedly tried to build his connection with Leah, but she later revealed to him that she wanted to be friends.
The days before his final recoupling ceremony, he attempted to get to know new islander Cassidy Laudano. She decided to choose Rob Rausch over him. Then Leah, who pick.
