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title: "Ciara Miller and Tefi Pessoa Take Over as Hosts of Love Island USA: Aftersun"
description: "Reality-TV veteran Ciara Miller and social-media personality Tefi Pessoa are the new co-hosts of 'Love Island USA: Aftersun,' the Saturday companion to Peacock's runaway summer hit as it plays out its eighth season."
category: "Entertainment"
category_url: https://herald.la/category/entertainment
author: "Simone Bishop"
published: 2026-07-02T02:16:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-02T02:16:00.000Z
canonical: https://herald.la/article/ciara-miller-and-tefi-pessoa-take-over-as-hosts-of-love-island-usa-aftersun
tags: ["Love Island USA", "Aftersun", "Ciara Miller", "Tefi Pessoa", "Peacock", "reality TV", "entertainment"]
---
# Ciara Miller and Tefi Pessoa Take Over as Hosts of Love Island USA: Aftersun

Reality-TV veteran Ciara Miller and social-media personality Tefi Pessoa are the new co-hosts of 'Love Island USA: Aftersun,' the Saturday companion to Peacock's runaway summer hit as it plays out its eighth season.

The aftershow to one of streaming's biggest hits has a new pair of hosts for the summer.

## The new hosts

Ciara Miller and Tefi Pessoa were named co-hosts of "Love Island USA: Aftersun" for the show's eighth season, [as Deadline reported](https://deadline.com/2026/07/ciara-miller-tefi-pessoa-love-island-usa-aftersun-interview-1236972858/). "Aftersun" is the live Saturday companion to the main dating series on Peacock, recapping the week's couplings, dramas and eliminations with guests and recently ousted contestants.

Miller is a familiar face in the reality-TV world: a former ICU nurse from Atlanta, she joined Bravo's "Summer House" in 2021 and later competed on Peacock's "The Traitors," [according to Wikipedia's account of her career](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciara_Miller). Pessoa is a content creator and on-camera personality known for her candid social-media commentary. The pairing brings together someone who has lived reality television from the inside and someone who has built an audience talking about pop culture from the outside.

## The show they're joining

"Love Island USA," hosted by Ariana Madix and narrated by Iain Stirling, follows singles coupling up in a villa, with fans voting through the show's app, [per Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Island_USA). Season 8 premiered on Peacock in June 2026, with "Aftersun" airing Saturdays. The franchise has become one of Peacock's signature summer draws, a reliable driver of streaming viewership and online chatter — the kind of show whose recouplings trend week to week.

## Saturday nights

For Miller and Pessoa, hosting "Aftersun" means serving an audience that is already deeply invested — fans who arrive each week with strong opinions of their own. The companion format lives on exactly that energy: less a formal broadcast than a communal debrief, with the hosts reacting to the week's chaos much as viewers at home do. Season 8 continues weekly on Peacock, with "Aftersun" on Saturdays.

## Sources

- [Ciara Miller & Tefi Pessoa talk 'Love Island USA: Aftersun'](https://deadline.com/2026/07/ciara-miller-tefi-pessoa-love-island-usa-aftersun-interview-1236972858/)
- [Love Island USA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Island_USA)
- [Ciara Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciara_Miller)