“Love Island USA” Season 8 winners Trinity Tatum and Bryce Alakai began the season as singles searching for love and left the villa as boyfriend and girlfriend, sealing their romance with their first “I like you,” mentioned on nationwide tv.

The completely satisfied couple joined TODAY on July 15 for his or her first TV interview after the villa. The 2 have been topped Season 8’s winners throughout the July 12 finale and have been awarded a $100,000 prize to share as a pair.

Bryce informed TODAY’s Craig Melvin that the fact of the present is intense feelings, anxiousness and stress.

“One factor that brings us nearer is that consolation in these moments. We have a look at one another, like in these challenges and all of these items, I can open up to her and really feel protected,” he mentioned.

“Bringing that on the planet, it’s virtually like, life is the problem,” he added.

Bryce mentioned he discovered Trinity to be “probably the most mature particular person on the present.”

“I felt so snug along with her, and our laughter, she understood, like, her degree of comedy and the whole lot simply confirmed she was simply so clever and so past her age, that the age hole ended up similar to fully disappearing in my thoughts,” he mentioned.

Trinity added that now, “I actually overlook.”

“I actually see it as a constructive factor, as a result of he will be very humorous, he will be like — I don’t need to say infantile,” she mentioned with fun, “… however when it’s time to be critical and have these conversations, he is aware of precisely what to say. He offers one of the best recommendation.”

Learn extra about what the couple informed TODAY throughout their first interview after the villa right here.