On Temptation Island, Erica Washington and Kendal Kirkland aren’t polarizing among viewers. For once, fans have a unified opinion, and they all agree the toxic couple should not be together. Fans have called out Kendal’s behavior on the show and hopeErica realizes she doesn’t deserve to be treated that way. But there’s a rumor circling around the fandom that Erica and Kendal aren’t even a real couple, at least not when they went on the show. Could the pair be two exes using each other and the show for fame?
It wasn’t long into the season that fans turned on Kendal and felt that Erica is too good for him. He seems to have taken their “no rules” agreement to heart and has gotten physical with more than one of the single women. Fans think the couple has about a zero-percent chance of making off the island with their relationship intact. Many think Kendal wanted to come on the show with the intention of getting a free pass to cheat on Erica, and his behavior would certainly back that theory. However, one fan claims to have insider information on Kendal that proves there’s something more sneaky at play.
One Redditor recently said they know someone who worked with Kendal before he went on the show. Supposedly, when Kendal heard that casting was underway for Temptation Island, he took to his contacts list and began calling up exes to see if one would agree to go on the show with him. The Redditor claimed Kendal was struck down by at least one of his exes, but that one of them, presumably Erica, agreed to go on the show with him as a fake couple. The pair may have been a legitimate couple at one point, but supposedly not when they went on the show.
“For Erica's sake I honestly hope this is true any other explanation makes no sense to me,” one fan commented. Many fans have been questioning why Erica seems relatively unbothered by Kendal’s cheating on the show, and this claim could explain why. “100% believe that they could be faking at this point because he’s acting way too bold and Erica seems way too unbothered,” another fan said. Several commenters think that Erica and Kendal aren’t the only fake couple and find Thomas and Chelsea’s relationship suspect as well.
The claim should be taken with a grain of salt, but if true it would explain a lot about Erica and Kendal’s behavior on and off the show. Erica pretty quickly got over Kendal’s cheating, calling it her new normal, and Kendal has displayed questionable behavior on social media. He posted a long, meandering video on Instagram addressing “mistakes” he made on the show, and then deleted it a few hours later. Now, in the context of the fake couple theory, the odd video could be another attempt to generate buzz and attract more Instagram followers.
If they are indeed exes, they clearly came to the conclusion that they were not right for each other and ended things some time ago. For fans who have wondered if Erica and Kendal are still together after leaving Temptation Island, this claim about the couple’s relationship should have them breathing a sigh of relief. Many viewers suspect the show’s couples of faking it, and now Kendal and Erica have been added to the list. If the claim is true, there really are no rules for the couple this season.
Source: Reddit