When directly asked by Speedy Morman who his close friends are from the show, Ace names Chelley, Olandria, Taylor, and Bryan. But what about Nic?! "Me and Nic are cool, but to say we are super, super close like we were in the Villa, that's not the case," Ace explains, implying that he was unhappy that Nic wasn't defending him publicly like how he did privately - it's unclear if he's talking about the Jeremiah vote, as Nic told Andy Cohen he voted for Austin.
Reality TV is generally not the first place one should turn to find models of effective communication. That's why it was shocking to watch a scene in the latest season of Love Island US, in which Chris, a basketball player, asks the woman he's seeing Huda, a fitness influencer if there's anything he does that bothers her. It affects his mood when something goes wrong, but I'm confused about what happened, he says.