'Love Island USA's' Hannah dishes on Charlie, Pepe and who should win Season 7

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Hannah Fields, a "Love Island USA" Season 7 bombshell, has had an unconventional journey.
She entered the show on the June 6 episode with Amaya Espinal during the 'Getting to Fourth Base' challenge. She instantly felt a connection to Charlie Georgiou, another bombshell who entered with Cierra Ortega.
Their connection came to an abrupt end when fans voted for Hannah to couple up with new bombshell Jose 'Pepe' Garcia-Gonzalez on Day 11. Charlie was left single and vulnerable. He then received the most votes from his fellow Islanders and was dumped from the villa.
Hannah shed lots of tears for Charlie the night he was eliminated, but soon she started to explore a connection with Pepe. The two moved at a rapid pace and things got hot and heavy.
On Day 16, Hannah did not receive enough votes from viewers and was vulnerable alongside Iris and Amaya. The safe women voted to send Hannah home, saying she had already explored two strong connections while the other two were not given the same opportunity.
Hannah, a 23-year-old medical student and bartender from Tucson, was sent home during the June 22 episode alongside Jeremiah Brown.
Now, outside the villa, in an exclusive interview with The Arizona Republic, Hannah revealed who she would like to see win 'Love Island USA' 2025, if she would reconnect with Charlie or Pepe and how she felt about her elimination.
Hannah thought about going on 'Love Island USA' on a whim. Her friends encouraged her, but she never thought anything would come from it.
'My dating life has not really ever worked out for me so much, and I thought it's a new opportunity to try something new,' Hannah said. 'When I got the call asking me if it's something I'd still be willing to do, I was like, you know what? You only live once, maybe I'll find my husband here. And I just wanted to give it a shot.'
Hannah said her closest friends on the island were probably Amaya, Iris and Taylor but she was fairly close with everyone.
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Hannah and Cierra discussed their Arizona connections when Hannah first entered the villa. They bonded over how they both went to the University of Arizona.
Hannah is finishing up a pre-med track at the University of Arizona after getting her bachelor's from California State University, Fullerton.
She calls herself a 'military brat" and has lived in North Carolina, California and many other places. She lived in Tucson from age 5 to 16. She then moved back a couple of years ago and has been there since.
Hannah and Charlie, a 28-year-old actor and model from Birmingham, United Kingdom, had a 'short conversation' since she left the villa. She said they're both enjoying time with family, getting back into the real world and 'coming back to reality a little bit.'
'I think part of me is still in the villa, so nothing is set in stone yet for me,' Hannah said.
This could be hinting at her other connection with Pepe, who is still on the show.
During the July 1 episode of 'Love Island USA,' Pepe, a 27-year-old personal trainer and retired pro basketball player from Los Angeles, mentioned how Hannah was still on his mind.
'I do feel really validated, because I did think about him a lot,' Hannah said. 'But also, I was giving him the time to really experience, testing connections, getting to know people. So, it wasn't something that I ever wanted to force. I think, when he comes out, it is something that I'm open and willing to explore, but I'm not forcing anything in my life for sure.'
After cutting things off with Gracyn Blackmore, Pepe is currently coupled up with Iris, and the two seem to have chemistry.
The only thing Hannah wishes she had done differently during her time in the villa is getting to know everyone a little bit more, especially the other men.
'So maybe just exploring a little bit more,' Fields said. 'But I also feel like I did a lot of exploring in general.'
As for who she wishes she had gotten to know: Elan.
'I think Elan seems like somebody who is definitely right up my alley,' Fields said. 'He just seems like a really genuine guy. So I think that's like, in the villa, I would definitely have explored him. But you don't know for sure until you're in that situation.'
Elan joined the show during Casa Amor, which happened right after Hannah was evicted.
Hannah also ran into Casa boy Zac Woodworth at the airport on their way home from Fiji. Zac is living in Scottsdale and the two bonded over the fact that his little brother also went to the University of Arizona.
As for whether she will see Zac again, Hannah said they did make plans.
'I think we had all, at the airport, discussed me going to Scottsdale and having a little fun time out in Old Town,' Fields said. 'But we make a lot of plans inside and outside the villa. If those will fall through, I don't know.'
During the show, Hannah had mentioned going to Nashville with some Islanders for her birthday, and she still wants to to that.
Hannah was eliminated after placing in the bottom three in an America's favorites vote. She was then sent home by her fellow Islanders despite having a budding connection with Pepe.
'I think everybody has a misunderstanding of the point of 'Love Island' and I think I was maybe punished a little bit for having such a good connection,' Fields said. 'Sometimes the explanations and the reasonings don't make sense, but I'm so eternally grateful for the experience.'
If Hannah had to pick someone to send home, she said she doesn't think she could've made that decision either.
As for eliminating Jeremiah, who left at the same time as Hannah, she thinks that was not the right choice at all.
'I don't understand,' Hannah said. 'I think nobody really understands any of the reasoning for anything. But I think Jeremiah was just starting to really get a connection that I thought was good and good for him. And he's a really sweet guy, so I don't think that, it was really deserved at all.'
Hannah said she is rooting for her bombshell sister Amaya.
'I don't care who Amaya ends up with, that's my number one,' she said. 'I hope she wins. I hope she finds her a man who actually cherishes her and loves her and can be just as emotional and loving as she is.'
Hanna said her experience really opened her eyes to what is out there in the world in terms of traveling and getting to know people.
'I feel like I've been so set on school and my education and getting to my career that I kind of overlooked everything else,' Fields said. "Now I really want to experience my life in my 20s, while I'm young and I have the opportunity to do so.'
If given the opportunity to return to 'Love Island USA,' she would take the chance in a heartbeat if she were single, she said.
And despite everything, she said it feels good to be back in Tucson, resume her normal routine and support her hometown.
'Because you can't take that out of me, I can't love you more than my hometown,' Fields said.
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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Hannah from 'Love Island USA' 2025 spills all the villa drama