How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Ariana Madix

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Set us as preferred Fresh off a two-month stint filming the eighth season of Peacock’s “Love Island USA” in Fiji, Ariana Madix is happy to be back in her own space.In Sunday Funday, L.A.people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town.

Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.“I’ve been back and forth and all over the place so much lately,” says Madix from her Los Angeles home.“I’m very excited about all the things that I’m doing with my house.

Just little things like I got a new front door.I’m in a nesting phase, I guess, because I’ve been gone for so long.” The television personality and actor, who made her Broadway debut in “Chicago” in 2024 after capturing attention on Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules,” recently scored her first Emmy for hosting the wildly popular dating competition show “Love Island USA.” She finds that her summers in Fiji, the show’s filming location, always leave her with a fresh perspective.

Lifestyle Angelenos have been flocking to bars and other public spaces to watch the hit reality dating show with other superfans.“Going back multiple seasons, I see people who are so much younger than me be able to be so honest and forthright with how they feel and what they want,” says Madix.“I just think about back when I was their age, how scared I was all the time to make people mad.

I admire them so much for that because it’s hard.I think that they are really brave and it inspires me to be brave.”With the “Love Island USA” reunion set to air Aug.

31 on Peacock, Madix is enjoying every minute of her downtime.Back in Los Angeles where she’s lived for nearly two decades, her perfect Sunday involves a trip to the barn to ride horses, strolling through the neighborhood she first called home and hitting a club where people actually dance.

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