‘Temptation Island’: Summit & Kaylee Talk Future Plans & What You Didn’t See in Season 2

Summit Wallace and Kaylee Needham went on Temptation Island Season 2 because they were an extreme case of “opposites attract.” Further, Summit had a fear of commitment and became a bad boyfriend as a result, leading to a cycle of a honeymoon phase, breaking up when it came time to get serious, and getting back together. They remained faithful to each other, though. In the final bonfire, Kaylee and Summit addressed their issues and decided to leave together.

Eight months after filming, Kaylee and Summit are stronger than ever. The difference in their relationship since the show, which was filmed in August 2025, is “night and day,” Kaylee told Swooon in a joint interview with her boyfriend. “Even just getting together photos to submit to casting was hard because we didn’t even have photos together. Little things like that. We didn’t do a lot of life things together. And now it’s like, my whole camera roll is Summit. Everything I do is with [Summit].”

Summit was debating slowing things down with Kaylee during the show. Then, at the final bonfire, he gave Kaylee a collar for their future dog and his apartment key as a symbol of his commitment. “There was never a doubt in me deep down that Kaylee was my person, and I always wanted to be with her. I guess it was just overcoming that fear of actually putting two feet in as opposed to just one,” he said. “I think just going through that experience, and with the help of the girls and the process, Mark [L. Walberg] and just everything, I was like, I don’t really know why I’m waiting, or I’m postponing something that truly does make me happy.”

Kaylee went into the final bonfire with the intention of making a game-time decision. Kaylee ended up being confident she wanted to stay with Summit after a moving speech he made — which didn’t make it into Episode 9. Their final bonfire conversation lasted about 15 minutes longer than what appears on the show. “Summit [made] this beautiful speech about redefining commitment and redefining what it means to be a man,” Kaylee said. “And after hearing the amazing, incredible words that he said to me, I was like, there is not even a doubt in my mind that this man is not dead set on me, and that we can’t make this life together like work and be so amazing.”

Summit added, “I basically had redefined what it meant for me to be a man, and that didn’t mean that you needed to… I don’t know, be cool and get laid and all those things. To me, through that process, what being a man had turned into was actually committing and supporting and loving someone. That’s what I want.”

Immediately after filming ended, Summit and Kaylee spent about 14 hours traveling back to New York City, which they spent talking “about our experience and how crazy it was, and how much we missed each other and loved each other,” Summit recalled. “There was no fighting or debacle.”

They didn’t grill each other about what they did with the tempters in the villa, either. “We had both just accepted everything as it was, and whatever happened brought us to where we are now, and we were so thankful for the experience that we didn’t have a tough conversation to have,” Kaylee said. “We had no doubts in each other at that point.”

One major issue Kaylee brought up on the show was that Summit put her down, feeling like he was criticizing her body. “I feel like at the final bonfire, it was very clear to me anything that had been said in the past was honestly just coming from a place of him not realizing what his words meant to me,” she said. “And when we got back together, and he was like, ‘I just love you for all of you, and I have no doubts in you.’ I didn’t feel like that sense of doubt in who I was anymore. And I think it’s also because I found a lot more confidence within myself that I was like, I’m not fearful of these words or these things that were said anymore.”

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Another was that Kaylee felt they didn’t spend enough time together — but that changed as soon as filming ended. “We literally want to do everything together now, almost to the point where sometimes we’re like, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t do this one thing together,’ because we just do everything together, and we love doing it all together,” Kaylee said. “In the past, it would be me being like, ‘We don’t hang out. I want to hang out with you.’ And now it’s just like, I don’t even have to ask or be like ‘Oh, I never see you’ because it’s just he’s such a constant in my life.”

“I feel like it’s easy to chalk it up to just almost like a trauma bond or something like that, which it probably tiny bit is to a degree where it’s just like we went through this insane experience that no other human really would,” Summit chimed in, “I had this underlying worry that ‘Oh no, is this just because of right after the show, that we’re so connected right now?’ It’s been really reassuring that that has lasted. I mean, that was eight months ago.”

The show emphasized that one of Kaylee and Summit’s problems was that they were innately different people. “[It] isn’t totally false, but we do have so many of the same main pillars of passion. Basically, we love to travel. She’s gotten super into working out with me. Like, I’ve gotten super into the artsy [stuff], taking photos with her. Like, we’ve almost embraced and now love each other’s hobbies.”

They’re also thinking about starting a YouTube channel together, where Summit introduces something new to Kaylee, whether it be skiing or eating octopus. (“Just because I love being Kaylee’s first anything,” he said.) The couple also are talking about moving to California soon to move in together like they planned. Once that happens, they’ll get the wiener dog they mentioned on the show. They’ve already picked out his name: Nugget, since one of Kaylee and Summit’s favorite things to do is have “chicken nugget parties” together.

“It’s more sad for us than anyone else, because we want to live together and want the wiener dog,” Summit said. “It’s just the reality of life right now, it’s tough and we’re so busy and there’s so much going on, but I don’t know. It’s also almost comforting in that sense, because it’s not like we’re rushing into something just to check it off the list. We know that’s what we want. We know it’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of it working out for us in the right time. Yeah, but as soon as possible is the answer.”

Temptation Island, Season 2, Streaming Now, Netflix