Charlie Georgio poses shirtless on the set of Love Island USA season 7
Credit: Peacock

Former “Love Island USA” contestant Charlie Georgio is headed to Tampa to watch his brother search for love. 

The season seven bombshell will be alongside fans at South Tampa restaurant 1983 tomorrow for a watch party of Peacock network’s hit reality dating series. Fans can meet the 28-year-old and watch the live premiere of episode three.

While Georgio came to fame through being one of 19 surprise “bombshell” contestants added in the seventh season, his younger brother Zach Georgio is currently searching for love in the show’s eighth season, which kicked off on June 2. Zach recently joked that he hoped to “do better” than his older brother and find love on the show.

The watch party is part of 1983’s new weekly “Girls That Sip” networking event. Walk-ins are welcome, but reservations are recommended, especially for groups. Reservations can be made through OpenTable.

Located at 2616 S MacDill Ave. in Tampa, 1983 hosts “Love Island” watch parties every Tuesday at 9 p.m. until the end of Season 8, estimated for mid-July.

Season 8 of “Love Island” premiered yesterday with big shoes to fill, since its previous season was the most popular of the USA franchise yet, totalling 18.4 billion minutes streamed on Peacock and becoming Peacock’s most-watched original season of all time. 

“Love Island” is known to have highly attended fan nights largely due to its unique episode schedule, airing daily during premiere week and, in following weeks, only taking Wednesday night off. Because the show is filmed and edited in near-real-time, episodes air on a 1-to-2-day delay from what is actually happening in the villa, leading to rapidly changing fan discourse both through in person events like this and social media platforms like TikTok, where the last season had over 1.7 billion video views and impressions.

Love Island Nights at 1983

Selene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,...