Why Chris Seely and CoCo Watson Broke Up on Beyond the Villa (RECAP)
In the Season 2 finale, Chris and CoCo revealed their romance had come to an end. Here's why.
Chris Seely and CoCo Watson may have tried their luck at love outside of the Villa, but it seems it wasn't meant to be.
Though the Love Island USA Season 7 Casa Amor bombshells both left Fiji single last summer, the second season of Love Island: Beyond the Villa followed them both as they explored their connection in the real world. Fans even saw the two share their first kiss under the mistletoe at Hannah Fields' Christmas Party. However, by the final two episodes of the season, their relationship was quickly fizzling out.
Though there were signs of trouble in paradise earlier in the season (Chris introduced viewers to CoCo's alter ego, "Courtney"), social media videos circulating of Chris with other girls at an Oklahoma club raised red flags for CoCo.
“We had a conversation. Chris was a little avoidant regarding there’s a video circulating, [it] got a little heated. Kind of made it seem like it wasn’t that deep, and so I just had to let him know, like, ‘Hey, if you want to be with me, you need to be serious. You have to show me that, or I’m not messing with it,'" she said in Season 2, Episode 7.
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Chris was weighing his own concerns as well, remarking that they were "losing their spark," and just in time for the cast's wintery vacation to Lake Tahoe.
“Me and Coco bro, the more and more we learn about each other, we find things that we found out about each other that we may not mesh with," he said. "Since we’ll be around each other a lot the next couple of days, see how this trip goes, and if me being around her more consistently, it’ll change that, or it stays the same, or it gets worse."
Chris and CoCo's breakup in the Beyond the Villa Season 2 finale
Unfortunately, the dreamy mountainside didn't do much to improve their relationship, with both deciding to break up by the time they returned home in the finale. CoCo met up with Belle-A Walker and Gracyn Blackmore, opening up about the split over lunch.
"I sent him a message and I let him know that things are off. 'I’m not sure why, but if we need to call it quits we can.' I was looking for him to fix it, and it didn’t feel like that," she said. Later in a confessional she added, "During the trip in Tahoe I realized that I wasn’t gonna get what I needed from him in a relationship. There was still certain attentiveness that he lacked. I’m not a baby, but at the same time, when I’m with a man, I’m his baby."
In the same episode, while on a hike with Bryan Arnelas, Chris said he couldn't "meet the expectations" CoCo had of him and was at a place in his life where he didn't want to "stress and worry."
"I want a queen bro, I don’t want a princess," he told Bryan. "I want my girl to have her own, I want my girl to be established with her career and what she wants in life. Knows what she wants and how she wants to go about it, like, a real woman. Not a girl that’s still chasing princess treatment all the time. "
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In his own confessional, Chris explained: "CoCo was raised by a single dad and he instilled some expectations and treatment that a man should be giving her, which any dad should do, I would do that for my own daughter. I think when you’re on the other side and you’re actually dating the girl that has those expectations from her father, I think it’s a little tough."
CoCo had her own perspective: "I really wish we would have just stayed friends. He doesn’t have the experience of having a girlfriend right in-front of him that he has to court regularly, and I just don’t have the energy to teach a 27 year old man how to do that."
The final season of Beyond the Villa Season 2 is now available on Peacock.
