How Hannah Met Her Boyfriend "Pookie" 10 Years Before Love Island (EXCLUSIVE)
The Beyond the Villa Season 2 star says her post-Love Island romance "just kind of happened."
Hannah Fields is officially off the market. As she revealed during the Love Island: Beyond the Villa Season 2 premiere, she found love in a familiar, friendly place.
"If you think your friend’s hot, maybe have sex with him and maybe one day he’ll be your boyfriend," Hannah cheekily updated fans in Episode 1, referring to her boyfriend Sebastian "Pookie" Salcido, who just recently posted a TikTok with the Beyond the Villa Season 2 cast.
Last time we saw Hannah on our screens, she had fallen hard for fellow Love Island USA Season 7's Islanders Charlie Georgio and Pepe Garcia, famously sobbing in bed with her photo booth pictures with dumped British model-actor Charlie.
Now, there is definitely no love lost between Hannah and her exes. The Beyond the Villa premiere came to a dramatic conclusion when Hannah confronted Pepe during the cast's bar get-together about not approaching the female cast members or apologizing to Iris after their messy breakup. In response, Hannah called him a "p***y" and a "loser."
"All those girls over there, not a single word? I mean we’re pushing 30, come on, I thought we’d have some communication skills," she said.
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When asked about the heated moment, Hannah told Peacock Blog, "Well, when it comes to my friends, I don't play about them. So I will address every situation. It's new for me to address situations like this, but I just thought I couldn't even look at him if I didn't say, 'Own up to your s**t.'"
She continued, "[Our problems are] not resolved, and it never will be. He's like a bug on my shoe."
Nowadays, Hannah is "so happy" with her post-Villa love life and revealed that she first crossed paths with her now-boyfriend, who she sweetly calls "Pookie," years ago.
Hannah reveals how she met her boyfriend Sebastian: "It just kind of happened"
Hannah told us that she "actually met him like 10 years ago," long before she hopped on a flight to Fiji and began her Love Island USA journey. As for how exactly she and Sebastian connected, Hannah revealed it all started on social media.
"You'd never believe it — a Twitter group chat," Hannah said, explaining that they remained just friends for a while. "We had mutual friends and they put us in a group chat ... I would like friend-zone him all the time. And then I got a boyfriend, and then we were just friends for a long time."
Eventually, Hannah says, their romance "just kind of happened."
"It was weird ... He knows so much about me, but like also in a friendship way," she went on to share. "We know things about each other that like if he told me now, I'd be like, 'Oh."
Sebastian often posts cute everyday updates and "fit check" videos with Hannah on his TikTok. In April 2026, he shared a video of himself admiring Hannah, captioning it, "Wait quiet, my show's on." He also revealed that he took Hannah to Aruba for Valentine's Day and surprised her with their Airbnb fully decorated for the occasion.
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Hannah addresses her Love Island USA connections with Charlie and Pepe
As Hannah gushed about her boyfriend during Episode 1 of Beyond the Villa Season 2, she also said, "I am so happy I didn’t end up with anyone from that Villa."
As a quick refresher, Hannah first coupled up with Charlie on Love Island USA Season 7, and sobbed when he was dumped from the Villa. As they said their goodbyes, Charlie told Hannah, "I just don't want you to forget me." Shortly after their romance ended, Hannah quickly found a connection with Pepe and they remained coupled up until she herself was dumped from the Villa. Eventually, Pepe coupled up with Iris Kendall — they made it to the finale together, placing fourth, and broke up shortly after the show ended.
Today, Hannah and Iris are besties and don't think about this Love Island love triangle. "I knew Pepe for four days of my life, it’s not weird to me that Iris and I were both coupled up with him," Hannah said on Beyond the Villa, blasting Pepe as "not a good person and someone she "would never surround myself with."
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"We both survived the same person, I will say that," Hannah continued. "Although I didn’t find my man in the villa, I found the best woman in the world. That’s my best friend, I’m gonna be a bridesmaid. That’s my maid of honor."
Watch new episodes of Love Island: Beyond the Villa Season 2 on Wednesdays, exclusively on Peacock.
Reporting by Stephanie Gomulka
