{"id":2450725,"date":"2026-06-08T23:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2450725"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:04:49","slug":"love-island-usa-hunk-bryce-was-bullied-in-school-for-being-too-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/love-island-usa-hunk-bryce-was-bullied-in-school-for-being-too-attractive\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love Island USA&#8217; hunk Bryce was &#8216;bullied&#8217; in school for being too attractive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/02\/entertainment\/heres-how-to-watch-love-island-usa-2026-for-free-time-cast\/\">\u201cLove Island USA\u201d Season 8<\/a> star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/video\/meet-the-love-island-usa-season-8-cast\/\">Bryce Alakai Dettloff<\/a> confessed he was bullied in school because he was \u201cbetter looking\u201d than his classmates.<\/p>\n<p>During Sunday\u2019s episode, Dettloff was asked by fellow contestant Trinity Tatum if he had \u201can ugly face growing up,\u201d to which he responded, \u201cNo, I just looked like a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dettloff told Tatum \u201cit\u2019s funny because all the girls liked\u201d him, before recalling one time in middle school when \u201cthe hottest girl in school\u201d came up to him in front of everyone and told him, \u201cYou\u2019re the cutest guy ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bryce Alakai Dettloff (pictured above) admitted that \u201call the girls liked\u201d him growing up but he was bullied by the guys \u201cbecause they thought that I was better looking.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Ben Symons\/PEACOCK<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Trinity Tatum and Dettloff (both seen above) discussed his childhood on the most recent episode of \u201cLove Island USA\u201d Season 8 <span class=\"credit\">Ben Symons\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>However, this came at a cost, with Dettloff admitting, \u201cAll the boys hated me and started bullying me for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the guys used to bully me,\u201d the 29-year-old reiterated. \u201cBecause they thought that I was better looking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the reality show\u2019s new season only airing for less than a week, several of its cast members have already made headlines.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Vasana Montgomery (pictured above) was removed from the show\u2019s cast after past videos depicting her using racial slurs, specifically the N-word, resurfaced just days before the Season 8 premiere. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@vasana_vibes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The show\u2019s production has faced backlash for casting of Montgomery (seen above). <span class=\"credit\">Ben Symons\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vasana Montgomery <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/31\/celebrity-news\/love-island-contestant-vasana-montgomery-removed-after-n-word-video-surfaces\/\">was booted from the series\u2019 lineup<\/a> just days before the show\u2019s premiere after resurfaced videos depicted her using racial slurs.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was filmed allegedly singing the N-word in a song lyric,\u00a0according to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>When faced with criticism over her casting, a source close to production\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decider.com\/2026\/05\/31\/love-island-usa-season-8-contestant-removed-before-premiere-after-resurfaced-videos-showing-racial-slur\/?_gl=1*is730v*_ga*MTI1NTc5NDU1LjE3ODAzNDEwOTY.*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3ODA5MjQwMDEkbzEzJGcxJHQxNzgwOTM2ODA3JGoxNCRsMCRoMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Decider<\/a> the video was not readily available to them during the vetting process and they were only made aware of the clip after she was cast.<\/p>\n<p>The day after the new season premiered, Montgomery <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/03\/entertainment\/love-island-season-8-contestant-vasana-montgomery-breaks-silence-on-axing-over-n-word-video\/\">issued an apology<\/a> for her past actions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Montgomery took to Instagram to address the videos in a statement (seen above).  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/vasana_vibes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sean Reifel (pictured above) resigned from the Bethlehem Police Department to appear on the show. <span class=\"credit\">parm3_sean\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sean Reifel, another Season 8 contestant, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/02\/celebrity-news\/love-island-contestant-blasted-by-pennsylvania-mayor-for-resigning-from-cop-duties-for-show\/\">was slammed<\/a> by J. William Reynolds, the mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for resigning from the Bethlehem Police Department to appear on the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur police department spent a lot of time training and we paid thousands of taxpayer dollars to send him to the police academy,\u201d said Reynolds to local news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor continued, \u201cWe are disappointed he left as we now have another vacancy in our department that is impossible to fill until next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mayor J. William Reynolds was disappointed that Reifel left the department with another vacancy (both men pictured above). <span class=\"credit\">Bethlehem Police Department<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Reifel (seen above) was told he was not allowed to take a leave of absence from his job to appear on the reality show. <span class=\"credit\">Peacock\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police Chief Michelle Kott also criticized Reifel\u2019s decision by saying, \u201cAt this time, I don\u2019t think there\u2019d be a department that would be willing to allow someone to leave for \u2018x\u2019 amount of weeks to go on a television show when everyone\u2019s hurting right now and overtime is being utilized to fill those gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday night\u2019s episode, Reifel, 29, was the first islander eliminated from the villa after Tatum, 22, chose Dettloff as her match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove Island USA\u201d airs every day except Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET on Peacock.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLove Island USA\u201d Season 8 star Bryce Alakai Dettloff confessed he was bullied in school because he was \u201cbetter looking\u201d than his classmates. During Sunday\u2019s episode, Dettloff was asked by fellow contestant Trinity Tatum if he had \u201can ugly face growing up,\u201d to which he responded, \u201cNo, I just looked like a girl.\u201d Dettloff told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2450726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[394603,24003,21741,30781,21913,394403],"class_list":["post-2450725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bullying","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-love-island","tag-tv","tag-virtual-reali-tea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Love-Island-USA-hunk-Bryce-was-bullied-in-school-for.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450727,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450725\/revisions\/2450727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}