Pepe Garcia

Pepe Garcia (Jose "Pepe" Garcia-Gonzalez) is a former professional basketball player and reality television personality, known for appearing as a bombshell on the seventh season of Love Island USA on Peacock in 2025, where he and Iris Kendall finished in fourth place. He posts as pepe.garcia15 on Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, where his account carries the Snap Star badge.

Basketball

On the show he said he was born in Madrid and moved to Los Angeles at the age of three. A guard, he played college basketball for Cal State Fullerton from 2017 to 2019, then played professionally abroad: according to ESPN, in Spain from 2019 to 2021, for the Mexican clubs Fuerza Regia and Toros Torreón from 2021 to 2022, and in Spain again in 2023. He retired after a knee injury and became a personal trainer.

Television

Garcia entered the villa in Fiji in the ninth episode, alongside Kendall. He was coupled with Hannah Fields after a public vote and, during Casa Amor, with Gracyn Blackmore, before coupling up with Kendall, with whom he reached the final. After the show he played in the Big3 celebrity game, and he was announced as part of the cast of the second season of the Peacock spin-off Love Island: Beyond the Villa.