Season 7 (Love Desert)

The Season 7 cast.

Hoyt Surfdude

Sky S'Canner

Aretha Book

Faulina Down

Gus Thehusk

Margattoni Mushroom

Jemima Juice-Cleanse

**Season 7** of Love Desert premiered with a casting special on **13th March 2022**, and the competition started a week later. The finale was released on **16th June 2022**, where Angel and Priya were crowned the winning couple of Season 7. Hoyt Surfdude was given the judge-favourite award.

Season 7 followed Season 6 in the Love Desert franchise, and was followed by Season 8. It's the first regular season to not directly precede or follow an All-Stars season.

Production of this season was officially announced on 2nd March 2022, where Season 7 was confirmed to come March 2022 during a Love Desert series super-trailer. Before Season 7 was the largest between-season break of any two recorded seasons, as the host took a whole 34-day break to recover from the speedrun that was Season 6.

This season features varying degrees of returning contestants. Colette Whipple originally competed on Season 4. Kenya Destiny originally competed on Season 6. Misty Santiago originally competed on Season 6's casting special, but wasn't cast. Both Nia Gee and Marci Greenwood competed on a cancelled, unrecorded season. Bombshell Henry Romano was initially eliminated during this season's casting special. Bombshell Hoyt Surfdude made a triumphant return on episode 3, following his elimination on episode 2.

## Runtime

### The May-June 2022 Hiatus

Due to technical difficulties, Season 7 of Love Desert abruptly halted production following the release of episode 9, the semi-final, from the 15th of May until production was able to resume on the 9th of June. The final voting round was released as scheduled, meaning that the winning couple had been decided since the week that production halted, but wasn't announced until a month later.

## Contestants

### Episode 1 Cast

The following 16 sims were selected to compete on Season 7 during the casting special. Season 6 alumni Kenya was cast, as well as Season 4 alumni Colette.

Angel CakesAretha BookArthur CaneColette Whipple (Season 4 Return)Faulina DownGus ThehuskJemima Juice-CleanseKayla CroaksKenya Destiny (Season 6 Return)Marci GreenwoodMargattoni MushroomMisty Santiago.Nia GeePriya PrettyProbley HomoSky S'Canner
### Episode 2 Bombshells

Two men arrived to the villa on episode 2, and went on dates with three contestants each.

Henry RomanoHoyt Surfdude
### Episode 3 Bombshell

Following his unjust elimination at the recoupling on episode 2, bombshell Hoyt returned to the villa on episode 3.

Hoyt Surfdude
### Episode 4 Bombshells

In hand with the villa split, 3 new bombshells entered the first half of the villa on episode 4.

Nanita ValentitaSerena ShadyShe They
### Episode 5 Bombshells

As part two of the villa split, 3 new bombshells entered on episode 5.

Bibi BlossomRedd BrowseSnatchedma Waiist
## Results

### Recoupling + Voting Results

For simplicity, only significant placements are shown (bottom placements and vote wins):

\*The villa split in two across episodes 4 and 5. No voting round, only a recoupling occurred, where nobody was eliminated even if alone.

\*\*Unofficially returned to the competition for the semi-final voting round as eliminated contestants were allowed to couple up with semi-finalists. Returning doesn't officially count Kenya and Jemima's placements as any different from their prior elimination (neither of them are considered semi-finalists).

Angel + Priya
 **Bottom assassin**
**(survived the**
**most eliminations)**
Gus

## Trivia

* It's the first Love Desert season...
	+ ... to begin during the year 2022.
	+ ... where a sim survived more than 3 bottom placements (Gus, whom survived 4).
	+ ... where 3 sims were eliminated with the same score, leading to a 3-way tie for 15th-17th place (Nia, Serena, Arthur).
	+ ... to be forced to halt production for an extended length of time due to technical issues.
	+ ... where a sim returned from Season 6, Kenya.

* It's the first regular Love Desert season...
	+ ... where a sim returned from Season 4, Colette.
* It's the third Love Desert season to bring a contestant back to compete after being eliminated that same season, after Seasons 3 and 4.
* It's the third **consecutive** season where the first couple to reach 2 vote wins together doesn't win the season, beat by the second couple to reach 2 vote wins together.

* There are a few hair colour firsts on Season 7:
	+ It's the first season where brown hair outnumbers black hair, with 11 brown-haired contestants versus a meagre 3 black-haired. Black was the most common hair colour on every prior season.
	+ It's the first season to feature more than 1 ginger-haired contestant, and it was almost the first cast where the gingers outnumber the blondes (this changed when blonde bombshell Hoyt's arrival evened out the ginger:blonde ratio).
* Season 7's cast features sims from many iconic houses:
	+ Margattoni Mushroom, from the legendary 1st generation House of Mushroom.
	+ Kenya Destiny, Misty Santiago and Aretha Book representing the House of Leibniz.
	+ Sky S'Canner and Faulina Down representing the House of Cee.
	+ Angel Cakes, of course representing the House of Ass.
	+ Colette Whipple, repressing the House of Good.
	+ Arthur Cane representing the House of Spells, which Serena Shady also joined shortly after her elimination.
* At the time, Season 7 was the second longest season in the Love Desert franchise, with 96 days inclusive between the casting special and the finale's release. Just like the longest season at the time, an unexpected mid-season hiatus caused the length to significantly rise.
	+ In terms of episodes, Season 7 is the longest with 11 episodes (casting special inclusive), tied with Season 8.
	+ Due to its abundance of bombshells, Season 7 still had 18 contestants in the villa on episode 6. This is wild in comparison to Season 5, where episode 6 only had 6 sims remaining, because it was the finale.
* Season 7 nearly has the largest cast in the franchise - 24 sims - narrowly beat by Season 3 and Season 8 with 25.
* The finale was released on 16th June 2022, almost exactly 2 years since the crowning of Season 1 on 18th June 2020.