How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Ariana Madix

Fresh disconnected a two-month stint filming the eighth play of Peacock’s “Love Island USA” successful Fiji, Ariana Madix is blessed to beryllium backmost successful her ain space.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

“I’ve been backmost and distant and each implicit the spot truthful overmuch lately,” says Madix from her Los Angeles home. “I’m precise excited astir each the things that I’m doing with my house. Just small things similar I got a caller beforehand door. I’m successful a nesting phase, I guess, due to the fact that I’ve been gone for truthful long.”

The tv property and actor, who made her Broadway debut successful “Chicago” successful 2024 aft capturing attraction connected Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules,” precocious scored her archetypal Emmy for hosting the wildly fashionable dating contention amusement “Love Island USA.” She finds that her summers successful Fiji, the show’s filming location, ever permission her with a caller perspective.

“Going backmost aggregate seasons, I spot radical who are truthful overmuch younger than maine beryllium capable to beryllium truthful honorable and forthright with however they consciousness and what they want,” says Madix. “I conscionable deliberation astir backmost erstwhile I was their age, however frightened I was each the clip to marque radical mad. I respect them truthful overmuch for that due to the fact that it’s hard. I deliberation that they are truly brave and it inspires maine to beryllium brave.”

With the “Love Island USA” reunion acceptable to aerial Aug. 31 connected Peacock, Madix is enjoying each infinitesimal of her downtime. Back successful Los Angeles wherever she’s lived for astir 2 decades, her cleanable Sunday involves a travel to the barn to thrust horses, strolling done the vicinity she archetypal called location and hitting a nine wherever radical actually dance.

10 a.m.: Make a speedy meal astatine location

I’m a sleepy person. I tin slumber forever, truthful I person to acceptable a clip and beryllium like, we’re going to bash something. So I’m getting up astatine 10 a.m. I consciousness similar that inactive gives maine clip to slumber successful and consciousness similar I’m inactive having a relaxing day, but it’s inactive aboriginal capable to bash stuff. My meal is beauteous boring. I conscionable marque ovum whites astatine the house. I bask meal nutrient a lot, but if I privation to person an eventful amusive day, I request to conscionable get the meal retired of the mode and get immoderate caffeine successful me. Because if I dillydally for excessively long, I’m present each day. I’ll either marque an iced Americano with a small spot of almond beverage oregon a acold brew. I don’t bash thing hot. It’s against my religion that I made up [laughs].

11 a.m.: Head to the barn to thrust horses

I’d get retired to the barn successful Burbank to spell horseback riding. Doing thing outdoors, whether it’s riding, going connected a hike oregon virtually conscionable touching grass, is simply a bully mode to commencement your day, I feel. Especially successful L.A. wherever we’re spoiled with beauteous upwind each the time. I’ve been riding since I was 6 years old. When I lived successful New York, it wasn’t thing that I truly had entree to oregon the funds for, truthful determination was a play of clip wherever I wasn’t riding and I felt similar I was truly missing that portion of myself.

We’re truly blessed to person entree to riding successful L.A. I had my ain horse, but helium precocious retired truthful helium lives successful the mountains now, surviving his champion life. So if my trainer has horses that request to beryllium ridden for their ain exercise, they’ll enactment maine connected 1 of those.

1 p.m.: Visit my aged stomping grounds successful Los Feliz

After that, I gotta spell home, shower, alteration and past I gotta eat. I’d spell to Los Feliz for immoderate tacos and spell for a walk. This is going to dependable corny, but I precocious tried Guac Daddy with my boyfriend, Dan. We each got similar 2 oregon 3 tacos, truthful we could effort a clump and it was good. Afterward, we’re decidedly going to Skylight [Books]. I emotion the conception of the store that has each of the large photography books. I could flip done truthful galore of them, truthful that’s wherever I’m going to station up for a small bit, hopefully with an iced java successful hand. I saw thing connected TikTok wherever idiosyncratic said our request for a walk-around beverage is emotionally regulating, truthful I deliberation that’s a cardinal portion of this full experience.

5 p.m.: Take a powerfulness nap earlier grabbing drinks astatine a rooftop

I deliberation this is astir the clip wherever I request a nap, particularly if I’m going to proceed doing different things. If I tin get a bully powerfulness nap in, I’m acceptable to modulation into much nighttime vibes. I privation to effort to beryllium retired of the location having a small sunset portion and I privation to beryllium determination with a bully presumption of the sunset. There are immoderate truly cute rooftop spots successful the Beverly Hills area. Gemma astatine the Waldorf Astoria has a truly cute rooftop. That’s a bully spot to person a bully mezcal margarita and ticker the sunset. My champion friend, Logan, and I similar to spell determination wherever we accidental we’re gonna “eat with a fork.” There’s antithetic levels to this. We mightiness get an bid of Parmesan fries oregon person a food infinitesimal similar crudo oregon a food taco. Something that feels caller that goes on with the vibe. I’d beryllium present for a mates of hours with Dan and my friends Logan [Cochran], Dayna [Kathan] and Katie [Maloney].

7:30 p.m.: Play old-school games astatine the Neon Retro Arcade

Dan and I precocious had a Sunday Funday successful Pasadena. We went to this arcade barroom called Neon Retro. I emotion a bully pinball machine. They person each these old-school games similar the aged NBA crippled and aged shooting games. Now that we’re adults and we tin get unlimited [tokens], you really tin play agelong capable to bushed immoderate of these games. [Laughs] It’s a batch much satisfying than erstwhile we were kids and you’d play once, you’d dice and past that’s it. We mightiness get immoderate candy to truly consciousness the arcade vibes. It’s decidedly a brew infinitesimal though.

10 p.m.: Dance astatine Club Tee Gee ‘til they footwear america retired

This is wherever things diverge due to the fact that I’d possibly spell drawback a movie astatine CityWalk. Or if we’re feeling freaky, we could spell to Club Tee Gee successful Atwater for immoderate dancing, to truly person amusive and consciousness similar tomorrow’s not Monday. They ever person truly bully music. I really celebrated my day determination a fewer years ago, which was truly fun. They person glitter connected the ceiling, which sets the code immediately, and a batch of big-name DJs who volition bash concealed sets there. It’s a spot wherever radical actually spell to dance, which I enjoy. It’s not conscionable lasting astir and looking astatine people.

2:30 a.m.: Order nutrient disconnected Postmates, past walk retired

We’re staying astatine Club Tee Gee till close, till they footwear america out. Then we’re catching a Lyft location and perchance ordering immoderate nutrient disconnected Postmates. I’ve said tacos passim the day, but I inactive privation them [again] regardless. I deliberation we’re spoiled successful L.A. and there’s truthful galore bully ones, truthful I don’t person a favorite. I benignant of conscionable spell everywhere. If not tacos, I’ll possibly beryllium craving immoderate Thai food. Then I’m passing retired close afterward.