For the second time this season, a contestant has been pulled from Love Island USA over resurfaced racist posts.
After weeks of followers calling on Love Island producers to carry Cierra Ortega accountable for her insensitive social media posts, she was formally despatched house throughout episode 30 on Sunday, July 6. This comes following the same scenario earlier on this season, the place contestant Yulissa Escobar was faraway from the villa in the midst of the night time following resurfaced movies of her repeatedly utilizing the n-word.
Throughout Sunday’s episode of the Peacock sequence, narrator Iain Stirling revealed that Cierra “left the villa because of a private scenario” and famous that her longtime companion Nic Vansteenberghe is “formally single.” Nic then shared a dialog with Ace Greene about how he wasn’t positive what he would do subsequent, only one week earlier than the tip of the season.
Ortega’s exit comes after a number of posts from her social media resurfaced whereas she was filming in Fiji. In a single put up from 2024, Cierra used a derogatory time period for Chinese language folks to seek advice from her eyes whereas describing her causes for getting Botox procedures. She used the identical slur again in 2015, and whereas some have been keen to be extra forgiving over her first offense, utilizing the phrase once more only a yr in the past is what upset many followers of the fact sequence.
Whereas Cierra has not had entry to social media throughout her time on the present, her dad and mom posted on her Instagram Story after Sunday’s episode, saying that the net response to her alleged outdated posts went “far past” searching for accountability and devolved into “threats” and “merciless messages.”
Although these screenshots have been circulating all through Cierra’s time on the present, followers pointed to the sooner removing of Yulissa as purpose to take away Cierra. It’s unclear why it took producers so lengthy to behave on Cierra’s removing, however it additionally factors to a much bigger drawback of Love Island’s casting course of and obvious lack of due diligence when selecting its contestants.
Hopefully, the a number of incidents this season will end in extra rigorous background checks for future seasons.
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