Casting Catastrophe: A Second ‘Love Island USA’…
For the second time this season, a contestant has been pulled from Love Island USA over resurfaced racist posts.
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After weeks of followers calling on Love Island producers to maintain Cierra Ortega accountable for her insensitive social media posts, she was formally despatched home during Episode 30 on Sunday, July 6. This comes following a related scenario earlier on this season, where contestant Yulissa Escobar was eliminated from the villa in the center of the evening following resurfaced videos of her repeatedly utilizing the n-word.
During Sunday’s episode of the Peacock collection, narrator Iain Stirling revealed that Cierra “left the villa due to a personal situation” and famous that her longtime companion Nic Vansteenberghe is “officially single.” Nic then shared a dialog with Ace Greene about how he wasn’t sure what he would do next, just one week before the top of the season.
Ortega’s exit comes after a number of posts from her social media resurfaced while she was filming in Fiji. In one post from 2024, Cierra used a derogatory time period for Chinese people to refer to her eyes while describing her causes for getting Botox procedures. She used the identical slur back in 2015, and while some followers have been prepared to be more forgiving over her first offense, utilizing the phrase again just a yr in the past is what upset many followers of the fact collection.
While Cierra has not had access to social media during her time on the show, her dad and mom posted on her Instagram Story after Sunday’s episode, saying that the online response to her alleged outdated posts went “far beyond” in search of accountability and devolved into “threats” and “cruel messages.”
Though these screenshots have been circulating all through Cierra’s time on the show, followers pointed to the earlier elimination of Yulissa as motive to take away Cierra. It’s unclear why it took producers so long to act on Cierra’s elimination, but it also factors to a larger drawback of Love Island’s casting course of and obvious lack of due diligence when choosing their contestants.
Hopefully, the a number of incidents this season will end result in more rigourous background checks for future seasons.
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