Season 7, Love Island
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During the Sunday, July 6, episode of “Love Island USA,” narrator Iain Stirling announced that Cierra Ortega had left the show due to a “personal situation.” Prior to her shocking exit, many fans called for Ortega’s removal after discovering that she used a slur for Chinese people in several social media posts.
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A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty, argues that Love Island USA season 7’s apparent removal of Cierra Ortega due to her past usage of an anti-Asian slur is exposing how much of the general public is still dismissive of anti-Asian hate.
Post-Island Plot Twist: Two of the Most Hated ‘Love Island: USA’ Contestants Might Be Dating On the Outside originally appeared on Parade. If there are two people we want to forget from Love Island: USA season 7, it's Yulissa Escobar and JD Dodard.
Cierra Ortega and Yulissa Escobar have now both been removed from the Peacock villa due to racism controversies.