Love Island USA viewers were in for a surprise when Cierra Ortega was suddenly no longer in the villa after being coupled up with Nic Vansteenberghe

Cierra Ortega was removed from the Love Island USA villa following backlash over a social media post where she used a racial slur.

Love Island USA contestant Cierra Ortega has left Season 7 of the show, days after social media posts resurfaced in which she used racial slurs. During Sunday’s episode of the Peacock dating series, narrator Iain Stirling revealed that “Cierra has left the villa due to a personal situation.