How ‘Love Island USA’ forced a star’s exit after racist posts resurfaced
After the first “bombshell” entered the “Love Island USA” villa this season, she quickly became a fan favourite and a front-runner to take home the show’s $100,000 cash prize. But on Sunday night’s episode, the show was hit with a different kind of explosion when Cierra Ortega, a 25-year-old L.A.-based content creator, was kicked off the show – the culmination of days of outcry after social media posts in which she’d used a racial slur resurfaced.
