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Peacock For the second year in a row, “Love Island USA” has kicked an islander out of the villa after social media posts surfaced of them using the n-word.
25-year-old Vasana Montgomery will no longer appear in Season 8 of the reality dating series, which premieres on June 2. The news comes just two days after Peacock announced the cast, repeating an uncomfortable pattern: Last year, Yulissa Escobar was removed during the second episode because of videos of her using the same slur. Later in the season, Cierra Ortega exited for a similar reason; she used a racist term for Asian people that she claimed she “had no idea” was a slur.
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