May 30, 2026 4:54pm PT
‘Love Island USA’ Dismisses a Cast Member for Using the N-Word — for the Second Year in a Row
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 the reality dating series, which returns to Peacock on June 2. The news comes just two days after the Season 8 cast announcement, 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.
