Los Angeles (AP) – Closes Ortega, a competitor “Love Island USA” of this summer The villa was left just a week before the conclusion of the hit reality series.
On Sunday, on Sunday, the old positions of Ortega were revived after the weeks of a ruckus from the audience, with a racial solution against the Asian people. The show’s narrator, Ian Sterling announced that Ortga had departed “due to a personal situation” at the beginning of the Sunday episode.
Ortega became the second contestant this season to leave the show amid controversy due to previous social media posts. Yulisa Escobar suddenly exited in the second episode last month, when the clip using the racist language was revived in the second episode after the clip. His departure in the show was also not explained.
A spokesperson of the show refused to comment on Monday.
Ortga’s family posted on his Instagram story after the announcement of his departure on Sunday evening, asked the public to “compassion” for patience. For basic human decency.
“While Sierra is no longer in the villa, he is still far away. He does not have a chance to process any process or speak for himself,” his family wrote. “But we know our daughter. We know her heart. And when she returns, we believe that she will face it with honesty, development and grace.”
His family said that he receives threats, attacks and cruel messages on social media with Ortga’s friends and online supporters, given that “no one is worth that kind of hatred, no matter what mistakes he made.”
“Love Island USA” is one American spin-off of original UK series And Disseminating its seventh seasonThe show airs daily except for Wednesday and brings the young single together in a remote villa in Fiji to detect the connection with the final goal of the Fizer.
Couples undergo challenges and test their romantic connections as new competitors are introduced. Islanders regularly “dump” from the villa in the series as strong joints. The winning couple receives $ 100,000.
The show, which reaches its phone contestants or the outside world, has asked fans to avoid cyberbulling contestants. Host Ariana Madix Called for fans In an interview recently with The Associated Press to do doxing and harassing the stars of the show.
Ortega entered the villa at the end of the first episode, which was one of the steady stream of new contestants coming after the show started, often expected to disrupt the current couples and create dynamics of new relationships.
Ortga quickly coupled with Nick Wansteinburg, which she lived with her departure. His exit broke one of some continuous joints of the weather. The couple had just announced some episodes, before they were “closed closed, the contestants were interested in discovering a relationship with another island to indicate the phrase” a popular “love island”.
“My mind was clear before Sierra had left. I knew what the future would look like, and now, I am lost,” Vansteinberg said during Sunday’s episode.
Onsteenberghe remained on the show as a single island after the departure of Ortega, and he finally coupled again with fellow contestant Olandriya Carten before the end of the episode.
The Belle-e Walker, a contestant who was dumped before this season, took to Instagram to break the heart of Ortega’s revived positions. The walker, who is the Asian American, said that he is “deep appreciation” by the show’s makers to take a stand and to clarify that no racism has been tolerated. “
Walker wrote on his Instagram story page, “Asian hatred is often ignored and dismissed. But being the first generation American, I have personally seen and experienced how real and hurting comments like these are.” “It is my hope that this situation can help to shed light on how big an anti-Asian hatred is.”
Itajel Luna, Associated Press
