That was fast.

Yulissa Escobar was ousted from Peacock’s Love Island USA in the second episode of the season, after past racist remarks of Escobar, dubbed one of the show’s two “MAGA contestants,” resurfaced online.

At around the 18-minute mark during last night’s episode, narrator Iain Stirling announced her departure as the islanders woke up from their first night in the villa: “Welcome back to Love Island USA. Yulissa has left the villa.”

Although the show did not offer any further explanation, many believe Escobar’s exit is due to the discovery of podcast clips where the contestant uses the n-word twice.

Shortly after Peacock announced her casting for the seventh season, people uncovered the instances of Escobar using the racial slur, causing a massive wave of online backlash that

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