Less than one week into season seven of Love Island USA , we already have a scandal on our hands. In Wednesday’s episode, one of the contestants, Yulissa Escobar, was abruptly removed from the villa and taken out of Fiji after footage of her using a racial slur surfaced online. Here’s what we know.

Who is Yulissa Escobar?

On May 29, Peacock — the service that streams Love Island USA — shared the 10 initial contenders heading to the villa, including Escobar, a 27-year-old real estate and hospitality worker from Miami. Before the first episode of the show premiered on June 3, online sleuths dug up two old clips from a podcast Escobar appeared on, where she repeatedly used a racial slur. Shortly afterwards, people unearthed a now-deleted TikTok , where Escobar complained about l

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