‘Love Island USA’ slams Vasana Montgomery for using the N-Word

For the second year in a row, ‘Love Island USA’ has kicked an islander out of the villa after social media posts using the n-word emerged.

Vasana Montgomery will no longer appear on the reality dating series, which returns to Peacock on June 2. The news comes just two days after the Season 8 cast announcement and repeats an uncomfortable pattern: last year, Yulissa Escobar was removed during the second episode due to videos of her using the same slur. Later in the season, Cierra Ortega retired for a similar reason; she used a racist term for Asian people that she claimed she “had no idea” was a slur.

Montgomery is shown using the n-word in two different videos currently circulating online. In one, she says “Knock knock, n–” while playing what appears to be a shooting game in an arcade. In the other, she sits in a car and raps along to a song that uses the word. It appears that both videos were originally posted to private accounts and only became public after the cast announcement, meaning they would not have been visible during Peacock’s vetting process.

Montgomery is 25 years old and from Beaverton, Oregon. In the Peacock cast teaser, she says, “I think I have the full package. I have a business; I live alone; I have a dog. If you asked my friends what my type is, they would show you the map of the world.”

“Love Island USA” will air new episodes daily during its premiere week, followed by episodes every day except Wednesday. Ariana Madix serves as host with Iain Stirling narrating, and executive producers include David George, Adam Sher, Jordana Hochman, Bernie Schaeffer, Ben Thursby-Palmer, James Barker, Blake Garrett, Courtney Rosenthal, Sophie Brown, Richard Cowles, Mike Spencer, Tom Gould, Ali Hill and Martin Oxley. ITV America produces in association with Lifted Entertainment and Motion Entertainment