Unpopular Opinion: She DIDN’T Deserve To Get Canceled

Amala Ekpunobi

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Cierra Ortega, a contestant on Netflix’s hit dating show Love Island, is being canceled online and has been removed from the show after old posts of hers using a racial slur resurfaced. This may be a hot take, but I don’t think she she be canceled. Let’s talk about it.

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0:29.7	So everybody's talking about Love Island this season. It's season seven, and apparently you are living
0:34.5	under a rock if you have not heard of the show, if you have not watched the show. And recently the show has come into my sphere because one of its contestants, Sierra Ortega, has been taken off the show for using racial slurs.
0:45.3	And guess why? I'm about to defend her. Let's talk about it.
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1:05.9	Yes, today we are talking about Sierra Ortega, who was just abruptly removed from the Love Island pool of contestants this season and season seven.
1:11.7	I think we're at about episode 30 right now, and it was just announced that she is leaving the villa due to personal reasons. Now, if you're not familiar with Love Island, I have some explaining to do, I guess.
1:16.5	Let's see if you can make it through this. So Love Island is a reality TV show. They put a bunch of hot
1:20.4	guys and hot girls on a villa together, and these individuals couple up. Now, these couples compete
1:25.1	against one another and go through elimination rounds, and by the end of the show, one lucky couple is chosen by the public to win $100,000.
1:32.3	Now, throughout the show, there are couplings and uncouplings and recouplings,
1:36.3	and the producers will throw in more hot people to just mix things up.
1:40.3	Now, those more hot people are called bombshells, and Sierra Ortega was one of those
1:45.5	bombshells thrown into the villa to stir up some drama and create a couple. And she did exactly
1:50.1	that with a boy named Nick. Now, in the most recent episode of Love Island, episode 30, we got this
1:54.4	message. Welcome back to Love Island, USA. Sierra has left a villa due to a personal situation, leaving Nick
2:03.1	officially sick.
2:05.7	Now, many on social media already knew why this happened and what the personal reason was,
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