Love Island has a knack for slipping islanders in and out without causing commotion within the villa. And the latest person to get the axe is Love Island USA contestant Cierra Ortega.

Peacock has not clarified why Ortega left the show, but her exit occurred amid online controversy over posts she allegedly made that included a derogatory term for Chinese people.

On Sunday's episode, narrator Iain Stirling announced that Cierra Ortega had left the Peacock reality series due to a "personal situation," leaving her partner and fellow contestant, Nic Vansteenberghe, single.