LOS ANGELES — “Love Island USA” will crown the winning couple of its seventh season Sunday evening, culminating a tumultuous summer full of explosive breakups and shock exits.

Cierra Ortega apologized for using a racial slur in past social media posts following her firing from "Love Island USA."

Devotees of the reality television dating series live vicariously through their favorite islanders as season 7 steams toward its finale on Sunday.

Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and his fans, reading “The Song of Achilles.”

Vansteenberghe had been intimate on several occasions with his former partner Cierra Ortega while taping the Peacock reality show.

For the past month, the reality dating show Love Island USA has been the center of discourse among millions of users online thanks to its near-daily episodes filled with drama, betrayal and flirtation.

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F ormer “Love Island USA” contestant Yulissa Escobar is addressing Cierra Ortega’s departure from the show, calling for compassion over cyberbullying . In a TikTok video posted July 7, Escobar, 27, drew parallels between her experience and Ortega’s abrupt removal from the villa in Episode 30.