Latest ‘Love Island USA' Season 7 Dumping Turns Controversial With Islander Ace Greene At The Center Of The Firestorm
If you're on the right side of TikTok or any social media platform, you are being inundated with hot takes from the latest dumping on Love Island USA Season 7.
Peacock streamed on Sunday night an episode of its hit reality dating series, which upset viewers following its outcome.
More from Deadline
All Of Ariana Madix's Outfits As Host Of 'Love Island USA' Season 7
Bravo's 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta' Pays Homage To Porsha Williams' Late Cousin Londie Favors: 'It's Just A Huge Loss'
Hulu's 'Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives' Season 2 Reunion Teaser Previews Demi Engemann: "We Are Exposing It All"
Viewers had been voting for their favorite Islanders to remain in the villa to continue their quest to find love. The episode that streamed on Sunday, June 22, saw the results with six Islanders left vulnerable and at risk of being dumped.
Jeremiah Brown, José 'Pepe' García, and Austin Shepard were the boys with the fewest votes, while Iris Kendall, Hannah Fields, and Amaya Espinal were the girls with the fewest votes. Two Islanders were dumped from the villa, and the ultimate decision was left to the contestants who were saved by the public.
Ultimately, the remaining Islanders dumped Jeremiah and Hannah, a controversial move that left viewers at home perplexed as to why this decision was made.
RELATED:
In the case of Hannah, she had found a connection with Pepe, and things had been moving toward them becoming a solid couple. The girls taking her out of the competition was senseless, as Iris and Amaya didn't have a similar connection with someone else.
Similarly, the boys dumping Jeremiah made no sense as he was one of the OG boys who had finally found peace with bombshell Andreina Santos, following a tumultuous coupling with Huda Mustafa. Pepe is a newer Islander, while Austin hasn't found a connection with anyone and doesn't seem close to finding one either.
RELATED:
Although the boys decided to eliminate Jeremiah collectively, social media blames Ace for leading the pack in this way.
Despite their rollercoaster of a relationship, Jeremiah and Huda were solid and willing to work things out between them when things got tough as they were committed to each other. However, Islanders were getting upset at how toxic their relationship became, ruining the vibes in the villa.
Earlier in the season, Ace talked with Jeremiah, who pointed out that he quickly coupled up with Huda and didn't explore his options in the villa. Jeremiah seemingly took Ace's advice, got flirty with bombshell Iris, and moved on from Huda, ultimately breaking them up. Many saw that as Ace being strategic in breaking up the only other couple that had the potential to win the series.
RELATED:
Ace is coupled up with Chelley Bissainthe, someone he had an eye on from the beginning. However, in one of the first couplings, he opted to couple up with Amaya, despite having the option to choose Chelley. Ace seemingly never gave Amaya an opportunity, as he quickly found anything to distance himself from her and told her he would continue to explore his connection with Chelley.
This is another instance where viewers see Ace as a game player who plays up to the cameras because now they get to see the 'struggle' of him winning Chelley's heart.
Ace and Chelley ultimately coupled up, and after the dumping on Sunday night, they are the only solid couple left in the villa with a clear path to victory.
Social media users have been sharing their reactions, blaming Ace for being jealous of Jeremiah and his most significant threat in the game.
Love Island USA Season 7 will continue to spice things up as Casa Amor starts Monday, June 23, which can potentially change the game.
Best of Deadline
'The Gilded Age' Season 3 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Cosmopolitan
32 minutes ago
- Cosmopolitan
Cierra from Love Island USA's Instagram Has a Secret Weapon—Her Best Friend
There's an almost inconceivable amount of trust you need to have in someone to give them your Instagram password. There's an even higher amount of trust you need to have in someone to give them your Instagram password in order to manage your account while you're across the globe in Fiji, with zero access to your phone, participating in season 7 of Love Island USA. And it's the kind of trust that Cierra Ortega has in her best friend MJ Hedderman, whom she granted the honor of running her socials while she stars in arguably the summer's biggest show. Cierra tapped Phoenix-based MJ for this task during the 48 hours she had in between finding out she would be on the show and the moment she walked into the villa. Since then, MJ's posts on Cierra's account, which range from reaction memes to impassioned takedowns of a man who's done her dirty, have gone viral for their wit and honesty. And they read as a departure from the inoffensive 'Watch Love Island USA on Peacock tonight' posts that many contestants' social media admins rely on. MJ and Cierra, both content creators, originally met through a mutual friend four years ago and have now reached that classic stage of friendship when you help your pal's IG grow from 32k to 634k followers in four weeks. (One that I have yet to experience but would very much like to, @ all my friends.) And MJ is taking her role incredibly seriously. She knows she isn't just posting but also managing her friend's public perception and laying the groundwork for post-villa business opportunities. These efforts all come from a place of deep love and respect for her bestie. We caught up with MJ about her approach to making posts go viral, why she doesn't regret throwing Nic shade, and the famous fans who are now following Cierra's journey. We knew in March that she was interviewing, but our friend group has known for years that she'd be perfect for the show. The second she told us she was interviewing, we were like, 'Oh, so you're going on Love Island.' She's like, 'Girl, I literally won't know until two days before I have to leave.' Every time she met with the producers, they didn't tell her to get her hopes up. Then, literally on a Friday afternoon, she texted our group chat that she was leaving the next Monday. I knew she was going the whole time. I was like, 'Oh my god, pack your bags, pick your outfits, start buying your jewelry,' because she loves to accessorize. She's literally a walking Pinterest board. And I just think she's the best-dressed on the show ever. But I'm also so biased. It was super casual. She had brought it up a few months before, and then a couple of days before she left, she got an email from the producers asking who was going to run her account when she was gone. And I was the first one to respond to her ask in the group chat. I'm also chronically online, so our friends were like, 'You know what? You have fun. We'll be here if you need us.' They've been very supportive. We have a group chat called 'Got a Text,' and I send them anything I think might be slightly problematic. Like, 'Hey, how do you feel about me calling Nic 'Boo Boo the Clown'?' They're like, 'Go for it!' But yeah, no one was clawing for it. On TikTok, I've been getting comments from people being like, 'I would kill to do this.' And I'm like, girl, I'm doing an unpaid internship. But I'm having such a blast, so I can't complain. Honestly, I didn't go into it with any social strategy whatsoever. For the first post, I screenshotted some things from the Love Island Instagram and was like, 'Who do we think the hottest in the villa is?' Then my emotions got involved when I saw that Nic was treating Cierra like an option. My first thought was like, Girl, we need to hire an Etsy witch to find her real man. It's exactly what I would text in the group chat to my friends. And then it snowballed from there. I watch each episode fully locked in, with captions and everything. Then I rewatch the episode with the captions off, and I try to find the perfect screen grabs. The way I get all these perfect photos of her is that I sit in a completely dark room so there's no reflection on my screen, and I just zoom in and take pictures. It's hard when someone's talking to get the perfect image, so I have to go back five or six times to get the perfect frame. So now my entire camera is just pictures of Cierra's face. But I go through all of them, find the best ones, and then if any of them call to me, like she's making a funny face or something, I'm like, 'Oh, this could be a funny meme.' There was one where she was looking surprised, and I said, 'Me acting surprised when I already went through his phone' or something. There's not much strategy. It's more just the first thing that pops into my head, and whatever I would text in our group chat. I've noticed with a lot of other islanders—because I've been checking out their accounts—there are no opinions. It's more like, 'We love our girl! Watch Love Island.' Honestly, even though I'm an influencer and it's my job to tell people to buy stuff, as a consumer, I hate being told what to do. If I'm following someone on Love Island, it's probably because I'm already watching the show and I'm already invested. So I did not feel the need to add hashtags or to tell people where to watch it because people are already doing that. And I honestly think the content has engaged better by not doing that. I'm also very opinionated, so it's been very hard for me to, like, not put my opinions in the posts. But I could be a lot more opinionated, which is exactly what I'm doing on my own TikTok. I also wanted to create a space on Cierra's account that she would also find funny, because she has an incredible sense of humor. Before she went to the villa, the only thing she texted me was, 'Have fun. Make memes. Be silly. You can make fun of me!' I think it's working because people see how much love is going into the post. Every time I'm writing these, I'm literally pouring my heart out. I've been a full-time influencer since 2021. So this is not necessarily easy, especially given the number of followers that she's gained in the past week—she's gained, I think, 100,000 in less than eight hours—but it helps. Like, knowing how to block certain hate words and block comments. The second I see any type of hateful comment, I take all the keywords and I put them into the hidden word option on Instagram, so then no one can comment anything terrible. The beauty of working in this industry is that you kind of become numb to it after a while. You realize that the people sending hate aren't saying that because they genuinely hate you. Maybe they do, but it's probably because they don't love themselves enough. It's definitely challenging at times, dealing with the influx of people, but it's manageable. Granted, I've been focusing 100 percent more on her Instagram than I have mine, but I know that she has so much potential for growth while in the villa, so I might as well focus on this for her for six weeks and set her up for life. That's what I'm saying. There are a lot of people on the show, like Huda for example, who could be getting a bad edit. That happened to Cierra in the beginning, with the whole Bell-A and Nic situation. Cierra was literally getting death threats in her DMs. I feel like one way to combat that beforehand is by creating a good perception on her Instagram. Her DMs are insane. Half of them are fans; a portion are athletes. And then there's the famous people, like Julia Fox followed her. I've been texting her updates every single day, like, 'You just hit 600k, Julia Fox just followed you, Kim Kardashian just reposted your Skims ad on her story.' [Editor's note: Cierra won't be seeing these texts until she's out of the villa because, again, she does not have her phone.] I just know she's going to freak out when she's out of the villa. Our friend Johnnie, who was on the show a couple years ago said, you really have no idea what the public thinks. That's the scariest part. But Cierra's in good hands. What was your relationship to reality TV like before this? I've never watched Love Island USA before. Cierra's the one who got me into reality TV. She got me into Big Brother, she's been begging me to watch Love Is Blind for years, and she forced me to watch the Vanderpump Rules finale where Ariana rips Tom a new one. And she kept pausing it to provide context. I look at them occasionally just to see what the vibe is. But honestly, I'm booked and busy with this account. I do check them out to see where they are growth-wise. It's not a competition, but I am a very competitive person, and since it's not my account I'm very much looking at it like a business where I'm like, 'Okay, how much growth can we get in six weeks?' Especially because, when the whole Huda/Jeremiah situation was going on, Cierra wasn't getting any screen time. So I was like, This is my time to shine. If I can make posts go viral, she'll gain followers from just existing on Instagram. Granted, when she has screen time, she eats it. Everyone's like, 'She's been coached. She's media trained.' No, she is just genuinely that eloquent and witty in real life. She's a Libra. If they do end up together, I will own it! I'm not deleting any of the posts—I called him Boo Boo the Clown for a reason. I will stick to my guns. But I don't think he's a bad guy. I'm looking at it from a best friend's perspective, not from objectively watching the show. When I see her crying about someone who can't commit, it literally makes me see red. But in the context of the show, I do think they are a good couple. They both have weird interests. I just think he needs to get his head screwed on straight and realize the gorgeous goddess that he has in front of him. But I have to remind myself, it is just a show.
Newsweek
34 minutes ago
- Newsweek
Dog Escapes and Runs Away From Groomers—Ring Cam Captures What Happens Next
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A dog owner couldn't believe her luck after hearing the news that her canine escaped during a grooming appointment. The text on a June 19 TikTok video posted to the account @thebernntheyosh shared that the family dog, Felix, got loose while at the groomer. Many dogs become anxious while getting groomed. Perhaps they've had a traumatic experience, or the tools and blowdryer are too loud and scary for them. For this mini bernadoodle, getting home was the only thing on his mind, but he was over a mile away. That didn't matter to him. Felix sniffed his way home while his family panicked and began searching for him after hearing the dreadful news of his escape. Much to anyone's surprise, the doorbell camera captured his return, where Felix plopped down on the front porch and waited for someone to let him inside. Plus, he looked slightly out of breath from his mile-long run home. Thankfully, the mailman came shortly after and noticed the dog outside alone. After dropping off the mail, he rang the doorbell to let the family know Felix was outside. One person stayed home from the search, thinking someone would drop the dog off if found, and it proved to be a lucky call. She opened the door with a cell phone in hand. You could see relief rush over her face at the first sight of Felix. The caption on the clip reads: "So lucky this guy made it home safe. I am so proud of him for running all the way home and waiting for us outside. He is the best boy in the world." Newsweek reached out to @thebernntheyosh via TikTok for additional information and comment. Viewer Reactions The TikTok video amassed over 787,000 views and 160,200 likes as of Wednesday, with viewers flooding the comment section with impressed reactions to Felix's navigation and their thankfulness that he made his way home. "He probably thought you forgot him and he wanted to get back home to you as fast as he could," wrote one user. Another added: "Such a smart doggie!!! So cute too. What a lovely mailman." A third commented: "Omggg you guys are so lucky he made his way home!! He looks exhausted. Poor guy was stressed!" Screenshot from a June 19 TikTok video of a mini bernedoodle waiting to be let inside after running home from a grooming appointment. Screenshot from a June 19 TikTok video of a mini bernedoodle waiting to be let inside after running home from a grooming appointment. @thebernntheyosh/TikTok Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? Send them to life@ with some details about your best friend, and they could appear in our Pet of the Week lineup.
Yahoo
44 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Here's Why This Coldplay Song Just Hit the Hot 100 for the First Time, 25 Years After Its Release
You can never truly predict which catalog songs are going to take off and have their viral moment. Sometimes you can point to a clear and obvious reason — a prominent synch in a film or TV show, such as Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)' resurging after Stranger Things season four, or Nirvana's deep cut 'Something in the Way' getting its moment thanks to The Batman. Or, it's the annual resurgence of holiday staples around Christmas or Halloween. More from Billboard El Fantasma Claims Eighth No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay Chart With 'Ya Me Vale Madre' Khalil Fong and Tanya Chua Named Best Male and Female Singers at the 3rd Wave Music Awards Doechii & Tyler, the Creator Preview Pharrell-Produced 'Get Right' Collab During Louis Vuitton Paris Show Other times, the resurgence is a little more unexpected — like when Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' or Fetty Wap's 'Again' returned to the Billboard Hot 100 (in 2020 and this February, respectively) thanks to light-hearted viral moments on user-generated content apps such as TikTok. The latest case is Coldplay's 25-year-old song 'Sparks.' Originally released in 2000 on the band's debut album Parachutes, the cut enters the Hot 100 for the first time this week, debuting at No. 93 (on the chart dated June 28). The renewed interest stems from a viral breakthrough on TikTok, driven by a surge in streams following Coldplay's two-night set at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium on June 6 and 7. The timing of the shows coincides with reports of frontman Chris Martin's reported breakup with long-time partner Dakota Johnson. In one widely shared viral TikTok when the band performed 'Sparks,' Martin appears to be visibly emotional while singing the line, 'And I know I was wrong/ But I won't let you down.' The moment stuck a chord with fans, as the song has now soundtracked more than 500,000 clips on TikTok to date. Here's a week-by-week breakdown of the song's on-demand official U.S. streams, according to Luminate: May 23-29: 3 million May 30-June 11: 3.2 million (up 5%) June 6-12: 4.8 million (up 48%) June 13-19: 5.7 million (up 18.5%) Despite never being released as a single, 'Sparks' has long endured as a fan favorite and a mainstay in the band's live setlists. It previously received a minor boost in 2005 after appearing in a scene in the movie Wedding Crashers. In 2020, Billboard's editorial staff ranked it as one of the best deep cuts from the year 2000. The Parachutes album also benefits from the renewed attention for 'Sparks.' The set re-enters this week's Billboard 200 at No. 169 with 9,000 equivalent album units earned (up 11%). The album originally peaked at No. 51 in 2001, and had last appeared on the chart in February 2016. The album's single 'Yellow' also saw some gains — it tallied 5.3 million U.S. streams in the tracking week (up 6%). That song became the band's first entry on the Hot 100 in 2001, reaching No. 48. It also became a top 10 alternative radio hit. 'Sparks' earns Coldplay its 27th career entry on the Hot 100, and first since 'We Pray,' featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and Tini, in October 2024. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100
