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.

The 25-year-old is no longer in the villa, but has not yet returned home and her parents have pleaded for “compassion, for patience, for basic human decency” from the show’s intense fanbase

Cierra Ortega was quietly dumped from the villa after posts resurfaced of her using an Asian slur.