{"id":2479480,"date":"2026-06-28T18:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2479480"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:38:50","slug":"alannah-keyser-issues-apology-after-being-booted-from-love-island-usa-over-use-of-racial-slur-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/alannah-keyser-issues-apology-after-being-booted-from-love-island-usa-over-use-of-racial-slur-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alannah Keyser issues apology after being booted from &#8216;Love Island USA&#8217; over use of racial slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alannah Keyser apologized for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/22\/entertainment\/love-island-usa-bombshell-alannah-keyser-faces-backlash-for-using-n-word-in-resurfaced-video\/\">using a racial slur<\/a> in a resurfaced video after being <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/24\/entertainment\/love-island-usa-star-alannah-keyser-fired-after-using-racial-slur-in-resurfaced-video\/\">booted from \u201cLove Island USA.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m coming on here to address some things that have been circulating online,\u201d the TV personality said <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@alannahkeyser\/video\/7656274107335576845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via TikTok<\/a> Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do want to begin by addressing the video of me singing along to a Roddy Ricch song that contains a racial slur,\u201d she said, referring to the rapper\u2019s 2019 track, \u201cThe Box.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cLove Island USA\u201d alum Alannah Keyser apologized via TikTok Saturday for using a racial slur in a resurfaced video. <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/@alannahkeyser<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI\u2019m coming on here to address some things that have been circulating online,\u201d she said in the clip. <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/@alannahkeyser<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry to whoever has seen that video and has been offended by it, that was never my intention,\u201d Keyser, 21, added. \u201cThe video is from six years ago, and that word is just not in my vocabulary anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also addressed circulating screenshots she claimed to \u201chave been falsified,\u201d adding, \u201cWhat has been shared does not reflect the truth, and it\u2019s never been in my character to discriminate against anybody\u2019s skin color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do want to say directly that I do not support\u00a0racism\u00a0or discrimination of any kind, and I never have,\u201d the reality star continued. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI do want to begin by addressing the video of me singing along to a Roddy Ricch song that contains a racial slur,\u201d the TV personality added, referring to the 2019 track \u201cThe Box.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Ben Symons\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI\u2019m sorry to whoever has seen that video and has been offended by it, that was never my intention,\u201d Keyser added, <span class=\"credit\">Ben Symons\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first found out that these things were going around online, it really broke my heart, and I couldn\u2019t do anything about it. But this has definitely been a learning lesson for me, and it sucks that I didn\u2019t get a chance to really show my personality and who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video was cut off, but Keyser concluded by reassuring that it was in her \u201cnature to spread positivity and help others.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I will continue to do so,\u201d the USC film school student concluded.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI do want to say directly that I do not support\u00a0racism\u00a0or discrimination of any kind, and I never have,\u201d she added. (Seen here: Keyser, Zacharias Georgiou, and Jaiden Bacciocco sitting on a couch in \u201cLove Island USA.\u201d) <span class=\"credit\">Ben Symons\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Keyser explained her heart \u201cbroke\u201d when she saw the information going around online. (Seen here: Keyser, Amora \u201cAmora Cachee\u201d Robinson, Parmida Keshani, Jaiden Bacciocco, Sherleaz \u201cSydney\u201d Eugene, and Tierra Davis.) <span class=\"credit\">Ben Symons\/Peacock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Keyser, 21, was fired from Season 8 of \u201cLove Island\u201d after the video of her resurfaced last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProducers edited Alannah out as much as possible from episodes that were pre-taped before the resurfaced racial slur video was exposed,\u201d an insider told the US Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe couldn\u2019t be removed completely, but her scenes were significantly trimmed down.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI couldn\u2019t do anything about it. But this has definitely been a learning lesson for me,\u201d Keyser (seen here) stated. <span class=\"credit\">alannahkeyser\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Keyser (seen here) was booted from \u201cLove Island USA\u201d last week. <span class=\"credit\">alannahkeyser\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the insider, \u201cproducers were disappointed and embarrassed\u00a0that this has become another mishap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keyser\u2019s time on the show was short-lived, as fans found the clip of her singing the Ricch track just hours after she arrived at Casa Amor.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Vasana Montgomery, 25, was also kicked off the show ahead of filming last month when a similar video surfaced.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alannah Keyser apologized for using a racial slur in a resurfaced video after being booted from \u201cLove Island USA.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m coming on here to address some things that have been circulating online,\u201d the TV personality said via TikTok Saturday. \u201cI do want to begin by addressing the video of me singing along to a Roddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2479482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,21787,21741,30781,21913,394403],"class_list":["post-2479480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-entertainment","tag-love-island","tag-tv","tag-virtual-reali-tea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Alannah-Keyser-issues-apology-after-being-booted-from-Love-Island.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479484,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479480\/revisions\/2479484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}