New ‘Love Island USA’ cast includes a woman who went to high school in Oregon

Season 7 of

“Love Island USA,”

the dating competition that, as Peacock says, features “a group of sexy singles living in a tropical villa who must try to win the $100K prize by coupling up and surviving to the end,” has arrived, and this time the sexy singles include a cast member with an Oregon connection.

Isabelle “Belle-A” Walker now lives in Hawaii, according to the cast announcement. But

KDRV, a TV station in Medford

, reports that the cast member in question, Isabelle-Anne “Belle-A” Santos Walker, attended Gold Beach High School.

In a

post on her Instagram page,

the 22-year-old Walker says that she manages her family’s coffee shop in Gold Beach, but she also “splits up my time in Oahu, Hawaii.”

A post shared by Love Island USA (@loveislandusa)

What’s coming up in Season 7 of “Love Island USA”? According to Peacock, viewers should expect “More temptation and more drama! As the sexy Islanders search for love in the tropical oasis, they will couple up to face heart-racing challenges, bigger twists and turns than ever before, and return of Casa Amor. New bombshells arrive to shake things up in the villa, forcing Islanders to decide if they want to remain with their current partners or recouple with someone new.”

Viewers will be able to vote for their favorite pairs through the “Love Island USA” app, “to determine which islanders will recouple, who will remain in the villa, and who will go home single and heartbroken.”

There’s already been some drama. As

NBC News

and other sources report, cast member Yulissa Escobar left the show on the second day after video clips “surfaced online that appear to show Escobar using racist language while on a podcast. In two podcast clips shared by TMZ, Escobar used racial slurs when talking about men and relationship drama.”

The new season of “Love Island USA,” which is filmed in Fiji and is hosted by “Vanderpump Rules” veteran Ariana Madix, debuted June 3 on Peacock. New episodes of Season 7 will drop every day on Peacock at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT during premiere week. Episodes will be released Thursdays through Tuesdays starting the week after.

You can watch “Love Island USA” on


Peacock (which offers a free trial)


; and on


Hulu


(which also offers a free trial).

Stories by

Kristi Turnquist

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