{"id":2808,"date":"2021-08-06T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1307973"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T13:05:07","slug":"love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island USA star Josh Goldstein exits villa after being informed his sister has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The bereaved contestant and his new girlfriend both left the villa in last night&#8217;s episode. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Flora Carr\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 06 August 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>Love Island USA contestant Josh Goldstein has pulled out of the dating series after learning that his sister, Lindsey, died while he was in the villa.<\/p>\n<p>Goldstein, who was a favourite to win the series alongside his fellow contestant and girlfriend Shannon St. Clair, announced the family tragedy during yesterday\u2019s episode, when he also revealed that he would be withdrawing from the show.<\/p>\n<p>He and St. Clair both exited the villa after learning the news off-camera. Goldstein announced the decision to his fellow islanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanna tell you guys that me and Shannon are going home today.\u00a0My sister passed away last night,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cI just want to let you guys know that I\u2019m so grateful to have met all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing his sister as an \u201can unbelievable person\u201d, he shared that it was she who convinced him to take part in Love Island USA in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that her death was \u201cunexpected\u201d, and that he was leaving Hawaii (where the series is being filmed) in order to support his family.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"&quot;instagram-media&quot;\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRe6woasPXm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading&quot;\" data-instgrm-version=\"&quot;13&quot;\"><div style=\"padding:16px\"> <a href=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRe6woasPXm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <div> <div style=\"background-color:\" \/> <div> <div \/> <div \/><\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding:\" \/> <div><\/div><div style=\"padding-top:\"> <div> View this post on Instagram<\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding:\" \/> <div><div> <div style=\"background-color:\" \/> <div style=\"background-color:\" \/> <div style=\"background-color:\" \/><\/div><div style=\"margin-left:\"> <div \/> <div \/><\/div><div style=\"margin-left:\"> <div \/> <div \/> <div \/><\/div><\/div> <div> <div \/> <div \/><\/div><\/a><p><a href=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRe6woasPXm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A post shared by Josh Goldstein (@_josh.goldy_)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><p>The Love Island USA Twitter account also extended its condolences, tweeting: \u201cWe send our love and condolences to Josh and his family on behalf of all of us at Love Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The bereaved contestant and his new girlfriend both left the villa in last night&#8217;s episode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2809,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/love-island-usa-star-josh-goldstein-exits-villa-after-being-informed-his-sister-has-died.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The bereaved contestant and his new girlfriend both left the villa in last night's episode.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/2808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}