{"id":464773,"date":"2026-06-07T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464773\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:42:08","slug":"police-officer-turned-love-island-us-contestant-faces-hometown-backlash-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464773\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer turned Love Island US contestant faces hometown backlash &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1NeGRIOUdVS3lHOGsyS1dnYUFVRkRfb0pTSlcyMl90Q0U1b29ybWEzTFVlS3dQS0gzeGNEWGx5N0RsSFRJeERpV3IxU1Q2aE8xREpyNWFCVWlkdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police officer turned Love Island US contestant faces hometown backlash<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiakFVX3lxTE43WEI0akdmSHBYZFl0T0xtSVlTVTRLYk52WjJGRlVDZFVrV18wUlRhUmdBQUpZY1d6WGk0bi1WVlNSUnRxWDZYMVVLZkZsdHJ5YjJQVEZxX2N5V1NaQnJDQ0M3VlhUdjdIaGc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018Love Island\u2019 Star Sean Reifel Slammed By Mayor Of Hometown For Quitting Police Officer Job To Join Show, Leaving Force Shorthanded<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;IMDb<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxNMmhOLTVXY083OEV2eHpJdmRVUW9ETmNVb1pDWkpXSTRIc0FhWXZjUkdfenMwVDJUU250TEZKdDhrNXhWSVQtcVFUTFh3LV9tb0xBSlBHZkdaSHdTUW9MQ1g4ckhYN1o0Q1ZDejBxTnd6SmZnazBUaXVDOUlOZEItZHNUTk56M3JCXzJlUHE3em1TaXBCYnNtVlgzS3ZReGZhZ2txUXNvSTU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bethlehem police officer leaves to join \u2018Love Island USA\u2019 cast. City\u2019s mayor and chief are disappointed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Morning Call<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxPckhsMmd3QnJVYVhnczBuOVZiNUtRclJnZi1sNU9JUnlyaUt4YkVlcHg1X0tQT1g5eTZrUF9Ya0p1eTh0bXFYSkt0aC1IdGdXMk8zUi1kbXVpazZvMDI2cFhSdUpvWXZHUHZ6OTc5TDMxVC1JVTFsMERnQVBYSnNyR3h5UWp3cEE3RTRacmozU1NOSFpPeWFnRlAzcTc4ckluQ2UtejdvUFHSAa4BQVVfeXFMUDV4OW1WVEhhSmg0LXJuMF8yMWV5S1hmSFJSZ25EUTE0ZjV6dWNnQTF3S1pSYXFFNVRDZHN3RVo3SEtHa3RzZWNFN0lNZkJkc1BYQ3h0ZC04cUVvSDl6c19ZQ3otWVk4VlRhNlhjamg1WExvYzhrNXdFX090WXFrUnhnOEpIRzc1NHZ1S2pGbHQ2TXN3TjdUNzMtdDFmOGJNNkp6RkdNbC1pdkllWmpn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania mayor rails against cop he says left for \u2018Love Island USA\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ABC27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officer turned Love Island US contestant faces hometown backlash&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC\u2018Love Island\u2019 Star Sean Reifel Slammed By Mayor Of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-464773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}