{"id":215964,"date":"2026-06-10T22:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:47:13","slug":"ex-cop-booted-from-love-island-can-get-job-back-but-mayor-says-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215964\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Cop Booted From ‘Love Island’ Can Get Job Back, But Mayor Says There’s a Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Love Island USA’ Contestant
\n You Have the Right to Re-Apply!!!
\n Ex-Cop Can Rejoin Force<\/p>\n

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\n June 10, 2026
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The former Pennsylvania\u00a0cop who traded his badge for a spot on “Love Island USA”\u00a0has a chance to get his job back after being booted from the show … but it ain’t going to be easy.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal … Sean Reifel<\/a> was a police officer in Bethlehem, PA until ‘Love Island’ came calling. He walked off the force and into the villa … only to get sent packing rather quickly.<\/p>\n

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Now, Bethlehem Mayor J. William Reynolds tells TMZ … if Sean wants his old job back, it’s not out of the question … but he’s got to start the hiring process from scratch.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Reynolds tell us the police department has yet to hear from Sean, but if he comes crawling back he’ll have to re-apply … and the employment process will be the same as it is for anyone else trying to join the force.<\/p>\n

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The mayor’s comments here are interesting … we had him on “TMZ Live” last week before the new ‘Love Island’ season premiered and he told us Sean left his city holding the bag.<\/p>\n

Now, Sean’s flirtation with reality TV appears over … and it sounds like the door is open on a return to police work.<\/p>\n

Only time will tell if Sean goes to the police chief with his updated resume … or if he finds another profession to love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Love Island USA’ Contestant You Have the Right to Re-Apply!!! Ex-Cop Can Rejoin Force Published June 10, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-215964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}