Razvan and Landon “Fired” From Hunt for Love? Separating What We Know From What’s Just Noise

Another week, another Hunt for Love “firing” headline — and once again, nobody can tell what’s real. Yahoo picked the story up this week, but every version traces back to the same unverified source. So let’s do what the rumor mill won’t: separate the claims from the confirmed.

The Claims, in Plain English

Razvan Ciocoi, the Before the 90 Days veteran, reportedly got into an explosive on-set argument with Jamal Menzies during filming in Puerto Rico. According to reports, he allegedly directed a racial slur at Jamal — and production ended his time on the show. Reports also claim Razvan was “definitely feeling” Emma and gave her his necklace on night one, a storyline now in limbo.

Landon, the franchise newcomer who spent the premiere chasing Chloe (she called him “too country”), reportedly used the N-word multiple times during production. According to the same account, the rest of the cast refused to interact with him afterward, and production removed him after a brief internal investigation. Complex has separately corroborated the outline of the Landon report.

What’s Actually Confirmed (a Very Short List)

Here’s the uncomfortable part: TLC has not confirmed a single firing — not Razvan’s, not Landon’s. No documents, no recordings, no statements from the cast have surfaced. Every version of the story traces to the Instagram account @90DayFianceUpdate, via TV Season & Spoilers (Oct 19). Until someone with a contract or a camera goes on the record, this is rumor — loud, detailed rumor, but rumor.

One oddity worth noting: Razvan appears in the season trailer but was missing from TLC’s official lineup of seven returning cast members — which raised eyebrows before the season even began.

Why Fans Believe It Anyway: The Precedent

The fandom’s strongest argument is TLC’s own history. The network has a zero-tolerance track record on this exact issue: Lisa Hamme (Before the 90 Days Season 5) was dropped after being accused of using the N-word toward her husband Usman Umar, and Alina Kozhevnikova was fired after racially insensitive social media posts surfaced. Fans argue TLC wouldn’t hesitate to act the same way here.

The Awkward Question for TLC’s Casting Team

But that raises the question nobody at the network wants to answer: how do contestants carrying this kind of baggage keep making it to a Puerto Rico resort in the first place? Two camps have formed. Camp A says vetting is broken — a real background check should catch this. Camp B says controversy gets cast on purpose, and producers lean on the edit to “discover” it mid-season for maximum shock value. And either way, Jamal Menzies keeps ending up at the center of these reports, which has fans asking why production keeps putting its own cast in that position.

What to Watch for Next

Watch their screen time. Reports claim production trimmed both men’s footage before their exits — vanishing storylines may be the tell. If that necklace-night-one romance with Emma never gets a follow-up scene, that’s your answer. And if TLC stays silent? Remember: silence has never stopped this fandom from deciding anyway.

So where do you land — Team “fired, and TLC was right,” or Team “rumor smoke, no fire”? Drop your take in the comments.