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Yewande Biala says it's racist to mispronounce her name amid Lucie Donlan feud

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Yewande Biala has said that "mispronouncing or changing people's names is just another form of racism" after butting heads with Love Island co-star Lucie Donlan.

The 24-year-old claimed Lucie had "refused" to use her name because she had difficulty pronouncing it, as the two clashed over unearthed remarks made by the latter accusing the former of "bullying." Yewande denies she ever bullied Lucie, and has since penned a powerful article for The Independent in which she writes that "pronouncing [my name] correctly is key to my identity." She recalls in the piece that she's harboured worries about people "butchering" her name since childhood, and that she'd insisted to her mum that she'd give her own kids "European or normative names so no

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