An MMA star furious at losing a challenge on Romanian reality show Survivor was filmed breaking her male rival’s nose with a headbutt.
Ana Maria Pal, 26, had lost the reward challenge on the show after competitor Lola managed to complete it first.
But when Andrei Ciobanul from the competing team came over to console her, she flipped out.
The footage shows Andrei trying to comfort her by saying: “It’s hard, Ana, it’s hard.”
But she responds by hurling a red ball at the male contestant. She then storms over to him and launches a vicious headbutt to his face.
He crumples to the floor clutching his face as other contestants rush to his aid.
Pal was immediately booted off the show, filmed in the Dominican Republic, after saying her rival had “deserved” the vicious assault.
The show’s presenter, Dan Cruceru, told CanCan: “I saw a terrible moment, a shocking moment. I saw a competitor hit in the face by another competitor.
“Unfortunately, Ana Pal lost her temper. What Ana did was a shocking gesture, a gesture that we hoped we would not see.
“We will not tolerate such behaviour in Survivor, and our decision was that Ana Pal should not return to the island.”
Fellow Romanian fighter Diana Belibta, who has also appeared on the show, condemned the incident after it aired on Tuesday.
“I cannot agree with the gesture tonight of Ana Maria Pal,” she said. “It is not a typical gesture for performance fighters and I would like to avoid generalising.
“If Ana made this gesture, she’s the only one who takes it… This is not a typical gesture for a fighter, Ana Maria is the only one who assumes the consequences.”
Pal is the second-highest ranked MMA star in Romania with a professional record of 2-3-0.
