It’s all about the ratings. They don’t care what is in someone’s past as long as they get ratings

Look at the edits a lot of them get over the years. The house guests are often painted so angelic when on the feeds they were slimy hateful bigots, or worse. This year Alex suggested Kevin might be a pedophile (as well as other cruel comments) and Jason out and out said he’d r@pe Kevin’s wife while his daughter’s watched (he made similar comments about others as well). Don’t think either of those things made it to the show and, unless you read about them or saw them on the feeds, most people will never know about them and only see the “sweet” edits both got.

Or how about Corey last year with his homophobic twitter comments from his past, and his live feed comments about burning a goat alive? Those surely were never mentioned on the show. Tons and tons of these types of things every season.

The only time people take notice outside of online and the feeds is when it becomes extreme such as season 15 with the massive amounts or racism. They had no choice but to talk about Aaryn after that.

Plus, unless it’s completely ON the show, and it’s to a degree where it becomes like season 15, CBS and Julie and Les (and anyone associated with the show) can just plead ignorance to things that resurface from a house guest’s past.

It’s sad an pathetic how the show is cast now. I agree completely with you, but, sadly, I doubt it will change as long as they get ratings.

I also agree: people don’t change after 25 years of being a bigot. Aaryn’s apology (or anyone else’s on the show) is simply to cover their brand and potential for making money. Nothing more.

Couldn’t stand her. She treated Mark poorly and was just incredibly crass and vulgar most of the time. And this doesn’t even take into account she never played the game and was just yet another of Paul’s puppets.

The real question is what is up with BB casting? Why would Alison CHOOSE to risk another BB15 mess? Why would CBS choose to tolerate this kind of venality/incompetence?

Imagine what would have happened if Elena had gone full Aaryn on the house — and it was at that point that Elena’s racist, homophobic, xenophobic Twitter history was made public. Do Les Moonves and Julie Chen think its good for CBS and themselves to be associated with this kind of thing? Do they really want the focus to be on CBS’s explotation of hatred and bigotry in order to draw big audiences?