After the Live Eviction show for Week 2 of Big Brother 27 aired, I got to thinking about the houseguests we have seen each year who have been expelled, self-evicted, or asked their fellow Big Brother houseguests to vote them out. I know I’m not alone in saying that this bothers me because I feel that if there were a better vetting process to get on Big Brother, this wouldn’t happen as often as it does. Is that what we just saw on BB27? Read on to find out what I think.
I want to preface this by saying that I have only watched Big Brother since season 17, so most of what I have to say only applies to recent seasons. I also want to say that the opinions in this article are my own.
In the last 10 years that I have been watching this show, I have seen several houseguests get expelled, self-evict, or ask their fellow HGs to vote them out because they realized they weren’t cut out for the game. Could a change in the way that Big Brother vets their cast members help alleviate that problem?
For example, Week 2 of Big Brother 27. Amy was just evicted unanimously when she had several people who planned on voting to keep her as of yesterday if she had been sitting next to Will. This came 24 hours after she told Ava and Rachel that she wasn’t built for this game on the live feeds. She also mentioned to them that she hates liars and manipulators, and knows that people are lying about their votes. She added that she is likely going to be evicted, and at that point, she wanted to go home. She had come to terms with it.
Now this is purely speculation, but considering this was a unanimous vote, it seems to me that she could have asked all her fellow houseguests to evict her. We saw something similar play out with Kenney last year, who struggled with missing home in Week 2, but started campaigning to his fellow HGs in Week 3 to send him home.
I think what bothers me the most about players who leave the game early is that these spots could have gone to other applicants. People who have waited years to get on the show, people who want to play the game, and people who aren’t problematic. Could a simple change to the vetting process fix this issue? Asking different questions during the interview process, approaching psychological evaluations differently, monitoring social media postings, etc.
Let me know what you think!
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