Producer incompetence
 

What even are the background checks / psych tests if they cannot even scroll through a persons social media for problematic posts

It’s a joke at this point!

They are a complete mess is it any wonder this show is getting canned?

Agreed, you'd think they'd learn after the Tila mess.

i know it's a joke

The amount of nutters that have entered the BB house i think it's clear to say these "psych tests" are utter BS . Plus it's lazy production as they didn't bother to research Ellis beforehand :facepalm: . Such a waste of time even putting her in the house , and i wasn't even a fan to start with but it's just pointless still .

This is the first production move I've really been disappointed with over the last month, I expected better quite frankly

Makes me wonder whether they felt pressure to do something from the twats on Twitter

If it was recent then maybe I'd understand. But it was 4 years ago, when she was just 15 and didn't know any better. It's ridiculous.

People keep saying she also said something stupid this year ? , i haven't seen that tweet though .

I wonder if they started saying that after the whole Shahbaz fiasco to cover their own backsides.

No way can anyone go back to 2014
tweet.

Another Tweeter dug it up

It's Fair she was Ejected fast.

That changes nothing


It would be the same on any TV show

They should have just told all housemates to delete their social media at this point cause even if nothing racist is found people will still find something to be outraged at.

I still don't know what Shahbaz's issue were but he was treated like crap in the house , but he didn't help himself . He isolated himself and behaved like a petulant child .

they're honestly a joke :skull:

Indeed, and I know the show got a lot of flack for it, but I remember the talk about mental health of housemates being brought up (that and vanessa feltz, I cant remember which came first)

Of course you know better at 15

Were the tweets even live until recently... or did someone have a really old stash of deleted tweets waiting in their screenshot folder?... don't really care about the ejection, just curious about this aspect if they were even able to "research" it...

They should take only clean criminal records people

Someone scrolled back thr0ough her twitter from 4 years ago to find something to be offended by basically.

Sack Producer

Ty for that. What kind of time does someone have to have to sit there and search through a random strangers tweets in their spare time... ? I'll never get it...

Regardless, if they can be found by a regular person then BB production didn't do their due diligence... maybe... ?

The terms used in the problem tweet wouldn't have occurred to me to search if done by hand even though they should be "obvious"... but maybe this is where a pre-prepared list of terms comes in handy as well as a list of racial terms/"problematic" phrases, etc... but still impossible to come up with every phrase or joke that could be deemed offensive under a different context... without having gone through 4-5 years worth of tweets and combed through person by person... sounds easy enough, but not really when it's multiple applicants... and that's just Twitter, we're not even talking about Facebook, blogs, YT videos, etc...

Anyway, if the profile is locked, password lost or the original data is deleted, then they're SOL anyway...

It should be noted that it's not just the tweet from 2014 that got her removed, there was far more recent stuff on her Facebook and youtube channel. I agree, it's something that should have been spotted way before she was even told she was a housemate, but it isn't JUST for a tweet she wrote when she was 15.

What was said? I know the Facebook thing was something to do with the IRA (altho I didn't really understand it tbh) but didn't know there was stuff on YouTube as well

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebri...illon-13253103

It probably is the right move from the show, but it really shouldn't have been allowed to get this far.

Couldnt understand a word the girl was saying anyway so it’s no loss

I don't really comprehend the controversial significance of a portion of that given where I live. So I can only make assumptions. She does seem foul-mouthed and not very good in terms of judgement. Like that sectarian post could've been read a few ways.

Their hit-rate with these mini scandals is too high I think. They are shopping around for a better network, but then BB risks their brand being perceived as becoming too toxic and controversial for what is currently perceived as "fit to air" in 2018. I understand they have to cast the most controversial & interesting folk they can find, but naturally, if they widen the net too much then they end up with these events that taint the brand even further... and we haven't even seen the first highlight show yet, Rob...

...it does feel like this is becoming a bit of a recurring pattern for BB...that apparently the most basic of checks on the housemates aren’t being done...which is obviously meaning an early eviction for something outside of the house...like with Andrew and Tila...?...and now Ellis...something that would have surely been researched within minutes...hmmmm, it’s feeling like it’s all a publicity thing to get the series kick started with controversy...if only Channel 5 hadn’t been so controversy obsessed with their housemate choices and drama manipulating ways...they may have given Channel 4 days a run for their money a bit more...

...anyway, what Ellis tweeted was pretty grim but I fear what she’s going to go through now with public negativity and ‘hate’ will be even more grim..:sad:.../...shame on BB...

Everyone was saying she was only 15 and bla bla bla but this forum has 15 year olds and if they posted something like that then I don't think anyone would be having it. (It's a shame grown adult members get away with it because of how they phrase it)

Emma specifically stated on friday that all the housemates had been thoroughly vetted :laugh::laugh::laugh:

I mean anyone encountering a rangers supporter would ask some fundamental questions and any issues should have been uncovered in seconds :laugh:

...I just find it really hard to believe that BB don’t do basic search checks on things like social media, Jess...especially as they’ve made these apparent errors before which have been revealed straight away by viewers...obviously they will be and BB know that and yet still no attention paid to it at all by them before choosing a housemate...?...I’m really struggling to believe that’s true and whilst I agree that saying what she did at 15yrs old is concerning in racism context..?...I do fear that Ellis could have just been ‘thrown to the wolves’ by BB....I hope I’m wrong because that would be just beyond awful...

C5 being a joke, we been knew :laugh3:

AMMI
It would cost more to do research
on their past.
They had videos of the housemate making their case.

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...4-Sep-2018.jpg
She sold herself well
keeping her Racist views hidden
from anything she told Endemol

Scottish


Put subtitles on.

Hmmmm, any publicity is good publicity.
Or is that me being cynical?

I'd agree they need that last minute controversy

I was thinking that too, and bb gets to look like the white knight removing her from the house....either that of bb is really inept

There is zero wrong with saying Fck the Pope and the IRA