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Originally Posted by Koadey
You also should've mentioned that Megan, Ramsey, Dick and Neil all quit for valid reasons. Nobody has ever quit because of anything game related and those who threatened to do so (Audrey, Metta & Paulie) were talked out of it.
Other factors:
1. Nobody in BBUS/CAN would want to leave without any stipend. When I met Jun, she confirmed that all quitters lose their stipend.
2. Production will talk them out of it more forcefully than BBUK will.
3. Jun also informed me that BBUS/CAN contestants can be sued for quitting because it "tampers" with the production schedule. If someone was on the block and they quit the day of the live eviction and it's not DE night, they basically don't have an episode. If more than one person quit, that would then shorten things for another week. People may lose interest and thus ratings drop if people watch and see people quitting rather than getting evicted. A house guest would have to have a reasons that's at least as valid's as Megan's in order to quit without being sued. The same goes for ejected houseguests.
4. BBUK has aired over 20 celebrity editions and Celebrities are obviously more likely to quit because a stipend means nothing to them and they're not likely there because they're fans of the show. BBUS only had one Celeb edition and if they not even Metta would quit due to the risk of being sued, probably. America has 1000s of Z-List celebrities and if someone quits, they've basically told the entertainment industry that they're willing to breach contracts or are difficult to work with and they could potentially never get another endorsement again.
5. Robin Kass casts specifically to look for people who they know won't quit.
6. With BBUS/CAN not having any intruders or going into the finale with multiple people, it's crucial that they try to keep everything according to plan. With BBUK, they used to replace a quitter/ejected houseguests and now, if someone quits or gets ejected, they can easily fix that with having a finale of four people as opposed to five, etc, and there is really no loss.
7. With the format and how scheduling works, BBUS doesn't eject houseguests who say racist things or bully/intimidate people. BBUK has no problem dropping these types of houseguests because they make their houseguests replaceable or overloaded to where they can afford an ejection.
8. Americans view Quitting/Ejections can also be seen as "robbing" a position for someone who watches the show and wants to be on the show, so there's a selfishness associated with this. This is a big one for Survivor as well.
9. You look bad and are poorly received by the public, which is still important to houseguests. You're remembered as 'the person who quit" and as Jun said it, Chima basically told the world that she is someone who would willfully destroy someone else's property.
In BBUS/Canada, we've seen the plan for what happens after one ejection/quitter, to have two would really throw things off. Earlier seasons would've either cancelled a DE or had a bypass, making things more slow and more recent seasons would bring back people on top of their plan to bring back people.
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Great post!
Really appreciate all the effort you put into them...
Didn’t Megan quit due to something game-related. AKA her PTSD which IMO was triggered by the game...
I know Neil quit due to a family death, Ramses for a family matter, and Dick for medical issues...