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Originally Posted by Niamh.

Too a lesser extent they did it with shows like the X Factor too, I don't watch any of them anymore but I really hated when they had the "bad" acts on and clearly a lot of these people they were taking the piss out of publicly had issues. Pretty gross really

Looking back on some of the old clips on TikTok etc it wasn't even to that much of a lesser extent - The X Factor was awful for it in hindsight, they were flat-out gaslighting some of them with producers acting like they were good/had a chance just for them to go in and be openly laughed at and torn to bits by Cowell and co... shocking really.

Even arr Big Brother has some questionable elements through the years. People being chosen who cannot possibly have passed a robust psych exam (as they always claim) with the clear specific intent being for them to be mocked for entertainment.