Originally Posted by Alrightmate:
“Possibly not, but the real culpability lies with the people who set this situation up.
To blame either Farrah or Aisleyne as the main guilty party undermines the responsibility of the show itself who should be professional enough to not allow anything like this to get out of control.
They also failed in their duty to protect the people taking part in the show.
For this reason alone they have probably broken TV broadcasting rules and regulations. For the show creators to literally provoke and instigate the situation and then lose control suggests to me that they aren't fit to broadcast a television show.
They also put themselves into a situation where somebody could have definitely been injured, and also left Channel 5 open to legal problems should anyone have decided to sue them.
Banning Aisleyne or Farrah from the show would do absolutely nothing to change the framework which deliberately set the conditions which allowed this incident to happen in the first place. It could just as likely happen again with different people.
You can blame Farrah, you can blame Aisleyne, makes no difference. BOTS made this happen. They tried to set up the perfect environment where it was likely to happen. Now that it has they have to take responsibility for what happened.
They're all for pointing out the moral flaws in various housemates, but now the finger is pointing directly at them for their own moral shortcomings.”
Originally Posted by muggins14:
“Well said.”
The problem is that it ends up giving all the blame to the people who make BOTS: "BOTS made this happen". No, BOTS did not make it happen. The HMs involved were responsible for their own behaviour; they made it a violent confrontation, not BOTS.
And while it's true that banning Aisleyne or Farrah wouldn't change the framework, it's not true that it could
just as likely happen with different people. The great majority of HMs would not behave that way.
But there's plenty of blame to go around. I'd start with the people who picked Farrah and Jenna as housemates and the ones who invited Aisleyne to appear on BOTS knowing -- and probably even because of -- what she'd tweeted about Farrah and wanting to thrown champaign at her.