Originally Posted by Penny Crayon:
“Yes that was a shocker indeed - and lets not forget about the Alexander O' Niell cover up and the Perez fiasco when he walked out. Nanna Julie and her daily 'hair dressing' chats. It's never really been all that is seems at all.
I'm just baffled why they broadcast live from the house when all that 'phoniness' was going on.”
Yes. There have been plenty of cock ups over the years revealing the manipulation and Towie-style scripting. Remember when somewhere here spotted a show 'runner' accidentally in shot on set holding up cue cards / answers during a trial quiz? (normally they would edit this out but missed it somehow).
As to the LF filming - tweets suggest someone in the crew was very peed off that BB higher ups called all the HMs to the DR during live feed, leaving them nothing to show from the house.
My best guess is that while a squabble over that fiasco was going on, someone further down the food chain just let everything roll - so we saw the staged scenes which went out before the higher ups had noticed.