Below Deck Down Under and The Biggest Loser (Reality TV Creeps)

Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

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What a Creep
Season 21, Episode 5
Below Deck Down Under & The Biggest Loser

Reality TV is having an awakening right now; Bethenny Frankel announced on her Instagram that she is entering the fight for reality show casts and crews to unionize. She is working with top-notch lawyers Mark Geragos and Bryan Freedman, who sent a letter to NBC that they are planning a class action lawsuit against the network with over 80 people signing on so far to talk about mistreatment while filming Bravo shows for the last 15+ years. This is BIG news.

Today, we are discussing two shows under the NBCUniversal/Bravo umbrella accused of mistreating their casts--Below Deck and The Biggest Loser.

Below Deck Down Under Handles Sexual Assault Properly (for once!)
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/-deck-crew-praised-handling-consent-sexual-misconduct-luke-jones-rcna98841

Ashton Pinnear threatens Kate Chastain with violence

How it is listed on the Bravo page to this day! "Ashton Pienaar Gets In Kate Chastain's Face After a Question Throws Him Into a Rage. Ashton loses it when Kate asks about his mother."

Sources for The Biggest Loser:
The Biggest Loser Wikipedia
The Atlantic
NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/business/media/25loser.html
The Guardian
New York Post
KQED
Distractify
People
Nikki Swift
Cracked
ET Online
ET Online 2
Breaking Muscle
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