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90 Day Fiancé has done a terrible job in presenting a dangerous contestant – it should take a leaf out of Drag Race’s playbook and not give Geoffrey Paschel a platform
Contestants getting booted off of reality shows for misconduct is as core to the genre as the flinging of a drink in someone’s face during an argument. The disqualification of “Nasty” Nick Bateman from the first series of Big Brother for attempting to manipulate the house vote shook the nation – a move that 20 years later, would likely see him celebrated as an icon on the American iteration.
In 2012, Willam seemed in line to be crowned America’s next drag superstar, but left with the much more bad-ass title of the first ever Drag Race contestant to be disqualified. He was asked to leave after receiving a prohibited conjugal visit from his husband. But programmes often struggle with how to deal with cast behaviour that is too sinister to nearly package into a “villain edit”. Continue reading...