Big Brother 15’s Aaryn is back on Bravo—is ignoring her enough?

Why is Bravo trying to make Big Brother 15’s Aaryn Williams—who's best known for her racist, homophobic, and other vile comments on the CBS show—a star? She's returning to TV on Bravo's Small Town Trouble: Texas.

In this episode of Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV, I ask why Bravo would cast someone with her history, and explore what we should do when networks platform people like her.

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