Elliot Lawry

A maths all-stars.

And really jumping on the bandwagon of, you know, UK audiences loving UK and Aussie maths contestants.

That might not go ahead, but, you know, inevitably there's this pattern emerging about, you know, what is appropriate, how are situations handled behind the scenes,

It reminds me a lot of what happened to Big Brother, you know, more than a decade ago.

That was really one of the first boundary pushing reality series that was embroiled in its own set of controversies that had, you know, prime ministers and governments weighing in and ultimately never really recovered from those conversations.

So we'll see what happens.

We'll see how this review by Channel 4 plays out.

But we just genuinely don't know what the future of maths looks like at this point.

I think what we'll see is like a bit of a reckoning in the coming months and years with the reality TV format at large.

I'm even thinking about over in the US, they had The Bachelorette completely binned after they'd filmed that whole season over their central star being embroiled in these domestic violence allegations.

It's just one of those ones where we have to think, have we hit the limit of how hard we can push these people?

Because at the end of the day, these women who have come forward and all the other contestants on the show, they are just normal people.

Yeah, they're normal people who uproot their lives, quit their jobs, you know, put all their trust in these productions and hardly come out unscathed.

Thanks so much, Em, for taking us through that.

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