Shirin Kale

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Today in Focus · Can dating reality shows ever be safe? · 27 May 2026 podcast

I think it is pretty widely accepted that both of those contestants really struggled to adjust to life after the show.

There's something that happens to people when you're famous enough that it's difficult to get a normal job, but not so famous that you can live solely on the income and earnings that you make from that fame.

You become put into this really difficult liminal space where you can't go back to your ordinary life, but you also can't make a living as a reality TV personality because there's so many of you.

There have been changes.

I think one thing that I've really observed with reality TV in general is there's much less alcohol consumption.

You know, on Love Island, they are limited now on how much alcohol they can drink.

You will often see the contestants holding these sort of like big goblets of wine, but it's really a prop.

They're often not drinking that much.

In general, I think that we do have better language and discussion of boundaries, consent in reality TV as a format.

So yes,

Things are, broadly speaking, better.

We don't have shows like There's Something About Miriam where the big plot twist reveal is that a woman is trans and that's seen as a shocking, awful thing.

We are in like more progressive times.

However, the engine of reality TV has always been conflict.

There is no reality TV without conflict.

And the most profitable shows are the shows that can reliably reproduce conflict across different formats and territories and make independent production companies and broadcasters a lot of money.

Married at First Sight is one of those shows.

And I think this is why this has happened.

It's too profitable to be cancelled across all the different territories it's in.

And I imagine they also have different licensing deals.

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