Have you... actually watched the show?

Every goddamn season.

Or are you just repeating what you've heard?

Has a statement like that ever improved any dialog you've participated in?

More than that? I've mixed 20-something fucking seasons of reality TV, of which seven or eight are network fucking reality TV cooking shows and have heard producers tell judges who is going to win this that or the other "competition" countless times. Shit, dude, one of my technical screw-ups ended up being a Vine that got played fifty thousand times as proof of the conspiracy that producers were favoring one person over another (am not a producer).

I'm going to let you in on another secret: the British invented trash TV. And they're better at it than we are. And they have lower standards, and they have no pretenses of fairness, and they, as producers, are the shittiest to work with by far because they absolutely drag their caste system to whatever continent they happen to be on and there is no creature on earth less interested in the appearance of fairness than a British Competition Reality Television Producer.

Which is why no one in the US would dare of trying to pull off this shit after the fact.