I discovered why the same volatile 90 Day Fiance cast members continue to earn air time. I am an avid 90 Day Fiance fan with expert knowledge of the entire cast and their ongoing situations on and off screen. The franchise debuted on TLC with the show OG in 2014 with its first spinoff Happily ever after? arriving in 2016. Before 90 days was the next expansion in 2017, followed by The Other Way in 2019. These four shows make up the core of the network and are where most of the new cast members come from.
THE 90 Day Fiance the franchise has grown to also include other successful spinoffs such as 90 Day: The Single Life, 90 Days: The Last Resortand 90 Day Fiance: Love in Paradise (previously Love in Paradise: The Caribbean, a Story of 90 Days.) Over the past decade, many memorable cast members have entered the arena, but not all of them were good people. This cast gets more air time for their telegenic qualities, but I believe there is more to it than that. The franchise has reality TV star power, and I'm noticing exactly how the network's controversial alum continues to show up.
The Same Volatile Cast of 90 Day Fiancé Keeps Getting Air Time
Year after year
90 Day Fiance has become a powerful franchise, and that's largely due to the remarkable people they've cast and told the romantic journeys of. Perhaps the biggest name of all is Angela Deem. Meemaw, now 59, began her network career in Before 90 days Season 2 in 2018, when she went to Nigeria to meet her then-boyfriend, Michael Ilesanmi, in person for the first time. Since then, Angela and Michael have gotten married, Michael has gone to America, and Michael has left Angela.
What I find surprising about Angela's continued appearances on 90 Day Fiance franchise is your pure, unfiltered, eruptive personality and behavior. Over the years, she emasculated, verbally abused, berated, financially controlled and belittled Michael. I've watched too many heinous transgressions for Michael, and in her off-screen life, I guarantee she's the most volatile cast member of all time. Yet the franchise perpetuates its bad behavior.
Big Ed is another 90 Day Fiance cast member who demonstrated terrible antics and was a problematic partner to her exes. When Big Ed was with his ex-girlfriend, Rosemarie Vega, he told her that her breath smelled bad and encouraged her to shave her legs while he hid the fact that he had a vasectomy from her. With his ex-fiancee, Liz Woods, he accused her of being a lesbian, spewed toxic and controlling language at her over the phone, told her she needed to lose weight, and broke up with her fifteen times. Off camera, I know he has allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him.
I also consider Jasmine Pineda to be highly explosive, but she continues to receive 90 Day Fiance platform, however. She flies into a rage at the drop of a hat, attacks her husband Gino, allegedly cheated on Gino, left her children behind in Panama, and manipulates most situations to her advantage. However, the 90 Day Fiance the network aired it time and time again.
90 Day Fiancé Producers Want to Manufacture Drama
High drama is what the network is looking for
90 Day Fiance cast members like Angela, Big Ed, and Jasmine, along with others like Natalie Mordovtseva, Paul Staehle, and Darcey Silva, have all were given continued platforms to maintain their celebrity despite their problematic nature. While I don't like what these cast members represent and how they act, I see the point in keeping them across the different shows. They serve a purpose, which I consider to be to manufacture drama, but that's how reality shows become overtly entertaining.
Increasing the chances of drama is what leads to stubborn cast members.
OMG moments, outrageous fights, and out-of-control situations arise from keeping these types of volatile people around the franchise year after year. I realize that the 90 Day Fiance the network needs people to heighten the drama of each season, and the chances for more entertaining circumstances arise when featuring these types of cast members.
Personally, I find it more fun to follow the journeys of the new cast members, and I don't like seeing bad behavior rewarded. I'm not interested in watching Angela, Big Ed, Jasmine and others with predictable stories and conduct, but I know they are big names in reality TV now and attract a wider audience to the shows they are on. . I may not like seeing these delinquents on my favorite show, but I see that it benefits the franchise as a whole.
The Quality of the 90 Day Fiancé Cast Is Decreasing the Show's Value
The network should look for a more interesting cast to highlight
The flip side of having these problematic people on the show is that, for viewers like me, we feel the value of the show diminishes. Instead of highlighting new faces and the foreign love journeys of more couples, the show's time and space is taken up by these controversial cast members. With Big Ed, he didn't even have a foreign relationship with Liz, so continuing to follow their love story felt strange to me.
I think the franchise would be better served if it chose to follow people who are less problematic and have more relevance to the premise of the show.
What's more, there are lots of fun and high-value cast members, like Debbie Aguero, Jovi Dufren and Yara Zaya, Mike Youngquist and Tigerlily Taylor, and Adnan Abdelfattah. I feel like their cast would be more worthy of continuing on screen. To me, it seems that the more 90 Day Fiance franchise perpetuates disrespectful and dubious people over and over again in the different spinoffs, the less I like the seasons they are in.
In short, volatile casts like Angela, Big Ed, and Jasmine have their place in 90 Day Fiance franchise, and that probably won't change because they're good for the audience. However, I feel that the network would benefit more from variety in the cast whose stories continue. I see that keeping negatively perceived people around serves its purpose, but I also don't think it's not a good idea when there are more noteworthy people who could provide different types of drama.
90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days airs Sundays at 8pm EST on TLC.
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