Are You the One? Season 5 alums accuse the show of meddling with the outcome and covering up a racist incident

The Daily Beast

A month after the MTV reality show halted production after Season 5 contestant Gianna Hammer alleged she was "drugged” by production and “sexually assaulted” by a fellow cast member, nine more members of the Season 5 cast have come forward to The Daily Beast with more accusations. "Season 5 of the hit reality-TV competition is the only season where contestants failed to return to the U.S. with the prize pot of $1 million in the show’s eight-season history," reports The Daily Beast's Cheyenne Roundtree. "The Daily Beast spoke with nine contestants from the season, which filmed during the fall of 2016, who firmly believe production company Lighthearted Entertainment meddled to ensure they wouldn’t win in hopes of making the season more dramatic, and to get MTV to sign on for another season. What’s more, the contestants allege Lighthearted Entertainment threatened to withhold their small stipend if they didn’t go along with producers’ whims. They also claim producers swept under the rug a heated racist incident where a white female contestant repeatedly said the N-word in the face of one of her Black castmates, despite cast members' pleas for her to stop, and was later recast in an MTV spin-off show."