UK contestant Zara McDermott, chatting with Nearer, provided up the reason that contestants cannot put on microphones within the pool, so the manufacturing staff prefers that they keep on dry land. “You are not allowed to essentially speak or have any conversations if you do not have a mic on,” McDermott defined. “So clearly if you are going to have a chat you are inspired to get out after which that is after they’d movie.” Whereas this makes excellent, sensible sense, there may additionally be one other clarification.
One other UK contestant, Kady McDermott (no relation), additionally chatting with Nearer, had an alternate clarification for why the contestants by no means use the pool: “We did not really get within the pool quite a bit as a result of it is so chilly,” McDermott defined. “As a result of we went into the villa on the finish of Might and it is nearly stepping into summer time, the pool hasn’t been heated or something.” After all, each explanations might be true.
As one Reddit person, u/SunsetDreams1111, identified, going within the pool simply usually does not make good tv. “It is not nice TV, similar to consuming. We all know they eat, however we do not at all times see it. When editors want to chop a present down, they want loads of dialogue to fill within the gaps.” That is an excellent level, as there are in all probability many actions that the contestants have interaction in that by no means make it to the ultimate minimize (and loads of it in all probability for excellent causes). They may, in fact, arrange full reside streams of the moments which are minimize from the ultimate edit of the present, very similar to “Huge Brother” does, however viewers are in all probability higher served chopping straight to the juicy drama.