What until now were footnote comments or complaints in a solitary tweet have become the biggest
storm of complaints and claims that Spanish reality shows have faced. Everyone talks about the suspicious telephone votes that decide who continues and who leaves, who wins and who loses, in Secret Story, the reality television show for celebrities with which Mediaset has tried to remake Big Brother. The controversy has a lot to do with
Cristina Porta, sports journalist and ex-girlfriend of a soccer player who, week after week, has been winning the televotes that put her participation at risk. It would not be strange if she had the public’s favor, something that is questioned because
He has also won all the punishment votes that have been called through the app, for free. How do you understand that it is the most hated when the vote is free and the most loved when it is paid?
More reasons for suspicion: despite the intense use of social networks during the reality show,
Cristina Porta has only 63,000 followers on Instagrammuch less than two rivals who were expelled in the same paid votes that are in question:
Sandra Pica, with 326,000 followersand
Adara, with 841,000 followers. How is it possible that contestants who have at least six times their followers have been swept away by the journalist and presenter in the time margins of the programming? Doubt hangs over the votes, and it is not the first time this has happened.
Olga Moreno’s victory has already been questionedat that time at the center of the controversy over Rocío Carrasco’s documentary against Antonio David Flores, in the latest edition of Survivientes, for example.
In everyone’s sights is
the voting system, a mechanic that can easily be co-opted to favor a certain contestant. Enough with
invest a sufficient amount of euros in messages of text to ensure a good position. Sometimes, it is the same networks of passionate fans that organize themselves to constantly top up money on certain voting lines, as seems to be the case with
Luca Onestinisupported by the admirers of his brother, the winner and finalist of several reality shows
Gianmarco. On other occasions it is family and friends who organize to ensure victory. In fact,
winning Secret Story or any other Mediaset reality show could have become a kind of back door to finding work on the network’s different showsalways looking for collaborators who can generate content thanks to their private lives or those of others.
Although the latest editions of Telecinco reality shows have been met with insistent accusations of nonsense,
The network has not made any movement in favor of voting transparency. Nor is it ensured in the bases of the programs that a notary certifies them. As far as reality TV fans are concerned,
the same network could pay to keep certain contestants on the program, if their plots were of interest to maintain audience levels.. It could be the case of the controversy
Cristina Portaformer Mediaset worker, student at the presenter school of
Jorge Javier Vazquez, thanks to her live romance with Luca Onestini. Comments about alleged favorable treatment from the program’s management are an outcry on social media. Fans of this controversial television genre are beginning to lose not only confidence in the format, but also patience. Much of the seduction of reality television has to do with the fact that
The viewer, like a god with a smartphone, decides upon payment about the fate of all the contestants.. Does it make sense to continue asking for money if the votes are not guaranteed?
