Totally agree. Just because someone’s publicly kicking up a stink doesn’t mean it’s true. I’m not saying it’s not (we’ll probably never know), but just that we don’t know the whole story. H&C aren’t exactly going to respond and publicly say their side of the story are they! I also can’t imagine it’s easy to edit down all the footage into an hour, so it’s no wonder there might seem bits missing. They’ll have a limit as to the number of episodes so will have to cut down what they can. Not easy when there’s so many riders and people in the episode! When people like Meg etc are doing their vlogs, it’s usually just focused on them - not exactly the same in terms of difficulty editing. For some reason people seem to think H&C is a massive company as well - they’re not the BBC fgs
I agree the elimination aspect is a little off this year, but it’s an entertainment/TV show at the end of day. Let’s be honest, most of the people who applied probably just wanted their 5 minutes of fame and weren’t there for the learning anyway - imo Joanna’s a case in point! The right person went home. Most of those so upset about it seem to have been pre-existing Joanna fans. If someone else had gone home instead, I doubt those same people would be speaking up in the same way!