I think he would. Simmons is desperate for fame and highly willing to degrade himself for that attention. If the "allegations" hadn't happened I think Simmons would have gone all out in later challenges. Once again good job Jet and Sam for messing up what could have added to the show.
Fair point. I think that was a problem they had, as judges. There was a span just after Jon left where it seemed like the were trying to push Letty over the edge because she already seemed so frazzled before camping started, but all it did was show how far she was willing to take it. They could easily have fucked that up.
It's a fine balance. Kick out the guy who is annoying the audience removes the guy who is successfully annoying the fish. Kick out the guy who is loudly verbalizing how much he hates the house and miss the guy who is in mental agony but suffers quietly. And all the while trying to give the grand prize to someone who "earns" it in some way.
They just have to be more careful this time around. Anytime you make a poll that says "Should we...?" people will always vote yes.
If the poll had said "Should we kick out Simmons or let him keep torturing the fish?" that would have gotten different results.
"Should we kick out Simmons right now, or kick out Mauro?" would have been different too.
If the final results were based purely on resilience, I think it would've gone: Letty, Vance, Simmons, Josie, Sylvia, Damiel (just for fun), Jon, Mauro. I think Vance is close with Simmons - if they told Vance he had to wear a dress and hump a man's leg in order to progress he would have walked, but if they told Simmons he needed to do a racist impression of a black man to progress he probably would have walked. And if Simmons had a soulmate boyfriend at home he probably would've moped as much.
I wouldn't mind if the audience had absolutely no control over the eliminations. Anytime it seemed like we had any direct control the results were shitty. It's good if the audience can effectively throw support or tomatoes at fish but only production can look at it from 50 feet above and figure out what's good for the show as a whole.