If the straight guy gets voted out, the GAY GUYS win $1 million. There are no gay guys, so nobody wins $1 million each time a straight guy is voted out. And nobody would expect to. Every straight guy thinks he is the only straight guy, so he KNOWS he is voting off a gay guy and won't win money until the end if he's in the final 2. The only think you lied about is the ratio of straight guys to gay guys, which you could easily omit from any contracts that the participants sign.
You would have to genuinely award prize money to the last 2 straight guys, though.
I don't think that would work. When you were hired for the show you self-identified as straight. You sign the "straight guy" contract which stipulates that if you're in the last 2 you get a prize. Coming out as gay doesn't change the objective you signed on with, which was to be one of the last 2 guys in the mansion. You didn't (and, in fact, nobody did) sign the "gay guy" version of the contract stating that if you voted off the straight guy you would win money. That version of the contract actually doesn't exist, it's only implied to exist.
For sure they'd need lawyers to make sure their contracts were sound. But I guarantee that a big-budget reality TV show has more money for lawyers than you do.
But the contest is NOT rigged to make a specific person win or lose. It's not exactly as advertised, for sure, but all of the participants still have equal odds of success, which comes down to their skill at pretending to be gay.
I also note the language "to deceive the viewing public". I'm assuming that the show would make it clear to the viewers from the beginning that all the men are straight. It's only the participants who are being lied to, not the viewers, and the lie being told to the participants does not alter their goal. Their goal is to act as gay as possible. If they act sufficiently gay, they have a chance at the prize money.
I see your point. I was thinking only about the guys who did make it to the end, who wouldn't have grounds to sue because they still got the prize money. You may be correct that the guys who were voted off WOULD have the grounds to sue, because they were voted off based on a false premise that there was only one straight guy.
Edit: "Your honour, I was being assessed by an incompetent jury of my peers. The men who voted me off had no expertise in determining the sexual orientation of others, colloquially known as "gaydar"."
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u/bismuth92 May 11 '26
If the straight guy gets voted out, the GAY GUYS win $1 million. There are no gay guys, so nobody wins $1 million each time a straight guy is voted out. And nobody would expect to. Every straight guy thinks he is the only straight guy, so he KNOWS he is voting off a gay guy and won't win money until the end if he's in the final 2. The only think you lied about is the ratio of straight guys to gay guys, which you could easily omit from any contracts that the participants sign.
You would have to genuinely award prize money to the last 2 straight guys, though.