Abbie Chatfield responds to body-count question on ‘FBOY Island’ forms 

Abbie Chatfield is being called out after people discovered a body-count question on the FBOY Island application forms.

Abbie Chatfield is being called out after people discovered that one of the questions on the application for FBOY Island, the new reality show Chatfield is hosting, was pretty invasive and borderline judgmental. 

Chatfield has been asking people to apply for the show by sharing links to the form on social media. One comment, however, objected to the form asking applicants how many people they had slept with, and whether their partners in question had been male or female. 

At first, Chatfield claimed she was unsure as to why the question was included: “I’m not sure the reasoning bc I don’t do the actual casting, but I remember I didn’t answer that part in my application for [The Bachelor] so it’s not a requirement. I think it’s the same application form for all shows by the sounds of it.”

Later, however, she returned with an update and clarified that the form and question were standard procedure for every WB-affiliated show. 

“That is standard so it can’t be changed, as much as I would like it to be,” she explained. “I wish I had the power in the show to change it but I’m just the host. I can’t control production or casting forms/process, but totally agree with you.”

This wasn’t the only question that sent the red flags flying in people’s minds. One of the questions, for example, asked people whether they had any ‘skeletons’ in their closets. The question went on to clarify what it meant by that, which ranged from anywhere between a bad break-up to sexually explicit contents of the applicants distributed non-consensually. 

Some also expressed concern that in asking people how much they weighed, FBOY Island might follow in the footsteps of shows such as MAFS and Love Island, which have been called out for only casting conventionally attractive people. 

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