Holiday Baking Championship

I tried this show starting with Season 1 but was quickly turned off by the obnoxious CHARACTERS they cast. I guess it's a trope that gay men are swishy and cry all the time? Pretty insulting. When they didn't eliminate Erin for the worst baking of the episode, it became clear they had already decided she would win - and we were going to be stuck with her insufferable tweeness for the duration. Do the producers feed them corny, stupid lines to say in their interviews? Because no normal people really talk like that, right? Also it's a mystery to me why people would go on a baking championship who: Don't make cookies, don't make pies, have a severe nut allergy, and have never worked with common ingredients. That's just 8 people A YEAR, Food Network, and you can't find capable bakers? Maybe you should import them from the UK.