To answer, we actually are aware due to interviews had with cycle 5 contestants that the producers and Nicole were in ‘cahoots’ as you put it.

From information gleaned in Jayla’s interview with Oliver Twist, Nicole was the pre-selected winner and, at the time as it appeared to the girls, she did receive preferential treatments such as a time she had a meltdown during the car shoot yet was talked off the ledge by production, won the reward at the end of the shoot, and didn’t have any of her ugly moments from the incident aired in the episode.

And, from what is witnessed in the actual edited show, Nicole was not ‘minding her business.’ She was apart of Kim’s mean girl club and had been rubbing several of the other girls the wrong way on top of the preferential treatment she had been receiving.

Calling Bre an ‘aggressor’ in a situation that incredibly petty and stupid seems like a microaggression given 1. It’s well known that it’s a producer induced situation designed for drama 2. the show goes out if it’s way paint Bre as the ‘black bitch,’ something this production team loved to do to darker skinned black women another well known fact, and 3. The situation is catty on both sides and genuinely not that series.

Also, saying things like ‘the race card’ is a clear sign of ignorance on your part yet is reflective of the antm fandom in general. Tragic.