The fifth season of Bad Girls Club is titled Bad Girls Club: Miami and premiered on August 3, 2010, on Oxygen. This season moved filming from Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida in an area on North Bay Road, between 41st and 64th streets, which filming began in March 2010. It premiered to 1.34 million viewers, making it the biggest premiere in Oxygen history to date.

Production Bad Girls Club: Miami was announced on January 21, 2010, while the fourth season was airing. Casting was also announced at the same time with potential applicants submitting video tape submissions plus casting calls taking place in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Buffalo, Oakland, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.

House

As in previous seasons of the Bad Girls Club, the women live in a mansion that Oxygen provides for them for approximately three months while being filmed by producers who follow their every move. These women must try to navigate around each other's different personalities and lives. Mansions and styles always change with every new season. The mansion used for season 5 was a two-story building with its own entrance, security fence, and parkway, and it was on the Biscayne Bay. Inside the mansion's double doors, there is a small hallway in tropical colors, with red-painted walls, a green carpet, and small potted trees. At the end of the hallway there is a pet terrarium tank with a corn snake, given the name "Oliver" by the girls. Throughout the house, its decorating themes are bright summer colors, tropical colors, and Miami style. Since season 4, the producers have given the girls a chance to express themselves with given items, however, season 5 girls were given replica mannequins of themselves and a wipe board and marker. In the middle of the house, a large Hollywood-themed award adjacent to the stairs holds a ball that says "The World Is Hers". Unique furniture, such as the provided pool table, have Barbie-like dolls on it. The house pool features a small jacuzzi at its end similar to the one in season 4. The small pool beds feature girlie color, such as hot pink, finishes. On the second floor, the girls were given an ocean view beyond the pool outside. Their bedroom walls are either painted red or light green, and they were also given an exercise machine on the balcony, which also became a smoking area for most of the girls. The modern-day kitchen tabletops were made of marble.

In every season of the Bad Girls Club, seven young women enter the mansion on the season premiere. During the show "replacements" enter the house after a girl departs for whatever reason.

Cast The season began with seven original bad girls, of which two left voluntarily, two were removed by production, and one was kicked out by another cast member. Three replacement bad girls were introduced in their absences later in the season.

Name Age Hometown Nickname Replaced Brandi "Venus" Arceneaux26Inglewood, CaliforniaThe Sneaky Stripperrowspan="7" Catya "Cat" Washington24Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThe Elite Player Danielle Rosario21Massapequa, New YorkThe Scrapper Erica Langston25Anaheim, CaliforniaThe Trash Talking Cheerleader Kristen Guinane23Manchester-by-the-Sea, MassachusettsThe Pageant Princess Lea Beaulieu22South Beach, FloridaThe South Beach Rebel Morgan Osman21Miami Beach, FloridaThe Uber Bitch Kayleigh Severn22San Diego, CaliforniaThe Kung Fu DivaMorgan Ashley Cheatham21Houston, TexasThe Southern BelleCatya Christina "Teeny" Hopkins22 Richmondtown, New York Agent OrangeKayleigh

Duration of Cast

Episodes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Erica colspan="13" Lea colspan="13" Ashley colspan="5" Christina colspan="5" Kristen colspan="11" Brandi colspan="10" Danielle colspan="7" Kayleigh colspan="2" Catya colspan="5" Morgan

Episodes

Notes

After the show Catya Washington, was arrested in November 2010, on various drug charges. She was arrested a second time in January 2011. She went on to make several appearances on shows including Wild 'n Out as a hype-girl and as a background extra on television series; Empire and Orange is the New Black. In 2023, she joined the cast of Zeus network's web series, Baddies.

Erica Langston, released a sex-tape with Vivid Entertainment, with her then boyfriend whom she had met on the show. In 2012, she was a contestant on Playboy TV's dating show, Foursome. She was also involved in a feud with Bad Girls Club reunion host Perez Hilton.

Kristen Guinane, made a brief appearance at the Bad Girls Club season 6 reunion. She began hosting a weekly show for Playboy Radio between 2012-2014. She worked as a regular panelist and eventually became the lead host for AfterBuzz TV: Bad Girls Club.

Lea Beaulieu, competed and was the winner of the Bad Girls Club spin-off; Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too season 2.

Morgan Osman, became a main cast member on VH1's Mob Wives spin-off Miami Monkey in 2013. She was in a relationship with German fashion designer Philipp Plein between the years of 2017-2019. In 2023, she went viral after a verbal confrontation on an airplane.

Ashley Cheatham, became a main cast member on VH1's short lived reality television series Mama Drama in 2012.

Controversies During the episode "The Wicked Witch of Key West", a stranger at a bar offered to buy drinks for cast members Kristen Guinane and Christina Hopkins. He spiked the drinks with PCP hallucinogenic pills, and Guinane became intoxicated. She claimed to have suffered bruises on her body when the man grabbed her and handled her roughly. Guinane reported that the show's producers did not want to identify the man on television for fear of a lawsuit. She blamed the drug for her hitting fellow cast member Lea Beaulieu in the face, leading to a fight.

In 2011, a video of cast member Christina Hopkins surfaced on the front page of TMZ of her calling fellow cast member Ashley Cheatham multiple racial slurs. The clip went viral online with Cheatham responding to Hopkins by telling her to kill herself. Oxygen network responded to the controversy with an official statement stating Hopkins would never appear on the network or any of their programming again.

References

External links Episodes Season 5 episodes on MSN.com Episodes Season 5 episodes on TVGuide.com Episodes Season 5 episodes on TV.com