Love Desert All-Stars 2

The second season of Love Desert All-Stars premiered on the **6th of August 2021**, and the finale was released on the **22nd of November 2021**. It is the fourth season in the Love Desert franchise to be recorded and posted to IGTV, after Season 5. The crowned winners of this season are Buss No Puss and Freddy Forbevans, and Kora Harms was voted the judge-favourite at the finale. 14 returnees competed for the crown this season, 4 more than the first All-Stars season.

This season is regarded by the co-hosts as "perhaps the most competitive season", as the season had 3 incredibly strong, crown-worthy couples at the finale.

Due to the host's heavy preoccupation outside of the show, production was put on hold for a month, between the 29th of August and the 27th of September. This led All-Stars 2 to become the longest season in the franchise, amassing 109 days between the premiere and the finale.

The cast of Love Desert's second All-Stars season was revealed on the **14th of July 2021**, just four days after the finale of Season 5. 13 contestants from Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 have a second chance to compete for the Love Desert crown.

A 14th contestant, Howl, joined the competition as a bombshell on episode 6. Other bombshell contenders Janelle and Rebecca competed to enter the villa, but lost on rounds 2 and 3 respectively.

All-Stars 2 is the successor to Love Desert All-Stars, establishing it as a series. This season of All-Stars has a larger cast of 13, as compared to 10 the previous season.

When it comes to sim creators, this season is more balanced than ever. Hannah created 4 sims, Jude & Ruoxi each created 3, Euan created 2, while Holly & Kaitlynn created 1.

Many sims underwent major makeovers and cosmetic alterations between their season and All-Stars 2: Noelle, Fat Puss, Peach, Kora and Buss have all had their appearance altered (for the better).

Though they are all stars and icons, almost half (6) of the contestants didn't make it all the way on their first attempt: Peach, Fat Puss, Kora, Yerin, Cece and Buss were all eliminated during a voting round and didn't reach the finale.

## Contestants

\*During All-Stars 2, however many times they were voted either the worst or second-worst couple. Only in this season's format does the second worst couple avoid an official bottom placement, but being the second worst couple is counted as a bottom placement here.

### Previously Established Relationships

The following sims have (or have had) a pre-season relationship with another cast member:

* Ellie and Freddy were a couple on Season 5 from episode 2 through to the finale.
* J'Betta and Jessica are in a romantic relationship, after coupling up multiple times on Season 4.
* Kora and Cannie repeatedly coupled up on Season 4, to the dismay of the judges.
* Shawty and Buss were a couple for their platonic bond during Season 5's episodes 2 and 3, but Shawty left him for Janelle on episode 4.

## Results

The couples after the recoupling from each episode are as follows. Vote results are also included:

\*On episode 2, couples were entirely up to Buss, Peach and Yerin's choices. Note that Ellie only coupled up with Yerin as Yerin chose her and Freddy had left Ellie alone. The 3 couples that remained together had no say in whether they wanted to recouple that episode.

The following information is subject to change, as the season progresses:

 BOTTOM ASSASSIN
(MOST BTMS SURVIVED)
 MOST MINI-
CHALLENGE WINS
 MOST TIMES ALONE
AT A RECOUPLING

## Episodes

### Episode 1 - "A Villa Divided"

 **Mini-Winner Reward** | A random date

### Episode 2 - "Kings, Queens and Check-Mates"

**PLACE (TIE)**

**Yerin**

### Episode 3 - "The Grey Box of Doom"

 **Mini-Winners** | +
 **Mini-Winner Reward** | A date with their fellow mini-winner

### Episode 4 - "5 Weddings and a Funeral"

Janelle Wang
**Cece VS Noelle**
 **Elimination Trial** | Winners' Choice
**Cece (Eliminated by Fat Puss)**

**Noelle (Eliminated by Jessica)**

### Episode 5 - "When Bottoms Take Over"

Eva Bish
**Jessica VS Fat Puss**
**Fat Puss**

### Episode 7 - "A New Lifeforme Arrives"

Princess Daisy
Stella Ware
 **SAVED FROM**
**BOTTOM 2**
**Jessica (Eliminated against Freddy)**

### Episode 8 - "The Semi-Final"

Princess Daisy
Stella Ware
**(TIE)**
 **3RD PLACE**
**(BOTTOM)**
 **4TH PLACE**
**(ELIMINATED)**

### Episode 9 - "The Grand Finale"

**AWARD**
**(CROWNED)**
 **3RD PLACE** |  **J'Cannie** | =

## Casting Process

Casting for All-Stars 2 began during the production of Season 5. Due to the stacked competition during the 2 seasons past, some past contestants were shortlisted but later cut from casting:

### Shortlisted Sims

Season 5 semi-finalist Eva was strongly considered for the competition, and was the closest to being cast.

This is the second time that Season 3 semi-finalist Zack was shortlisted but cut from an All-Stars season.

Season 5 runway queen Daisy was cut to make room for sister Peach.

Another Season 5 runway icon, Janelle, was cut to make room for mother Noelle. She attempted to enter the villa on episode 6, but her dreams were crushed when she lost a karaoke battle to Cece.

Although she made it to the Season 4 finale, the lack of judge reception led to Ginger being cut from the cast.

After competing on Season 3, Season 4 and Season 5 as a bombshell, Howl unfortunately wasn't cast on All-Stars 2, except that he was when he won the game within a game on episode 6.

## Trivia

* **Basegame Beautiful** was a planned runway category that was never shown. Most of the sims had a look prepared for this category.
	+ **Gothic** **Gals** was another unused category (later used on Season 7). Shawty used her gothic look for the signature fashion runway.
* This is the first All-Stars season...
	+ ... to come after a recorded season.
	+ ... to cast more than one judge-favourite, casting both Fat Puss and Buss No Puss.
	+ ... to cast a sim from the House of Cee, Good, Puss, Ass or Leibniz. All of these houses were established after All-Stars 1.
	+ ... to bring a bombshell contestant, with episode 6 entrant Howl.
	+ ... to accommodate for a throuple during a recoupling, Peach/Shawty/Ellie.
	+ ... to crown a winner who didn't make it to the finale of their original season, Buss.
	+ ... where a sim reached the finale despite not making it to the finale of their original season, both Peach and Buss.
	+ ... to crown a judge-favourite, Buss.
	+ ... to cast a Holly-made sim, Freddy.
	+ ... to cast a Kaitlynn-made sim, Kora.
	+ ... where a couple reached 3rd place at the finale without a single vote win between them, Cannie and J'Betta.

* This is the first Love Desert season of any kind...
	+ ... where not one of the voting rounds was won by a straight couple.
	+ ... to have a throuple make it to the finale.
	+ ... to have a throuple where all 3 sims are romantically involved with each other.
	+ ... to have a couple autonomously start an official relationship with one another, Buss and Freddy.
	+ ... to have a male-male couple make it to the finale.
	+ ... to crown a male-male couple.
	+ ... to crown a sim created by Holly.
	+ ... to crown a sim created by Euan.
	+ ... to not cast a blonde and white sim created by Jude. Both Noelle and Peach's faces were improved by him, but they aren't his original creations.

* This is the second Love Desert season of any kind...
	+ ... where a male-male couple won a voting round during the season. It's the first recorded season to feature such a vote win, and the first where a gay male couple has won multiple voting rounds. Jairo and Josh achieved this first with their vote win on Season 1.

* This is the second consecutive All-Stars season to cast a contestant who was eliminated on the first voting round of their original season, after Brenden on All-Stars 1, casting Season 5 first-out Yerin.
	+ ... and to yet again eliminate said contestant on the first voting round of this season.

* The cast includes all but one of the eligible sims from both Season 4 and Season 5's finales, casting everyone but Ginger and Janelle from 4 and 5 respectively.
* This season's cast includes more houses than ever before, with members of the House of Puss, Ass, Leibniz, Mushroom, Money, Good, Cee and Vogue.
	+ The only major house not included this season was the House of Hoele, as all of its members had either won a season or competed on All-Stars 1, rendering them unfeasible to cast.
	+ The only contestants not part of any above house are Shawty and Noelle. Coincidentally, they're both close with Janelle Wang.

* Two sims got their first ever voting round win during this season:
	+ Princess Peach on episode 2, with partner Shawty (and two more times on episodes 7 and 8 in a throuple with Ellie).
	+ Fat Puss on episode 4, with partner Jessica.
* Since a lot of runway categories from this season could come hand-in-hand, Peach's **Tops and Bottoms** runway look managed to fit every runway category this season: **Pretty in Pink**, **Signature Fashion**, **Pit-A-Pattern**, and at a stretch, **Redemption on the Runway**, since she wore similarly preppy fashion on Season 3. Jessica's runway of the same category also comes close, in that it fits all of the above except the pattern category.
* Since the cast was revealed mere days after Season 5's completion, crowned winners of said season, Aaliyah and El'Shreink, were shortlisted to compete on this season, in the case that they were eliminated.
* Exactly 50% of the cast made it to the finale, while 50% were eliminated before the finale.