In contrast, in the end credits of Top Chef the fine print says “Winning and elimination decisions were made by the judges in consultation with producers.”
Well yeah, it’s a lot different on shows where judges are determining who goes home vs other contestants. And usually the head judges are producers as well.
It’s possible they have but didn’t make the edit?
But they do, and that’s the point.
There was a whole situation during the Game Changers season where Cirie tried to use Sarah’s vote steal. Jeff was going to let it happen until another player pointed out that the advantage said it was non-transferrable. There’s a bit of a conspiracy theory that it was actually production that stopped it and then refilmed that part.