The fifth season of ''

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'' is titled ''Bad Girls Club: Miami'' and premiered on August 3, 2010, on

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. This season moved filming from

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in an area on North Bay Road, between 41st and 64th streets, which filming began in early 2010.

Production

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, and

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House

As in previous seasons of the ''

'', 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

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. 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

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, given the name "Oliver" by the girls. Throughout the house, its decorating themes are bright summer colors, tropical colors, and Miami style. Since

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, the producers have given the girls a chance to express themselves with given items, however, season 5 girls were given replica

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of themselves and a wipe board and marker. In the middle of the house, a large

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-themed award adjacent to the stairs holds a ball that says "The World Is Hers". Unique furniture, such as the provided

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, have

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-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.

Duration of Cast

Episodes

Notes

References

External links

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