TLC Faces Backlash as '90 Day Fiancé' Fans Criticize Show for Keeping Angela

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Fans of TLC's 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? fans have once again criticized the network for keeping Angela Deem on the show's cast.

The show, which returned to TLC for Season 7 in August, follows the lives of several couples from 90 Day Fiancé to see how their relationship has worked out.

Earlier in October viewers called for Deem to be removed from the series after scenes showed her destroying her husband Michael Ilesanmi's car during a heated argument.

Now, following the October 16 episode, fans have once again questioned the channel over its decision to keep Deem on the show.

Angela Deem and Michael Ilesanmi
Angela Deem and Michael Ilesanmi have been seen having heated arguments on "90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?" TLC

On the latest episode of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? Deem and Ilesanmi were seen discussing the car incident.

Deem, 56, and Ilesanmi, 34, have been seen struggling with visa issues this season, which means Ilesanmi had to stay in his family home in Nigeria while Deem is in the United States.

Due to the long-distance, tensions have sprung up between the couple and the incident with the car occurred after Deem flew to Nigeria to speak to her husband.

In a voiceover from the confessional, Deem talked about the altercation, saying: "Last night, things got so heated. It was like, worse than a f***ing nightmare."

After that, Deem decided it was time to leave Nigeria, telling the cameras: "So I just changed my flights and I'll be leaving Nigeria later today. And you know what? As soon as I get off the plane, I'm going to my lawyer's office and I'm filing for divorce and pulling the visas ... I know when I've lost the fight. And I've lost it. It's time to go home."

Deem was convinced to stay by a friend, who suggested that talking to her husband face to face might help the tension between them.

The troubled couple met in a bar but things got tense when Deem brought up Instagram and asked to see Ilesanmi's phone.

"I'm your wife, I deserve to see your phone," she said, to which her husband responded: "For what?"

"I want to see everything, your DMs on Instagram," Deem said, leading the two to argue over whether she could see the phone.

"I gave it my goddamn all. I'm real to you, you're fake to me. I'm gone. I'm getting my plane," she fumed, as Ilesanmi watched her leave.

After the scenes aired on TLC, fans rushed to social media to ask TLC not to have Deem on the show again.

"Dear @TLC please don't bring Angela back ever again. EVER AGAIN! Tired of her abuse, complete self denial and gaslighting! Signed every rationale 90 Day fan. PS I'd be pissed if she showed up in the middle of the night and then Street Fighter'd my car too! #90DayFianceHEA," wrote one viewer.

While another posted: "Is is TLC enabling Angela?! She has to be the most Toxic woman in the history of 90 day Fiancé!! Get rid of her #90DayFianceHappilyEverAfter #90DayFiance #TLC90DayFiance."

Newsweek has reached out to TLC and 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? for comment from the show and from Deem.

90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on TLC.

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