PASADENA, Calif. Will we get more versions of San Marcos resident Aaryn Gries and her bigoted TV cohorts on “Big Brother” next go-round?

Well, CBS doesn’t seem to be doing anything special to guard against it.

Asked if the network would be looking for a better class of contestant to populate that famous house next summer instead of the increasingly dumb and mean ones that traditionally get chosen, CBS Entertainment chieftain Nina Tassler danced around the question Wednesday.

Did CBS learn any lessons? “I was mortified by the comments Aaryn made,” Tassler said of the former Texas State University student’s slurs targeting other contestants.

“And we also have to look at last summer as this sort of confluence of events.” She then linked “Big Brother” with Paula Dean, and even more weirdly, Trayvon Martin.

Instead of continuing that thought, however, she repeated that same old CBS spiel we’ve heard over and over — that “Big Brother” is “a social experiment.” “I think you always try and look for a disparate group where you will get story, where you will have conflict, where you will create opportunities for alliances to be formed,” Tassler said.

Pressed on whether producers will be looking for a different sort of contestant after last summer’s controversy, she indicated that it’s tough to get a true gauge of a person during interviews.

When she sits in on Q&As with these potential contestants, she added, she knows you only get one side of a person — even after asking probing questions. There’s no way to know everything about someone, she suggested.

“At the end of the day,” she concluded, “we felt that the producers handled it responsibly, dealt with it as well as they could.”

In other words, expect the “Big” ugliness to continue.

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