What’s to defend?  She spiced things up on her audition tape to get noticed, they all do it to some extent.  It might be ‘believed’ if she was trying to steal every guy in the villa, but we’ve had NO indication that she’s really like what she boasted.
But did you notice Taylor’s?  As hard as production is working to try and change the public’s perception of him, that ‘dull’ clip showed he does nothing but lie.  Any body language expert will tell you that a liar can’t help but divert their eyes as they fabricate what they want to convey… and as dull as his interview and answers were, he could NOT look at the interviewer.