This has been fixed (again) in Patch 1.19.31
Existing clowns will not be deleted.
Check on their names and delete them through your household manager.
This has been fixed but seems to be back for some.
This is working as intended if
If you have more than one tragic clown on your lot or random townies in your town that are not the sad clown, then it's bugged again.
Can you confirm for me which version you are seeing ?
I am having issues too. Here is a pic from today.
Willing to share your save game ?
If so, please zip up this folder: documents\electronicarts\thesims4\saves, upload to mediafire or dropbox and PM me the link.
I have the same issue and it's super annoying! I actually put a couple of closets in one of the restaurants and when one of the of-duty clowns turned up tried to fix it. But all her hair was different for each clothing category, and none were clown style. Even so I changed her hair & clothing for the formal category and when she came out of the closet her hair was still clown style.
I didn't think I had any screenshots, but then I found this (she's outside the window).
I think I am going to delete her and see how that works. It's just such an ugly mess when everything and every Sim around is so bright and cheerful.
It looks like there's an outfit called 'situation'.
This is the outfit all the clown hair gets generated.
I wonder if they forgot to disable it for this.
