‘Love Is Blind’: Andrew’s Fake Tears & More Wild Moments Across the Seasons (PHOTOS)
“How did you two lovebirds meet?” “Oh, we were isolated in ‘pods’ and couldn’t see each other, but we talked and talked and got engaged and then we connected in person.”
With that ripe-for-drama premise, Netflix’s Love Is Blind has become a reality smash. Even when the reality dating show isn’t trying to be dramatic, it is. The Season 4 reunion was meant to be streamed live on Netflix on April 16, but technical issues led to nearly an hour-long delay. When the reunion finally commenced, the cast certainly kept the drama going.
A solid handful of Love Is Blind couples are still together. Before meeting the new romantic hopefuls in Season 5 this fall, check out these highs and lows (mostly lows) from across the franchise (Brazil and Japan included)— and be glad your major life decisions aren’t televised.
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Love Is Blind, Season 5 Premiere, September 2023, Netflix
Shayne mistakes Natalie for Shaina
Season 2, Episode 1
She thinks he’s “the one”; he can’t recognize her voice. “Oh, Shaina!” he guesses in the pod. “That’s who I was hoping for.” When Natalie seems wounded, he flips it back on her: “If you think I’m a dick, I feel like that’s kind of weird. No offense.”
Cameron and Lauren say “I love you”…on date 3
Season 1, Episode 1
To see them tenderly exchange those three little words (plus three more: “I trust you”) so early is to recognize a couple that’s meant to be. They’ve been wed four-plus years now!
Irina is just plain hateful
Season 4, Episodes 4 and 5
Resident mean girl Irina can’t even be nice to her betrothed. Face-to-face with Zack at last, she declares, “You look like something out of a cartoon.” On their beach trip, she cops to this: “You talk to me and I literally look away.” And when he shares how miserable he’s been on opposite sides of the bed, she replies, “That’s when I started to like it!”
Carlton and Diamond throw down on the couples' retreat!
Season 1, Episode 4
Also, he throws her ring into a pool and she throws a drink at him when the two fight over his admission—post-engagement—that he’s bisexual. “This is why I don’t deal with bitches like you,” he yells. She’s out.
Shake says being with Deepti is like being with his aunt
Season 2, Episode 4
Where’s the heat in Cancún for husband-to-be Shake? Deepti is all in and ready to have babies…but “I’m not physically attracted to her,” he reveals to Jarrette. “It feels like I’m with my aunt or something.” Oof.
Paulo Bails on “strong woman” Amanda
Love Is Blind: Brazil — Season 2, Episode 3
After meeting Amanda in person, Paulo says “I don’t” to producers—he doesn’t think he can handle “having such a strong woman by [my] side.” See ya, declares Amanda. “I deserve a love as big as me.”
Gigi is a runaway bride!
Season 1, Episode 10
“Get out of my face!” Giannina orders Damian after he rejects her at the altar. Then she’s out the door of the wedding venue, literally running from her heartache. Adding topsoil to injury: After ditching her shoes, she slips and falls in the mud.
Ryotaro’s hair scares Motomi
Love Is Blind: Japan — Season 1, Episodes 2 and 5
When Motomi first sees hairdresser fiancé Ryotaro, she’s “disoriented,” she says. “Like, is this guy going to hit me?” Later, on their Okinawa getaway (above), he admits to worrying his nontraditional look would frighten her. Her suggestion for a heads-up: “You could have said you were rugged.”
Andrew fakes his tears
Season 3, Episode 3
Nancy gives “too cool, too calm, too collected” Andrew the heave-ho, and indeed, he resorts to artificial emotion during his confessional. “Are you rolling?” he asks, then applies eye drops and sniffles his way through an “It hurts, man” speech.
