Warning: This article contains spoilers love is blind season 6
If someone asked you who your celebrity doppelganger is, whose name would you mention?
This is an innocent question, but what if you were a contestant on Netflix’s popular dating reality series? love is blind, It may also be loaded.
In the reality TV dating series, contestants enter walled-off “pods” to find a mate. Pods allow potential romantic partners to get to know each other and even fall in love invisibly. Once contestants decide to get engaged, they will meet in person to “ensure that the physical connection matches the strong emotional connection developed within the pod,” according to Netflix.
Throughout the show’s previous five seasons, most contestants seem to have made it a personal rule not to describe their appearance to each other, or maybe the show is edited that way.
But some contestants find a way to break that unspoken rule and ask leading questions of their potential opponents, such as height, skin color, celebrity resemblance, and sometimes weight.
In the first six episodes of Season 6, which premiered on Netflix on February 14, contestant Jimmy Presnell is torn between two women, Chelsea Blackwell and Jess Vestal. During the conversation, Blackwell told Presnell that people say she looks like this. megan fox.
fall out
Blackwell acknowledged that, but she didn’t see the comparison to it. jennifer’s body The star warned Presnell not to “get excited,” but it appears her comparison prompted Presnell to make a decision between the two women.
He then decided to part ways with Vestal in favor of Blackwell. The pair are now engaged and dating outside of the pod.
Stating that Presnell ruined his experience on the show, Vestal took his anger out on Presnell, implying that he would regret the decision if he met Blackwell in person.
“You’ll choke when you see and realize what you’ve been missing out on,” she told him. “You’re going to need an EpiPen to open up your airways because you won’t believe what you missed.”
When Presnell and Blackwell came forward, Presnell said he had “lied” to Presnell about his appearance. However, he decided that “after all, it’s not that important” and attended her engagement vacation.
Fans of the show joined X after the episode to give their thoughts on what happened and how Blackwell compares to Fox.
One person wrote:love is blind We need to make it an official, absolute rule not to talk about appearance. Because you can see the moment Jimmy decided on Chelsea, it was simply based on the fact that she said she looked ‘like’ Megan Fox.
“Who lied to Chelsea?” love is blind She looks like Megan Fox.” One more added.
The online conversation became so heated that Blackwell himself joined the fray.
In an interview with access hollywood On February 17, Blackwell said producers “didn’t show what happened right before that.” [Presnell] I was like, “Yeah, this is how I feel.” [NFL player] Christian McCaffrey. ”
“This is going to be a great opportunity for people who have said I look like them in the past.” [Megan Fox] Please come forward,” she said in a Feb. 19 TikTok video.
Should contestants talk more about their looks?
Presnell, Blackwell and Vestal weren’t the only players in discussions about playing this season.
Clay Gravesande almost lost his chance with AD Smith when he told her how important appearance was to him and asked her to describe her appearance.
Kenneth Gorham, who is black, and Brittany Mills, who is white, openly discussed their race while dating in the pod, asking each other if they thought it was an issue. In the end, we both said no.
The show’s premise is to encourage contestants to get to know each other on a deeper level without meeting the other person, but is it so wrong for contestants to share about their looks?
Yahoo Entertainment has contacted both Netflix and the production company love is blindKinetic Content did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
However, Kinetic Content CEO Chris Coelen has spoken out on this issue before.
“[Contestants] I was never told what to say, what not to say, what to ask, what not to ask.And as you can see if you watch the show, some people decided that [ask] “How tall are you? What do you look like?” Others were wondering, “Why would I do that?” That’s not what this issue is about,” Koren told Variety in 2020, when the show debuted. “We really wanted it to be their own story, their own journey.”
Experts say “attractiveness is important”
Dating coach Liv Talley told Yahoo Entertainment last year: love is blind There is a “false premise”.
“Attractiveness is important. Couples who work out only do so because they happen to choose someone they have a physical connection with.” [after they meet in person]. “Couples that meet and aren’t compatible always end up breaking up,” she told Yahoo Entertainment in October after the Season 5 finale.
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist and author of the following books: 13 things mentally strong couples should never dotold Yahoo Entertainment at the time that the show was not real.
“Basically, successful couples need the three Cs: compatibility, compatibility, and commitment,” she said. “On the show, couples can determine their emotional compatibility by talking to each other. But it doesn’t tell you if they have physical compatibility. Just because you’re not attracted to someone doesn’t mean they’re It doesn’t mean it’s shallow; it just means there’s no special spark.” There’s nothing romantic about it.” ”
Some say the experiment works because “we can make judgments about other people based on things like the sound of their voices, whether we like them or not, and their sense of humour,” said Biren Swami, a professor of social psychology at the University of Anglia. Ruskin University in the UK told CNBC in 2022.
What’s next?
love is blind Episodes 7-9 were dropped on February 21, as the couple moved from pods to dates in nature.
As for Blackwell and Presnell, they’re still together, but they had some arguments in the latest episode, especially after Presnell saw how his almost-fiancée, Vestal, looked on Instagram.
Netflix doesn’t allow fans to binge-watch the series at once. Episodes 10 and 11 will be released on February 28th, and the final episode of the show will air on March 6th.
love is blind Season 6 is now streaming on Netflix.
