This picture launched by Netflix reveals Nick Lachey, left, and Vanessa Lachey arriving for the Season 4 reunion of “Love is Blind” at Sundown Bronson Studios in Los Angeles on Sunday, April 16, 2023. Adam Rose, Netflix by way of Related Press
The social experiment, “Love is Blind,” has shortly grow to be some of the widespread reveals on Netflix since its launch in early 2020 at first of the COVID-19 pandemic, reported The New York Occasions.
On the present’s fourth-season reunion, co-hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey acquired quite a lot of consideration on social media for being “awkward,” displaying favoritism, main contestants and worst of all, asking when the couples plan on having infants, per In the present day.
Season 4 participant Paul Peden had lately left Micah Lussier — his fiance who he met on the present — on the altar and was being interviewed by Vanessa Lachey through the reunion, reported In the present day.
Throughout that interview, Peden was requested to elucidate why he broke up with Lassier and why he hadn’t shared his issues earlier, per an interview with Leisure Tonight.
Peden instructed ET that he thought Vanessa Lachey “may need had just a little bit of non-public bias” as a result of “she continued to drill into” his response. “I believe it was extraordinarily reductive in the way in which that they dismissed all nuance and complexity in why I stated no,” he shared of his breakup.
Lachey despatched an apology to Peden for the “unintended deceptive,” reported In the present day.
Greater than 20,000 followers signed a Change.org petition as of Wednesday at 10 a.m., that asks producers to assist “the present evolve into the very best model of itself by eradicating Nick and Vanessa Lachey as hosts and changing them with ... effectively, actually anybody else.”
What complaints have been made towards ‘Love is Blind?’
The present has had a number of lawsuits and complaints through the years from differing contestants, together with one from Season 2 contestant Jeremey Hartwell in 2022, per NBC New York.
The lawsuit, per NBC, stated “Love is Blind” producers deliberately “altered solid members’ feelings and decision-making” to make the end result extra entertaining for viewers by depriving contestants of meals, water, sleep and social contact with the skin world. All whereas providing alcoholic drinks, mixers and vitality drinks, however not often water, the lawuit alleges.
Contestants have been working shut to twenty hours a day throughout filming, reported Rolling Stone.
Kinetic Content material, which partnered with Netflix on the social experiment, instructed Rolling Stone that “rigorous protocols” are in place to “look after every particular person earlier than, throughout and after filming.”
“The sleep deprivation was actual,” stated Danielle Drouin, a contestant on the primary season, per Rolling Stone. “I really feel like they do it on goal as a result of they’re attempting to interrupt you. They need you in your edge.”
Even when Season 2 contestant Danielle Ruhl stated she tried to withdraw due to psychological well being issues, producers pushed her to remain on the present, per Rolling Stone. She acquired married that season and later filed for divorce.
Per the lawsuit filed by Hartwell, members are paid about $1,000 every week, as much as $8,000 whole, reported NBC New York. However, if members depart the present early “with out producer approval,” they need to pay a $50,000 penalty.
Will there be a Season 5 of ‘Love is Blind’?
Seasons 1 by means of 4 are on Netflix and Season 5 has been confirmed, though not quite a lot of particulars are recognized but, reported Cosmopolitan. However based mostly on earlier launch dates, Season 5 is anticipated to be launched round November.