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"Love Is Blind" Stars Reveal Their Biggest REGRETS
Lauren Speed is asking Netflix pugnacious questions.
The Love is Blind alum criticized the dating amusement for having constricted scenes with Black women successful play three.
The show's 3rd play casted 15 women: Alexa, Amanda, Ashley, Brannigan, Charita, Chelsey, Colleen, Jessica, Kalekia, Kimberlee, Loren, Nancy, Raven, Valerie and Zanab, according to TODAY. Out of those 15, lone 5 were shown to get engaged connected the show: Alexa with Brennon, Nancy with Bartise, Colleen with Matt, Zanab with Cole and Raven with Sikiru.
"I don't similar however LIB beryllium cutting each the achromatic women," Speed wrote connected Twitter Oct. 24. "How travel they are ever successful the trailer but not the show…"
Speed—who joined Cameron Hamilton during the season 1 finale successful 2018—also wrote that the amusement orchestrates which couples get together.
"I cognize it's slim pickings but astir 85% of them couples beryllium forced (just moving guardant for amusement purposes) anyway," she continued. "Y'all could astatine slightest unit immoderate much sisters to determination guardant passim the show."
When 1 idiosyncratic asked Speed, "How bash you deliberation they take what makes the last show," she replied, "It's couples that get engaged that aren't adjacent shown sometimes. I deliberation they lone amusement what they deem astir entertaining."
"What bash they bash with those radical then? Just accidental convey you for your time??" different idiosyncratic wrote, referencing the contestants whose footage isn't aired. Speed answered, "Yea lol nonstop em location and halt filming them."
In the past, Love is Blind has faced akin criticism implicit what it does oregon doesn't air. The archetypal and 2nd seasons had 8 engaged couples, according to Variety, yet viewers lone got to travel the journeys of six pairs.
The show's creator Chris Coelen defended the team's decision-making process.
"I deliberation it's precise comic for radical to say, ‘Oh, you enactment idiosyncratic who was, you know, heavier successful there, and past you conscionable didn't travel them,'" helium told Variety successful an interrogation published successful February. "It's not similar anybody wants that to hap oregon doesn't privation that to happen. What I privation to person hap is conscionable to beryllium existent to the experiment."
He continued, "You enactment radical successful there. They can't spot each other. If they autumn successful love, past we travel it and if they don't, we don't."
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