LOVE IS BLIND UK EDITION (Netflix)

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Is anyone watching?

I'm just halfway through the first episode and was dying to discuss it!

These participants are not what I was expecting at all. They actually sound a lot more interesting than most reality TV fodder.

He lied and said that Nicole was desperate to sleep with him but he turned her down because he was a gentleman. He admitted it was a lie. That is horrible (even if true it would have been nasty). Nicole was dignified and said ‘he didn’t take it well’, she didn’t throw him under the bus yet he really tried to do the opposite to her.

Even if Nicole did want to sleep with Sam I don't see it as a massively big deal , I mean they were supposed to be engaged at that point. It was very nasty the way he said it though , and now we know that there was no truth to what he said at all which makes it even worse. He's a horrible man.

I think I already knew it was a lie, her body language repelled him the moment they met and he seems like quite a delusional person

Nobody deserves to be bullied online, but honestly I'd save your sympathy

Agreed, there's no way she even wanted to be in the same room as him.
Sam just seemed to say anything that would make him look better. We've all been there. But yes, I'd forgotten how unpleasant he was saying that to Ben.

yeah I felt sorry for Sam and went off Demi
Steven- I always felt that he lacked a bit of substance, that Sabrina was carrying the conversations- doesn't surprise me that he was flaky in the end

maybe I'm a bit gullible but I thought Sam was genuinely quite hurt by Ben's reaction to him at the drinks thing- and I felt that Ben was doing it for show, something awkward about him that I didn't warm to in general

I took it at face value that Nicole wanted to sleep with Sam - which is obviously fine and was a shitty thing for Sam to bring up, but I feel he said it because he was hurt and lashing out

It’s weird because I remember Nicole admitting the wanting to sleep with him when they spoke at the bar event but this time she said it was a lie and Sam didn’t say otherwise. I wonder if he’d been advised to keep his mouth shut and take blame for it all.
*edited for typo

She explained on instagram that she froze when Sam said that, she couldn't get her words out. Some people don't know how to deal with someone like Sam, I doubt she wanted to sleep with him she didn't even want to go to the honeymoon with him, I think that was her testing if he was after fame.

I've only just finished watching the reunion now. I have had some (read that as many) wines before and during watching though. 🙈

Kinda gutted about Steven and Sabrina tbh. I liked them together but he had definitely changed by the reunion compared to the pods. It's easy to say what you think someone would like to hear, actions tend to speak louder and tbh that's where that went imo. I thought they were right together but obviously not.

The whole Sam thing was so awkward. It's hard to explain but I have this weird feeling over him even though I've never met him. I had the same thing about DH's former best friend and there's a reason he's a former best friend. I could be wrong with Sam but something just weirds me out there.

I'm actually warming to Jasmine's mum a bit. She still scares the bejesus out of me, but I do get it a bit too. My kids are young adults, you want the best for them. But I just hope she's not being too intense still, that's still a deal breaker, but right now I love Bobby and Jasmine together and I hope it lasts for them.

I'm so glad Nicole went back to Ben. I was screaming at the TV when she made her choice before and I'm glad she realise. I don't think they're 100% perfect together, even though they seem to idolise each other, BUT they're working on it together which I like. Ben scaring Nicole is similar to something my DH has done to me at times and she deals with it way better than I do tbh. 🙈

Demi is my favourite story here. You should never make yourself less for someone, you should never change yourself or your values for someone, a good partner will bring you up. I felt she was trying to make herself fit in with Ollie when she didn't need to. If you can't find that person who brings you up, then do it for yourself. Yeah, she's maybe not a perfect human being but who is? I'm a bit of a cunt at times. So is my husband. But we respect and love each other, we build each other up, we have a laugh, we support and work with each other with our own issues, that's love. Love isn't perfect, it's not always beautiful, sometimes it's messy, but that shouldn't be at the cost of someone being their true self. Sometimes it's better to be single than to reduce yourself for someone else.

Anyway that's enough from me, I'm off to bed to sleep until I get enough notifications that I panic what I've said tonight. 🙈🤣

I think Sam needs therapy, I don't think he's doing so well. I hope the producers are taking their ethical responsibility carefully.
Sabrina and Steven just didn't have enough time together before marriage to have to deal with problems together. I did think before the reunion it wasn't very clear where they were going to live. I'm sure in applying for the show it would have been clear that people should live in London and Sabrina didn't, so this issue was created by her. Did she lie in the application about moving to London?

Why not earth do you thinks they would have been told on the application to live in London?!

Eh? They don't all live in London? Freddie lives in Salford and Catherine in Jersey, for a start. What made you think they all have to live in London @MrsJamin ?

In the American version they have to live in (or near) the same city so perhaps it was assumed the same for the UK version

Oh I assumed they had a similar agreement to the American one. Sounds like the producers set them up to fail if two of them didn't even live on mainland Britain. I'd forgotten that others didn't live in the same place either.

I thought Sabrina said that the plan was that she was going to move to London and then Steven wouldn't support her.

I wonder what is going to happen with those divorce settlements 🤷🏻‍♀️

Freddie could not have moved as it was a family business. They probably felt they did not need to set a location restriction as we live is such a small country whereas the states is massive. Cat was definitely willing to move from Jersey as she lived with her parents and felt Jersey was too small for her.

In the conversation between Sam and Nicole in that bar he said “you wanted to get physical with me…” he didn’t say she wanted to sleep with him. I took that to mean she was perhaps trying to cuddle and kiss him (to see if there was any physical connection) and he wasn’t reciprocating. He said he was being a gentleman but more likely he didn’t feel any physical connection with her, which she sussed out and ended it. He would have happily carried on with the pretence to have remained on the show but she knew it wasn’t right.

If I remember correctly (please correct me if wrong!) Sam told Ben that Nicole wanted to sleep with him the first night, implying she was all over him. I agree with @ShillyShallySherbet that might have meant cuddling on the sofa but Sam implied something more to Ben. If this is accurate then it was simply to make Ben feel insecure and that Nicole was fake. Fortunately Ben’s take on it was pretty mature (even if that’s true why would you bring it up except to shame her etc).

@eish yes Sam said to Ben that Nicole wanted to sleep with him and he said no, still pretty vague in that he didn’t necessarily say she wanted to have sex, but he was certainly implying that to get a reaction from Ben and get one up on him. Which is very shitty.

Sam is just incredibly emotionally immature and I imagine is struggling with relationships as he doesn’t know how to deeply engage with someone.

He’s like a school boy in his reactions and I expect his parents were not emotionally available. Probably quite stoic old school people.

@Tarkan good to know I'm not the only one who posts and then frets massively! hope your hangover wasn't too bad :)

Haha thanks @BustyCrustacean - I wasn't actually too bad but I set myself off into a fibro flare from it so I've had a few days of trying to rest up from that. A hangover for a day may have been preferable. 🤣

Stephen and Sabrina were clearly never going to work out. Yay, we both like gratitude journalling! Tick! I want kids and you don't! Let's not spend more than 30 seconds discussing it 🤔and the poem. So cringe. I am actually very pleased, my red flag radar is clearly shit hot 😁

DH and I met mid-30s and had an amusing discussion about whether we would have been cast for this. Conclusion: no, not conventionally attractive enough, but probably all the better for it.

Also I am going to hell for this but the ending to Steve's GF with cancer being not she died tragically but she dumped his ass made me lol.