'Love Is Blind' Couples: Who Is Still Together and Who Broke up?
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'Love Is Blind' Couples: Who Is Still Together and Who Broke up?

Dec 05, 2023

"Love Is Blind" stars Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton met on season one of the reality TV experiment which challenges participants to date and get engaged before ever seeing one another.

They got married on day 40 of the experiment. It was also Lauren's birthday — November 16, 2018. They're still married today.

In April 2021, Lauren told Us Weekly that she and Cameron felt a lot of pressure from the public for their relationship to succeed. "You know, we're not love robots," she said. "I definitely think that we went through a period where it was kind of difficult, but it didn't take me long to snap out of it."

On August 23, Lauren shared a post on Instagram marking the approach of their four-year wedding anniversary. "Can we finally plan our reception now lol?" she asked her husband in the caption. In the post, she also called Cameron her "light in darkness."

"Love Is Blind" fans watched Amber Pike and Matt Barnett's love story unfold on season one of the show, and they got married in November 2018. They're still married today, and Amber told Insider in July 2021 that they wanted no drama while filming their "After the Altar" episodes.

"We made it really clear that we wanted nothing to do with the drama. That's not our life," Amber said. So, they avoided interaction with castmate Jessica, who had previously tried to break them up.

On August 21, Amber posted a couple photo on Instagram with a simple message of appreciation for her husband. "You're my best view," she told Matt in the caption.

Giannina Gibelli and Damian Powers made it to the altar on "Love Is Blind" season one but didn't get married because Damian said no even though Giannina said yes. On the reunion show and season one's "After the Altar," they revealed that they were giving their relationship another chance, but they split again in 2021, per Us Weekly.

Per Damian's Instagram, he appears to be single. Giannina is currently dating fellow reality star Blake Horstmann, who appeared on Becca Kufrin's season of "The Bachelorette," which aired in 2018. Giannina and Blake met on the Paramount+ series "All Star Shore," which filmed in late 2021 and aired in June 2022.

In a June Instagram post, Giannina gushed that Blake is the reason why she's been "so happy this year," after keeping their relationship secret until the show premiered.

Damian, meanwhile, most recently appeared on another Netflix dating show, "Perfect Match."

Mark Cuevas said he knew Jessica Batten was the woman for him as soon as he heard her voice during the first season of "Love Is Blind." He said "I do" on their wedding day, but Jessica couldn't say the same and left him at the altar.

That's where their story ended, especially since Mark didn't appear in season one's "After the Altar" special. To add more complexity to their relationship, rumors swirled that Mark had been cheating on Jessica, and she said during "After the Altar" that she felt like "an idiot" for being engaged to him.

Both have since moved on.

Jessica got engaged to her partner Benjamin McGrath, a foot and ankle surgeon from California, in September 2021. "I don't think it has quite sunk in, but I'm definitely floating somewhere on cloud nine," she told People at the time. The two married in September 2022, and in January 2023, Jessica announced the two were expecting their first child together.

Mark married his girlfriend Aubrey Rainey in September 2022, two years after getting engaged. They have two sons together, Ace and Axton.

After getting engaged sight unseen in the pods, Kelly Chase told Kenny Barnes she couldn't marry him on their wedding day in part because she wasn't as infatuated with him as she was with her ex.

Kelly's relationship status is currently unknown, but she appears to be single, per Instagram.

Kenny met his fiancée Alexandra Garrison at a brewery in North Carolina. He proposed in August 2020, and the two live-streamed their April 2022 wedding.

Carlton Morton and Diamond Jack broke up at the getaways stage of the experiment because Carlton didn't tell Diamond he was bisexual until after they got engaged. She threw her engagement ring into the pool and he called her "ignorant."

Deepti Vempati and Abhishek "Shake" Chatterjee got engaged in season two, but Shake was hyper-focused on physical appearance during the experiment, as fans saw from the questions he asked women in the pod-dating stage. Deepti was unconvinced that Shake would change and questioned whether he actually wanted a marriage, so she dumped him at the altar.

Though they got engaged in the pods, Shaina Hurley ended her relationship with Kyle Abrams before they made it to their wedding day, but after he had met her family. Shaina's mind remained on another castmate, Shayne Jansen, who she'd also formed a connection with, through much of the season.

Shaina revealed she was in a relationship on the "Love Is Blind" reunion special, and she appeared with her boyfriend Christos Lardakis in the "After the Altar" episodes. While much of Shaina's "After the Altar" storyline focused on her friendship with Shayne and continued friction with Shayne's ex Natalie Lee, she also announced that she and Christos were engaged on the show.

The two married in July 2022, People reported.

Shayne Jansen and Natalie Lee's relationship after they got engaged during the pods stage of the experiment appeared to go smoothly, at first. But after a few tiffs throughout the season, on the night before their wedding day, they got into a major fight and Natalie said "no" at the altar after Shayne said "yes."

The couple tried dating again after filming ended but broke up before the season two reunion special, which showed that tensions were still high between the two of them. The reunion was presumably filmed around February 2022.

The formerly engaged couple didn't interact at all during the season's "After the Altar" special, though they did speak about one another and their failed relationship to fellow castmates. Natalie revealed in those episodes that she had found what she considered to be inappropriate messages between Shayne and Shaina, sent while Shaina was dating her now-husband. Shayne and Shaina both denied that the messages were anything other than platonic, but according to Natalie, it was enough for her to cut him off forever.

Shayne most recently appeared on another Netflix dating show, "Perfect Match."

Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely had one of the (relatively) smoothest roads to the altar on "Love Is Blind" season two after the pods, though they did occasionally clash over their differing lifestyles. Jarrette initially had an interest in castmate Mallory Zapata, but remained committed to Iyanna after he proposed.

The couple announced their separation in a joint statement on Instagram on August 17, about a year after their marriage. "We don't regret a thing!" the former pair said in their statement.

The season's "After the Altar" special, which was filmed before the two split, did show fractures in their marriage, including the fact that Iyanna had moved out of the home they shared because of Jarrette's frequent partying.

Mallory had an interest in Jarrette in the pods but got engaged to Salvador "Sal" Perez and made it to the altar, where he told her he couldn't marry her in a moment that surprised most viewers.

Mallory currently appears to be single per her Instagram and told Netflix's publication Tudum in August 2022 that she's "just kind of focusing on myself" lately.

Sal, meanwhile, told Entertainment Tonight in March that he was "talking to someone in particular."

"It's going very well and that's all I can really say right now. I'm really happy," he added.

The "After the Altar" episodes revealed that Sal was in a serious relationship with Chicago-based performer Jessica Palkovic, who he brought along to the season two crew's weekend getaway.

When discussing his relationship with Mallory with his siblings, Sal also shed more light on what led him to break up with his former fiancée at the altar. He claimed that he'd seen Mallory in a car with another man while the two were together, which broke his trust in her before their wedding. In a post-credits scene, when asked by producers, Mallory denied that the man Sal saw her with was anything more than a friend, saying that he'd misinterpreted what he saw.

Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson only had interest in each other in the pods and made it all the way to the altar where they both said "I do."

Fans were surprised when People reported in late August that Danielle had filed for divorce from Nick earlier that month. The two have since clashed publicly, with each accusing the other of making false statements about the reasons for their split.

During the season two reunion, which aired in March 2022, Kyle told Deepti, "I should've tried hard for you," which was a surprise to fans who hadn't seen them have any kind of romantic relationship during the season.

The two subsequently remained coy about the status of their relationship, though they and their castmates shared photos that showed the two spending time together. In June 2022, Deepti told E! News, "I guess you guys will just have to wait and see what happens with our story."

In the "After the Altar" episodes, Kyle and Deepti's storyline revolved around their confusing relationship. The two both admitted they had romantic feelings were one another, but were uncertain whether they wanted to jeopardize their close friendship by trying to date.

The third and final episode of "After the Altar" ended with Kyle and Deepti deciding to give a romantic relationship a shot, but they announced their breakup on Instagram soon after those episodes aired.

After a season of squabbling, Zanab told Cole she wasn't the wife he needed in a lengthy diatribe when she said no at the altar. "You have disrespected me, you have insulted me, you have critiqued me, and for what it is worth you have single-handedly shattered my self-confidence," she told her shocked fiancé.

At the season three reunion, released in November 2022, they said they hadn't talked to each other since their wedding day and both seemed to still harbor pain over the split.

Nancy Rodriguez and Bartise Bowden had a rocky road on their "Love Is Blind" journey, but seemed to be headed in the right direction leading up to their wedding day.

Alas, Bartise said "I do not" at the altar, breaking Nancy's heart and sending her family into a tizzy.

On the reunion special, Nancy called out Bartise for spending time with an unnamed blonde woman the weekend after their wedding. The two then attempted, but failed, to remain friends post-breakup, according to their appearances in the season three "After the Altar" episodes.

Fans were surprised when Bartise announced that he'd welcomed his first child in an April 2023 Instagram post. He didn't reveal the child's mother, but it's definitely not Nancy, who is currently living her best life in New York City.

Alexia Alfia and Brennon Lemieux had one of the smoothest journeys "Love Is Blind" has ever seen. They're still happily married, and Alexa even changed her last name and handle to her married name, Alexa Lemieux, on Instagram.

Colleen Reed was on the receiving end of Matt Bolton's fiery temper many times on "Love Is Blind" season three. But they got married on their wedding day, were still married at the reunion, and are still married today.

During season three's "After the Altar" episodes, their reveal that they still weren't living together a year after getting hitched raised some eyebrows. It's unclear if they've joined households yet.

SK Alagbada said "I do not" to Raven Ross on their wedding day, sending her running from the altar in tears. Their relationship since then has been a roller coaster.

On the "Love Is Blind" season three reunion, which aired in November 2022, they announced they had gotten back together and were in a long-distance relationship. But almost immediately after it aired, the two announced their split via a statement on their Instagram stories amid accusations that SK cheated on Raven

And when season three's "After the Altar" episodes premiered in February, viewers learned that SK and Raven were briefly engaged again when he re-proposed to her before the allegations became public.

"My world is completely different because SK cheated on me, and now our relationship is over," Raven said tearfully in video confessional footage at the end of the final episode. "It's so crazy to watch it back and remember my feelings then. I was so happy."

"I really was so invested in the person that everyone saw and everyone loved. That's the person that I saw and I loved every day, too," she added.

Zack Goytowski chose to propose to Irina Solomonova during the pods stage of the experiment on "Love Is Blind" season four, though he also had feelings for Bliss Poureetezadi.

Irina had a "mean girl" reputation among the other women, and it stayed with her in Mexico, where she barely engaged Zach in conversation, flirted with other men, and struggled with her lack of attraction to him.

While vacationing, the couple decided their relationship was over.

Jackie Bonds picked Marshall Glaze over Josh Demas in the pods. But their emotional maturity never matched, and on the day of his tux fitting, Marshall learned that Jackie didn't show up to her dress fitting.

Jackie broke up with Marshall before the end of the experiment and decided to keep her engagement ring. She also appeared to start a romantic relationship with Josh, and based on social-media posts, the two appear to still be together.

Marshall recently told Variety that he's "dating."

Micah Lussier and Paul Peden were each in the middle of their own love triangles during the pods stage of "Love Is Blind."

In the real world, despite the fact that Micah's friends in particular didn't appear to support their relationship, they repeatedly told the cameras they loved each other and were committed.

But at the altar on their wedding day, Micah asked Paul to speak first and he said that though he loved her, he didn't think it was the right time for them to "choose each other" for marriage.

Micah then told Paul that he never showed her or told her that he loved her and she "never felt safe" with him. She then ran away from the ceremony in tears while Paul was in the middle of a sentence.

Tiffany Pennywell fell asleep while Brett Brown was professing his love for her in the pods, but all was forgiven and they became the first couple on season four to get engaged.

After one of the smoothest journeys in "Love Is Blind" history, the fan-favorite couple committed their lives to each other on their wedding day.

"You make me better," Tiffany told Brett in her vows, before telling him she was "in love" with him. Brett called Tiffany his "life partner"and mentioned their future kids before they made their union official.

During the "Love Is Blind" reunion on April 16 Brett and Tiffany revealed they are still married.

Kwame Appiah and Chelsea Griffin had many ups and downs in their journey, which began with Kwame appearing to favor Micah over Chelsea in the pods before Micah got engaged to Paul.

But despite a storyline that included Kwame appearing to have cold feet, they became husband and wife at the altar.

It's unclear from their respective Instagram accounts if they're still married today, but after the "Love Is Blind" finale, Kwame did share a post defending their chemistry and feelings for each other.

He revealed footage and pictures that weren't seen on the show. "We got to enjoy life, and communicate, in the ways that feel most natural to us," he said about their time together when the cameras were off, directly responding to people who said they didn't have chemistry. Chelsea liked the post, which seemed to suggest they're still together.

During the April 16 live reunion, Kwame and Chelsea revealed that they're still married.

After breaking up with Irina in Mexico, Zack invited Bliss to meet him in person, and neither of them could deny their connection and physical chemistry. Though they had even less time to get to know each other in the real world than most couples on "Love Is Blind," Zack proposed to Bliss on a date and she said yes.

After a few difficult conversations with friends and family, they made it to their wedding day. Zack told Bliss that when she was "gone" because he chose another woman, he would stay up at night thinking about how her actions showed him she loved him. Bliss told Zack he was "everything" to her, and they said "I do" before sharing their first dance to "I Hope You Dance."

It was unclear from their respective Instagram accounts if they were still together, but on finale day, Zack shared a picture of the couple captioned "eternal Bliss," which she liked. During the April 16 live reunion the pair revealed that they're still married.

Jackie asserted herself on "Love Is Blind" when she broke up with Marshall and told Josh she wanted to be with him but couldn't commit to marriage.

In an interview with Today, Jackie reflected on their relationship: "It was actually very surreal. It was actually very intimate, very soul-binding, I would say, because it's almost kind of like, we are very strong."

They appear to still be dating, per leaked texts and the fact that they were seen together at a sports game in Seattle earlier in April.

Disclosure: Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member.

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