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Always taking risks! The stars of Netflix’s Love Is Blind don’t mind being a little daring and that extends to their bikini and swimsuit choices.
Since the show’s premiere in 2020, the reality dating show has created some lasting romances and also thrown some contestants through major heartbreak. The experiment puts emotional connections to the strongest test and sets out to determine if people can truly fall in love based on personality.
Giannina Gibelli may have walked away alone at the end of season 1 following her relationship with Damian Powers, but the Venezuela native has stayed open to the possibility of finding love. She is now dating her All Star Shore costar Blake Horstmann.
“I’ve always had the philosophy of, ‘It doesn’t matter what happened in the past. It depends on what you do with it, moving forward,’” the Netflix star told People in June 2022 before fans watched their love story unfold. “I just didn’t want to be bitter. I wanted to always have my heart open and to be able to let love in, in whatever shape or form that may be, because that’s just the sweet part of life.”
Fellow season 1 cast member Lauren Speed-Hamilton proved the experiment could work with her perfect match, Cameron Hamilton.
After meeting in the pods, the pair got engaged sight unseen and continue to be married to this day. While their connection was almost seamless, the outside noise proved to be a hard obstacle for the new couple.
“I think that the hardest thing for us at the time was just kind of learning how to let people’s opinions roll off of us,” Lauren told Us Weekly in April 2021. Admitting she wasn’t used to having that much attention, she added, “It could be a lot of pressure and I think we’re human. You know, we’re not love robots. 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.”
Season 2’s Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson got married after meeting in the pods. Things seemed to be going well as the pair celebrated their one-year “meetiversary” in April 2022.
“One year ago today, Nick and I met in pods, on a seven-minute date,” the Chicago native wrote via Instagram alongside a carousel of photos of the couple sharing a romantic dinner out. “Looking back, it still doesn’t feel real, but I am forever grateful for the universe bringing him into my life.”
She joked, “Wonder what our future kids and grandkids will think about this when I try to explain to them how we met.”
However, hearts broke everywhere when Danielle and Nick split in August 2022 after one year of marriage.
As for season 3, there are some couples who are still going strong. Colleen Reed and husband Matt Bolton gushed over each other as they spent Christmas 2022 together. Brennon Lemieux and wife Alexa Alfia are also still going strong after being the first couple to get engaged in the pods.
