He and his fiancée took their *own* vacation after their engagement got cut from the show.
When Love Is Blind contestant Rory Newbrough first stepped into one of the Netflix reality TV show’s soundproof pods to speed-date 15 women he couldn’t see, he was skeptical that he could really find love this way—until he heard Danielle Drouin’s voice.
“Danielle was the first pod that I went into, and I felt it the second I walked in,” he tells Women’s Health. “She was my first choice the entire time.”
By day three, Rory felt “a lot more gravitas” to the experiment. By day six, he knew he wanted to propose to Danielle. “We ended up spending 19 or 20 hours a day just talking,” he says. “I started to realize there were parts of me—walls I put up—and I didn’t even know they were there. I wasn’t even aware of them, and they were just blown open. I was crying the whole time. It was this crazy-emotional experience.”
But Rory also says he “absolutely fell in love.”
“I realized it was really hard for me to be vulnerable with other people,” he adds. “When I opened up to Danielle and told her how I felt, I literally wrote it in my journal and had to read it to her because I couldn’t get it out.”
After Rory and Danielle got engaged—with a physical wall still between them—they finally got to meet. “I collapsed when I saw her,” he recalls.
But Love Is Blind showed mere seconds of their romance.
If you’ve watched the first few episodes of the reality dating show, you might be wondering why you didn’t see any of this play out on screen—or, for that matter, how TF it’s possible for so many couples to fall in love and get engaged in 10 short days without ever seeing each other in person.
The insane-but-true answer? Even the show’s producers didn’t see it coming.
