Love Is Blind may be over for another season, but before we say goodbye to the seventh iteration for good, we have h-u-g-e news to share: Two more couples actually got together during the pods, but their scenes were eventually cut.
You may remember Bohdan, 36, who shared a brief connection with Marissa before she decided to continue getting to know Ramses. However, it turns out Marissa wasn’t the only person Bohdan was interested in. He was *also* building a connection with Nina, 32, who was cast in the series alongside her sister Tara, 29.
Apparently, Bohdan and Nina built up such a strong bond that they ended their time in the pods together as a couple! According to Vulture, Nina was unsure about appearing on camera and was reluctant to get engaged despite her strong feelings for Bohdan. Bohdan, on the other hand, reportedly saw no harm in getting engaged, as it was part of the show’s process and might have even helped their relationship.
The two went back and forth about the sitch throughout their time in the pods but ultimately decided to leave together—just not engaged.
FYI, it seems as though both sisters were lucky in love given Vulture also reported that Nina’s sister Tara formed a connection in the pods as well, even similarly leaving with her partner without getting engaged. That! Said!!! Based on both Nina and Tara’s Instagram accounts, the sisters don’t appear to be with their Love Is Blind partners anymore.
It’s not uncommon in the Love Is Blind process for more couples to get together (or even engaged!) but not make it to the final edit. As seen in season seven, we witnessed Brittany and Leo’s journey, including their first face-to-face meeting, but they were ultimately not chosen to be a part of the rest of the experiment.
Executive producer Chris Coelen previously revealed the show often doesn’t include all the couples who get engaged due to budget restrictions.
Speaking to Variety, Coelen dished, “We have the budget to follow five couples and sometimes we stretch to six couples, and we figure out how to stack our crews.”
He also explained they try and work out which couples seem the most authentic and, therefore, have the biggest likelihood of saying “I do” at the altar when choosing whose journey to follow in the rest of the series.
“When we make that decision as to who to follow, if we have more couples that got engaged, we make a decision as to which couples we think are authentic,” he maintained. “And when I say authentic, I mean most authentically likely to actually be at the altar and say I do. Who is really genuinely on that path? We felt, at the time, that the six couples we did end up following were the ones that felt more, on a gut level, had a real shot to say ‘I do’—that they were really invested in saying ‘I do.’”
And that’s that on that!
