SPOILERS are forward for Love Is Blind Season 8, which is now streaming with a Netflix subscription.
Whereas there’s a rising quantity of LGBTQ+ relationship exhibits on streaming, Netflix’s hottest actuality present has but to open up its idea to the queer neighborhood, and the Love Is Blind format makes this tough. Nonetheless, Season 8’s Madison Errichiello shared post-reunion that her queer neighborhood was very a lot current on the gal aspect of the pods.
Whereas the newest season of the Netflix collection did present one second the place Brittany got here out as bisexual to Devin within the pods earlier than they broke issues off, apparently the present glossed over the truth that Madison was overtly bisexual within the pods. Whereas we all know what went down between her and Alex after Season 8 ended, we had no concept about this shaggy dog story about Madison and one of many different ladies. As Madison shared:
So truly, I knew one of many ladies. She didn’t get a number of screentime. She was there for like a day and she or he left, and I imply good for her as a result of you already know, she was so unimpressed. But it surely’s so humorous as a result of truly, I present up on the airport and we’re all sort of assembly one another for the primary time. And I used to be like, I matched with that lady on Hinge like a yr in the past.
When Madison went on the Off The Vine With Kaitlyn Bristowe podcast this week, the Love Is Blind star revealed that she had a coincidental factor occur when she met the ladies for the Season 8 pods. One of many different ladies, who actually wasn’t featured on the present, was one in every of her previous matches on the relationship app, Hinge. As she continued:
At first I used to be simply sort of nervous, just like the homosexual panic set in, and I used to be like ‘Ahh.’ I used to be like ‘Oh my god, do I say one thing? Do I not?’ And I simply ended up saying one thing, as a result of I additionally didn’t know the way comfy she was, so I didn’t need to say something on digital camera both. So, I simply stated one thing I believe the subsequent day at breakfast. I used to be like ‘Hey, we matched on Hinge, proper?’ and she or he was like ‘Oh my god, yeah! That’s the place I do know you from.’
This story was additionally confirmed on the opposite gal’s finish, whereas talking at an occasion for MPR Information. Casandra Barron recalled the identical actual story. Right here’s how Madison continued to make clear what grew to become of the missed connection second:
Her title is Casandra, and she or he’s one in every of my besties now. It’s so humorous as a result of I bear in mind being like ‘Hey, if this doesn’t work out’… However no, we’re simply besties as a result of she sort of had a factor, like she was on and off with this one man, so I believe when she obtained to the pods, she was like ‘Oh, like I miss him.’
Whereas issues didn’t work out romantically between Madison and Casandra regardless of their reconnection, the Love Is Blind forged member shared that she’s overtly bisexual and even mentioned her sexuality whereas on dates on the present, nevertheless it was utterly lower from the season. In the identical MPR interview, forged member Vanessa Boreland shared that there was “queer illustration” mirrored within the members however she discovered it to be “actually unlucky” that it barely got here up within the season.
Whereas I do know I used to be extra optimistic for Season 8 going into it, it proved to be simply as messy as Season 7 given how all of the tales featured shook out. There’s at all times subsequent season, I assume… contemplating the present has been renewed for 9 and 10. Too unhealthy the present is not too LGBTQ+ pleasant or a few of the queer contestants might have had a bigger relationship pool!