Love Is Blind creator Chris Coelen has explained why one couple were cut from the show after their engagement.
As season 7 of the reality show kicked off this week, viewers were introduced to the latest batch of hopeful singles. But, though seven couples got engaged, only six were chosen to continue their journey on-screen.
As a result, engaged couple Brittany Wisniewski and Leo Braudy were cut from the show. They decided to take their own trip to Mexico, but ended their engagement a few weeks later.
Speaking to Variety, creator and executive producer Coelen explained why the couple’s on-screen journey was ultimately cut short.
“There are different ways that non-scripted shows are produced. Sometimes you have an idea of where things are going while you’re filming. And we don’t. We film everything as it happens, and then after it ends, we piece together how we got there,” said Coelen.
“We have the budget to follow five couples and sometimes we stretch to six couples, and we figure out how to stack our crews.”
Coelen revealed that the decision is based on which couples are “most authentically likely” to tie the knot.
“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.’
“The couple that I think we felt least likely to do that were Leo and Brittany. So, we made a decision not to follow them after the pods ended.”
Defending his “gut level decisions”, Coelen added: “Anybody that we’ve chosen not to follow or anybody that has left the experiment has never ended up together. That’s certainly what happened with them. It doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be interesting to follow, it just ended up kind of in the place that we thought it would.”
