Season 1 Love is Blind contestant Lauren Speed called out the show for having a blatant and intentional lack of diversity. As a member of the very first season and married to costar Cameron Speed, the reality star went to Twitter to talk about the show repeatedly cutting out Black women in the final product of the release of the show, despite them being cast.
Speed tweeted on October 24, “I don’t like how LIB be cutting all the black women. How come they are always in the trailer but not the show.”
She also pointed out that the cast list of LIB’s third season doesn’t show several Black women who are enrolled in the cast.
“I know it’s slim pickings, but about 85% of them couples be forced (just moving forward for entertainment purposes) anyway. Y’all could at least force some more sisters to move forward throughout the show,” She explained that couples on the show are already forced and that they could do more with encouraging relationships involving the Black woman they promote in trailers.
I don’t like how LIB be cutting all the black women. How come they are always in the trailer but not the show… ?
— Lauren Speed (@Need4LSpeed) October 24, 2022
I know it’s slim pickings but about 85% of them couples be forced (just moving forward for entertainment purposes) anyway. Y’all could at least force some more sisters to move forward throughout the show. ??
— Lauren Speed (@Need4LSpeed) October 24, 2022
A follower of hers asked why she thinks that the persistent problem keeps occurring and Lauren Speed said it was about the entertainment, most likely.
It’s couples that get engaged that aren’t even shown sometimes. I think they only show what they deem most entertaining. https://t.co/sKrYsKMItZ
— Lauren Speed (@Need4LSpeed) October 24, 2022
“It’s couples that get engaged that aren’t even shown sometimes. I think they only show what they deem most entertaining,” Speed answered. Instead, they send the women home and stop filming them.
Yea lol send em home and stop filming them.
— Lauren Speed (@Need4LSpeed) October 24, 2022
This isn’t the first time the show has come into the limelight for not showing particular couples during the season. According to Variety, Love Is Blind’s creator Chris Coelen addressed the concerns that there were supposed to be eight couples, but only six were ultimately shown.
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“I think it’s very funny for people to say, ‘Oh, you put somebody who was, you know, heavier in there, and then you just didn’t follow them.’ It’s not like anybody wants that to happen or doesn’t want that to happen,” Coelen said, “What I want to have to happen is just to be true to the experiment. You put people in there. They can’t see each other. If they fall in love, then we follow it, and if they don’t, we don’t.”
