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Watch Amber Confront Jessica Over Barnett on the Love Is Blind Reunion


This post contains spoilers for Love Is Blind on Netflix.

Love Is Blind hive, are you as excited for the reunion show (which Netflix is releasing) on March 5 as we are?

At last, we shall know which of the couples who actually said “I do” have stayed together since filming and, perhaps, if any of those who did not have reunited. Seriously, if Lauren and Cameron haven’t made it work, the internet’s collective heart might just break. And there’s already a theory floating around that Giannina and Damian are back together.

But arguably even more fascinating will be the fallout from all the couples watching themselves on the show, in particular the dynamic between Amber and Barnett and Jessica and Mark. From the early days in the pods, there was tension, as Barnett was interested in both Jessica and Amber, and Jessica constantly wavered between him and Mark. And that didn’t stop once the engaged couples left the house and headed to Mexico and, later Atlanta, to sort out whether or not they were actually going to get married in the finale.

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Jessica appeared to be super conflicted about her feelings for her fiancé Mark over his age, his job, his relationship with his mother, but also her seemingly lingering feelings for Barnett. On multiple occasions, she pulled Barnett aside to talk. Guess who didn’t love that one she saw it onscreen? His fiancée, Amber.

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Netflix released a teaser clip from the reunion where Amber lets Jessica know exactly how she feels. “To see her throwing herself at him in Mexico, bitch, you’re sheisty,” she says. “You’re so fake. Coming to my face like we were cool, you’re so fake. I think you’re a very disingenuine [sic] person, and I hope seeing this, you do grow from it, because that is not what the world needs is women that go behind people’s back like that. You were engaged to another man that you were leading on.”

“He was engaged,” she continued. “He made his choice. Anywho, so I’m not super happy about seeing that.”

We, on the other hand, are very happy about what this Love Is Blind reunion is bringing to our lives.



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Mark From Love Is Blind on Where He and Jessica Stand Right Now


Warning: Love Is Blind spoilers ahead.

One of the most tumultuous couples on Netflix’s reality show, Love Is Blind, was, hands down, Mark Anthony Cuevas and Jessica Batten. The two seemed to hit it off in the pods—where they first met, talking for hours but never seeing each other—but when they came face to face, things started to unravel. The newly-engaged couple was whisked away on a romantic vacation, then moved in together and met each other’s families. Quickly, their problems arose. Even though she claimed not to have a problem with it in the pods, Jessica was clearly turned off by her and Mark’s 10-year age difference (he was 24, she 34). She also, for whatever reason, constantly had a wandering eye for Matt Barnett (a.k.a Barnett), even though he was also in his twenties and nowhere near as mature as Mark.

It was an interesting relationship: Mark seemed to be all the things Jessica wanted on paper, but she still had second thoughts. Ultimately, the two ended up not getting married. Jessica couldn’t go through with it, leaving Mark visibly heartbroken.

So what is Jess and Mark’s current status? Love Is Blind was filmed in 2018, and the two have kept their distance since then. They’ll come together for Netflix’s reunion special, which premieres on March 5. Below, Mark tells us all about his relationship with Jessica, what went wrong, and where things stand today.

Glamour: Has this just been the craziest time for you?

Mark Anthony Cuevas: For sure, for sure. It’s definitely an adjustment, I would say, because it’s… Don’t get me wrong: I was myself through the whole experience, but now it’s just kind of like everyone’s seen it. So it’s really cool to see the reaction of everyone either running up to me and taking a picture to social media and I’m just kind of like… It’s been a lot. So I’m still adjusting a little bit.

What do you remember first responding to with Jessica when you were talking to her in the pods?

Mark: So what’s kind of funny is that my first two dates were a little awkward and uncomfortable. And it was funny. I was thinking, “If the rest of my dates are going to be like this, this is not going to be pretty good.” And not that they were bad girls. It was just… There was no connection. And then she was my third date, and the second I heard her voice, the second we started talking about Chicago—Where are you from?” “Chicago”—we lit up. And that was the initial connection, but throughout the pods, we connected over so many different things, like family values, religion, and everything. So there was a lot more to that whole story and everything that helped us connect, not just being from Chicago.

Obviously, there was that drama where she had feelings for Barnett and broke things off with you to try things out with him, but then ultimately ended up asking you to forgive her and try it again. What made you decide to give it another shot with her, even though she did do that?

Mark: My mantra has always been…What my mom always taught me is: If you love something, you let it go, and if it comes back, it was for you. If it doesn’t, then it was never for you. And again, with the whole experience, I think it goes deeper than that whole saying, but I kept it. So when she did essentially come back and we talked it out, I told her. I was upfront, and I was like, “Hey, I can go home today and I’ve learned everything I needed to learn, but if you’re with me, you’re with me.” And I think that her coming back to me initially showed me that she wanted to be with me.



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Jessica on Love Is Blind Let Her Dog Drink Wine From Her Glass—and People Have Thoughts


Love Is Blind, Netflix‘s new reality show, is a gift that keeps on giving.

It all begins with this wild premise: A bunch of single men and women move into a house where they start speed dating each other to see if they’re a match. But here’s the catch: They can’t see what the other person looks like. The cast gets to know each other inside “pods” where they talk for hours and decide if they want to get engaged. Yes, engaged…after mere days of knowing each other. At that point, they finally get to see the person they’ve decided to spend the rest of their lives with before being whisked away on a romantic vacation.

After the trip, they have to return to some version of real life, where they move in together and meet each other’s family and friends. As you can imagine, there are many dramatic moments as these couples dig into the thornier issues involved in a relationship. But there are also many incredible smaller moments. Exhibit A: when Jessica casually lets her dog lap up red wine from her glass and whispers, “She loves wine.”

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Jessica's dog on Love Is Blind
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It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but many of the show’s viewers clocked it—and they had some thoughts. “This is the most dynamic moment of TV I’ve seen in a long time – from Netflix’s Love is Blind,” one fan tweeted. “A guy telling his fiancé, who he met the week before, that he’s mentally stable while she feeds her dog wine and tells him that she’s not his mom. So much to unwrap in 10 seconds.”

“Why would you watch literally anything else when you can watch Love is Blind and see a DOG drink WINE,” another wrote.

Love Is Blind is currently streaming on Netflix and you should all definitely be watching it—if just for the wine-drinking dog alone.



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Here's Why Jessica Simpson Turned Down the Role of Allie in The Notebook


Jessica Simpson’s new memoir, Open Book, is filled with intimate and emotional revelations about the singer/fashion mogul’s life. From her struggles with alcohol and decision to get sober to traumatic sexual abuse as a child, nothing is off limits. “For me to write a book, I wanted people to know how vulnerable I was and how caught I felt, because so many people get caught in that web,” she told Glamour. (You can read an exclusive excerpt here.)

But there are many lighter details about her life in the book, too—including a tidbit about one of the most beloved romantic movies ever, The Notebook. Turns out, Simpson was actually offered the role of Allie, which eventually went to Rachel McAdams. But she turned it down because of the movie’s now-famous sex scene. “I knew exactly what the movie was about because I had read the script,” she writes in her book, but the people behind the movie “wouldn’t budge” about removing the sex scene.

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Her decision was apparently made even more difficult thanks to Ryan Gosling‘s casting as Noah, because she’d had a crush on him since the ’90s when she auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club. “[The movie] would have been with Ryan Gosling, of all people,” she wrote. She did, eventually, see the movie—at a pretty inopportune moment in her personal life: Simpson was in the midst of a very public split with her then-husband, Nick Lachey. “Oh God, I thought,” she wrote. “The most romantic movie in the world, and I was leaving Nick. The movie was on every screen, and I was swept up into it, wishing I had that great love that would be forever.”

Of her breakup with Lachey, Simpson said she felt she “let people down. People looked to us as the trophy couple and I was the trophy wife, even though I didn’t know how to use the Swiffer. I tried; like, I mean I was not Betty Crocker and we all know that, but I tried.”

Like so many tough things in life, it appears that everything, ultimately, worked out for Jessica Simpson—both onscreen and off.



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Jessica Simpson Gets Real in 'Open Book' Interview


The “mom jeans” moment? I was globally beaten down for being a size 4!

I felt good up there, I felt confident, and then it ruined the stage for me, and the stage was my home. It broke my home. I’d already had broken moments within a home where I had to walk out of a marriage, but my stage has been like my home since I was like a child. That’s where I could be honestly alone with myself.

I’m so happy that times are changing now and more women are accepted for who they are. People are flaunting themselves at every size, because that’s how it absolutely should be.

I think it’s important for people to know that what I did, giving up alcohol, was seriously the easy part for me.

The hard part was breaking down the reasons why. The reasons why alcohol was my crutch. You know because people are like, “Are you an alcoholic?” It’s like, No. I had a drinking problem. I don’t identify with that. I needed to slow down and I needed to, like, feel things again because there were so many moments that were passing me by. That I wasn’t, like, grasping and enjoying. When your kids are growing up, you only have it for that amount of time, and I just saw my whole life flash before my eyes.

Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey in 2003.

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When I went through the divorce [from Nick], I divorced the world—that’s how it felt to me.

As if I let people down. People looked to us as the trophy couple and I was the trophy wife, even though I didn’t know how to use the Swiffer. I tried; like, I mean I was not Betty Crocker and we all know that, but I tried.

With Nick, I tried to handle everything with as much care as possible. He has a family, he’s married. I never want his kids to think something that, you know, there were parts…there are parts of people that’s their story to tell. It’s really the marriage through my lens. People don’t want me lying, they want the truth from me.

I think people respect that I created a huge business.

And that I pioneered a way for all women of all sizes to feel beautiful and also feel like they have style. I am size inclusive. You have to look to people for inspiration instead of trying to criticize them because you’re insecure. You really have to understand how to be able to walk into a room and there be no judgment and you accept them for who they are.



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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel's Relationship: A Complete Timeline


A second source corroborated this to E!, saying Timberlake and Wainwright’s relationship is “innocent.” “They’re filming a movie together and it was a group of people hanging out,” the source added. “There is nothing going on between them.”

A report published on Monday, November 25 on E! outlines how Biel is reportedly dealing with the situation and what’s next for the couple. “They are downplaying everything and trying to laugh it off as nothing. But it was definitely inappropriate and something that would make any wife uncomfortable,” the source says. “He had too much to drink and got carried away.” That being said, this insider assures fans Biel and Timberlake are “going to move on from this.”

Adds a source, “Their marriage will survive. He feels guilty and will make it up to her. She is very good to him and he knows how lucky he is. He says it was not a big deal, they were all hanging out together and that’s the end of the story.”

December 2019: Timberlake addresses the rumors for the first time. Read his statement, below:

Well that’s that, people. This seems like just a bump in the road for a rock-solid couple. We’ll update this post as more details emerge.



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