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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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5 Things We Learned From Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Hearing


Over two days Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress for hours, facing questions about how and why the data of an estimated 87 million users was shared with Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm with reported ties to the Trump campaign.

Before a panel of 44 senators asked him about Facebook’s privacy policies, Russian interference, and other security issues, Zuckerberg used his opening remarks to issue an apology. “We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I’m sorry,” he said. “I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here.”

Throughout the hearing, Zuckerberg reiterated that Facebook understands its responsibility to consumers. Still, he didn’t give specific details around certain aspects of how the company has handled private user information. Here’s what we did learn. We’ll continue to update this post throughout Zuckerberg’s hearing with Congress today.

Zuckerberg admits Facebook didn’t do enough to protect users after finding out about the Cambridge Analytica breach.

Facebook reportedly discovered in 2015 that user data had been sold to Cambridge Analytica. At the hearing, Florida Senator Bill Nelson asked Zuckerberg why the company didn’t do more back then to inform users of a privacy breach.

“When we heard back from Cambridge Analytica that they had told us that they weren’t using the data and deleted it, we considered it a closed case,” Zuckerberg said. “In retrospect, that was clearly a mistake. We shouldn’t have taken their word for it.” Zuckerberg also said the company didn’t inform the Federal Trade Commission about the incident.

The company still isn’t sure exactly how much personal data has been affected by third-party apps.

Iowa senator Chuck Grassley prodded Zuckerberg about how many users have been affected on the platform. “Do you know of any instances where user data was improperly transferred to a third-party in breach of Facebook’s terms?” he asked. “If so, how many times has that happened, and was Facebook only made aware of that transfer by some third party?”

“We believe that we’re going to be investigating many apps, tens of thousands of apps,” Zuckerberg responded. “And if we find any suspicious activity, we’re going to conduct a full audit of those apps to understand how they’re using their data and if they’re doing anything improper. If we find that they’re doing anything improper, we’ll ban them from Facebook and we will tell everyone affected. As for past activity, I don’t have all the examples of apps that we’ve banned here, but if you would like, I can have my team follow up with you after this.”

A paid version of Facebook is something the company has considered but still isn’t a top priority.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said in a recent interview that Facebook has thought about turning to paid models so that users could opt out of sharing their information with advertisers. Zuckerberg confirmed that a paid option is on the table, but suggested that his priority is letting users access Facebook for free.

“I think what Sheryl was saying is in order to not run ads at all, we would need some sort of business model,” he said. “To be clear, we don’t offer an option today for people to pay to not show ads. We think offering people an ad-supported service is the most aligned with our mission of trying to connect everyone in the world, because we want to offer a free service that everyone can afford. That’s the only way we can reach billions of people.”

Facebook may or may not be able to track your Web-browsing activity.

Mississippi senator Roger Wicker asked Zuckerberg about rumors that “Facebook can track users’ Internet browsing activity even after that user has logged off the Facebook platform.” He asked Zuckerberg to confirm whether or not those reports are true, and Zuckerberg seemed to punt the question, saying, “Senator, I want to make sure I get this accurate, so it might be better to have my team follow up.”

When Wicker pushed him again, Zuckerberg’s answer was more revealing: “I know that people use cookies on the Internet and that you can probably correlate activity between sessions. We do that for a number of reasons, including security and including measuring ads to make sure that the ad experiences are the most effective, which of course people can opt out of. But I want to make sure that I’m precise….”

Zuckerberg acknowledges that the Facebook user agreement is problematic.

Many senators focused on Facebook’s lengthy user agreement, and Grassley wondered why Facebook doesn’t disclose all the ways it uses and shares data. Zuckerberg countered that putting together a concise agreement has been a challenge.

“One of the things that—that we’ve struggled with over time is to make something that is as simple as possible so people can understand it, as well as giving them controls in line in the product in the context of when they’re trying to actually use them, taking into account that we don’t expect that most people will want to go through and read a full legal document,” he said.

Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana later told Zuckerberg directly, “Here’s what everybody’s been trying to tell you today, and—and I say this gently. Your user agreement sucks.”





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Michelle Williams Was Reportedly Paid Less Than $1,000 For Movie Reshoot—While Mark Wahlberg Made $1.5 Million


A new USA Today story released last night is reporting that Michelle Williams was less than $1000 to reshoot scenes for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in All the Money in the World while Mark Wahlberg received $1.5 million. And people are not pleased. Movie reshoots are not an uncommon practice and typically would not be a huge story, but in this case director Ridley Scott decided to remove Kevin Spacey from the film entirely and replace him with Christopher Plummer after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced about Spacey. This was all done incredibly quickly over Thanksgiving in order to make the film’s original release date.

Scott told USA Today in December that “The whole reshoot was — in normal terms was expensive but not as expensive as you think. Because all of them, everyone did it for nothing…No, they all came in free. Christopher had to get paid. But Michelle, no. Me, no.” (The crew, however, was paid.) Williams herself previously told the paper, “I said I’d be wherever they needed me, whenever they needed me. And they could have my salary, they could have my holiday, whatever they wanted. Because I appreciated so much that they were making this massive effort.” But now reporters say that they discovered Wahlberg’s team actually negotiated a $1.5 million salary for the extra time on the job. Making it all the more complicated, the two actors are both represented by the same agency, WME.

Twitter—including Williams’ bestie Busy Phillips and Jessica Chastain—exploded with outrage on Williams’ behalf as soon as the story was published, calling out the pay gap but also that she was willing to do whatever it took to remove Spacey from the film while Wahlberg saw the moment as a cash grab. Talk about not reading the room, right?

While Williams has not commented directly on this story, she has played an active role in the Time’s Up initiative and brought #MeToo founder Tarana Burke as her date to the Golden Globes. Wahlberg has also not commented, but public opinion does not seem to be on his side. Even if there are complicated contract technicalities that somehow make this more than a gender pay issue, it’s not a great look right now to be asking for more money when so many others were simply dedicated to getting an alleged serial abuser out of the film. Could a donation to Time’s Up be in his future?





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'One Tree Hill' Cast and Crew Members Detail Allegations of Sexual Misconduct by Showrunner Mark Schwahn


Less than a week after One Tree Hill‘s cast and crew wrote a powerful letter accusing showrunner Mark Schwahn of sexual harassment, one of the show’s lead actresses has expanded on the allegations against him. Hilarie Burton, who played lead character Peyton Sawyer, detailed her allegations against Schwahn in an interview published Friday by Variety.

She alleged to Variety that Schwahn kissed her twice against her will and once slid his hand into the back of her pants while his wife was present. Burton also elaborated on Schwahn’s behavior on set: She says that Schwahn began grooming her by letting her attend production meetings and “pushing her character to the forefront.” Meanwhile, she says that she fought him about her character becoming unnecessarily sexualized, and that he would pit the women of the show against each other, pushing them into Burton’s orbit by encouraging offset friendships and then lying about physical relationships he said he was having with the show’s actresses, particularly with Danneel Ackles.

Burton alleges that in one of the instances of Schwahn forcing himself on her, he began making out with her in a limo from Raleigh to Wilmington after a show-related trip they’d taken together—while Schwahn was on the phone with the CW’s president, Dawn Ostroff, persuading her to let One Tree Hill stay on the air for a fifth season.

“I’m leaning in listening, and when it’s Dawn Ostroff’s turn to talk, he just leans over and starts kissing me,” Burton told Variety. “I push him off, but I can’t say anything, because he’s on the phone fighting for our show to stay on the air. I’m just in this position where I’m thinking, ‘You’ve got to take it, Hil. Just laugh it off. You’ll get to Wilmington in 45 minutes.'” After they got back to the set, Schwahn allegedly told Ackles (and, later, another actress) he and Burton had made out; Ackles promptly called Burton, who detailed what happened.

She detailed other allegations of misconduct as well, like an invitation to a swinger-type meet-up (he got “pretty angry” when she stood him up), and him kissing her for a second time in front of “everybody” when the cast and crew met up a bar. Ackles and Burton both recounted a time when, after unsuccessfully trying to get into Ackles’ hotel room, he allegedly went to Burton’s, complaining Ackles wouldn’t open her door to him.

Burton confronted him about his alleged behavior when they were shooting season four’s finale. She says Schwahn began rubbing her shoulders and back, and that’s when she went off. “You gotta stop,” Burton told Variety she said. “Mark, I’m telling you, as your friend, your wife is going to hear about this shit. You’re going to lose your job. You can’t touch the girls anymore.”

What happened next sounds terrifying: He grew angry because she’d confronted him in front of others. He later had her come to his office and “screamed at her for half an hour.” “I know exactly what this man’s hands look like, and they are my fucking nightmare,” she told Variety. “I think of hands when I think of him, because they were relentless.”

Burton left the show when her contract ran out a the end of season six, despite an offer of a raise from Warner Bros. She said she didn’t want to be viewed as “a problem” by the studio and wanted to work for them again—hence why she didn’t speak up at the time. She says that ultimately working with Schwahn has been detrimental to her career: It indirectly caused her to be dropped by her agent and led to missed acting opportunities,

Other allegations were made by different cast and crew members to Variety. An unnamed actress said that he touched her inappropriately when she approached him with a professional question and that, later, when she approached him about touching other female cast members, he also got angry and “threatened her job.”

A writer on the show that spoke to Variety, Michelle Furtney-Goodman, recalled an incident that involved Schwahn allegedly pulling her head between her knees, saying that “the back of my head was so flat and that I was the perfect woman, because I could give a guy a blowjob and he could rest his drink on the back of my head,” she told Variety. She alleges he set a soda can on her head to illustrate his point—all in front of the show’s other writers. She felt obligated to compose herself and go back to work: “I was scared that if I said anything [to Warner Bros.], I would never work in this town again,” she said.

A former male writer on the show, James Stoteraux, wasn’t immune to Schwahn’s toxic workplace culture, either. He says the showrunner gave him a T-shirt for Christmas that said, “I’m not a gynecologist, but I’ll take a look.” He said he was “relieved” to leave the “toxic, demoralizing workplace” after writing for the second and third seasons of the show.

Schwahn is currently suspended from his position as showrunner for another CW show, The Royals.

Related Stories:
–The ‘One Tree Hill’ Cast and Crew Accuse Showrunner of Sexual Harassment in Powerful Letter
–11 Little Things From One Tree Hill You Never Noticed Were Truly Terrible for Women
–Hilarie Burton Reveals the Emotional Reason Why She and Sophia Bush Will Always Be Friends



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