‘Love is Blind’ Carlton Dishes About the Show
Spoilers Ahead!
Netflix’s Love is Blind is reality television’s newest binge watch. The show follows six couples in an experiment. The premise of the show is to test the hypothesis, “is love really blind”?
During the first phase of the experiment, the singles date in “the pods”. The time in “the pods” is only ten days and engagements can happen at any time. The singles only hear their date through a wall and try to make an emotional connection through conversation. During this phase, Carlton Morton and Diamond Jack find love (or do they?). After a few short days, Carlton proposes to Diamond.
CheatSheet reports more on Carlton’s Love is Blind storyline. Carlton spills the tea on if he has any regrets about being on the show, what drives his decision to speak about his sexuality on television, and more.
Plot Twist!
In the next phase of the Love is Blind experiment, the newly-engaged couples travel to a resort in Mexico. Viewers notice the tension between Carlton and Diamond. What viewers know and Diamond doesn’t know is -Carlton is sexually fluid. Carlton previously dated men, he explains in confessionals and a difficult conversation with Diamond.
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Diamond takes the night to process the knowledge bomb that Carlton drops on her. Ultimately, the follow-up conversation leads to a heated poolside argument (including racial slurs). The argument disturbs fans. In the end, Diamond throws her engagement ring in the pool and returns home, single.
Without hast, trolls go to social media throwing shade (and worse) at Carlton and Diamond. Sadly, both claim on the Reunion episode that they’ve had death threats since the poolside argument episode aired.
On March 24th’s episode of Love in Sight with Giannina Gibelli podcast, Carlton joins, host and co-star from Love is Blind, Giannina. Carlton and Giannina discuss Carlton’s life during and after the show. Carlton says he, “recieves a lot of backlash from fans that felt he could have handled the situation better.” Carlton goes on to say, “People apparently think I’m like a horrible person who hates women and that’s just not the case. So I’ve just been trying to do everything I can to protect my mental health at this point.”
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Hindsight is 20/20
Giannina asks Carlton if he would have done anything differently. His perplexing response is below.
“I think I would have not reacted. There was definitely an emission of certain slurs and different things that were thrown at me that moment. I would have reacted different to those things, those triggers. I would not have shut down so easily. And, to be honest, I probably would have gone with my other choice for proposal person.”
If you’re like me, you don’t remember who his other “proposal person” is. Luckily, CheatSheet does. Briana Holmes (center, below) raves on Lauren Speed, one of the success stories of the show, and her husband, Cameron Hamilton. CheatSheet sparks fans’ memory by reminding us that Briana, “hates hearing people breathe.” Ummm, what?
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Who Told the Tale?
Many fans wonder if Carlton chose to tell his story as it unfolds on the series, or if Love is Blind producers make him openly discuss his past?
Carlton comforts fans saying, “It was definitely something that was not producer pitched, as a lot of people say. Like, ‘Did the producers ask?’ No, the producers were actually very amazing. They did an amazing job at facilitating how my story rolled out as it related to me being comfortable to even roll it out myself.”
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It’s comforting that this storyline is genuine. “I was reassured several times that even if I didn’t want to say anything, I don’t have to. I don’t feel like anyone else was forced. And I definitely didn’t feel forced or the need to just shout it to the top of the mountain,” dotes Carlton.
“The way the reality show is formatted, I had no choice but to tell the cameras. If I was opening up that day in confessionals about interviews specifically about my life, then I had to tell that story,” says Carlton about the production of reality television.
Carlton explains his timing:
“That was because I wanted to share it with the one person I fell in love with in the pods. Had that been a conversation on the first day, things would have gotten back to the girls’ side, let’s be real, with the current climate of the way people look at people in the LGBTQ community, no one would have given me a chance.”
You can read more about the other storylines of Season 1 of Love is Blind here while we all anxiously wait for Season 2’s release.
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