‘Love Is Blind’ Alum Shayne Jansen Defends Nick and Vanessa Lachey as Hosts Amid Reunion Backlash: They Are ‘Extremely Nice’
20.04.2023 - 15:21
/ usmagazine.com
After the Love Is Blind season 4 reunion, many viewers questioned Nick Lachey and Vanessa Lachey as hosts, but former contestant Shayne Jansen has their backs.
“They were the nicest humans during my experience,” the real estate agent, 33, wrote via his Instagram Stories during a Wednesday, April 19, Q&A when asked if Vanessa, 42, was “always like” how she acted during the reunion, per Page Six.
The Perfect Match alum added: “Nick shot the s–t with us talking football, etc. They were extremely nice.”
The Chicago native appeared on season 2 of Love Is Blind, which started streaming last year. After sparking immediate pod connections with Shaina Hurley and Natalie Lee, he opted to propose to Lee, 30. However, the pair broke up on their wedding day. (The former fiancés briefly dated after the reality TV show but called it quits for good several weeks later.)
Nick, 49, and Vanessa, who wed in 2011, have cohosted the Netflix reality TV show since its first season, which debuted in 2020. Despite the married couple maintaining that they believe in the Love Is Blind experiment, viewers and other cast members called out Vanessa for her line of questioning during the Sunday, April 16, reunion.
“I was like, ‘F—k man.’ They kept drilling, drilling it down on me,” Paul Peden told Entertainment Tonight on Sunday. “I think I said my piece. I think Vanessa might have had a little bit of personal bias in that scenario or at least I kind of detected that. I don’t know. But that’s just my assumption based on how she continued to drill into it after I gave my full rationale for why I felt the way that I did.”
During the special, Vanessa spoke with Peden about his decision to break up with fiancée Micah Lussier on their wedding day, trying to