‘Love Is Blind’ and ‘Perfect Match’ Stars Congratulate Bartise Bowden on New Baby: ‘The 1st Dad’
08.04.2023 - 16:53
/ usmagazine.com
Oh, baby! Bartise Bowden sent shockwaves through the Love Is Blind and Perfect Match fandom when he announced on Friday, April 7, that he became a first-time father.
“Might’ve been the villain on TV, but I’m gonna be the hero for him. Instagram, meet my little man,” the Netflix personality, 27, captioned an Instagram carousel of snaps of the newborn, including one where Bowden and his son watched an episode of Love Is Blind season 4.
The Texas resident, who appeared on season 3 of the Netflix pod experiment, added via his Instagram Story: “We went from zaddy onscreen to daddy in real life. Yep, look at that, he just spit up all over us, didn’t he?”
While Bowden did not reveal his son’s name nor the identity of the infant’s mother, several of his Netflix costars quickly offered him their congratulations.
“Bartise being the first dad after Perfect Match was not on my bingo card,” Sexy Beasts alum Kariselle Snow quipped via Instagram comment on Friday.
Bowden and Snow, 27, were both cast as contestants on Perfect Match, which dropped on Netflix in February. On the reality TV competition show, the streaming giant gave several of its fan-favorite personalities a second chance to find love following failed stints on the likes of Love Is Blind, The Circle and Too Hot to Handle. Bowden, for his part, ended the show partnered with Izzy Fairthorne before ultimately calling it quits when they returned home. Snow chose to match with former hookup Joey Sasso on Perfect Match, with the Circle champ even proposing during the finale. They also split shortly after heading home following the tropical-set competition.
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Bowden joined Perfect Match less than one year after fans watched his Love