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WELP. Remember last week when I said I was looking forward to seeing love stories on this season of Love is Blind? Brb going to go put on my clown mask.
-Kaitlyn, Bracketology Co-Founder
TRENDING
🪩 Rumors about next season’s Dancing with the Stars cast are already swirling. Pro Mark Ballas hinted that Rob Rausch could be ready to swap his Traitor cloak for rhinestone overalls, while a TikTok from pro Rylee Arnold has fans convinced Olympic “Quad God” Ilia Malinin might be ballroom-bound.
✝️ The Season 4 trailer for The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is here, and according to a TikTok from Mayci Neeley, OG MomTok is very much back… minus Demi Engemann, who is noticeably missing from the new key art.
🏡 Christine Quinn is teasing a possible return to Selling Sunset three years after her dramatic exit, saying in a new interview that she’d “never say never” about heading back to the Oppenheim office. In the meantime, she’ll be back on reality TV screens when House of Villains premieres next Thursday.
🌴 The Valley dropped its Season 3 trailer, confirming the core friend group is back, with VPR’s Lala Kent returning in a more official capacity as a full-time cast member. Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright’s separation will continue to play out on camera, spotlighting where alliances stand after last year’s fallout.
👶 Zack and Bliss from Season 4 of Love Is Blind are expecting their second baby. In a franchise where lasting marriages are still the exception, not the rule, the couple remains one of the show’s rare real-world success stories.
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HEADLINES
💍 Love Is Blind Sent Its Strongest Couple… to Malibu?
Love Is Blind really said: we only budgeted for six.
This season had seven engaged couples (that we saw…there are whispers of an 8th), which meant one pair wasn’t going to Cabo with the rest of the cast. That unlucky couple? Vic and Christine.
According to executive producer Chris Coelen, production typically only plans to follow six couples in Mexico. So when seven proposals stuck, they had to make a call. Vic and Christine were chosen because they had “fewer intersecting relationships” with the rest of the cast.
In other words, less mess gets you less screen time.
Instead of the full Netflix honeymoon production, they were sent to Malibu and filmed their getaway themselves on their phones.
Let’s pause.
Netflix, the streaming platform that greenlights live boxing matches and $200M action movies, suddenly doesn’t have the budget for one extra engaged couple on its flagship dating show?
And not just any couple. Arguably, Vic and Christine were one of the most stable, least chaotic pairs coming out of the pods. Which raises the real question:
Is this a budget issue… or a storyline issue? Because the Mexico trip is not a vacation. It is the pressure cooker, where:
ex-connections resurface
jealousy brews
unresolved pod triangles explode
If Vic and Christine weren’t entangled in the drama web, were they simply less useful to the narrative?
The Bigger Pattern
This is not the first time Love Is Blind has quietly trimmed couples that felt “too solid” or disconnected from the main cast drama. The show thrives on intersecting storylines. If you are not part of the web, you risk being cut from it.
So while Vic and Christine were self-filming their Malibu soft-launch, we instead got extended Cabo airtime with the couples that production deemed… essential.
Thank goodness.
Because what would this season even be without more time with Chris, our resident “I’m just being honest” elf king who somehow has the audacity to turn every vulnerable conversation into a performance review?
And of course, Alex, who treats every emotional conversation like it’s a postgame press conference. (Did you guys know he played soccer??)
Netflix really said: if it’s working, we don’t need it.
But sure. Budget constraints.
🏰 Reunited & it Feels So Bad
The Traitors Season 4 reunion has filmed, and the tension between Lisa Rinna and Colton Underwood is very much carrying over from the castle.
The In-Season Fallout
Their strategic disagreements escalated quickly, with both questioning each other’s motives and loyalty at the roundtable. During the season, Colton made a comment about “holding [Lisa] hostage” in the context of the game. The remark drew added scrutiny from viewers given his 2020 stalking case involving ex Cassie Randolph, which resulted in a restraining order that was later dropped. The feud became one of the defining arcs of the season.
Post-Season Escalation
After the reunion filmed, Lisa posted a TikTok referencing what went down and wrote that she “took care of it,” immediately sparking speculation that the taping was explosive. Storm-out rumors followed, and fans later noticed that Colton had unfollowed her on Instagram. She eventually clarified in interviews that while emotions ran high, the situation was not quite as dramatic as some headlines suggested.
When it Airs
The Season 4 finale and reunion will stream on Peacock next Thursday night (2/26), with the reunion dropping immediately after the finale.
The Traitors season is ending. Who are you rooting for?
WHAT CAUGHT OUR EYE?
DoorDash DM’d some of our favorite reality TV stars, asking what they last got delivered… Very intrigued by some of these responses.
What are you up to, Rob? 👀
Wishing you all a better week than the one Chris & Alex are having. - Kaitlyn
