Love Is Blind season 6 celebrity Jimmy Presnell is taking duty for Chelsea Blackwell going viral after she compared herself to Megan Fox.
“Chelsea is getting a ton of heat, and I will have to take blame for the warmth because it was my reaction that were given the entire clicks,” Jimmy, 28, completely told Us Weekly whilst promoting season 6 of the Netflix sequence. “It used to be my response the place I’m like, my mouth dropped and my eyes got huge, so I could have done a greater process of not blowing it out of share.”
Chelsea, 31, made headlines previous this month when episode 1 confirmed her getting to grasp Jimmy within the pods. During a dialog about each and every different’s appearance, Chelsea claimed that she resembled Fox, 37, because of her darkish hair and light eyes. Although Chelsea made it clear she “doesn’t see” the similarities, the comparison worked on Jimmy, who requested her, “Can we get married?”
The comments briefly went viral online, with fans arguing about whether Chelsea was correct in her depiction. Some viewers felt like the flight attendant had misrepresented herself, while others may see the imaginative and prescient.
Jimmy, for his section, does assume Chelsea “resembles” the Transformers star, however he doesn’t suppose the pair in fact “look” alike. He does, on the other hand, in finding Chelsea “beautiful” regardless.
“To be honest, that girl didn’t say, I appear to be Megan Fox. She mentioned, ‘People inform me,’” he explained to Us. “But I heard that and I used to be so excited. So yeah, possibly my bad. She’s getting a lot of warmth and he or she doesn’t deserve it. She’s a terrific individual and I can defend her from all that s—t if I want to. I will be able to talk numbers to how she is as an individual, and in the event that they want to hate on any person, they should hate on me. She don’t deserve it.”
Chelsea, in the meantime, isn’t positive where she stands when it comes to blaming Jimmy for the web backlash. “I want to say yes, [I do blame him]. I need to say no,” she told Us. “I said it, however I think the entire point of why it blew up so big is for the reason that entire ‘she lied’ factor.”
Despite who she holds accountable for the drama, Chelsea famous that the conversation by no means must have sparked controversy in any respect.
“It used to be this sort of foolish, goofy dialog that him and I had,” she mentioned. “I didn’t even assume or keep in mind pronouncing it. So the fact that it’s blown up to proportions of this magnitude is mind-blowing.”
Chelsea first addressed the drama after the first batch of episodes dropped on February 14, taking to Instagram to share a video of herself dancing to Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” and captioning the publish: “Go on a show for love > get your butt dragged through the trenches.”
A few days later, Chelsea asked for backup on her claims. “This can be a great time for the individuals who have ever told me that I resembled her to return ahead,” she quipped in a February 21 TikTok video. “Please! I’m begging you.”
Whether it was once the allure of Fox or something else completely, Jimmy did get on one knee and proposed to Chelsea in the pods. The couple’s bliss was once shortlived, as they later discovered themselves at odds after assembly head to head. While Jimmy admitted there were some “hard” moments to look at, he insisted the duo’s love is actual.
“I didn’t suppose they did Chelsea and I’s dating a lot of justice,” he informed Us. “I mean, I would’ve left [if we weren’t satisfied]. There used to be some awkward cringey moments in there. … But I just feel like they didn’t do sufficient justice to how we were as a courting and the happiness that we’re eager about what used to be holding us there and why we were preventing. We cherished every different.”
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Chelsea, for her part, agreed “100 p.c” that the show failed to focus on the couple’s happier instances.
“There had been such a lot of moments that were not aired. The connection we had on the pods was now not aired in any respect, and it used to be so strong and so deep,” she advised Us. “The little moments that we had together and in [the Dominican Republic], where we simply knew, I knew, I made the suitable determination on selecting Jimmy.”
New episodes of Love Is Blind season 6 air Wednesdays on Netflix
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