Love Is Blind star Abhishek ‘Shake’ Chatterjee has defended his behavior throughout the experiment, in the tense season two reunion.
Throughout the dating show, the 33-year-old made several comments about his fiancée Deepti Vempati behind her back, telling his co-stars that he wasn’t physically attracted to her.
The vet also made remarks about body image during the initial pod dates, and would ask women if he would be able to lift them on his shoulders at music festivals.
When host Nick Lachey asked what he was missing in the conventional dating world that he thought he could find on the Netflix series – in a clip obtained by People Magazine – he said: ‘I want the emotional connection, everything that we know the show is supposed to do.
‘But there’s also certain criteria there that goes beyond the emotional connection.
‘Love is not purely blind to me.’
It was at this point that Vanessa Lachey, who co-hosts the program with husband Nick, suggested that he was ‘on the wrong dating how’.
Hitting back at this, Shake continued: ‘But I wanted to be partially blind. I wanted to be [on] Love Is Blurry.
‘I’m doubling down on the beginning. We all have our physical preferences. Every woman in here is beautiful. I think you’re all beautiful. I’m not attracted to all of you.
‘Unfortunately, the only one I’m attracted to is Vanessa [Lachey] – and I wish I wasn’t!
‘The point is, it’s not a choice. You don’t choose. It’s nature, baby. We’re animals.’
Having precisely none of it, Nick had a mic drop moment when he added: ‘No, you treat animals. We’re human beings. There’s a big difference.’
Shake and Deepti got to the aisle in the wedding finale episode of Love Is Blind, which dropped on Netflix last week.
However, the bride called things off at the very last moment, stating that she deserved to be with someone who was sure about their feelings for her.