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Rob Feeley is sharing his side of the story.
The Love Is Blind star spoke out after the Oct. 28 episodes showed him going off on the cast and crew while filming season 11, leading fiancée Michaella Giorgio to call off their engagement.
His issues began while introducing Michaella to his friends at a Boston bar, where he shouted at producers to “cut the cameras,” when the restaurant refused to serve his friend more alcohol.
“I probably should have handled it in a more mature way and not crashed out,” Rob admitted to Netflix’s Tudum in an interview published Oct. 28. “I was getting frustrated with the cameras in my face constantly.”
He had another “meltdown,” as Michaella put it, when the cast gathered for a St. Patrick’s Day mixer—which Rob explained was caused by a few different sore spots.
For one, the 40-year-old said he began feeling the pressure of the wedding as his mother had been shopping for her dress.
“I felt it crashing down,” he shared. “I was letting everyone down.”
He was also triggered by the dynamic among the cast, though he denied feeling jealous about Michaella talking with costar Matt Waldrip, a.k.a. “the beekeeper.”
“I thought everything was bulls–t,” Rob explained. “I know that people found love, but I thought at the moment, it’s just all for the show. It’s all for the camera.”
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But the AI infrastructure salesman acknowledged that he should have acted more “calm” and “even-keeled.”
“I could have handled things a little bit differently towards the end, but there was a lot of anxiety in my life, a lot of pressure,” he said. “If I hurt somebody, that wasn’t my intent.”
“We’re all human and just have to continue to work towards being better, I guess,” he continued. “I know who I am when I look in the mirror in the morning, and if America doesn’t, that’s on them.”
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The couple ultimately ended their relationship after leaving the party, with Rob explaining, “It wasn’t really a discussion. We separated, and then it was just over.”
From Michaella’s POV, she believes Rob was suffering from “paranoia” when introducing her to his friends. But when it came to Rob’s behavior at the mixer, the 35-year-old told Tudum the only explanation he gave her at the time was, “This wasn’t the environment for me.”
While the two did speak on the phone days after the mixer, Michaella claimed that Rob denied his crash out had anything to do with her.
“I was like, ‘Well, how am I supposed to take that? It is about me. This whole experience is about you and me, not just you,'” she recalled, though conceded, “Rob is a really great guy, and I think he has a heart of gold, the best of intentions, and just some work to do on himself.”
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For a look at more moments the cameras didn’t capture, read on to find out which Love Is Blind couples found love off-camera.
Paige Tillman and Josh Simmons
Paige Tillman and Josh Simmonsgot engaged during season five but the cameras stopped rolling after the proposal, and they didn’t get much air time.”After the show we stayed engaged and even planned our wedding,” they said in a joint Instagram post in October 2023. “During the time we shared together we fell deeply in love and also found out we just wanted different things out of life. We made the hardest decision to end our engagement, we have nothing but love and respect for each other and always will.”The pair got engaged on season five, went to Mexico with the cast and were filmed up until their wedding day, Renee Poche told Pop Sugar in October 2023. However, their love story was cut from the show.”Once we got back to Houston and back to the real world, I started noticing things that I kind of ignored or blew off that were red flags I should have picked up on,” the vet said. “And eventually I did say ‘no’ at the altar.”Renee explained that there was “so much” that went down off-camera. “It was an emotional roller coaster. There were ups and downs,” she continued. “There were tons of funny, even better moments than the few little clips they showed. It would’ve been amazing to watch even through the really rough parts.”
Marshall Glaze and Kacia Clark
After his engagement to Jackie Bonds ended early in season four—and his ex-fiancée immediately moved on by dating her other pod connection, Josh Demas—Marshall exclusively revealed to E! News that he tried rebounding with another cast mate he connected with in the pods.”I actually reached out to Kacia,” Marshall told E! News. “We tried.” Kacia didn’t receive much screen time on the show, but made a lasting impression on Marshall. Alas, he explained that he was still too hung up on his failed relationship with Jackie to make anything work.”I wanted to just distance myself from all of that, from that experience,” Marshall admitted. “It was going to be difficult to try to make a relationship with Kacia.” He added that ending things with Kacia was “rough” and he stills feels “apologetic about starting something and getting her hopes up with me going back in my shell like, ‘This isn’t really the time or the place.'”
Jackie Bonds and Josh Demas
Technically, viewers did get to see the start of Jackie and Josh’s controversial relationship happen, though Jackie fired back at claims that they began dating before she broke up with Marshall. Taking to Instagram in 2023 to “speak the truth,” Jackie clarified the timeline and denied cheating on her former fiancée.”Marshall and I were broken up before I saw Josh at the coffee shop. I am wearing different clothes, my hair is styled different and at the end of the video I say ‘I DON’T KNOW IF I AM GOING TO BE WITH JOSH,'” she wrote. “I am not sure what the reason is for playing the coffee shop date before the break up.”During the live reunion, Jackie revealed she and Josh have been dating since the show ended and recently moved in together. After the special aired, Jackie posted a tribute to her boyfriend on social media. “A year of standing side by side with my other half. Our journey to find each other was not easy but it was worth it,” she captioned a series of photos of her with Josh. “Thank you for loving me, standing by me and protecting me. I love you forever and through every realm.”
Paul Peden and Wendi Kong
Torn between Micah Lussier and Amber Wilder in the pods, Paul ultimately chose to propose to Micah, only to be the one to say no at the altar. And after filming ended for season four, Paul decided to rekindle a connection he had early on in the experiment, just not with Amber.”There was another girl Wendi, the aerospace engineer,” Paul exclusively revealed to E! News. “I talked to her a lot. I had an insane connection with her.” While Wendi was another woman who didn’t get much airtime, Paul shared that he bonded with her in the real world. However, he clarified that they were “never exclusive, but went on dates.”The pair were only together for a brief amount of time because, Paul explained, they were almost too compatible.”It’s almost too much,” Paul said. “I like myself, but I don’t know if I like myself that much that I want to marry myself. We were really similar.”
Kyle Abrams and Deepti Vempati
After months of speculation that their friendship had blossomed into a romance after their respective engagements ended, the season two duo revealed they were dating during the spinoff series Love Is Blind’s After the Altar. Too bad Kyle and Deepti had already split by the time the episodes had dropped in 2022.”I understand many of you are curious as to where Deepti and I stand today,” Kyle wrote on Instagram. “Since After the Alter was filmed, we had decided to go our separate ways in early summer.”Kyle has since moved on, getting engaged to Tania Leanos in 2023. They later split, with him marrying wife Ashleigh Abrams in 2026.
Shayne Jansen and Shaina Hurley
Did they or didn’t they? After Shayne chose to propose to Natalie Lee in season two, Shaina still made her feelings for him known. And after Shayne and Natalie didn’t get married in the finale, they tried to give their relationship another shot off-camera. But Natalie revealed during Love Is Blind After the Altar that she discovered “flirtatious messages” between her boyfriend and Shaina about “what would have happened if they ended up together.” The direct messages lead to the (second) demise of their romance, with Natalie explaining, “That’s why we’re not together anymore.”On After the Altar, Shaina insisted that it was “slander,” telling Shayne, “We’ve always been appropriate. We’ve never hung out alone.” (They, at the time, they were indeed hanging out alone.)During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Natalie suggested “a lot more” of Shayne and Shaina’s correspondences were left “on the cutting room floor.””I understand, in terms of how much you can really show in these three 45-minute-long episodes,” she said, “but what I do have is, again, text messages and emails with Shayne, talking about him unsending Instagram messages, deleting messages, and those DMs with Shaina, so that’s something that I talked about that didn’t make the cut, that I think kind of would have helped with the story.”
Mark Cuevas and Lauren “LC” Chamblin
While he initially proposed to Jessica Batten in season one, Mark also had a connection with “LC” in the pods. So, after his relationship with Jessica ended, Mark and “LC” rekindled things IRL. But their romance was shortlived, LC ended things when she learned that Mark was dating someone else.”Mark and I were casually dating, but talked about remaining exclusive, especially because of COVID-19, but that’s over now,” LC shared in a statement to E! News in June 2020. “The main thing I learned from the show and past relationships is that I deserve to be treated like a priority, and not an option.”In his own statement, Mark said, “I enjoyed spending time with LC for a few weeks, but at no point were we in an exclusive relationship, as LC confirmed herself. I wish her the absolute best.”Since then, Mark found love with Aubrey Rainey, whom he married in 2022. The couple have two sons, Ace and Axton.
