Each time Netflix proclaims a brand new season of Love Is Blind we’re excited for the potential that somebody will discover love within the pods.
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Since Season 1, when Lauren and Cameron formally turned the Hamiltons, we’ve been craving the identical sort of connection from the {couples}. This season we positioned all our hopes on Amber Desiree “AD” Smith and Clay Gravesande — the only real Black couple to emerge from the pods. The Season 6 finale started streaming on Netflix at the moment, Wednesday, March 6 — and we received’t spoil it for you (but! we’re placing all of the spoilers on the subsequent web page) however we had the possibility to talk with Clay not lengthy after Episodes 7-9 have been launched and are excited to share our Q&A with him in regards to the expertise.
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BOSSIP: How’s all the things been for you for the reason that present has aired?
Clay Gravesande: It’s been a whirlwind for me, however I’ve been attempting to take pleasure in it myself.
BOSSIP: Have you ever despatched Chelsea [Blackwell] flowers but for taking a number of the warmth off of you?
Clay: I used to be truly simply having some dialog along with her within the DMS we have been sort of laughing that she has taken a little bit bit of warmth off me, so I do admire it with this with these final three episodes (7-9). I really feel like the warmth is off me for for at the least every week. You realize? We’ll see.
BOSSIP: Lots of people are evaluating you and AD to Paige and Chris from Married at First Sight, how do you are feeling about that?
Clay: I’ve seen an image of me with the man, however I didn’t actually know what the comparability was and truthfully I’m attempting to not keep an excessive amount of within the feedback as a result of I believe I’m getting roasted, so I attempt keep off that. I’m going to have to look at his season to see the place the comparability is.
For the parents who’re each MAFS and LIB watchers, can all of us agree that Clay is nowhere close to as poisonous as Chris was?
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What did you concentrate on the bean dip feedback and everybody sexualizing ADHD?
Clay: Because it was occurring, AD sort of talked about this stuff to me. With the bean dip dialog, Jeramey and I had banter like that with out speaking about our precise girls, so I wasn’t thrown off completely when Jeramey mentioned that. I used to be extra so attempting to get an understanding of what it meant after which after I discovered that Laura was asking Jeramey to go swipe her boobs up, I used to be like ‘OK Jeremy don’t try this,’ and I believe he knew not to do this. I believed it was a little bit uncalled for, that scene taking place proper there, however I didn’t actually take offense to it. I simply thought that for him to say that on digicam was a little bit loopy, however by way of the motion I do know he would by no means try this. It was only a dangerous timing factor that obtained caught up in that scene, however there was no ailing will emotions for that.
Did you perceive what present you have been occurring? Asking someone about their bodily look and doing Love Is Blind not likely congruent.
Clay: I didn’t watch the present earlier than I obtained on it in order that most likely performs into why I requested that query so confidently, however I additionally was saying what my greatest worry was and I do assume that when you put a lie detector to each man that’s within the pods, one in all their greatest fears is that if they’re not interested in who’s on the opposite facet. Even when you take a look at the Love Is Blind seasons from the previous, those that aren’t bodily aligned don’t work out. I khad that reservation in my thoughts after I was going to the pods and that’s why I mentioned it .
Was Matthew as bizarre as he gave the impression to be?
I’m not gonna kick Matt’s again in. I believe Matt truthfully knew what his objective was. He wasn’t actually there to mingle with the fellas. He was extra so there to seek out his spouse. Matt didn’t do something to me that was alarming, apart from the very fact he simply didn’t talk. I simply sort of took that when he didn’t talk with us, as his technique. Plenty of the fellows had methods going into the pods and I sort of felt loopy as a result of I used to be like, ‘Nicely rattling I don’t have a technique.’ Jimmy had a technique, Matt had a technique, this man Vince had a technique, they usually have been speaking about it amongst their associates. However with Matt, I believe Matt was courting the ladies. I didn’t see the scene with him and Amber Gant so I can’t even say that he was manipulating them. I didn’t even know I used to be Amber’s quantity two.
Did you date anyone else apart from AD, that wasn’t proven?
Clay: It wasn’t as robust a connection. I dated Alejandra for a little bit bit. She’s cool, however she and AD are actually tight, so when me and AD have been getting nearer and like by Day 4, Day 5, me and Alejandra simply began getting the friendship vibe.
Previous to Love Is Blind, what was your courting life like? Did you could have lengthy relationships?
Clay: The longest relationship was 4 years. I’m not this playboy that everybody is sort of saying that I’m. I undoubtedly had some long run relationships. I believe for the previous two years or three years I used to be simply courting.
I wouldn’t say I used to be ever out in these streets. I undoubtedly was speaking to girls, however I wasn’t speaking to love a number of at a time. I undoubtedly was being respectful, however I simply wasn’t getting right into a relationship. I’m all the time working and more often than not with my courting life, folks actually can’t get on the identical pace with my schedule, so it wasn’t actually probably the most profitable factor for me. I sort of was simply targeted on my work and not likely targeted on courting, however I undoubtedly wasn’t like within the streets. That is the closest I obtained to marriage.
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Was there a second whenever you knew that AD was the one?
Clay: This wasn’t actually proven on movie however me AD had numerous conversations about Black wealth. She’s in actual property and she or he sort of let me know what she was attempting to do as a dealer and the way she needed to be an investor and I have a tendency to love these kind of conversations as a result of I’m fairly effectively learn and perceive that to actually have energy in America you do you must have like some kind of land, industrial land or one thing that you just’re doing to create revenue. We talked about that, like opening up Black grocery shops, shopping for actual property and I actually really feel just like the conversations that we’ve got are actually highly effective and I felt like she was a powerful Black lady. She jogged my memory numerous my mother, primarily based off of her tales within the pods of just like the resiliency that she went by. I believe numerous the deep dialog that we had within the pods, I wish to say after Day 5 or Day 4 was actually convincing me, ‘OK I really like this lady.’
Hold going for extra from Clay about his relationship with AD, which of the fellows was not being sincere with the others about their relationship challenges and the way he’s feeling in regards to the present’s upcoming reunion. Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD! When you haven’t watched the marriage episode you may wish to wait till after it’s important to maintain studying.
