Love Is Blind Creator Says 'We Aren't the Police' After Receiving Fan Backlash Over Vetting Process

Warning: This post contains spoilers from Love is blind season 7 reunion

• Love is blind Creator Chris Coelen gave insight into the Netflix series’ background checks and addressed several social media controversies from Season 7
• Coelen addressed Tyler Francis, who keeps his three biological children under wraps, and explained that being a parent doesn’t stop contestants from joining the show
• The producer responded to Hannah Jiles’ claim that Nick Dorka joined the show with the intention of becoming famous
• Coelen also explained why the stories of Tim Godbee and Alex Byrd and Leo Braudy and Brittany Wisniewski were not fully captured on the show

Love is blind creator, Chris Coelen, sets the record straight in the vetting process they carry out for all participants.

Ahead of the Season 7 reunion, which aired on October 30, Coelen spoke about the extensive vetting that the Netflix reality show production uses to vet each hopeful and want to enter the groups. This season, the series’ diligence has been called into question due to several controversies on social media.

As fans may recall, Tyler Francis told now-wife Ashley Adionser that he was a sperm donor for a close friend and her wife, and fathered three biological children as a result. Tyler claimed at the time that he didn’t have a good relationship with the kids and that they didn’t even know what he looked like.

However, it was later leaked on social media that Tyler was more involved than he let on. Photos of him and the children spending Christmas morning in matching pajamas circulated online, along with accusations that he owed child support and abandoned his children to be on the show.

Ashley Adionser (left) and Tyler Francis.

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Aside from Tyler and Ashley’s drama, Nick Dorka came under fire when Hannah Jiles accused him of joining the show with the intention of becoming “the most famous person ever on Love is blind.”

“We have a very strict vetting process,” Coelen said The Hollywood Reporter. “We have background checks and psychological assessments. Everyone in the world has their own story, and we are not the police. By the way, we do not regulate or monitor their conversations whether they are recorded or not. We are not dictating to them what they should talk about and what they shouldn’t. ”

The television producer added that the fact that the participants have children “does not exclude them from participating in the process.” He argued that stars can have a “bad relationship with their mother”, be “in debt” or have certain sexual experiences that should not prevent them from being on the show.

“Everybody has something. Everybody’s lived a life, and it’s not our job to make sure everybody’s talking about everything,” he explained. “Our job is to give them a forum to use in the way they want to see if they can connect with someone and fall in love, and hopefully in the process, because it contributes to falling in love, they’ll be very open and transparent with each other, even through some topics that can be very difficult.”

Ashley Adionser and Tyler Francis on ‘Love Is Blind’.

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Coelen continued: “It’s not our duty to inform everyone of everything that might be of interest to you. It’s not really our place, because it’s our job to document it.”

When it comes to Nick’s intentions, the producer admitted that “you never know what’s really going on in someone’s heart,” adding that “only the person who lives it really knows.”

“I also think just because you’re interested in participating Love is blind or being on TV, that doesn’t mean you don’t also want love,” he pointed out. “Those two things can coexist very peacefully.”

Nick Dorka and Hannah Jiles.

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Although the production tries its best to discern “whether someone’s primary motivation” is to fall in love, Coelen admitted that “sometimes we make mistakes.”

“If, in case they find someone they fall in love with, are they really interested in marriage?” he asked rhetorically. “That’s a big if regardless of any other factors. And I think we’re doing a pretty good job of checking for that, and that’s something I care a lot about.”

Coelen also addressed fans’ frustration that parts of Tim Godbee and Alexandra Byrd’s story weren’t filmed, including two big moments leading up to their deaths.

(L) Tim and Alex on ‘Love Is Blind’.

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“Listen, if we were filming, it would be on the show. We’re super transparent,” he explained. “The philosophy we have Love is blind Whatever happened, we want to do our best to explain what actually happened. That’s what we’re trying to do and sometimes it can be frustrating for people.”

There are times when the production won’t be filming, and Coelen noted that some couples choose to keep certain things off camera, like in the case of Alex and Tim. Coelen also pointed out that Alex publicly revealed that they decided to keep some moments private.

“So we can’t control it,” he continued. “And if that’s something they’re going to do, then that’s something they’re going to do, but we definitely want to get them to talk about it then.

Leo Braudy and Brittany Wisniewski.

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The producer also addressed why the cameras did not follow Brittany Wisniewski and Leo Braudy after their engagement. A few weeks after the embarrassing revelation, the couple broke off their engagement, following a trip to Miami, leaving viewers begging for the lost footage.

Coelen explained that many of the stories they tell on the show aren’t “really known” until filming is over. With that in mind, the production decided to follow couples they feel have “a chance to walk down the aisle and say ‘I do’.”

“In the case of Leo and Brittany, we had seven couples get engaged. We generally budget for five, sometimes we stretch to six,” he said. “And we just felt like they were probably the least likely [to marry] and, of course, that turned out to be true.”

“I didn’t think we were going to even tell Leo and Brittany’s story on the show,” he continued, explaining that the only reason they did it was because they decided to follow Hannah and Nick.

In the capsules, Leo was one of Hannah’s potential matches and Coelen said that the production could not tell her story without telling Leo and ergo Brittanyna.

“You have to tell Leo’s story to really get the full picture of what Hannah was going through,” Coelen explained. “And you can’t tell Leo’s story without telling Brittany’s story. So we decided we were going to tell all those stories and then own up to the fact that we didn’t follow them. That’s a decision we made.”

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Love is blind season 7 is now streaming in its entirety on Netflix.

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