These Love Is Blind Filming Secrets Will Really Open Your Eyes

Since Love Is Blind premiered on Netflix in 2020, there has been speculation about how the Netflix dating competition show all comes together. Here are all the behind-the-scenes secrets explained. 

Viewers may be blind to these behind-the-scenes tricks. 

When Love Is Blind first premiered in 2020, fans tuned in to new episodes to find out which couples would make it down the aisle. However, now that the franchise released its season nine finale on Oct. 22, that's far from the only question the Netflix series has audiences asking. 

Case in point: Following season one, reality TV lovers everywhere began speculating over why the contestants on the show always drank out of gold cups, with many theorizing it was to help hide the amount of liquid in the glass and avoid editing errors. 

But Chris Coelen—who created the dating competition show—eventually set the record straight, revealing that the choice was made simply for aesthetics. 

"When you turn on the show, you know it's our show," he told Variety in 2022. "It's a very authentic, really true following of these people's journeys, but I like the fact that we have this sort of connective tissue with that in a really light way, it's fun."

And that's not the only Love Is Blind mystery that has been solved. In fact, Matthew Duliba—who appeared on the Netflix hit's sixth installment—previously revealed how much money he made on the show, saying that contestants are paid $5,000 to appear on the pod portion of the series.  

Plus, Love Is Blind cohosts Vanessa Lachey and Nick Lachey recently shared the hilarious reason that they are no longer allowed to be on set when couples leave the pods and come face to face for the first time. 

"We all used to be at the reveal," Vanessa told Parade in a video published Oct. 8. "So when they would come out on the red carpet, it was me, it was Nick, we had like the glam girls there, we had costume design, we had audio. We had everybody standing there."

After the first season, however, producers realized having that many people behind the scenes was too much of a disruption.