Megan Fox reacts to ‘Love Is Blind’ contestant Chelsea Blackwell’s look-alike feedback
Warning: This submit incorporates spoilers for Season Six of “Love Is Blind.”
Megan Fox is addressing the viral look-alike feedback from Season Six of “Love Is Blind” and defending star Chelsea Blackwell.
Throughout Season Six, which premiered Feb. 14, Chelsea mentioned she will get advised “on a regular basis” that she appears just like the actor.
Greater than a month after the “Love Is Blind” Season Six reunion, Fox advised “E! News” that with regard to Chelsea’s feedback, she’s “by no means had extra individuals textual content me about one thing.”
“I’ve had lots of people textual content me and cease me,” she mentioned in an interview revealed April 14. “Even different celebrities at like, Oscar events had been like, ‘Do you watch ‘Love is Blind’? And I used to be like, ‘No, however I do know what you’re speaking about.’”
Fox mentioned she has seen an image of Chelsea and sees the place the contestant is coming from.
“100 thousand p.c, individuals have advised her, ‘You type of appear like Megan Fox.’ So I consider she’s telling the reality and I hope like she nonetheless has that sparkle in her eye. I hope the world didn’t steal it from her,” Fox mentioned.
In February, Chelsea mentioned she regrets the feedback, including that she reached out to Fox on to apologize after swift backlash.
Fox didn’t tackle Chelsea’s apology however mentioned “nobody deserves to get bullied.”
“I don’t assume she deserved that. I believe individuals went manner too onerous,” Fox mentioned.
What did Chelsea Blackwell say about Megan Fox on ‘Love Is Blind?
On Season Six of the present, Chelsea, a flight attendant, says she will get advised “on a regular basis” that she appears just like the actor when on flights. “It is simply because I’ve darkish hair and blue eyes,” she says. “However I do not see it, so do not get excited.”
“I do not even know if it is (Machine Gun Kelly’s) wife or his fiancée,” she says, not mentioning Fox’s title, as a substitute permitting Jimmy to fill within the clean. “You are saying you appear like Megan Fox?” Jimmy says, smiling. She continues, “It is solely as a result of I’ve mild eyes and darkish hair.”
Jimmy appears enthusiastic about this comparability, asking, “Can we get married?” Followers, on-line, appeared to think this was a “deciding factor” for him.
How Jimmy Presnell reacted when he noticed Chelsea Blackwell for the primary time
When Jimmy and Chelsea finally get engaged and he comes face-to-face along with his fiancée, he would not fairly agree together with her evaluation. In reality, the episode title — “She Lied to Me” — is a direct quote of Jimmy’s.
“She positively lied to me about some, uh, how she regarded. Chelsea advised me she regarded like Megan Fox. On the finish of the day it would not actually matter. I’m very drawn to her. I can work with that,” he tells the digicam.
Sitting side-by-side after their first assembly, Jimmy tells Chelsea she was “beautiful.” She asks if she was what he anticipated. “Um, you advised me a thousand issues,” he says.
The web exploded on the comparability
On-line, viewers recall the second that “Love Is Blind” Season 4 solid member Zack Goytowski told his short-lived fiancée Irina Solomonova she regarded like Megan Fox.
“One other season of promoting the Megan Fox fantasy within the pods,” one X user wrote.
Viewers questioned Chelsea’s technique, and that evaluating your self to Megan Fox was elevating the bar too excessive.
“Even when I been advised one million instances that I regarded like Megan Fox…I ain’t no Megan Fox. That units the bar to a stage ain’t no one reaching….and now everyone gonna be disillusioned,” one X user wrote.
Jimmy’s response to Chelsea can be below scrutiny, with individuals questioning what it bodes for the remainder of their relationship.
Not Jimmy saying “She positively lied to me about how she regarded”
I knew their meet felt off #LoveIsBlind— Miss Coco’s Nook (@MissCocosCorner) February 14, 2024
Chelsea Blackwell says she apologized to Megan Fox
Throughout a Feb. 22 interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” Chelsea mentioned she contacted Fox after her feedback went viral.
“I did attain out to her (Fox), and I used to be like, ‘I’m so sorry I did this to you,’” Chelsea mentioned, including that she hasn’t heard again from Fox. “I’m simply ready for Megan to reply.”
On Feb. 19, Chelsea additionally spoke out about her feedback on the present in a viral TikTok she made.
She mentioned, “This could be a good time for the individuals who have ever advised me that I resembled her to come back ahead.”
Whereas laughing, she added, “Please, I’m begging you.”
Chelsea captioned the clip, “Will the true megan fox please rise up.”
This text was initially revealed on TODAY.com