Chelsea Blackwell and Jimmy Presnell conquered the Love Is Blind season 6 pods nevertheless it nonetheless wasn’t sufficient to get them down the aisle.
Jimmy and Chelsea bought engaged sight unseen contained in the Love Is Blind pods after they each pursued robust connections with a number of individuals. Nonetheless, days earlier than their marriage ceremony day, he broke it off.
“I used to be actually, actually blindsided,” Chelsea solely informed Us Weekly forward of the March 2024 finale. “We had our ups and our downs — and our downs have been down — however our ups have been so good thus far. Every week earlier than that we have been over the moon [and] we have been so good. We have been good earlier than we walked into that date, we have been speaking about our marriage ceremony songs on the reception.”
Jimmy confessed to Chelsea that he now not wished to get married after she “broke [his] belief in an enormous approach,” referring to her mentioning his previous hookup with a buddy on digicam.
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“We have been preventing actually arduous to get there, and I had actually robust emotions about her,” Jimmy informed Us in February 2024. “We’re studying increasingly more about one another [every] single day and the couple days main as much as it, it was extra of a battle to provide her one further day, sadly.”
Preserving scrolling for Chelsea and Jimmy’s ups and downs from a pod engagement, a devastating breakup and a possible reconciliation:
A Pod Love Triangle
Jimmy and Chelsea instantly linked contained in the Love Is Blind pods when the Netflix experiment got here to Charlotte, North Carolina. (The present was reportedly filmed in 2023 however began airing in early 2024.) Jimmy additionally had a robust reference to Jessica Vestal however was hesitant about turning into an prompt stepdad to her 10-year-old daughter, Autumn.
Jimmy claimed he realized that Chelsea was The One throughout their remaining date, which was three hours longer than his remaining dialog with Jessica.
“[Jess] walked out on me,” Jimmy recalled to Us, noting that that they had a disagreement. “The way in which she dealt with battle was not for me. I bought a glimpse of what I may need sooner or later and I personally don’t care if she’s the most popular lady on the planet. If somebody’s going to speak right down to me and be disrespectful to me, I’m going.”
She Stated Sure
With Jessica out of the image, Jimmy centered solely on his relationship with Chelsea and proposed. She fortunately accepted and needed to inform her different connection, Trevor Sova, that she was off the market.
“I used to be pretty assured moving into and, yeah, I used to be undoubtedly shocked once I went in and the primary phrases out of Chelsea’s mouth I may inform that, ‘Oh, Jimmy already proposed to her, that is the way it’s going to go.’ I used to be not prepared for that in any respect,” Trevor informed Us in February 2024. “Whoever you had the final date with within the day was recent in your thoughts and the day earlier than, I had an early morning date with Chelsea after which Jimmy was her final date at night time after which Jimmy was her morning proposal. So, I do assume that sort of performed a job in it.”
Publish-Pod Bliss
Chelsea was over the moon to fulfill Jimmy in particular person, begin planning their marriage ceremony and head out on the forged’s post-pod trip to the Dominican Republic. Coming again dwelling to Charlotte proved difficult when Chelsea turned jealous of Jimmy’s shut feminine associates, considered one of whom he beforehand attached with (and privately admitted to her off digicam).
A Love Sq. on the Lake (Half 2)
The drama didn’t cease there as the forged’s lake social gathering saw the return of each Jessica and Trevor. Upon seeing Trevor for the primary time, Chelsea remarked that he was extra of her bodily kind than Jimmy they usually exchanged a couple of flirty exchanges. That being mentioned, they ended on platonic phrases as her love for Jimmy proved stronger.
On the similar time, Jimmy met Jess and confused that she continues to be his “No.1” bodily — however nonetheless wouldn’t date her out of respect for Chelsea.
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The Finish of the Highway
Within the season 6 finale, Jimmy broke up with Chelsea after she introduced up his previous hookup on digicam.
“She broke my belief in an enormous approach, and that basically, actually harm me,” he informed Us. “And it was all I may take into consideration. And that got here from a spot of me caring about my associates and never wanting my associates’ particulars and every little thing on the market. I beloved her.”
Chelsea has since regretted the tone of her remarks however not the topic.
“We’re in a relationship and within the regular world, in fact, the cameras meant nothing to me. I used to be residing my life,” she informed Us. “I’m attempting to resolve if I have to make this large choice, if I’m going to say sure or no, and this can be a large elephant within the room for me. [We had] this problem in our relationship, however you don’t need me to deliver it as much as the cameras since you have been involved about the way you look to the world?”
March 2024
The twosome sparked reconciliation rumors sooner or later after their breakup scene dropped on Netflix. They shared matching images at a Florida restaurant earlier than snapping a pic along with a fan.
Whereas Chelsea and Jimmy haven’t addressed the place they stand, they sat collectively on the season 6 reunion. (A trailer dropped on March 8, sooner or later after the rumors swirled, and can air on March 13.)
