‘Love Is Blind’ Alum Lauren Speed-Hamilton Blasts Netflix For Failing To Properly Showcase Black Women During Latest Season + Claims Production Cuts Engaged Couples They Don’t ‘Deem Most Entertaining’

Lauren Speed-Hamilton

‘Love Is Blind’ Alum Lauren Speed-Hamilton Blasts Netflix For Failing To Properly Showcase Black Women During Latest Season + Claims Production Cuts Engaged Couples They Don’t ‘Deem Most Entertaining’

Lauren Speed-Hamilton is taking a stand against “Love Is Blind” for Black women.

Lauren Speed-Hamilton

On Monday (Oct. 24) Lauren Speed-Hamilton took to Twitter to scrutinize Netflix’s reality dating show“Love Is Blind” for not properly featuring Black women in the third season. Lauren Speed-Hamilton — who met her now-husband, Cameron Hamilton, during season one of the reality show — wrote:

“I don’t like how LIB be cutting all the black women. How come they are always in the trailer but not the show…”

Lauren continued:

“I know it’s slim pickings but about 85% of them couples be forced (just moving forward for entertainment purposes) anyway. Y’all could at least force some more sisters to move forward throughout the show.”

Lauren Speed-Hamilton, Cameron Hamilton

Responding to a user that questioned what’s the protocol for choosing what airs on the show, the 34-year-old revealed:

“It’s couples that get engaged that aren’t even shown sometimes. I think they only show what they deem most entertaining.”

She then added that production will simply “stop filming” these couples and send them home.

This might not come as a surprise being that the show has encountered similar judgment in the past. Earlier this year, the show’s co-host, Vanessa Lachey, received backlash for comments she made about the series’ lack of body-shape diversity. Vanessa figured the contestants didn’t fit the body types of the “norm” in reality television, labeling them “insecure.” In an interview she shared:

“Their whole life they’ve been so insecure about being themselves because of this crazy swipe generation that we are in and this catfishing world that we’re in, that they’re so afraid to be themselves.” 

Vanessa added:

 “I wonder if they truly don’t have enough time in those two weeks to find themselves, A, and then be themselves to then find that spouse.”

Vanessa Lachey

Chris Coelen, “Love Is Blind” creator, defended the team’s decision-making process. He said:

 “I think it’s very funny for people to say, ‘Oh, you put somebody who was, you know, heavier in there, and then you just didn’t follow them.’ It’s not like anybody wants that to happen or doesn’t want that to happen. What I want to have happen is just to be true to the experiment.”

Chris added:

“You put people in there. They can’t see each other. If they fall in love, then we follow it and if they don’t, we don’t.” 

“Love Is Blind” debuted on Netflix back in 2020 as part of a three-week event. The show, currently on season three, was renewed for a fourth and fifth season back in March of this year. 

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