{"id":155478,"date":"2025-03-12T22:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/are-love-is-blinds-sara-and-joey-dating-after-season-8-reunion\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:15:03","slug":"are-love-is-blinds-sara-and-joey-dating-after-season-8-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/are-love-is-blinds-sara-and-joey-dating-after-season-8-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Love Is Blind&#8217;s Sara and Joey Dating After Season 8 Reunion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/love-is-blind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Love Is Blind<\/em><\/a> season 8 stars <strong>Sara Carton<\/strong> and <strong>Joey Leveille<\/strong> have sparked dating rumors following the show\u2019s dramatic reunion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone very close to the situation confirmed they\u2019re a couple and have been for a while,\u201d reality TV tea-spiller and \u201cReality Receipts\u201d podcast cohost <strong>StorytimeWithRikkii<\/strong> claimed in a Tuesday, March 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@storytimewithrikkii\/video\/7480757737475919147?amp%3Bsender_device=pc&amp;amp%3Bweb_id=7314714379093165598&amp;is_from_webapp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok post<\/a> while also mentioning it on her podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Rikkii reported that the duo was allegedly spotted together at a hair salon by fans in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where season 8 of <em>Love Is Blind<\/em> was filmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re waiting for everything to die down to announce it,\u201d Rikkii said of Sara, 29, and Joey\u2019s reported romance.<\/p>\n<p>While predicting that the oncology nurse and physician associate would claim they are just \u201cfriends,\u201d Rikkii said, \u201cY\u2019all already been spotted together. People already know. People in your inner circles have already spilled beans, so you might as well come clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that \u201cMonica was allegedly blindsided by the news,\u201d referring to <strong>Monica Dan\u00fas<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/do-love-is-blinds-joey-and-monica-get-married-season-8-couple-splits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who left Joey<\/a>, 35, at the altar in the season 8 finale of <em>Love Is Blind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sara did the same thing to <strong>Ben Mezzenga<\/strong>, telling him during their wedding ceremony that she \u201calways wanted a partner to be on the same wavelength\u201d as her, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/are-love-is-blinds-ben-and-sara-still-together-clues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he wasn\u2019t The One<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t want that to be misunderstood. I still love you and everything about you is amazing. And I care about you so much,\u201d Sara explained to Ben, who responded, \u201cI care about you, too. And I love you so much, and I know I want to stay with you and keep growing our relationship if you\u2019ll let me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sara told him, \u201cWe\u2019ll see,\u201d then dished about her reasons for dumping Ben, 28, to her mom and sister while in the car driving away from the ceremony.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.75%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"photo-credit\"><span class=\"credit\">Clifton Prescod\/Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI remember, like, I asked him about, like, Black Lives Matter, and I\u2019m no expert, but, like, when I asked him about it, he was like, \u2018I guess I never really thought too much about it,\u2019\u201d Sara explained. \u201cThat affected me, especially in our own city, like, how could it not? How did it not make you think about something?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Netflix star added that she asked her former fianc\u00e9 what his church\u2019s views were about the LGBTQ community, \u201cand he said he didn\u2019t know,\u201d which Sara also found off-putting.<\/p>\n<p>Filming for season 8 of <em>Love Is Blind<\/em> took place in early 2024, and the contestants were brought back together for the reunion that aired on Sunday, March 9.<\/p>\n<p>Sara claimed that despite not marrying Ben, they had decided to continue their relationship and actually lived together for two weeks until she had to head to Nashville, Tennessee, to finish out a travel nursing contract she had there.<\/p>\n<p>The day she drove to Nashville, Sara said she didn\u2019t hear from the real estate developer \u201cthat much,\u201d but she \u201cdidn\u2019t think much about it\u201d because she knew \u201che was out with friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I get to Nashville, that\u2019s when I noticed that he had removed me from Find My Friends [a location sharing app], which I was shocked to see. I was really confused because I thought we left on good terms, and I honestly thought Ben was going to be in Nashville that week with me,\u201d Sara shared. \u201cSo, I was confused. That was out of left field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sara went on to reveal that she texted Ben only to receive \u201cthree very scripted apologies\u201d in reply. Then she didn\u2019t hear from him for \u201ca month-and-a-half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben told host <strong>Nick Lachey<\/strong> that he was under the impression that he and Sara were \u201cbroken up\u201d when she left for Nashville. He also said that he made sure Sara got to Nashville safely, but after that he removed her from the location app.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/are-love-is-blinds-sara-and-joey-dating-after-season-8-reunion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Is Blind season 8 stars Sara Carton and Joey Leveille have sparked dating rumors following the show\u2019s dramatic reunion. \u201cSomeone very close to the situation confirmed they\u2019re a couple and have been for a while,\u201d reality TV tea-spiller and \u201cReality Receipts\u201d podcast cohost StorytimeWithRikkii claimed in a Tuesday, March 11, TikTok post while also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}