How I Almost Became a Love Is Blind Cast Member

Somehow, it seems fitting that my possible brush with fame started with a LinkedIn message. It was through the professional social-media website — which functions as a digital résumé bank — that I learned the Netflix reality-TV show Love Is Blind was interested in having me as a participant. Season 7 of the blind-dating program aired its last episode earlier this week. So it’s not a spoiler to reveal that I ultimately passed on the opportunity. That didn’t stop me from watching it, however. The experience taught me some things about myself, and about the modern state of American romance.

My initial inclination was to treat the message as a joke when I received it in April 2023. So I asked its sender if it was. He assured me he was serious, and told me to give him a call. Having learned that the then-forthcoming season of the show would draw from a D.C.-area pool, and being single at the time, I decided at least to hear him out.

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Jack Butler is a former submissions editor at National Review.

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Somehow, it seems fitting that my possible brush with fame started with a LinkedIn message. It was through the professional social-media website — which functions as a digital résumé bank — that I learned the Netflix reality-TV show Love Is Blind was interested in having me as a participant. Season 7 of the blind-dating program aired its last episode earlier this week. So it’s not a spoiler to reveal that I ultimately passed on the opportunity. That didn’t stop me from watching it, however. The experience taught me some things about myself, and about the modern state of American romance.

My initial inclination was to treat the message as a joke when I received it in April 2023. So I asked its sender if it was. He assured me he was serious, and told me to give him a call. Having learned that the then-forthcoming season of the show would draw from a D.C.-area pool, and being single at the time, I decided at least to hear him out.