The two words that make or break a reality star

And it also overlaps with the department how I wrote that because the update is a news item that I broke regarding Love is Blind, the Netflix dating show where desperate single straight people get locked themselves into like little cubicles and talk to each other through speakers and decide to get engaged after just a couple of days of flirting and talking back and forth.

and then realize that their relationships are super toxic.

And yeah, that's the show.

You probably know what it is.

Anyway, I have some feelings about it.

But that's not what we're here to talk about.

We're here to talk about the lawsuit, or a lawsuit, one of them.

There have been several over the years.

This one is involving a contestant on season five of the show, which was in Houston, and was The person was actually not featured on Love is Blind.

They got edited out, which is pretty common.

There's some people who have, you know, even get coupled up and engaged or whatever and never actually are shown on the show or aren't followed by cameras.

And in any case, she sued the production companies associated with the show, along with another cast member for sexual assault, false imprisonment, and other things.

That lawsuit was filed years ago, and it has been going through all of the... legal motions and fascinating things that I've been watching by looking at the court documents, like how the production company of Love is Blind, Kinetic Content, claimed in an early filing that they had, or the court had no jurisdiction over it, a Texas court, because they had nothing to do with the show.

It was produced by Delirium.

a production company that happened to have the exact same physical address as Kinetic Content and also other things in common.

And also people who were on that season of Love is Blind received email messages from KineticContent.com addresses.

And so basically, you know, it was the same same company.

And I don't understand all this corporate and legal shenanigans, but it's been going on for years, in addition to things like the judge ruling about various kinds of discovery and turning over tapes, etc.

So I've been checking in every few months just to see kind of what's happening, check in on things.

Any hearings or filings.

And among the other things I discovered was the actual Love is Blind cast contract, which was one of the exhibits in one of the filings.

So I published that.

And you can see that on realityblur.com. And I will link to that also in the show notes or episode description section of your podcast app.

What I learned when I checked in a few weeks ago was that the lawsuit had been settled and the judge approved that settlement in early July.

The proposed settlement or the letter from the lawyers saying that they'd agreed to this came in June.