Let’s talk about the cast of Love Is Blind Season 5. To call them dysfunctional would be a disservice to all of the ragtag bunches and motley crews on reality TV. The Houston cast of Love Is Blind… they are truly too complicated a bunch to sum up in one word. To sum up bluntly and succinctly: Uche made Aaliyah feel awful about being a “recent cheater,” Aaliyah ghosted Uche in the pods, Stacy made her fiancé Izzy cry in a closet, Izzy dragged Johnie through the mud, Johnie came crawling back to the nice guy she dumped a day earlier, and Lydia was treated like a stalker by several members of the cast. That’s not even getting into all of the stuff that did not make the final edit.
But while everyone else in the cast was fully popping off and going in, there seemed to be at least one nice guy in the midst of the mess: Chris, the mild-mannered, boy-next-door type whose only issue seemed to be that he was too stable. We watched him open up to Johnie in the pods and then have his heartbroken when she chose Izzy (who then dumped her). But it seemed like Johnie and Chris got a happy ending during their return for the cast party in Episodes 7-8 — well, Season 5’s version of a “happy ending” is “everyone attacking Johnie right in front of Chris.” But hey, at least Johnie and Chris seemed happy!
Turns out, nope! The Season 5 reunion reveals that even Chris sucks!
During the reunion, we get an update on Johnie and Chris’ relationship status. After being brought out on stage together, it’s revealed that the two are no longer together — and that we actually saw the last time they were really together as a couple on the show at that heated party. Johnie explains that the weekend after the party was her birthday weekend, but Chris had a wedding to attend out of state. “He left the state and I didn’t see him,” said Johnie. “And the next week I didn’t see him, and then I found out the following weekend that Chris was seeing someone else. And yeah, I never saw him again.”
So, uh, WTF Chris??? To quote Tyra Banks, “I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!”
Chris says that that is what happened and that he did not handle the situation properly — but hey, at least he’s still with this other woman and they are living together now. Nick and Vanessa Lachey are confused by this because, as we all saw in that party footage, Chris was clearly defending Johnie against all of Izzy and Stacy’s accusations. “I’m always going to defend the people that I love and I loved you,” says Chris to Johnie.
Vanessa asks him, since he just said that he would always defend on those he loves, would he also cheat on those he loves? Yes, Vanessa goes there. Chris’ answer: “Apparently yes. It’s terrible. I know I was wrong. I felt guilty and heartbroken and as many emotions as I could because I did fall in love with [Johnie].” He says that all of this is “probably one of my biggest regrets.” Johnie, choking up, does say that Chris has apologized already, before this reunion.
Oh — just to make matters worse, Johnie then reveals that she found out that Chris had moved on from her friend, who saw Chris and the other woman out together at a bar. Houston is a small town. So it’s not like Chris and this woman were, I don’t know, trapped in a ski lodge under the snow on the other side of the country for weeks with no cell service. Chris went to that wedding, came back, fully had another girlfriend and was feeling secure enough in this relationship to just go out on the town… all without telling Johnie anything. Chris says he knows he has a problem avoiding telling people bad news, and Johnie says she believes Chris was trying to avoid hurting her.
But all of that is the past. Remember: the Season 5 weddings took place in Spring 2022. Both Chris and Johnie are now seeing other people and have been for a year. They’ve moved on — and now that the Season 5 reunion is out, we can move on from this season. You’re not going to hurt us anymore, Love Is Blind!