'Love Is Blind' Fans Are Over Nick and Vanessa Lachey Petition for New Hosts Resurfaces

After Netflix's disastrous "live" reunion, 'Love Is Blind' fans referred to as out hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey. A petition has even resurfaced.

There is no denying that Netflix's Love Is Blind Season 4 reunion got off to a rocky start. However, it wasn't long earlier than fans turned their attention from the non-live reunion to the show's hosts, Nick and Vanessa Lachey.

"I'm begging for literally anyone besides Nick and Vanessa Lachey to host [Love Is Blind]. Nick does nothing but make cringe jokes and Vanessa seems like a desperate mom trying to relate to her kids," one viewer tweeted earlier than another added, "Nick and Vanessa Lachey are continuing to show they can’t host or conduct interviews at all."

Not most effective that, but a petition to remove the hosts has resurfaced.

Are they truly that unhealthy? Or was once the stay reunion doomed from the beginning?

Does 'Love Is Blind' need new hosts?

When Love Is Blind premiered in 2020, the timing may just now not have been higher. A show about falling in love with someone, sight unseen, while locked in a pod, airing in the course of a global pandemic — it temporarily changed into a cultural phenomenon as other folks watched secluded in their very own "pods." Variety reported that 30 million viewers streamed Season 1 of Love Is Blind.

At the time, no one questioned Netflix's selection for hosts, Nick and Vanessa Lachey — one a former boy bander and the other a former MTV VJ (who met and fell in love on tv, type of).

However, four seasons later, the social experiment is now a bona fide truth TV hit, so the stakes are higher and fans be expecting extra from the streaming platform — particularly in the case of the hosts, and their abilities to get the solutions audience want (and deserve) throughout a reunion episode.

Now, fans have their pitchforks ready and are pushing Netflix to usher in new hosts.

An legitimate petition to take away Nick and Vanessa Lachey because the hosts of 'Love Is Blind' has resurfaced after the Season 4 "live" reunion.

Baby ... the Love Is Blind fan collective has had enough of Nick and Vanessa. After what many are calling an epic fail of a stay reunion — from the extend to biased wondering (extra on that later!) — fans are ready to see new hosts lead the display.

In fact, an reputable Change.org petition, created through an individual named Libby Cross, has resurfaced. The petition is requesting the removing of the Lacheys from their hosting tasks.

Interestingly, the petition — titled "Remove Nick and Vanessa Lachey as the Hosts of Love is Blind” — was created back in October 2022. However, after a controversial Season 4 "live" reunion, the petition gained 15,000 supporters as of April 18, 2023. As of this writing, it has received over 21,000 signatures and counting.

The end goal for the petition is to receive 25,000 signatures in hopes that Netflix will take immediate action.

"Love is Blind is a reality based totally TV show that allows couples to date and select their spouse with out ever seeing them," the petition reads. "The show has had a ton of success but has one massive drawback — the hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey."

As Libby continues, she points out the Lacheys as "needless and out of place" and focusing on "directing attention to themselves."

Libby ended the petition by sharing a call to action with fans of Love Is Blind to help spark change and influence Netflix to bring in new hosts.

"Join the hundreds of Love Is Blind fans in making the show evolve into the most efficient version of itself through removing Nick and Vanessa Lachey as hosts and replacing them with…. Well literally anyone else," Libby shared.

'Love Is Blind' fans have been relentless, criticizing Nick and Vanessa for poorly hosting the Season 4 reunion.

During the Season 4 reunion, fans noted that Nick and Vanessa struggled with leading a successful reunion episode and compared the couple to reunion host extraordinaire Andy Cohen, who had his own thoughts on the reunion.

"Live reunions are an overly unhealthy thought," he shared on his podcast. "There is a reason [reunion episodes are] edited down. We may discuss a topic on a reunion taping for 25 mins, for 45 minutes, earlier than truly getting to the guts of something. ... Reunion displays are virtually like a fishing expedition. You’re speaking about other topics [and] you don’t know what’s going to land [or] what’s going to hit."

For many, Nick and Vanessa do not have the correct fishing gear to successfully host Love Is Blind.

On TikTok, TV host and producer Franchesca Leigh Ramsey shared her insight into why the reunion episode was "so poorly made" and why fans are right to criticize Nick and Vanessa.

"Now a lot of people have already rightfully criticized that Nick and Vanessa were not great hosts. We've recognized that they're not great hosts all the way through the seasons of the show... Vanessa's greatest downside as a number is she doesn't know the way to listen," she explained.

"A large number of folks assume that the task because the host is to talk but listening is actually the largest ability necessary because you wish to have to drag data from the visitors, you want to direct them, and you need to use no matter they are saying with a purpose to segue to the next particular person," Franchesca continued.

She added: "Vanessa just needs to listen to herself talk, so she's trying to make jokes, she's stepping over people, she's doing these very awkward segues."

Vanessa was also accused of not being neutral and picking sides — particularly when it came to her Zoom interview with Jackie, whose leaked text messages went viral before the reunion and showed her using homophobic slurs against her ex Marshall (who also admitted to using slurs against Jackie).

For many, Vanessa did not hold Jackie accountable for her messages, along with her decision to meet fellow LIB contestant Josh for a coffee date just one day after breaking up with her fiancé Marshall. Many argued that Vanessa was acting like her "highest friend."

The pressure she put on Paul for his comments about Micah not being nurturing was also called out, seeing as Micah had her fair share of mean-girl moments on the show. The list goes on and on...

However, Vanessa seemed to have a very different opinion about the reunion, writing on Instagram, "I’m so proud of this solid and their willingness to place themselves out there. It wasn’t easy and this has been a LONG procedure to get to the reunion. Please keep in mind online (and in existence) that 'phrases have weight.' What you are saying to any individual you don’t know (and don’t know the whole tale to) may have a lasting affect on them… in many alternative ways."

Well, we already know Season 5 of Love Is Blind is filmed, with Nick and Vanessa as hosts, so in the event that they had been to be replaced it wouldn't happen till Season 6 (or past).

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