'Love Is Blind' Star Shaina on Those DMs with Shayne, and How She Really Feels About Kyle and Deepti

Publish date: 2024-05-13

On the 'Love Is Blind: After the Altar' particular, Natalie Lee alleged that she broke up with Shayne Jansen as a result of he was exchanging "flirtatious" DMs with Shaina Hurley.

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(L) Shayne; (R) Christos and Shaina

Spoiler Alert: This article comprises spoilers for Love Is Blind: After the Altar.

Seven months after Shake Catterjee changed into a polarizing determine, Deepti Vempati become America's sweetheart, and Shaina Hurley's squint become a meme, the second version of Love Is Blind: After the Altar has formally dropped on Netflix.

Fans now get to peer what the main stars (aka the ones who got engaged in the pods) had been up to within the time since filming wrapped and they rose to reputation by way of appearing on the viral collection.

Heading into the particular, enthusiasts were serious about studying about what was really going on between Kyle Abrams and Deepti, and to peer if there were any signs that Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely or Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson had been going to document for divorce only some months later.

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Natalie Lee and Shaina Hurley

In addition to what has been teased within the headlines, the post-pod special offered audience to a couple of extra issues. On the primary episode of the special, Natalie Lee alleged that one of the crucial the explanation why she ended her courting with one-time fiancé Shayne Jansen used to be because he was once sending "flirtatious" messages to his different pod connection, Shaina Hurley.

Natalie claimed that one of the crucial messages have been sent whilst Shaina was in a courting with her now-husband, Christos Lardakis — who additionally seems on After the Altar.

Ahead of the special's debut, Distractify caught up with Shaina and Christos to discuss their take on the DM saga, and to determine how they really felt about Shaina's ex-fiancé's connection with Deepti.

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Christos and Shaina

Christos and Shaina sound off on Natalie's declare that Shaina sent "flirtatious" DMs to Shayne.

Though lots of the Season 2 stars have remained buddies since filming wrapped, After the Altar brought the present and former couples in combination for a weekend away in Michigan to reunite, and to rejoice Natalie's thirtieth birthday. Before the various stars left for the shuttle, the fellows and the women were given in combination one at a time to talk about what they have all been doing within the months since the display came out.

Natalie soon dropped a bombshell that one of the crucial reasons why she felt like she couldn't agree with her now-ex-fiancé, Shayne, used to be because she found DMs on his phone that he had exchanged with Shaina.

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Natalie Lee

"There's things that happened between her and Shayne that I wasn't comfortable with," Natalie stated on the primary episode of the particular whilst she used to be out with the opposite ladies (sans Shaina). "Messages on Instagram I saw between her and Shayne, to the point that they unsent it. It was when Shayne and I were dating last year. That's why we're not together anymore. She was in a relationship with her boyfriend."

The consulting manager went on to say that the DMs were "flirtatious."

"If Shaina says that there wasn't flirting, she's lying. They had been sending flirtatious messages to each other for several months," Natalie said in a confessional, ahead of adding that she referred to as Shayne out for the messages. She claimed that he stated they were "flirtatious."

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Shayne and Shaina

Shaina heard about the rumors for the first time at the '80s birthday party. Instead of celebrating her engagement (Christos popped the query the day prior to), the gang's center of attention was on the DMs.

"When I heard about it, I was kind of laughing because there's no validity. The timelines are just off, so it just doesn't make sense," Shaina mentioned to Distractify about her preliminary reaction to Natalie's claims. "Shayne and I are friends. So, yeah, there probably are DMs to each other, and messages. But we're friends, and we check up on each other."

As audience discovered on the particular, Christos has seen the DMs — and he never thought that there used to be anything beside the point going on between Shaina and Shayne.

"There is no chemistry," Christos mentioned about his wife's connection to Shayne.

"We're not even each other's types!" Shaina added.

"He's a great guy; such a nice guy," Christos persisted. "It's just not something that, if I was an outsider, I would see that working out."

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Though the DMs have been a major speaking level on the three-part special, none of the stars ever actually shared screenshots of the messages. While Danielle and Deepti had mentioned what they heard about the DMs on the show, they stated that they by no means in reality saw the conversations themselves.

Shaina thought that it used to be a "cheap move" for Natalie to allege that there were irrelevant DMs between Shayne and Shaina.

"I was kind of just grossed out by that. Like, why? I know the truth, she knows the truth, we all know the truth. I was just kind of grossed out with the fact that she would even try to pull that out of thin air," the hairdresser said. "Honestly, it was kind of a cheap move — but I'm not shocked. Maybe she needs healing, I don't know. I just hope that we all can just move on."

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Natalie, Deepti, and Shaina

Instead of confronting Natalie about what she used to be pronouncing regarding the DMs, Shaina selected to walk clear of the '80s birthday party early.

"Everybody from the cast has moved on, and I think it's time to move on," Shaina concluded. "There's nothing there — we've [Shayne and I] never even hung out alone."

Shaina additionally shared her ideas on her ex-fiancé's relationship with Deepti.

After Kyle confessed at the reunion that he should have proposed to Deepti, the 2 have sparked many rumors about their dating standing. When After the Altar starts, Deepti and Kyle are still making an attempt to figure out in the event that they want to date, or if they want to put their friendship first.

In the third and final episode of the special, the most productive friends decide to take the plunge and date.

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Kyle's ex-fiancée, Shaina, said she "wasn't shocked" that he ended up connecting with Deepti.

"It's weird, because when you're in the pods, you're kind of innately dating everybody. And I always think that [Kyle and Deepti] got along, and they always had a chemistry there," Shaina said. "I wasn't shocked at all. Even afterwards, when it was coming out in the press, my mom was like, 'So what do you think about Kyle and Deeps?' I was like, 'Honestly, I can see it.' She's like, 'Me too.'"

Love Is Blind: After the Altar Season 2 is available to flow on Netflix now.

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