‘Love Is Blind’ Stars Renee and Carter Got Engaged and Might Have Had Scenes Cut
- The “Love Is Blind” creator confirmed that “multiple” couples got engaged but weren’t featured this season.
- At least one unseen couple actually applied for a marriage license.
- A viral TikTok alleges that couple went on the Mexico getaways, but was edited out of the season.
It’s no secret that “Love Is Blind” doesn’t feature every single couple who gets engaged on the show. The producers and cast members have spoken out about unseen couples in seasons past (like Josh and Monica in season 4), and this season is no different. Creator Chris Coelen even confirmed to Variety in September that there were “multiple” engagements that weren’t followed by the cameras in season 5.
But the show followed surprisingly few season 5 couples — only Taylor Rue and Jared “JP” Pierce, Lydia Velez Gonzalez and Milton Johnson, and Izzy Zapata and Stacy Snyder had storylines. Of the three couples, only the latter two make it to the wedding stage, leading fans to wonder why none of the “multiple” other confirmed engagements made the cut.
Adding even more confusion (and intrigue) are viral rumors swirling on TikTok and Reddit about at least four unseen relationships formed in the “Love Is Blind” pods this time around. One pairing in particular seems to have had a messy story: Renee Poche and Carter Wall.
Here’s a breakdown of everything we know about Renee and Carter’s rumored engagement and their participation in the show.
Carter and Renee applied for a marriage license in 2022
Carter and Renee were only briefly featured on one of their dates in the first episode of the season (they took a “moment of silence” for Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’s hotness as a couple). The scene lasted under a minute, but according to the rumors, there may have been a lot more of them we didn’t see. (Netflix, Renee, and Carter did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.)
The most convincing evidence that Renee and Carter were a couple — and that they were a couple who made it far enough to have been filmed by Netflix, at least for a bit — is the fact that they applied for a marriage license in Harris County, Texas, in 2022. The two, along with Izzy and Stacy and Milton and Lydia, all came up when Insider searched on the Harris County Clerk’s Office Marriage License Search Portal.
Harris County public records
The status reads “license not returned,” which means Carter and Renee applied for a marriage license, but never legally wed.
Renee alluded on Instagram to having ‘a man’ on the show
Renee has not been quiet on Instagram since the season began airing. Most pointedly, she posted a screenshot of herself and Taylor, overlaid with the text, “Us wondering where our men were Jan 6,” seemingly a reference to the January 6 insurrection. Taylor’s match, JP, has a noted love of American flag apparel, while Carter’s love of JP is memorably documented in a scene in which he says he’d want his daughter to date someone like him, calling JP “Captain America.”
A few strange moments in the Mexico getaway episodes suggest someone may have been edited out
Reality TV TikToker storytimewithrikkii, who shared an extensive video breaking down all the unseen engagement rumors, pointed out that the couples getaway scenes in Mexico this season were suspiciously short. She also theorized that based on Renee’s Instagram activity and glimpses of an unidentified man interacting with the cast in the beach scenes, Carter and Renee were filmed there and later had their scenes cut out by production.
On her Instagram story Monday, Renee posted a picture of herself in jeans and an orange bikini top, apparently relaxing while on vacation, and referenced the show. “Me after watching this week’s episodes,” she wrote in text overlaying the image.
“This week’s episodes” were the Mexico getaway episodes.
Renee is wearing the same outfit in photos from an earlier story that storytimewithrikkii captured in her TikTok. In those earlier images, Renee is on a beach holding a bottle of pink wine about to pour it into a golden goblet that looks similar to one of the signature wine glasses used on “Love Is Blind” and other Netflix dating shows.
In the “Love Is Blind” footage filmed in Mexico, there’s also an unidentified man interacting with the engaged couples.
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In the scene above, there’s a bald man in a blue shirt joking with Lydia Valez Gonzalez, and he seemingly matches Carter’s build. Izzy Zapata is also bald, but he announced to the cameras that he didn’t bring a shirt to the meet-up.
Below, the same man in the blue shirt shares a toast with Milton Johnson. He’s seemingly another contestant and not production, given the signature gold goblet he’s holding.
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Renee appeared to be wearing an engagement ring at the cast meetup
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Both Renee and Carter were memorable presences at the cast meet-up on episode seven, even though there wasn’t any reference to the two being engaged or even together at all. If you look closely at Renee’s left ring finger in the scenes, you can see she’s wearing a diamond ring, which usually signifies engagement.
