‘Love Is Blind: After the Altar’ Season 3 Confirms Sikiru ‘SK’ Alagbada Cheated on Raven Ross After 2nd Proposal: Revelations

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'Love Is Blind: After the Altar' Season 3 Confirms Sikiru 'SK' Alagbada Cheated on Raven Ross After 2nd Proposal: Revelations

Following a second proposal, Sikiru “SK” Alagbada and Raven Ross’ happily ever after didn’t last long. Netflix viewers caught up with the season 3 cast of Love Is Blind — which also includes couples Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton and Alexa Alfia and Brennon Lemieux and single castmates Zanab Jaffrey, Cole Barnett, Bartise Bowden and Nancy Rodriguez— during the three-episode After the Altar special that started streaming on Friday, February 10. At the time of filming — seemingly fall 2022 — SK and Raven were dating long-distance after he turned her down on their wedding day. Although she originally didn’t want to relocate to California while he completed an MBA program at the University of California, Berkeley, the pilates instructor was more open to the idea as they got more serious. SK seemingly proved how much he wanted to make things work with Raven when he proposed during the third episode. “We've always done things our very own way, without fear of what everyone else thinks,” he said after he got down on one knee. “Our love has flourished in the most unimaginable way and I can't wait to continue writing the story. I commit to you my very best self, I commit to love you and let you grow without borders. I commit to let you flourish without limits and love you til the very end. Raven Michelle, will you marry me again?” While Raven tearfully accepted, “a few months” later, she learned that SK had allegedly been unfaithful. “Since then, a lot has changed. My world is completely different because, you know, SK cheated on me and now our relationship is over,” she told the camera. “It's so crazy to watch it back and, like, remember my feelings then. … I was so happy. I really was so invested in the person that everyone saw and everyone loved, like, that's the person that I saw and I loved every day too. So, to see everything that has happened since then is so hard because that was not the person that I thought that I was with.” [jwplayer X762CfAU-zhNYySv2] SK didn’t share his side of the story on the show, but he denied allegations made by a woman named Hannah Beth in a statement in November 2022, saying in part: “At no point did we consider each other boyfriend and girlfriend. She is not my ex … The situation between Hannah and I was never formal.” Many viewers may still have questions about what exactly went down between SK and Hannah, who shared alleged text messages and vacation pics with the reality star via TikTok — and his costars feel the same way. “We were very shocked. I still don't understand it, honestly,” Alexa exclusively told Us Weekly before After the Altar premiered. “And I see Raven all the time, [she’s] one of my absolute best friends. And she's a really good person and it really sucks that that happened to her. And he had everybody fooled. We've been on trips with them, so I was definitely one of the people [who] didn't believe it at all [at first]. I immediately texted her like, ‘Do you see what's happening?’ And it was definitely shocking. I'm still processing that one.” Nancy told Us that she was also “completely caught off guard” by the scandal. “It was a complete letdown because I think for me, like, one of the most emotional reactions I had at the reunion was processing Raven's wedding. And I told her this, I said, ‘I bawled my eyes out and weeped like a baby at your wedding.’ And so, when I heard about what happened, like, where is the trash can? … We need to put someone in that trash,” she teased. Nancy added that SK “bamboozled all of us.” Love Is Blind: After the Altar is streaming on Netflix. Scroll through for more takeaways from the three-episode special:

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'Love Is Blind: After the Altar' Season 3 Confirms Sikiru 'SK' Alagbada Cheated on Raven Ross After 2nd Proposal: Revelations

Following a second proposal, Sikiru “SK” Alagbada and Raven Ross’ happily ever after didn’t last long. Netflix viewers caught up with the season 3 cast of Love Is Blind — which also includes couples Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton and Alexa Alfia and Brennon Lemieux and single castmates Zanab Jaffrey, Cole Barnett, Bartise Bowden and Nancy Rodriguez— during the three-episode After the Altar special that started streaming on Friday, February 10. At the time of filming — seemingly fall 2022 — SK and Raven were dating long-distance after he turned her down on their wedding day. Although she originally didn’t want to relocate to California while he completed an MBA program at the University of California, Berkeley, the pilates instructor was more open to the idea as they got more serious. SK seemingly proved how much he wanted to make things work with Raven when he proposed during the third episode. “We've always done things our very own way, without fear of what everyone else thinks,” he said after he got down on one knee. “Our love has flourished in the most unimaginable way and I can't wait to continue writing the story. I commit to you my very best self, I commit to love you and let you grow without borders. I commit to let you flourish without limits and love you til the very end. Raven Michelle, will you marry me again?” While Raven tearfully accepted, “a few months” later, she learned that SK had allegedly been unfaithful. “Since then, a lot has changed. My world is completely different because, you know, SK cheated on me and now our relationship is over,” she told the camera. “It's so crazy to watch it back and, like, remember my feelings then. … I was so happy. I really was so invested in the person that everyone saw and everyone loved, like, that's the person that I saw and I loved every day too. So, to see everything that has happened since then is so hard because that was not the person that I thought that I was with.” [jwplayer X762CfAU-zhNYySv2] SK didn’t share his side of the story on the show, but he denied allegations made by a woman named Hannah Beth in a statement in November 2022, saying in part: “At no point did we consider each other boyfriend and girlfriend. She is not my ex … The situation between Hannah and I was never formal.” Many viewers may still have questions about what exactly went down between SK and Hannah, who shared alleged text messages and vacation pics with the reality star via TikTok — and his costars feel the same way. “We were very shocked. I still don't understand it, honestly,” Alexa exclusively told Us Weekly before After the Altar premiered. “And I see Raven all the time, [she’s] one of my absolute best friends. And she's a really good person and it really sucks that that happened to her. And he had everybody fooled. We've been on trips with them, so I was definitely one of the people [who] didn't believe it at all [at first]. I immediately texted her like, ‘Do you see what's happening?’ And it was definitely shocking. I'm still processing that one.” Nancy told Us that she was also “completely caught off guard” by the scandal. “It was a complete letdown because I think for me, like, one of the most emotional reactions I had at the reunion was processing Raven's wedding. And I told her this, I said, ‘I bawled my eyes out and weeped like a baby at your wedding.’ And so, when I heard about what happened, like, where is the trash can? … We need to put someone in that trash,” she teased. Nancy added that SK “bamboozled all of us.” Love Is Blind: After the Altar is streaming on Netflix. Scroll through for more takeaways from the three-episode special:

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Colleen and Matt Still Don’t Live Together

The couple admitted that they “butted heads” during the first six months of their marriage because they are both “stubborn.” The pair also hadn’t moved in together yet.

“I’d say one of the biggest things that I do love about her is just, she always wants me to be happy,” Matt said during an interview. “We’ve kind of taken this in step, and going to the next step, which will be getting the house or moving in with each other, we’re excited.”

Colleen said she “1,000 percent” wants to get a house with Matt and feels like they are “ready.”

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Nancy and Bartise Aren’t Friends Anymore

While the duo tried to stay friendly after he ended things at their nuptials — leading Nancy’s family to have negative feelings toward Bartise — things didn’t work out. The twosome had a heated chat after Colleen and Zanab told Bartise that they felt Nancy needed to “cut” off communication with her ex.

“The part of me that can’t let you go, or that wants to believe in you, or that wants to give you, after the first time, the second time, the third time, like, wants to give you another chance. They stepped in, and they were like, ‘No,’” Nancy explained.

Bartise encouraged her to take what her friends said “with a grain of salt” because she knows him better than they do. “My mom asked me, ‘How do you benefit from being his friend?’” Nancy said, setting Bartise off.

“Why do you need to benefit? That’s a f—kid up question to ask. … What do you want from me?” he responded.

Nancy concluded that “it doesn’t work” for her to be his friend.  

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Cole and Brennon’s Feud

Brennon and Alexa were vocal about supporting Zanab when she accused Cole of body-shaming her during their romance. She made the claims at the season 3 reunion, which led to Netflix releasing a deleted scene of Cole asking Zanab whether she was having two clementines before the “big ‘ole supper” they had planned for the evening.

As a result, the couple had been keeping a distance from Cole — and he confronted Brennon at Alexa’s birthday party.

“I’m not someone to get involved in someone else’s relationship, but at the same time, I didn’t respect the way things went down,” Brennon said. “From what I’ve known, things were negative. Things weren’t handled appropriately.”

While Cole argued Brennon only going off what he “heard” from Zanab’s side, the water treatment engineer said, “No what I know. … What I’m referring to is you telling Zay that she’s either too fat, or she eats too much, or she’s not your type, or you f—king hitting on other people at different bars. That’s what I’m referring to. If you fix things, then great.”

Cole noted that he wakes up every day “intending to be a better man.” In a confessional, he added: “He’s just pissed off at me because I hurt his wife’s best friend. … But for him to start saying that I was flirting with other girls and coming at me with a bunch of bulls—t is not cool at all.”

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Cole Apologizes to Zanab

Cole spoke candidly about the infamous “cuties scene” for the first time on the series, clarifying: “She’s not fat. I don’t think that. I don’t know if I never once thought that. … There’s no calories in oranges."

Still, when they spoke during episode 3, he said he didn’t “know” she felt like he was body-shaming her and apologized.

“I guess the first thing I want to say is sorry because I didn't know that I had made you feel that way with the eating and all that — I had no idea,” he said.

When confronting Zanab about ending things at their wedding, Cole claimed that she previously told him she didn’t want “drama” on their big day — and planned to keep seeing him if they didn’t say “yes” at the altar.

“When I got home, I was lonely as s—t. … Forget [that] you didn’t like the way I looked, you didn’t like the person [I am],” she explained. “You were like, ‘You have a bad attitude. You get a little loud.’ Do we remember saying those things? I think we do. … You didn’t like me enough to continue dating.”

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SK and Raven’s Split

Raven cried while reflecting on her second proposal from SK.

“I cannot imagine, like, opening up to someone like I opened up to SK — that's always been my personal challenge and I know, whatever, it's a blessing in disguise and, like, I can take that into another relationship and I know in my heart I still believe in love, of course, but it's just, like, this is someone that I trusted, like, with anything,” she said. “I still believe in love, and I'm so happy for my friends who have found that, they are my biggest inspiration. And I know it's coming."