‘Love Is Blind’ Season 3 Reunion Revelations: Zanab Accuses Cole of Body-Shaming, Nancy Claims Bartise Moved On Days After Wedding

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'Love Is Blind' Season 3 Reunion Revelations: Zanab Accuses Cole of Body-Shaming, Nancy Claims Bartise Moved On Days After Wedding

Things were tense between exes at the Love Is Blind season 3 reunion. Both Zanab Jaffrey and Nancy Rodriguez weren’t afraid to call out their former fiancés — Cole Barnett and Bartise Bowden, respectively — when the group gathered for the Wednesday, November 9, special. After turning Cole down at the altar, Zanab dropped a series of allegations about her former partner that didn’t air on the Netflix series — with the help of her female costars. “I think so many things happened off camera. He’s, like, likable when you're watching it and just knowing what I know … it's hard because I think Zay is such an incredible, incredible woman,” Alexa Alfia said. After cohost Vanessa Lachey inquired for more information, Raven Ross brought up the “body-shaming” and what went down at the boy’s bachelor party. “Wait, what? I got a girl’s number at the bachelor party?” Cole responded, denying the story as Zanab insisted that he was the one who told her about his indiscretion. “You’re the one who told me that the night before our wedding. … I saw you before the wedding and you told me. You said, ‘I do have something to tell you. I tried to kiss a girl at the bachelor party.’ … You said, ‘I’m engaged to get married and I just want to kiss one more girl,’” Zanab recalled. “That is direct from Cole’s mouth, telling me that he tried to kiss a girl and got her number at his bachelor party.” While Cole claimed that the men didn’t see any women at their bachelor party at the rodeo, Nancy and Brennon Lemieux pointed out that the guys went somewhere after the cameras stopped rolling. Zanab went on to call it Cole’s “saving grace” that some of their scenes ended up on the cutting room floor. [jwplayer M3hYjrVX-l3ahXupL] “The pushing food away from me, the asking me if I’m going to eat that, trying to get me to order a salad, the daily comments about my face and my body were not used,” she said. “And that’s great because it really did protect you and you are now denying it and calling me a liar in front of all these people.” After several references to the “cuties’ story,” the show released previously unaired footage of Cole asking Zanab if she was going to eat two clementines ahead of their dinner reservation. “That’s a serving, are you OK with that?” she asked. “You better save your [appetite] … I’m talking, [big] supper tonight,” he responded, confused when she said she only had a banana to eat all day. “Oh, are you getting wedding dress bod?” Zanab replied, “Something like that.” Nancy, for her part, claimed Bartise was seen partying with another woman days after their wedding. She also got visibly emotional after he admitted that he thinks about what could’ve been if he said “I do.” Scroll through for more from the season 3 reunion:

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Cole and Colleen Apologize for the Pool Moment

A major point of contention during the season was Cole hitting on Colleen Reed in the pool after the reveals and engagements.

“It stung. I knew it existed, but getting to see it firsthand was really something,” Zanab said.

While Colleen’s husband, Matt Bolton, praised his wife for being honest about the moment, Cole and Zanab argued about when he apologized.

“I did lose my cool a little bit. And after watching the scene, she told me everything. There wasn’t anything that surprised me that she didn’t tell me after watching it,” Matt said.

“Totally my fault,” Cole responded. “I should have never let it get there. I was caught up in the moment.”

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SK and Raven Are Back Together

After he said “I don’t” on their wedding day, Raven and Sikiru “SK” Alagbada confirmed they are still together and hooking up. While she lives in Dallas and he is in California for school, they have “grown so much” from long-distance dating. She also revealed that the pair didn’t have sex until after their failed wedding.

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How Nancy and Raven Made Up

"Nancy and I, really, for pod time, lounge-time, we did not spend a ton of time together. … I think we didn’t get to know each other well enough so we were both going off of first impressions,” Raven said.

Nancy agreed, revealing she was “shocked” when she found out Raven was one of Bartise’s top women. When asked about the footage of Bartise calling Raven a “smokeshow,” the Pilates instructor said she was “sad” because she would never want Nancy or SK to feel disrespected.

“There was no part of me that wishes I picked Raven over Nancy,” Bartise insisted. “It was hard to watch that. I felt embarrassed and ashamed of myself. … I apologize to everybody for letting it get to that point. I don’t think the feelings were inappropriate because this experiment is so unique and the connections that we made were so fast and so fresh. … The inappropriateness came from the way we handled those thoughts and not those feelings.”

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Colleen and Matt Are Together, But Living Apart

While the pair are still married, they are doing things on “their own time” and haven’t moved in together, citing the different end dates of their leases as the main reason.

“I can’t wait to move in with him and I’m going to spend the rest of my life with him,” Colleen said.

Matt and Nick Lachey then agreed it’s “always better the second time,” seemingly referring to tying the knot twice. (Matt revealed on the show that he married his high school sweetheart, but they split when she cheated on him. Nick, meanwhile, was married to Jessica Simpson from 2002 to 2006 before he wed Vanessa.) 

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Andrew Is a No-Show

After Nick and Vanessa revealed that Andrew Liu “did not get on the plane” for the reunion, Zanab and Raven looked visibly relieved. The whole group also appeared to agree when Bartise said that fake tear scene and what aired of Andrew “was not a false depiction” of who he is.

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Nancy Claims Bartise Was With Another Girl After Their Wedding

“I said it so many times — I really did love you so much. I think it was the promise that you made to me that you would not blindside me, that we would have honest conversations and literally you did the complete opposite,” Nancy said. “[My family] was fighting the fight that I couldn’t.”

When asked whether Nancy and Bartise tried to go on dates after their failed wedding, Alexa and Raven claimed that he was partying on a boat with another girl the day after the nuptials.

“He had a tall blonde by his side. I just saw some things on social media,” Nancy said. “And then that same tall blonde over the weekend … [was] on his lap, all over him. To me, again, it goes back to, ‘The f—k.’”

Bartise said that “something eventually happened” on the boat on July 4 after a lot of drinking and trying to cope. He then got defensive: “If I don’t cope the right way. … To be honest, I don’t think my sex life is anybody’s business here. Especially after how we decided to cut ties. OK so, the timing of it, I can see being wrong and I’m sorry for that, but I don’t feel comfortable talking about my sex life with everybody here.”

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Zanab Alleges Cole Tried to Kiss a Girl at His Bachelor Party, Body-Shamed Her

While Zanab insisted that Cole told her that he hit on another girl at his bachelor party, he accused her of being a liar. She also claimed that Cole tried to “control what I ate” and his remarks prompted her to “change my eating habits.”

“I stopped eating. I was eating, like, a banana and a scoop of peanut butter so I wouldn’t pass out on the long days we were filming,” she said.

“That’s hilarious, I never once cared about what you ate,” he fired back.

The twosome hadn’t been in touch after the wedding, which surprised Cole because he was confident Zanab was going to reach out after slamming him at the altar.