LIB’s Lauren Weighs In On Her Ex’s Fake Headshot For The Show
“There was something so fishy about the way he needed to insert himself into Dave’s and my story.”
Spoiler alert: This post discusses events through Episode 9 of Love Is Blind Season 8.
The unnamed agent of chaos that’s been at the center of all the recent Love Is Blind drama has finally been unmasked. After returning to the real world, Lauren O’Brien and Dave Bettenburg’s engagement hit a serious rough patch when Dave couldn’t accept just how recently his fiancée had hooked up with another guy. The tension over this former friend-with-benefits completely overtook their relationship. While this “other guy” wasn’t named, it didn’t take social media sleuths too long to track him down. Just like Lauren and her friends warned, he definitely seems like he was angling for some screen time.
Once Lauren and Dave got their phones back, Dave was immediately inundated with warnings from his friends and incredibly protective sister that Lauren was in a situationship within days of leaving for the experiment. Apparently, Dave’s friends were close to this person, and even more strangely, he was staying in the same building as the couple’s new apartment.
Though Lauren consistently assured Dave that this former fling was never serious, he still couldn’t get over it. Lauren’s friends even chimed in to shed some light, telling Dave they had never met this guy, but he had texted them about “blow[ing] up this wedding” and was simply desperate to get on TV. “There was something so fishy about the way he needed to insert himself into Dave’s and my story,” Lauren tells Elite Daily.
Fans of the show quickly tracked this ex down, revealing him to be CrossFit enthusiast Daniel Nides. Though Daniel has since set his Instagram account to private, a screenshot has gone viral of one of his alleged posts: a self-made Love Is Blind poster of himself.
“You can find me 8 floors up in the same ‘frigging’ building,” Daniel captioned the headshot, referencing his close proximity to Lauren and Dave.
For her part, Lauren tells Elite Daily that seeing the fake headshot validated what she had been saying about Daniel — that he just wanted screen time. “I was screaming from the rooftops, like, ‘Is this not what I've been saying the whole time?’” she says. According to her, Daniel never indicated before the show that he would cause this kind of drama. “With that picture, it all makes so much more sense now. I'm glad other people are seeing it that way.”
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