Which “Love Is Blind” couples were the worst of all time? Across ten seasons, some relationships fell apart faster than others — and some never should have happened at all.
Here are the worst couples in “Love Is Blind” history, ranked from “this was uncomfortable” all the way down to “how did this happen.”
10. Hannah Jiles & Nick Dorka — Season 7
Nick compared himself to Henry Cavill and Travis Kelce in the pods, which set expectations he was never going to meet. Hannah’s behavior after the face-to-face reveal was the bigger problem — she was visibly disappointed, and she made little effort to hide it.
The ornamental duck incident on the beach, where Nick playfully wanted to ride one and Hannah reacted with open disdain, became something of a meme. She got jealous when he raced with an older woman who was simply having fun.
The relationship felt like a woman who had already emotionally checked out going through the motions until she could find a graceful exit.
9. Devonta Anderson & Amber — Season 10
Season 10 gave viewers a lot to process, and Devonta gave them the most.
His revelation that he had a child on the way with someone outside the experiment — information he withheld while pursuing an engagement inside it — was the kind of thing that makes the entire premise feel unstable.
He was genuinely shocked that this was considered a problem. The engagement didn’t survive the information.
8. Danielle Ruhl & Nick Thompson — Season 2
They were both likable people who were profoundly mismatched and did not fully reckon with that until they were already married.
The wedding happened despite both of them expressing significant doubt in the weeks leading up to it.
The relationship ended in divorce less than a year later, with Danielle filing in September 2022.
In retrospect, the season finale moment where both of them looked like they were trying to convince themselves as much as each other was the whole story.
7. Carlton Morton & Diamond Jack — Season 1
Carlton wasn’t wrong to want to disclose his bisexual history to his fiancée, and Diamond wasn’t wrong to have feelings about learning it poolside in Mexico rather than in the pods where they built their entire relationship.
Both of them were right about something, and both of them handled it badly.
What followed — the ring in the pool, the screaming, the walkout — was one of the most combustible moments the show has ever produced. Carlton’s bitterness at the reunion and afterward kept the wound open long after it needed to close.
6. Jessica Batten & Mark Cuevas – Season 1
Jessica was sincerely bothered by the ten-year age gap from the moment she accepted Mark’s proposal, and she spent the entire season telegraphing that she was not over Nick Lachey — sorry, the other Nick — Nick, the fellow contestant she had been interested in before he chose Lauren.
She fed the dog wine at the engagement party. She stared at Mark with the expression of someone who had made a real estate decision they couldn’t afford to reverse. Mark deserved better, and the audience knew it from episode two.
5. Shake Chatterjee & Deepti Vempati — Season 2
For someone so obsessed with appearances, it was a mystery why Shake even signed up for an experiment explicitly designed to minimize the impact of physical attraction in dating.
He told practically everyone on the show that he was not attracted to his fiancée. He said she reminded him of an auntie. He repeated the auntie comment more than once, as if the first time had not fully landed.
Deepti spent the season trying to find something salvageable in a man who was publicly humiliating her while accepting her home-cooked meals and emotional support.
She waited until the altar to have the last word. It was the right call, delivered at the perfect moment, and it remains one of the show’s most satisfying endings to one of its worst pairings.
4. Lydia Gonzalez & Milton Johnson — Season 5
Season 5 produced exactly one married couple, and Lydia and Milton were it — which tells you something about the season overall.
Their seven-year age gap generated noise, though that alone was not the problem.
The problem was Lydia’s undisclosed history with fellow contestant Uche, who had pursued her before the pods began. She withheld that information until it became completely unavoidable, at which point it exploded in a season that had very little else going on to absorb the fallout.
They married. They split in 2025. The relationship felt built on a foundation that was shaky before it was ever tested.
3. Jarrette Jones & Iyanna McNeely — Season 2
Jarrette originally wanted to propose to Mallory. Mallory rejected him. He then proposed to Iyanna — who said yes, and who spent the entire season knowing she was the second choice and trying to outrun that reality.
He wasn’t a villain. He was actually confused about his own feelings, which is somehow worse.
They got married. They filed for divorce in August 2022. Iyanna has since moved on and married someone else in January 2026.
The whole arc is the show’s clearest argument that proposing to your backup while still thinking about someone else is not a foundation anyone can build on.
2. Irina Solomonova & Zack Goytowski — Season 4
Irina treated the pods like a competition to win rather than an experiment in connection, and Zack was the prize she selected.
She was openly contemptuous of him almost from the moment they met face-to-face, delivering feedback about his appearance and personality with the warmth of a performance review.
The fact that she seemed confused about why this wasn’t working made it worse. Zack eventually ended the engagement, went back to Bliss — the woman he had almost proposed to in the first place — and married her.
Galileo was born in April 2024. Another baby is on the way in summer 2026.
Meanwhile Irina became the season’s villain, not because she was dramatic, but because she was cold, and coldness is much harder to recover from on camera.
1. AD Smith and Clay Gravesande — Season 6
Clay spent the entire season saying he wasn’t ready for marriage. He said it in the pods. He said it on the honeymoon. He said it to his father. He said it to AD. He said it to the cameras. And then he said yes at the altar anyway — and then, in the final seconds, said no.
He left her standing there. His mother rushed over to hug AD before she could even process what had happened. The whole thing felt less like a failed experiment and more like a man who had been given every off-ramp available and chose to drive past all of them until the very last moment, at which point he finally took one — just in the worst possible way.
At the reunion, Clay said he regretted it and that AD was the love of his life. She said she had been on dates since. She had learned that when someone shows you who they are, you believe them.
AD has since moved on, met Love Is Blind UK’s Ollie Sutherland on “Perfect Match” Season 3, got engaged on a beach, and married him in October 2025. The contrast couldn’t be more complete.
“Love Is Blind” Seasons 1 through 10 are streaming now on Netflix.
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