Love Is Blind season 8 stars Sara Carton and Joey Leveille have sparked dating rumors following the show's dramatic reunion.
"Someone very close to the situation confirmed they're a couple and have been for a while," reality TV tea-spiller and "Reality Receipts" podcast cohost StorytimeWithRikkii claimed in a Tuesday, March 11, TikTok post while also mentioning it on her podcast.
Rikkii reported that the duo was allegedly spotted together at a hair salon by fans in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where season 8 of Love Is Blind was filmed.
"They're waiting for everything to die down to announce it," Rikkii said of Sara, 29, and Joey's reported romance.
While predicting that the oncology nurse and physician associate would claim they are just "friends," Rikkii said, "Y'all already been spotted together. People already know. People in your inner circles have already spilled beans, so you might as well come clean."
She added that "Monica was allegedly blindsided by the news," referring to Monica Danús, who left Joey, 35, at the altar in the season 8 finale of Love Is Blind.
Sara did the same thing to Ben Mezzenga, telling him during their wedding ceremony that she “always wanted a partner to be on the same wavelength” as her, and he wasn't The One.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t want that to be misunderstood. I still love you and everything about you is amazing. And I care about you so much,” Sara explained to Ben, who responded, “I care about you, too. And I love you so much, and I know I want to stay with you and keep growing our relationship if you’ll let me."
Sara told him, "We'll see," then dished about her reasons for dumping Ben, 28, to her mom and sister while in the car driving away from the ceremony.
“I remember, like, I asked him about, like, Black Lives Matter, and I’m no expert, but, like, when I asked him about it, he was like, ‘I guess I never really thought too much about it,’” Sara explained. “That affected me, especially in our own city, like, how could it not? How did it not make you think about something?”
The Netflix star added that she asked her former fiancé what his church's views were about the LGBTQ community, "and he said he didn’t know," which Sara also found off-putting.
Filming for season 8 of Love Is Blind took place in early 2024, and the contestants were brought back together for the reunion that aired on Sunday, March 9.
Sara claimed that despite not marrying Ben, they had decided to continue their relationship and actually lived together for two weeks until she had to head to Nashville, Tennessee, to finish out a travel nursing contract she had there.
The day she drove to Nashville, Sara said she didn’t hear from the real estate developer “that much,” but she “didn’t think much about it” because she knew “he was out with friends.”
“When I get to Nashville, that’s when I noticed that he had removed me from Find My Friends [a location sharing app], which I was shocked to see. I was really confused because I thought we left on good terms, and I honestly thought Ben was going to be in Nashville that week with me,” Sara shared. “So, I was confused. That was out of left field.”
Sara went on to reveal that she texted Ben only to receive “three very scripted apologies” in reply. Then she didn't hear from him for “a month-and-a-half.”
Ben told host Nick Lachey that he was under the impression that he and Sara were “broken up” when she left for Nashville. He also said that he made sure Sara got to Nashville safely, but after that he removed her from the location app.