Love Is Blind Creator Defends Vetting Process After Casting Controversial Shake Chatterjee!

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Every reality show needs its villain! For Love is Blind season 2, that was Abhishek “Shake” Chatterjee, who made several less-than-appropriate comments about women’s bodies during his time on the show (despite the whole “blind” concept).

Even co-host Vanessa Lachey was puzzled as to why Shake would participate in the show at all when he confessed he thought love was only “partially blind.” Related: Shake Drags Deepti For ‘Playing Up This Victim Thing’?! But regardless of Shake’s reasons for participating, why would the show pick someone who was actually very concerned with his partner’s looks?

Creator Chris Coelen touched on the subject with The Hollywood Reporter, explaining: The Netflix producer claimed that he talked to Shake shortly before the big reveal, and was impressed “by what I perceived to be his emotional sort of maturation and transformation in the pods, that he had seemingly discovered things about himself in the pods that were very profound in terms of why he felt the way he did and about who he was as a person.” He went on: In fact, Chris was “not unhappy” about any part of that particular story, except that “Deepti didn’t get the happy ending that she wanted there.” However, he did feel that she had “grown tremendously through this experience as a person” and hoped Shake would “feel the same way at some point, if he doesn’t already.” He defended the process by saying: Related: Deepti Does NOT Accept Shake’s Apology, Says ‘He Wasted My Experience’ When THR asked about finding contestants who are “worthy of this platform” and that “the audience will want to root for,” Chris responded: That’s all well and good, but it kind of boils down to this: reality shows like Love is Blind probably want to cast some