‘Love is Blind’s’ Cole Barnett became a villain — and worldwide heartthrob

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Zanab Jaffrey, left him at the altar, blindsided. On the show’s reunion episode, which aired a month later in November, Barnett, 28, was called out by his ex for questioning her for eating a pair of clementine oranges.“Are you about to eat two of those?” he asked in the clip, which was shown at the end of the episode. “Maybe, that’s a serving; you okay with that?” she replied. “You better save your appetite,” he continued.Fat-shamer or not, his fans ate it up — sending his number of Instagram followers skyrocketing to half a million after the infamous scene premiered on Nov.

9. “There’s a lot of girls that reach out. They’re like, ‘I want to marry you. I’m your wife, come to Brazil,'” he told The Post after “LIB” debuted Season 3’s “After the Altar” episodes on Feb.

10. “I get DMs all the time like, ‘I know this sounds crazy. … but I know we are meant to be.'”On the November episode, Jaffrey, 33, revealed that she felt Barnett tried to control her diet.“I stopped eating,” she said. “I was eating a banana and a teaspoon of peanut butter just so I wouldn’t pass out on the long days we were filming.”Barnett replied, “That’s hilarious.

I never once cared about what you ate.”Messages of support have come in staggering amounts.“A lot of people are like, ‘You were done so dirty … Don’t let this get you down,'” he said.The Fort Worth, Texas native, who only had around 360 Instagram followers prior to his October 2022 debut on the series, was discovered on the social media platform by the show’s production company.“I had a message request from them … I thought it was a scam,” the realtor recalled.