Love Is Blind’s Deepti Vempati Claims Abhishek ‘Shake’ Chatterjee Tried to Flirt With Vanessa Lachey Pre-Reunion: ‘It’s Disrespectful’

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The saga continues. Love Is Blind‘s season 2 reunion has come and gone, but Deepti Vempati claims there was plenty of off-camera Abhishek “Shake” Chaterjee drama that viewers didn’t see.Fans saw the veterinarian try to flirt with cohost Vanessa Lachey during the Friday, March 4, reunion, but according to Deepti, that wasn’t the only time he made a pass at the NCIS: Hawai’i star, 41. “Can I tell you, he was hitting on her at the couples reveal,” Deepti said during the Tuesday, March 8, episode of the “We Have the Receipts” podcast. “It’s so disrespectful.”During the reunion episode, the DJ told Nick Lachey that the only person on set he was attracted to was his wife. “We’re animals,” Shake added, claiming that he couldn’t help his attraction because it was instinctive.“No, you treat animals,” the 98 Degrees singer, 48, replied. “We’re human beings.”According to Deepti, Shake’s off-camera antics during the season didn’t stop there. “He made a lot of the other girls cry,” she claimed during the podcast. “They don’t show that, but I actually had to talk him about that.

And it was, like, a rocky step in our progression in the pods.”Deepti and Shake struggled throughout season 2 with their physical attraction to each other, which the veterinarian claimed was very important to him.

At their wedding in the season finale, Deepti ultimately decided not to marry the veterinarian, saying instead that she chose herself.“After filming had wrapped, I tried to be friends with him, and as the days unfolded I kind of saw more of his true character,” Deepti added during the podcast. “I realized the face or the mask that he put on during filming is nowhere near the person that I thought he was.