Love Is Blind’s Kelly Chase and Kenny Barnes Had ‘Conversations About Dating’ After Season 1: ‘We Had a Plan’

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Romance redo? Love Is Blind‘s Kelly Chase and Kenny Barnes didn’t tie the knot during season 1, but they talked about continuing their connection off camera.“We did kind of have conversations about dating,” Kelly exclusively told Us Weekly at The Modern Wife’s What She Said panel at the W Hollywood in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 24. “Like, while we were filming … [we said], like, ‘Hey, if we say no at the altar, like, we’re respectful of each other’s decisions,’ kind of thing.”The health coach said she and Kenny agreed that they were both “liking each other” enough to consider staying together even if they didn’t get married during the season finale. “It was like, ‘If it doesn’t work out, then we’ll just continue dating,'” she recalled. “We just had this understanding about it.”However, the duo ultimately didn’t end up being on the same page. “We had the wedding and then the next day we had our, like, last interview and … he met me kind of, like, in the parking lot and he was like, ‘I know we talked about this, but, like, I’m not emotionally available,'” Kelly claimed. “[He said], ‘I don’t think I could give anyone a relationship right now and I just need to get back to normal life,’ and all of that.

And I was like, ‘Huh?’ Like, I thought we had an agreement. We had, like, a plan and I just felt very rejected.”Kelly clarified that she and Kenny, who got engaged to fiancée Alexandra Garrison in August 2020, have been in touch since their breakup. “[I have] total respect for him,” the former Netflix star said of her ex. “I feel like where I was at — and now just, like, through all the healing work that I’ve done and everything — I’m very aware that I think he was just more actually self-aware than I was at the time.