What's the Reality?
Love is Blind’s Giannina and Bachelor Nation’s Blake: Their Wild Love Story and Secrets of Reality TV
Wed, 16 Apr 2025
Love is Blind’s Giannina and Bachelor Nation’s Blake: Their Wild Love Story and Secrets of Reality TVThey came from two totally different reality dating shows—but found one incredible love story. 🥹💍In this episode, AD sits down with Love Is Blind OG Giannina Gibelli and Bachelorette alum Blake Horstmann for a conversation full of love, laughs, and real talk. They open up about finding each other on a reality show that wasn’t even about dating, how their romance blossomed off-screen, and what it’s like navigating an engagement and parenthood in the public eye.Gi shares behind-the-scenes secrets from her time in the pods, and Blake gets candid about his mental health journey after the chaos of Bachelor in Paradise. Plus, Gi and AD have a tearful moment reminiscing on how far they’ve come—from reality TV heartbreak to the women they are today.This episode is a reality love story like no other—you won’t want to miss it!
Chapter 1: What to expect in this episode with Giannina and Blake?
Hey y'all, welcome back to What's the Reality? But before we get into another episode, y'all, I realized that 70%, seven zero percent of y'all that are watching are not subscribed. So if you're liking what you're seeing, help your girl out and press the button. I need your help and I would really appreciate it. But I'm very excited about today's episode, y'all.
I get to sit down with an OG from Love is Blind. Gianina, and from Bachelor Nation, Blake. And there might be a little bit of confusion, but I wasn't able to tell them that I was already engaged. So this was pre-announcement that I was engaged. I just had to keep a little bit of a secret. But you guys will see all that. Let's just get into it. What's up, what's up, y'all?
Welcome to another episode of What's the Reality. You guys, I am so very fortunate to be joined by the OG herself, Janina. Hello. Hi, Janina. She is also here with her fiance, Blake. You might remember him from Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise. Correct, correct. You guys, y'all are reality TV royalty.
Wow.
No, literally goals.
Literally goals. I'm so happy to have you guys here. But I just want to catch up. What is new? What's up? That is stunning.
I just showed AD my engagement ring.
Hold on.
Sorry, I have to put my sunglasses. My sunglasses, anyone? Yeah. Girl.
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Chapter 2: How did Giannina and Blake meet?
You were in something. I was in that. And then he had his own little experience, which he'll tell you about. But then I was just traveling the world and got a call while I was in like the hills of Columbia being like,
Do you want to do this reality show and I was like, okay sure like I don't really know what this is about But it was super fun something that didn't involve my heart like I was in such a good place Where I didn't even want a relationship. Yeah And then like I walked out on the beach and I see him and his little like flowery blue shirt He's like I'm from The Bachelorette Yeah. Big Blake smile.
And that was it.
That big Blake smile. I love that. You need to like trademark that. I love that.
Colgate. What's that?
I never get sick of hearing that story. I'll tell you what. Yeah. Cause I mean, I was in a similar situation. I came off getting dumped, not at the altar, but you know, during the proposal.
Yeah.
And I was also like, not really, you know, I came and then I went on to paradise. Didn't have a great time and it didn't work out. And same thing. I was like, I don't want to do any more reality TV unless it's a challenge.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What was the proposal like for Giannina?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so I had this whole speech planned out and I saw her face and I was like, I'm just going to cut to the Spanish part. I wanted to pass out. So I kind of like, yeah, I kind of sped it up and I was like, I don't know, I'm just his girlfriend, you know what I mean? And then, yeah, that's going to be my girlfriend.
And you can literally see it in my face. I go,
But you like had a moment on after bachelor in paradise and you opened up about some mental health issues and things that you were struggling with I would love to talk more about that and why it was so important for you to yeah, I would have been summer of 2019 so about four five years ago, which is crazy to think and
Come a long way since then. Um, I think G the word she used earlier was isolated. And I think coming off these shows, you feel very isolated and you feel very alone and you feel like the whole world like has watched, uh, And you guys kind of did like 190 countries is crazy, but mine, you know, it was just like, you know, this rapid fan bachelor nation in, in, you know, the United States.
And, but it feels like the real world is just crumbling around you. And I had a terrible experience. And I remember for ours is a little different because once the show's over, I probably only waited like two weeks before it aired. Thank God.
That's insane. Yeah.
It was, it's such a fast turnover for us, but I just remember like I was literally in the fetal position. You know, I didn't leave my apartment for my condo for probably, God, I would say close to two and a half months, three months, because I was just so terrified. I literally was so in my own head that I thought I was going to walk out the door and people were going to, like, throw drinks at me.
You know, you're just in such a deep depression. And it was hard to get out of that. You know, I have an incredible family and an incredible support system. And they helped a ton. But even sometimes it's hard to relate to them, right? Yeah. And even if they try to understand, you don't understand what it's like. I'm trending number one on Twitter and it's not good. It's not a good thing.
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