What's the Reality?
Stand on It with Love is Blind's Ben and AD Plays Matchmaker with The Ultimatum's Zaina and Temptation Island's Hashim
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
The one-on-one you’ve been waiting for… AD sits down with Love Is Blind Season 8’s Ben for an unfiltered conversation about his journey, regrets, and where he really stands on the biggest topics from his season. And things heat up when The Ultimatum Season 3’s Zaina and Temptation Island’s Hashim join the chat, and let’s just say... sparks might be flying! 👀 They open up about their reality TV experiences, lessons learned, and dealbreakers when it comes to love. Is it just podcast chemistry, or could something real be brewing? Don’t miss this episode—you’ll definitely be talking about it!
Chapter 1: Who are the guests in this episode?
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of What's the Reality? You guys, I'm so excited about this episode. It is going to be action packed, starting with my girl Zaina from season three of Ultimatum. It's me. I'm here. Welcome. And then we have a little treat for all of my Temptation Island fans. We've got Hashim coming in to talk about his time and drop a little tea as well.
And then if you've been following along on the podcast, you know that I am very much invested in season eight of Love is Blind. So I got to talk to Ben a little bit after the reunion and we're going to we're going to show that as well. So, yeah. But before all that, how are you? I'm great. Welcome to What's the Reality.
So happy to be here.
Yeah, catch me up on life. How are you?
I've been great. Honestly, the show was the biggest blessing in disguise. Not going to lie. Thank God for that. Afterwards, it's like a weight has been lifted. Everything's just been up and up after the show.
So let's go back a little bit and talk about your ultimatum journey. For those that don't know what ultimatum is, do you want to give us a little breakdown and then tell us how you got involved?
Yes. So the ultimatum is a crazy experiment where there are six couples and out of the couple, one person issues their partner an ultimatum, let's get married or break up. And so I was the person that issued my boyfriend at the time of three years an ultimatum. And even the way we kind of got on the show was that we saw an ad pop up for it and I brought it up as a joke.
I was like, oh my God, look at this. He's like, oh, we should do it. And I'm like, oh my God, you're finally prioritizing our relationship because up until that point, marriage conversations were stalled. And I took his enthusiasm for wanting to do the show as like,
You want to marry me? You want to marry me?
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Chapter 2: What is Zaina's experience on The Ultimatum?
Yeah, taken from you.
Like your independence, just like everything that you worked for, all of a sudden you have no control over it.
None.
Where you feel like a prisoner in your own.
In actual, she literally said she feels like a prisoner. And it's so sad. Like a big dream of mine. Wendy, if you ever watch What's the Reality? I feel like I would love to have her on this couch, but I feel like the interview would shift and I'd be like, now I'm being interviewed. Like, I don't know. That would be a dream. So, hey, Wendy.
We're manifesting Wendy right here in this seat.
Imagine I get the exclusive.
Look, anything is possible.
Okay, y'all. So Zaina and I are officially joined by our new friend, Hashim. Welcome to What's the Reality?
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Chapter 6: What advice do the guests have for navigating love?
Chapter 7: How do they cope with public scrutiny?
Um, yet, um, I wish I remembered more because I think Sarah needed kind of that clarity to be like, here's what happened. Here was the situation. But I couldn't give that to her because I honestly didn't remember because it was so insignificant. It was literally maybe a week, maybe two weeks of, you know, matching on a dating app and then talking and then meeting up at a bar.
And then that's pretty much it.
You met at a bar and that's all you remember? Yeah.
We met at a bar. Well, we met at a bar and the way that the texts and everything were going, I had figured she, we were going to like get physical. And so we had gone back to her place and then we just kind of made out and such and I didn't want to stay over. And so then I just ended up leaving.
Why is she so heartbroken then?
That's, I don't know.
Yeah.
It's, it's something where. I think, yeah, I feel bad because if I thought she had this feelings towards me or this connection towards me, I wanted I would have wanted to apologize or say like that. I'm sorry, but I was in a place where I ghosted her. And then I don't remember how she reached out to me after or anything that happened after that. I just know I didn't talk to her again.
And what about the other women coming out?
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