Love Is Blind British Freddie responds to Cat Dating Jake
Freddy Powell was the one who said ‘not me’ Catherine ‘Kat’ Richards – but how does the Love is blind, Britain the breakout star’s feelings about his former fiancée moving on with one of their costars?
In an interview last week, Cat confirmed she is dating Jake Singleton Hillone of the contestants during the pod phase of the Netflix reality show.
“To be honest, I found out early on, so not long after we broke up – maybe a few weeks later I found out she had been on a date with him,” Freddie told the paper. Daily mail in an interview published on Friday, August 30.
“If she’s happy, you know, I don’t really have anything to say, honestly. I think as long as she and he are happy, I hope it works for them,” he added.
Freddie said if the shoe were on the other foot, he wouldn’t date another participant from the reality TV experiment.
“Personally I wouldn’t choose that. I chased Cat, and that was my journey. I think you can meet anyone anywhere. You can go to [U.K. grocery store] Morrisons and meet someone. You don’t have to meet anyone from the pods,” the funeral director said.
Freddie broke up with Cat at their wedding after deciding they were too different to make it work, calling Cat “spark plug” and “materialistic” and pointing out that she likes to go out while he prefers to stay home. Days before the reunion aired, Cat revealed that she was dating Jake, which didn’t make it past the pod portion of the show.
‘I’m with someone from the pods. “I’m with a man with a dog, and the dog lives with us,” she began on the “Bailiwick Express” podcast on Friday, August 23. “His journey there was very tough, like the way he was treated. but I approached him.”
The pair connected via social media.
“I hadn’t seen him – because I’d only seen Freddie and the couples at the retreat – [then] I saw him on social media and I thought, ‘Oh, that Jake! I wonder if he’s the one from the show?” she continued. “[At first]he said, “Wait, you’re not married?” I thought, “Funny story,” because that’s obvious [it] was what would have been two weeks after that. So I thought, “Well, no,” and then we FaceTimed. We were on FaceTime for about five hours that night and then we talked every day for five weeks.”
In the spirit of the show, the pair quickly got together.
“I visited him for a weekend, and now we live together with the dog!” she exclaimed.
Love is blind, Britain is currently streaming on Netflix.