Detour to love! It took a while to Love is blind‘s Jackeline “Jackie” Bonds and Josh Demas to eventually find their way to each other.
Jackie and Josh met in the group during season 4 of the Netflix reality series 2023. Although they had a strong relationship, the dental assistant also formed a relationship with Marshall Glaze. While torn between the two men, Jackie eventually accepted Marshall’s proposal after the capsule phase of the dating experiment.
However, Jackie and the marketing executive began to bicker and get into a series of heated arguments leading up to their wedding day. After Marshall made a comment that didn’t sit well with Jackie, she felt the need to break off their engagement.
“[It was] that [moment] and then there was another comment that he made, and I’m not going to go into that because it’s very, very derogatory to the group,” Jackie claimed. Us Weekly in April 2023 about an alleged off-air conversation between her and her ex-fiancé, which Marshall has not discussed publicly. “But he made that comment, and I’m just, like, ‘Yeah, I’m cool.’ Once you disrespect me and call me names because of my character, as a woman, I can’t stand it. I’m out of here.”
In the show, Jackie skipped her wedding dress fitting to meet up with Josh at a coffee shop. The project engineer admitted that he still had feelings for her and brought her a bouquet of roses. Jackie later took to social media to clarify that she had already ended things with Marshall before rekindling her romance with Josh.
“I saw the latest episodes that premiered Love is blind and I must speak the truth. “Marshall and I broke up before I saw Josh at the coffee shop,” she wrote on the way Instagram after the show aired in April 2023. “I wear different clothes, my hair is styled [differently] and finally [episode]I say, ‘I DON’T KNOW IF I’M GOING TO BE WITH JOSH.'”
Marshall, for his part, said Us that he had “no ill will toward Jackie or Josh,” following their love triangle.
“[Jackie and I] I shared that experience for a long time, and I will always remember it, and I choose to keep the good memories and leave the harmful ones and the ones that ended us in the end”, he explained in April 2023. “I think it’s best to put it under the bridge and keep moving and put it in the rear view.”
After the reunion special aired in April 2023, Jackie revealed Us that she and Josh have grown strong and are currently living together.
“That’s exactly what was supposed to happen,” Jackie said at the time. “I think me and Josh would [chosen] each other in pods, I think, maybe, our story would be a little different from the current one. But to be honest, this was already in the running [and] in the plan because of the Lord above.”
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