Following the ‘Love Is Blind’ reunion, AD gives an update on her relationship with Clay

“Love Is Blind” is certainly one of Netflix’s hottest reality shows, taking the No. 3 spot after being amongst the top 10 most-watched shows for the past 4 weeks.

After weeks of watching couples fall out and in of affection, the series ended explosively when certainly one of the grooms, Clay Gravesande, allowed his fiancée Amber Desiree “AD” Smith to say “yes” at the altar before he told her “yes no.”

Fans identified that there have been clear red flags that Clay wasn’t ready for marriage. Still, AD selected to overlook these flags in hopes that the show’s experiment can be successful, with couples falling (invisibly) in love in the pods and quickly getting married inside a couple of weeks.

After Clay “embarrassed” AD, as she and her family noticed, he said he still desired to be in a relationship with her. However, in line with AD during an interview with Nick Viall and his solid on The Viall Files, the two aren’t dating but do flirt sometimes.

“Clay and I are friends who can flirt. We are flirty friends,” she said. “If we see each other outside, we look into each other’s eyes. Like we hugged and cuddled and took care of each other. But we are friends again.”

The podcast host asked, “Do you like to remind him from time to time of what he’s lost?”

“Every chance I get. Every opportunity I get,” the former skilled dancer said, adding that her reunion dress was so special that it also reminded him of what he lost by not locking her up.

One fan on Twitter he said, “What has he lost? If he can still cuddle… he has access” while others he laughed“She thinks she’s won…someone teach her self-love.”

“What is she @she’s too old for this nonsense” – one other he scolded.

One person said Clay was playing some form of game the whole time.

“He prepared her for this fun, now it is situational and I assume casual sex. He purposely knew what he was doing and his figure was too staring” – User X he wrote.

It seems AD has been the butt of jokes since the show aired.

During Episode 6, several white castmates couldn’t get enough of mentioning her well-rounded buttocks.

Looking at AD from across the room, Jimmy, a white player, blurted out to his then-white fiancée Chelsea that AD was “stacked.”

Chelsea agreed, joking that AD’s butt looked like a “shelf”, then shouted back that her man had commented on one other woman’s butt, after which asked how she managed to get such an enormous and firm butt. AD shyly replied that she was blessed by Jesus and the workouts.

Although Jimmy apologized and AD graciously accepted it, many felt she had been objectified.

Especially when the next couple, Jeramey and Laura, giggled and laughed at AD’s “dipping the beans.” To “spill the beans” on someone, wave your index finger across a lady’s or man’s chest.

This time AD was clearly embarrassed, questioning Laura why she told her man to do it.

Clay, who was her fiancé at the time, spoke up and stated that they weren’t only insulting AD, but additionally him.

Social media agreed.

“It’s very disgusting how they sexualize AD. From Jimmy approaching and flirting with her to the stupid bean dip joke #LoveIsBlindS6,” one person wrote.

The bean dip comment was also discussed at the reunion, where Laura apologized profusely for seemingly insulting AD. Jeramy even agreed that the joke must have stayed between him and Laura and he should never have repeated it.

“Love is Blind” is a series of matchmaking experiments by which single people try to seek out life partners and commit to marriage without ever seeing one another. The goal of the program is to see if participants can establish emotional connections without the initial influence of physical appearance.

One couple, John McIntyre and Amy Cortés McIntyre, actually married out of the six who were engaged.