Love Is Blind’s Sarah drops bombshell that John was using Tinder during their marriage
He hilariously claimed his phone had been 'hacked' and the app was actually a 'virus'
Love is Blind star Sarah has revealed she found Tinder on her husband John’s phone, on top of the strip club drama we already knew about. Appearing on Nick Viall’s podcast, The Viall Files, Sarah said John was on the dating app during the same boys’ trip and even had a match. When she confronted him, he claimed a “bug” had put Tinder on his phone. Yes, really.
Sarah, who married John on [season X] of the Netflix show, explained that her suspicions began when a friend casually mentioned that “all the guys went to the strip club”. The trouble was, John had texted her separately to say only “some of the guys” were going, and that he wasn’t up for it.
“I was like, ‘Oh, why aren’t you going?’ And he was like, ‘I’m just not in the mood for it or something,’” Sarah said. “So like he lied for no reason, because we had talked about it and I was like, ‘No, you can go.’”
That one lie set everything off. “That like triggered something in my brain,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh, he lied about the trip. That’s weird.’ And then it was all very quickly like, it was very laid out for me, it was very easy.”
When co-host Michaela asked if she’d found anything else on his phone, Sarah didn’t hold back: “He was on Tinder.”
She added that it all happened around 3am, but that the time didn’t excuse anything. “I don’t care that like there was intention and even if you were wasted, you had wasted intention,” she said. “It’s gross.”
John said a ‘bug’ got Tinder on his phone
Sarah said John didn’t take her seriously when she first confronted him. “He was like, laughing,” she said. His explanation? That his phone had been hit by a bug, and that he’d been hacked.
Sarah confirmed she’d seen his profile herself, “and like there was a match, too, during that time.” She also wasn’t buying the idea that it happened by accident. “He took the time to find photos,” she said. “It’s so much work. I mean, maybe he’s always had it, and it just like was like, deactivated, or something, and he just like activated it. I don’t know, I’ve never been on Tinder. I’ve only been on his Tinder.”
Somehow, it gets worse. Sarah revealed John called her at 3am one night during the trip, and she could hear women in the background.
“I remember I was annoyed because I had both jobs the next day. I’m like, ‘Why are you calling me?’” she said. “I could hear girls in the background at the house, which again, I trusted him fully. So I peacefully went to bed after that, but I just knew I wouldn’t get the same in return.”
She added: “Had I been on a girls’ trip, and if he had ever heard boys in the background, like, it would have been this whole thing.” Looking back, she said, “You were texting an escort, and then like, called your wife. Which is like the worst part.”
Nick pointed out how much more alarming it all is given John married someone he met on a hugely watched TV show. Sarah agreed: “This is a public relationship. You can’t hold it together.”
“That’s what makes me angry,” she said. “You had one year to behave. I mean, obviously I’m grateful that it was in this year. But it’s like you had one year and you couldn’t do that. That’s crazy.”
She also said cast members are easily recognised on nights out. “Sometimes the guys will go out and they tell everyone that they were on Love is Blind,” she said. “So it’s like people are taking pictures of you. These girls are going to remember you. Like, what are you doing?”
And she compared it to how her friends’ husbands spend their boys’ trips: “I have married friends and their husbands go on boys’ trips and they’re golfing and they’re going to breweries and they’re not doing that.”
What John has said
According to Sarah, John insists the dating app was a one-off. “He says no,” she said, when asked if he’d ever used Tinder outside of that trip. “And like nothing physical happened, and that he after the texting and stuff wanted to come home because that’s when he realised he liked being married.”
Reality Shrine has reached out to John for comment.
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