{"id":30262,"date":"2025-08-25T10:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/?p=30262"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:29:56","slug":"i-was-always-upfront-and-very-honest-jeven-tries-to-defend-himself-after-love-is-blind-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/08\/25\/i-was-always-upfront-and-very-honest-jeven-tries-to-defend-himself-after-love-is-blind-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was always upfront and very honest&#8217;: Javen tries to defend himself after Love Is Blind UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Javen&#8217;s flirtatious behaviour has been all anyone can talk about during the most recent batch of <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/tag\/love-is-blind\/\">Love Is Blind UK<\/a> episodes, but he&#8217;s broken his silence on everything.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared on the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2j3dC3cpY8A&amp;t=937s\">Love Is Blind UK podcast<\/a> to be grilled on what he did and didn&#8217;t do at *that* explosive cast matter, so let&#8217;s see what he has to say for himself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30284\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30284\" src=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102438.573.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102438.573.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102438.573-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102438.573-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102438.573-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Javen was asked whether he&#8217;d consider himself to be a &#8220;flirty person&#8221; after he was called out for doing exactly that during the Love Is Blind UK mixer.<\/p>\n<p>He responded: &#8220;I would say I&#8217;m a friendly person. I don&#8217;t consider it flirty behaviour but equally if you look at Aanu talking to me, if you look at Sophie talking to me, I wasn&#8217;t entertaining them, I was just laughing with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30283\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30283\" src=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102450.329.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102450.329.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102450.329-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102450.329-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102450.329-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She then asked Javen whether he feels like he&#8217;s &#8220;been misjudged or can be misjudged&#8221; for his behaviour during Love Is Blind UK.<\/p>\n<p>He replied: &#8220;I just think in the whole experience I didn&#8217;t pretend to be someone I wasn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not saying there were other people who were pretending or acting, but all I can say is because I was very upfront and very honest and didn&#8217;t hide away from things, sometimes you can be too honest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People can interpret it in different ways. But I wasn&#8217;t going to pretend. If people are talking to me, I&#8217;m going to keep it real with them, so that&#8217;s all I can say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30282\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30282 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102501.539.png\" alt=\"Javen Love Blind UK\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102501.539.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102501.539-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102501.539-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-08-25T102501.539-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Javen also revealed that he was trying to decide between Megan and Katisha in the final couple of days in the Love Is Blind UK pods.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: &#8220;We were getting along so well, but it got to the point where I was starting to feel more strongly for Katisha and she was starting to feel stronger for Kieran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I think it was the last two or three days where we had a really date and said, &#8216;it looks like you&#8217;re going this way and I&#8217;m going that way, so let&#8217;s just end it.&#8217; It was very nice and we left it on very good terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like\u00a0<\/i><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--underline\" 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