{"id":43934,"date":"2026-01-27T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=43934"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:38:57","slug":"chelsea-and-jimmy-admit-they-would-still-be-together-if-they-hadnt-met-on-love-is-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/27\/chelsea-and-jimmy-admit-they-would-still-be-together-if-they-hadnt-met-on-love-is-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea and Jimmy admit they would still be together if they hadn&#8217;t met on Love Is Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea and Jimmy previously admitted that they think they&#8217;d still be together and their relationship would have worked if they&#8217;d met outside of Love Is Blind, and my heart is breaking a bit.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?si=8BWDMmF2j--jDFj0&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.news.yahoo.com%2Flove-blind-chelsea-admits-she-160000022.html&amp;source_ve_path=Mjg2NjQsMTY0NTA2&amp;v=BbB4t_ibVHo&amp;feature=youtu.be\">YouTube video together<\/a> after the show, the pair opened up about how they rekindled their friendship as well as how much they still mean to each other.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43944\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43944\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113552.381.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113552.381.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113552.381-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113552.381-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113552.381-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jimmy told Chelsea: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got your back. We didn&#8217;t have the ending we wanted, but you&#8217;re a great person, you&#8217;re a great friend, and I still love my time I spent with you, even though we didn&#8217;t end up like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea then admitted that she thinks they would have worked outside the show, saying that if they&#8217;d &#8220;met in the real world in a bar, we would&#8217;ve worked because we are so good together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the pair struggle to stay away from each other, continuing: &#8220;I think we just gravitate towards each other, no matter what. We obviously couldn&#8217;t stay away from each other. It was six months, maybe, and we were just gravitating towards each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43945\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43945\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113537.246.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113537.246.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113537.246-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113537.246-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113537.246-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for whether at that time either of them were considering getting back together, Chelsea admitted: &#8220;I always say never say never because we do, we had such a good connection and such a good bond that I would, totally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re the only people who know our story. You are, to this day, my comfort. I love you with my whole heart, I will always love you, but I&#8217;m tired of the feelings. I&#8217;ve cried enough!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy and Chelsea have recently been spending a lot more time together since Love Is Blind, with Jimmy <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/11\/12\/jimmy-reveals-he-and-chelsea-are-super-close-as-he-moves-into-same-apartment-complex-as-her\/\">even moving into the same apartment complex as her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/22\/love-is-blind-jimmy-presnell-body-transformation-confidence\/\">TMZ<\/a>, Jimmy finally addressed what the relationship between him and Chelsea currently looks like after Love Is Blind, and it does sound like something could be happening between them in the future.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: \u201cWe went to a Friendsgiving together, she\u2019s still a good friend of mine. What\u2019s interesting with Chelsea and I, what a lot of people don\u2019t really understand because I feel like the reunion with us never really gave people a ton of answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they were to film the reunion right after the episodes you\u2019d get people\u2019s real opinions of each other right? But because there\u2019s a ten month period between filming and the show coming out, you really have a lot of time to digest and think about things and not act out of emotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then also when they started releasing our episodes, then they asked us to come back for the finale.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43943\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43943\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113638.141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113638.141.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113638.141-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113638.141-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-01-27T113638.141-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jimmy continued: \u201cBecause our season was so wildly successful, we got to see what the internet had to say and I saw the feedback she was getting online and I got bad feedback too, but hers was out of this world terrible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so we just had more of a unified front of how we face things and almost trauma bonded through that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so it gave us a chance to really have a fresh start as friends and we kind of just had each other\u2019s back through that. And we\u2019ve been close ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStay tuned, I mean I\u2019m single, I\u2019m going to put myself out there to whatever opportunities come my way, I want to find someone and I\u2019ll leave it at that.\u201d<\/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\" href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Reality Shrine<\/a><\/i><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u00a0on\u00a0<\/i><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" 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