{"id":46564,"date":"2026-02-20T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=46564"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:23:02","slug":"it-turns-out-there-were-more-flirty-messages-chris-sent-bri-that-werent-shown-on-love-is-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/20\/it-turns-out-there-were-more-flirty-messages-chris-sent-bri-that-werent-shown-on-love-is-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"It turns out Chris sent Bri even more flirty messages that weren’t shown on Love Is Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bri revealed during the Love Is Blind mixer that Chris had flirtatiously messaged her, but it turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

In reality, the messages that were shown to the other women didn’t show everything he sent her, or the exact timeframe that the messages started flooding in.<\/p>\n

Luckily Bri has revealed all, including the texts we didn’t see on the show and exactly how soon after his split from Jessica<\/a> that Chris started messaging her.<\/p>\n

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Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bri told E News!<\/a>: “He messaged me on Instagram, and this man was in the pods telling me he doesn’t even have an Instagram. I thought it was a bot and a fake account. I was like, ‘This can’t be right.’ The way I was so in shock was pretty crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: “He goes on to say some things. They were slightly inappropriate in some ways, and it was just a whole whirlwind. I’m like, \u2018What’s happening?’\u201d<\/p>\n

It also seem like Chris has decided to have selective amnesia as when Entertainment Weekly<\/a> asked him what he sent to Bri, he replied: “I don’t remember that either. I honestly couldn’t tell you what I said. I mean, it wasn’t anything like, ‘Hey, what are you doing?’ If I could remember, I would tell you.”<\/p>\n

Bri told Entertainment Weekly that Chris apparently messaged her “immediately” after his split with Jessica on Love Is Blind.<\/p>\n

She recalled: “I will never forget this moment because we were filming a date at our apartment, Connor and I, and my phone is blowing up. I realized it’s our girls group chat, and it’s because Jess and Chris had just had their conversation.<\/p>\n

“And so we literally stopped filming because we were like, ‘Hey, there’s a lot going on in the group, and we need to pause and show up for people if we are available.'”<\/p>\n

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Via Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cameras stopped filming when Bri got the first message from Chris, as she explained: “I literally was out in the hallway while Connor was [doing] an interview and I got a message request from Chris.<\/p>\n

“I actually thought it was fake because he told me he was not on social media, and we had just got back to Columbus, [Ohio], there was a lot of hype around the show. So the DM that is shown at the party isn’t the first time he messaged me.”<\/p>\n

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Bri also revealed exactly when he first messaged her, and it’s bad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":46583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1528,1438],"class_list":["post-46564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-love-is-blind","tag-netflix"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/20\/it-turns-out-there-were-more-flirty-messages-chris-sent-bri-that-werent-shown-on-love-is-blind\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"It turns out Chris sent Bri even more flirty messages that weren’t shown on Love Is Blind","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/20\/it-turns-out-there-were-more-flirty-messages-chris-sent-bri-that-werent-shown-on-love-is-blind\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/20\/it-turns-out-there-were-more-flirty-messages-chris-sent-bri-that-werent-shown-on-love-is-blind\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-02-20T110845.546-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-02-20T110845.546.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["love is blind","netflix"],"dateCreated":"2026-02-20T11:20:04Z","datePublished":"2026-02-20T11:20:04Z","dateModified":"2026-02-20T11:23:02Z"},"rendered":"