Love Is Blind ‘villain’ Shake is ‘hurt’ Deepti ‘is playing the victim’
Love Is Blind star Abhishek ‘Shake’ Chatterjee has defended himself in a dramatic new interview after claiming the cast of the Netflix show dumped him as a friend when they saw the public’s perception of him.
The veterinarian was the breakout star of the second series of the dating show when it aired this month, becoming the villain of the show due to his behaviour toward love match Deepti Vempati.
Speaking on the The Domenick Nati Show this week, Shake admitted he was ‘hurt’ that his ex was ‘playing up the victim thing’ and that his co-stars had aligned themselves with her during the explosive reunion episode.
‘Playing the victim’: Love Is Blind star Abhishek ‘Shake’ Chatterjee has defended himself in a dramatic new interview, saying he’s hurt his ex Deepti Vempati ‘is playing up the victim thing’
Shake said he hasn’t spoken to Deepti or any members of the cast since the reunion episode was filmed a month ago.
‘I’m hurt that she’s playing up the victim thing so hard when we had so much fun and I took such good care of her,’ Shake told the YouTube show of his ex, who confessed to MailOnline this month that she was left ‘broken’ by his cruel behaviour.
During the reunion episode, viewers saw the cast and hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey round on Shake for his treatment of Deepti and his comments on the show about women’s weight.
‘I felt that people on the show, they became people that would say anything and do anything to protect their image,’ Shake said when asked about what happened during the reunion.
Drama: Shake said he hasn’t spoken to Deepti or any members of the cast since the explosive reunion episode was filmed a month ago
‘I started seeing it and calling it out and they did not like it. People were lying through their teeth to protect their image and align with whoever they will align with.’
‘No new true information was revealed during the show but once people saw public perception they aligned themselves with either this person or that person, or “this person is America’s sweetheart now we’re on this person’s team”.’
‘”This person’s a villain, we need to stand against him.” These were the same people who I was spending time with the week before the show came out, they all knew all of this but once they knew who was going to be hated and who was going to be loved they jumped ship and aligned themselves.’
The reunion also saw Kyle Abrams admit he should have proposed to Deepti, with fans speculating in the weeks since the episode aired that the pair are now an item.
Going official: Shake has since moved on from Deepti, debuting his new relationship with girlfriend Emily last week
Shake said he was hurt by Kyle’s declaration, claiming: ‘I was literally watching the Super Bowl with him and Deepti and Shane one week before that so to feel like when the cameras are on you’re going to say something like that, why didn’t you tell me the 50 times we hung out before?’
‘That was saved on purpose to be a dramatic statement at my expense.’
Shake later claimed that Kyle, who’s own own on-show romance with Shaina Hurley fizzled out in the honeymoon stages, only went on the show to find fame.
‘Everyone does to some degree, no one goes into it blind but some people made it their whole personality and that person was Kyle for sure. I lost a lot of respect for the guy.’
‘I know he applied for ten different shows… and taking acting lessons,’ Shake claimed.
Rumours: The reunion also saw Kyle Abrams admit he should have proposed to Deepti, with fans speculating in the weeks since the episode aired that the pair are now an item (pictured in a recent TikTiok video shared by Kyle)
Shake has since moved on from Deepti, debuting his new relationship with girlfriend Emily last week.
He admitted during the interview that ‘I’ll say absolutely’ he found the blonde more attractive than his ex but blasted accusations that he only finds skinny girls attractive.
‘Absolutely not, I find all types of women attractive, that’s one of the big misrepresentations of the show. I am so attracted to all types of women, I love it all but when it comes to something like marriage, I do have a stronger preference for a certain type.’
‘I’m a scrawny dude. I wish I was big enough and strong enough to pick up a thicker woman. As a man I love to pick women up, I love to pick Emily up. I feel masculine when I do it.
‘The woman might want that too, to be picked up, it’s a two way street. I’m too skinny and too weak in a lot of ways.’
No idea: Shake said he was hurt by Kyle’s declaration, claiming: ‘That was saved on purpose to be a dramatic statement at my expense’
When asked if he and Deepti had had sex on the show, Shake explained why he didn’t pursue a physical connection with his ex.
‘There were many opportunities but I felt in my heart of hearts that I didn’t want my body to make a promise to her body. Us guys, sex is one thing but for women.’
‘As a scientist I’ll say this – women release a lot of oxytocin when they have sex and oxytocin is a love hormone so when you have sex with a woman there’s a chemical bonding that happens that is very powerful and I didn’t think it was right of me to do that when I was having such a tough time committing to the relationship’.
‘I wasn’t attracted enough. As a man having sex isn’t that big a deal, you can have sex with someone who you don’t necessarily feel is going to be a long term partner. I wasn’t attracted enough to make that commitment to her’.
While Shake and Deepti’s romance didn’t last beyond the show, it was revealed this week that two couples — Jarrette and Iyanna and Nick and Danielle — have filed the legal paperwork to make their TV weddings official, with The Cook County Court in Illinois holding marriage records for both couples from June 2021.
Not meant to be: Kyle and his Love Is Blind match Shaina only lasted a matter of days outside of the pods, with Shaina quitting their Mexico honeymoon early
