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The Producers’ Involvement
The female contestants and the male contestants each have teams of producers, but according to Coelen, producers don’t interrupt the couples in the pods.
“They’d help facilitate needs for people, so it would feel like dating. For example, if someone said, ‘I love Italian food and I’d love to have an Italian dinner with my date.’ We would get some lasagna and arrange that,” he said. “Obviously they can’t eat it together but they could say, ‘Oh, this lasagna’s really cheesy,’ or whatever. If they want to draw pictures together, whatever they wanted to do, we really wanted them to feel like it’s their own thing.”
Season 2’s Sal Perez told E! News in February 2022 that cast members are given “talking points” if they need them.
“There were kind of topics for the day,” Kyle Abrams from the same season added while talking to the outlet. ”It was good if there was a lull in conversation, you just refer to the little notebook and you can drum up conversation.”
Season 5 star Izzy Zapata opened up about one of the suggested topics during an October 2023 appearance on Nick Viall’s “Viall Files” podcast.
“Through the process, [producers] give us guidance on what to talk about, like, one day will be finances, one day will be, like, values [and] families and one day there’s sex,” he explained, noting that “sex day” was the most fun. “It’s a time to get to know one another in terms of kinks, lights on [or] lights off. … Some of the girls are curious, I will say, [but] we’d have a little bit of help [from producers] along the way.”
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