The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On is Netflix’s latest dating show from the producers of Love is Blind. Like the latter, the show is hosted by means of Nick and Vanessa Lachey and has a twist beyond simply relationship: six preexisting couples who're divided on the subject of marriage must live with somebody from one among the other couples for a trial marriage. At then finish of the trial period, the contestants have to come to a decision if they need to marry their authentic partner or transfer on.
Like the first season of Love is Blind, this show also has some weirdness surrounding a feminine contestant’s age. While Jessica (34) was the person who used to be fixated on her age and saved bringing it up herself, this time it’s surely a production snafu. Lauren Pounds, considered one of the contestants this season, used to be elderly down through like three years in her chyrons, which listed her as 26. But fanatics noticed that she posted about her 30th birthday this yr.
If you spent the weekend basking in the drama of The Ultimatum — Vanessa and Nick Lachey’s latest Netflix fact courting show — you then’ve already been aware of Lauren Pounds, who’s a participant on the debut season.
Lauren appears on the collection along her spouse, Nate Ruggles, in addition to a handful of different couples asked to position their relationships to the test on TV prior to deciding whether or not or not to get married.
Anyway, Lauren sparked the most important dialog on Instagram lately about ageism, and tired, sexist double requirements, when a fan noticed she’d shared a put up about turning 30 this previous February regardless of — supposedly — being just 26 whilst filming The Ultimatum.
Obviously, something didn’t upload up. “Wait I’m extraordinarily puzzled weren’t u like 26 on the show?” the fan commented, to which Lauren responded, “They lied about my age [on The Ultimatum]. We can’t work out if it was intentional or no longer.”
Lauren later reposted a screenshot of the interplay on Instagram Stories (it still appears in her highlights for those who’d like to look for your self) beside a screenshot from one in every of her Ultimatum confessionals that confirms she was once, actually, identified as “Lauren, 26.”
Netflix hasn’t addressed the chatter surrounding Lauren’s age being introduced incorrectly, so it’s unclear if that was once intentional or some kind of unfortunate mistake. If anything else adjustments, we’ll stay you updated.
UPDATE: A representative from Netflix reached out to BuzzFeed and confirmed that Lauren’s age can be corrected on the show.
If I’m being beneficiant, I suppose it’s possible that if she was once 29 when it filmed, an editor may have blended up 6 and 9 (lol). Sometimes if I glance temporarily at numbers, I misremember numbers which might be a equivalent shape/outline and this has brought about me to omit a teach earlier than through mistakenly remembering a Five as an 8! (I most likely shouldn’t admit this or lower it so close at the train station). But if it was if truth be told a mistake, Netflix would most definitely simply say so and they didn’t. All they mentioned was that her age can be updated. An error would look higher on them as a result of this simply looks just a little sexist.
Also, the proven fact that Lauren and her partner had been both the similar age, however most effective she used to be elderly down, makes it further bizarre and silly! While I can unquestionably/for my part perceive the impulse of a unmarried woman in her 30s to age herself down (it’s crossed my thoughts), why do it for just one part of a couple? Women just need to be young, it doesn't matter what, I guess. Anything above 30 is just too old and why would her same-age spouse of several years even wish to marry her after 30. It makes me recall to mind this random publish from my Explore web page that I can’t to find: it’s an image of Ana de Armas and a caption expressing disbelief that she’s 30+, after which there’s a comment that claims one thing like “do you assume women turn into Prince Phillip after 30?” Seems like The Ultimatum does.
Photos credit Netflix and via Instagram, @laurenkilos
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