Technical complications appear to be the least of Netflix's problems when it came to Sunday night's Love is Blind reunion. Fans are outraged over the way cohost Vanessa Lachey grilled contestants over their baby plans, even prompting some to start a petition demanding the mother of three be replaced on the series.
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Vanessa couldn't help but ask intimate and inappropriate questions during the reunion special.
Netflix put together a live reunion show for fans of the series so that they could catch up on where their faves ended up. Unfortunately for the streaming giant, too many people tuned in, which caused the episode to air nearly 80 minutes after it was supposed to start.
The technical issues ended up not being the most frustrating part of the night for fans, who couldn't get past Vanessa's obsession with when the contestants planned to start families.
She hounded the castmates about their baby-making plans.
As the Daily Mail pointed out, Vanessa kicked off the show by asking a series of questions about plans to start a family. "Who will be the first to have babies? Are you trying? I hope you are trying. By the way, are you trying?" she said.
Vanessa even played a clip of Love is Blind alum Bartise Bowden holding his new baby, Hayden. "OK, seriously, if that doesn't make your ovaries burn … I don't know, I want a No. 4 so bad," she said.
Vanessa also put several contestants on the spot.
Nobody was spared Vanessa's line of questioning, as she took turns asking members of the season four cast questions about having children.
"What are you guys thinking on the baby timeline?" Vanessa asked Tiffany before turning to the rest of the cast.
Things were clearly getting a bit uncomfortable, and Brett even tried to deflect the questions a bit by cracking wise. "I was just about to make a joke, like Jesus, ya'll really put the baby pressure … My God."
Fans didn't miss the awkward exchange and took to Twitter to complain.
"Vanessa Lachey was so awful I never finished the episode because she was so obnoxious asking about babies," one person tweeted.
Another critic tweeted directly at Netflix with complaints, asking Vanessa to stop with the baby questions. "It's rude and insensitive to ask because these women could be having miscarriages or struggling to conceive and may not want the public to know," the person wrote. "To pressure someone like that is wrong."
Someone else brought up the fact that these relationships are hardly ready for the next step. "Love is Blind is a literal experiment," the commenter wrote in part. "Why does Vanessa Lachey want to drag babies into unstable relationships?"
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The 'cringe' behavior could even end up costing Vanessa her job.
One very unhappy person created a Change.org petition, requesting Netflix replace the baby obsessed cohost with someone else.
Whether Vanessa gets herself and husband Nick Lachey canned — one Twitter user has suggested season one couple Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton take their place — remains to be seen but it's clear that people don't like Vanessa's line of questioning.
We can't say that we blame them. Hopefully Vanessa learns her lesson from this backlash and focuses less on babies and more on the contestants in the future.
