Nick & Vanessa Lachey Tell the Story of Their First Date at Hooters

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'Love is Blind' co-hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey are gearing up for the launch of Season 8 of the Netflix series and are throwing it back to their very first date as a couple at a Hooters in Trenton, New Jersey.

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00:00Didn't find love, so here I am and this isn't going to work.

00:03I'm sure it's going to work.

00:04And then they're crying by day two.

00:10Nick and Vanessa, how do you keep things fresh?

00:12Love is Blind Season 8, we are all the way here.

00:15How are we renewing and reinventing ourselves?

00:17Different cities, I think, make a huge difference.

00:20You are going to see a different cast in Minneapolis than you had in D.C.,

00:24than you had prior in Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta.

00:28That's an element that really takes form that you start noticing in the pods

00:32and then you really see when they go back to their hometown.

00:34Yeah, the personalities of the people are different,

00:36but the city's personalities are different.

00:38They bring that to each and every season,

00:40which definitely differentiates one from the other.

00:42I mean, you look at Texas and you look at D.C., completely different casts.

00:45And also different values.

00:47Certain cities have different values.

00:49Some just want to work, work, work.

00:51Some are more into what the look is and the glam.

00:56And some are just more into their families.

00:58Some are more physical than others.

01:00So it's a factor that they take into consideration,

01:02which ultimately, I think, is, like I said, another character when people find each other.

01:06Big time.

01:07Big time, yeah.

01:08So now that the show's been on for so long,

01:09do you feel like more people are coming on with the goal of being famous?

01:12I don't think so.

01:14I mean, I think anytime you have a successful franchise,

01:17like thankfully Love is Blind has become,

01:19you certainly run the risk of that happening.

01:21But we see every year people in that lounge who are genuinely there

01:25because they cannot find what they're looking for in their conventional dating scene in their city.

01:30And so they're willing to take a chance on this radical experience,

01:34this experiment called Love is Blind.

01:36And thankfully we've seen 13 marriages in seven seasons,

01:4010 of them still together to this day.

01:42So the formula works.

01:43It works and it's been proven to work.

01:45And I think that people, for the most part,

01:47you might have a curveball every now and then.

01:49But you can tell really quickly.

01:52Ultimately, everyone wants to find love.

01:54And we get to take the guessing work out.

01:56Like everyone here, the end goal is to be standing at the altar to say,

01:58I do, God willing.

02:00But if there is someone that sneaks through,

02:02once you're in the pods for 10 days and you are detached from your cell phone,

02:06from your family, friends, work, and all of the noise,

02:09you start seeing people's true colors.

02:11Most of them, I would say over half of them are really genuine and really want to be there.

02:15My favorite are the skeptical guys that are like,

02:17didn't find love, so here I am and this isn't going to work.

02:20I'm not sure it's going to work.

02:21And they're crying by day two.

02:23But if there is someone that is like just very matter of fact

02:26that you think maybe just wants to be famous, I feel like you see that.

02:30You see that in, and either production doesn't follow them because they see it as well.

02:35And the goal isn't to call people out or be salacious.

02:38You know, we truly, Chris the creator at Kinetic truly believes in love,

02:42truly wants to celebrate it, and wants people to find their person.

02:45So he's not trying to call people out.

02:48But at the end of the day, if someone does say or do something that's just like,

02:51okay, you kind of did it to yourself and we have to put this out there

02:53so people know moving forward, maybe don't ask that question on a date.

02:56Maybe don't act that way.

02:57Don't ask if somebody can go sit on your shoulders.

02:59Exactly.

03:00See, because it might not be the reaction that everyone's looking for.

03:03So if you two met behind a wall, would you have chosen each other?

03:06Rapid fire.

03:07Yes.

03:08100%.

03:09Yes.

03:10Personality is strong.

03:11And I heard your first date was at Hooters.

03:13Yes.

03:14Trenton Hooters.

03:15Different than behind a wall.

03:16I was doing a show in Trenton, New Jersey.

03:17She was working in the city.

03:18I said, hey, why don't you come down and see the show?

03:20And so I didn't think she'd do it.

03:22It was a little bit of a test maybe.

03:23But she got on the train and came down to Trenton.

03:25Did I pass the test, baby?

03:26On a Monday night.

03:27You passed the test.

03:28And they tested me again and said, we're going to Hooters.

03:29And I was like, did I pass the test?

03:30Well, Hooters was the only thing open on a Monday night in Trenton, New Jersey.

03:33You know what's funny?

03:34We were just on Kelly Clarkson's show, and she was like,

03:36that's just him being an artist on tour.

03:39Like when it's late night, show's over, it's 1130, 12 o'clock, and you're hungry,

03:43it's Hooters.

03:44That's all that's open.

03:46Or Waffle House.

03:47But there was no Waffle House in Jersey.

03:49Last little fun question.

03:51Have you ever gotten into a fight over Love is Blind?

03:53Yes.

03:54100%.

03:55Yep.

03:56Driving to reunions.

03:57We definitely don't see eye to eye on everything.

03:59I'm like, that's the way you see this?

04:00No, no, no.

04:01And I was like, there's no way that she did that.

04:04And he's like, absolutely.

04:05And he literally ends it with, we're going to agree to disagree.

04:09Well, that's good communication.

04:11We love it.

04:12I've actually walked away in a couple seasons.

04:13I remember vividly watching them when we were in Hawaii,

04:15and I was like, I've got to walk away.

04:16I can't believe that you think that.

04:18Well, it's too real.

04:19Yeah.

04:20No, I think we're like any other couple out there watching it.

04:22We see things differently.

04:23We root for people differently.

04:25We're the hosts of the show, obviously, but we—

04:27Obviously.

04:28Obviously.

04:29I think that's just your word.

04:31Even more importantly, we're fans of the show.

04:33We love watching it.

04:34We're as invested as anybody else.

04:36Yeah.

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