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Nick & Vanessa Lachey Tell the Story of Their First Date at Hooters
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3/24/2025
'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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00:00
Didn't find love, so here I am and this isn't going to work.
00:03
I'm sure it's going to work.
00:04
And then they're crying by day two.
00:10
Nick and Vanessa, how do you keep things fresh?
00:12
Love is Blind Season 8, we are all the way here.
00:15
How are we renewing and reinventing ourselves?
00:17
Different cities, I think, make a huge difference.
00:20
You are going to see a different cast in Minneapolis than you had in D.C.,
00:24
than you had prior in Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta.
00:28
That's an element that really takes form that you start noticing in the pods
00:32
and then you really see when they go back to their hometown.
00:34
Yeah, the personalities of the people are different,
00:36
but the city's personalities are different.
00:38
They bring that to each and every season,
00:40
which definitely differentiates one from the other.
00:42
I mean, you look at Texas and you look at D.C., completely different casts.
00:45
And also different values.
00:47
Certain cities have different values.
00:49
Some just want to work, work, work.
00:51
Some are more into what the look is and the glam.
00:56
And some are just more into their families.
00:58
Some are more physical than others.
01:00
So it's a factor that they take into consideration,
01:02
which ultimately, I think, is, like I said, another character when people find each other.
01:06
Big time.
01:07
Big time, yeah.
01:08
So now that the show's been on for so long,
01:09
do you feel like more people are coming on with the goal of being famous?
01:12
I don't think so.
01:14
I mean, I think anytime you have a successful franchise,
01:17
like thankfully Love is Blind has become,
01:19
you certainly run the risk of that happening.
01:21
But we see every year people in that lounge who are genuinely there
01:25
because they cannot find what they're looking for in their conventional dating scene in their city.
01:30
And so they're willing to take a chance on this radical experience,
01:34
this experiment called Love is Blind.
01:36
And thankfully we've seen 13 marriages in seven seasons,
01:40
10 of them still together to this day.
01:42
So the formula works.
01:43
It works and it's been proven to work.
01:45
And I think that people, for the most part,
01:47
you might have a curveball every now and then.
01:49
But you can tell really quickly.
01:52
Ultimately, everyone wants to find love.
01:54
And we get to take the guessing work out.
01:56
Like everyone here, the end goal is to be standing at the altar to say,
01:58
I do, God willing.
02:00
But if there is someone that sneaks through,
02:02
once you're in the pods for 10 days and you are detached from your cell phone,
02:06
from your family, friends, work, and all of the noise,
02:09
you start seeing people's true colors.
02:11
Most of them, I would say over half of them are really genuine and really want to be there.
02:15
My favorite are the skeptical guys that are like,
02:17
didn't find love, so here I am and this isn't going to work.
02:20
I'm not sure it's going to work.
02:21
And they're crying by day two.
02:23
But if there is someone that is like just very matter of fact
02:26
that you think maybe just wants to be famous, I feel like you see that.
02:30
You see that in, and either production doesn't follow them because they see it as well.
02:35
And the goal isn't to call people out or be salacious.
02:38
You know, we truly, Chris the creator at Kinetic truly believes in love,
02:42
truly wants to celebrate it, and wants people to find their person.
02:45
So he's not trying to call people out.
02:48
But at the end of the day, if someone does say or do something that's just like,
02:51
okay, you kind of did it to yourself and we have to put this out there
02:53
so people know moving forward, maybe don't ask that question on a date.
02:56
Maybe don't act that way.
02:57
Don't ask if somebody can go sit on your shoulders.
02:59
Exactly.
03:00
See, because it might not be the reaction that everyone's looking for.
03:03
So if you two met behind a wall, would you have chosen each other?
03:06
Rapid fire.
03:07
Yes.
03:08
100%.
03:09
Yes.
03:10
Personality is strong.
03:11
And I heard your first date was at Hooters.
03:13
Yes.
03:14
Trenton Hooters.
03:15
Different than behind a wall.
03:16
I was doing a show in Trenton, New Jersey.
03:17
She was working in the city.
03:18
I said, hey, why don't you come down and see the show?
03:20
And so I didn't think she'd do it.
03:22
It was a little bit of a test maybe.
03:23
But she got on the train and came down to Trenton.
03:25
Did I pass the test, baby?
03:26
On a Monday night.
03:27
You passed the test.
03:28
And they tested me again and said, we're going to Hooters.
03:29
And I was like, did I pass the test?
03:30
Well, Hooters was the only thing open on a Monday night in Trenton, New Jersey.
03:33
You know what's funny?
03:34
We were just on Kelly Clarkson's show, and she was like,
03:36
that's just him being an artist on tour.
03:39
Like when it's late night, show's over, it's 1130, 12 o'clock, and you're hungry,
03:43
it's Hooters.
03:44
That's all that's open.
03:46
Or Waffle House.
03:47
But there was no Waffle House in Jersey.
03:49
Last little fun question.
03:51
Have you ever gotten into a fight over Love is Blind?
03:53
Yes.
03:54
100%.
03:55
Yep.
03:56
Driving to reunions.
03:57
We definitely don't see eye to eye on everything.
03:59
I'm like, that's the way you see this?
04:00
No, no, no.
04:01
And I was like, there's no way that she did that.
04:04
And he's like, absolutely.
04:05
And he literally ends it with, we're going to agree to disagree.
04:09
Well, that's good communication.
04:11
We love it.
04:12
I've actually walked away in a couple seasons.
04:13
I remember vividly watching them when we were in Hawaii,
04:15
and I was like, I've got to walk away.
04:16
I can't believe that you think that.
04:18
Well, it's too real.
04:19
Yeah.
04:20
No, I think we're like any other couple out there watching it.
04:22
We see things differently.
04:23
We root for people differently.
04:25
We're the hosts of the show, obviously, but we—
04:27
Obviously.
04:28
Obviously.
04:29
I think that's just your word.
04:31
Even more importantly, we're fans of the show.
04:33
We love watching it.
04:34
We're as invested as anybody else.
04:36
Yeah.
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