Love Is Blind season 7 star Nick Dorka reacted to his ex-fiancée Hannah Jiles’ weight loss and he acknowledged that he still found her attractive.
“Don’t tell me you weren’t a little bit turned on when she walked out at the reunion,” Kaitlyn Bristowe said to Nick, 29, during the Thursday, November 7, episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast. “I was like, ‘Damn! She looks hot!’”
Nick didn’t have any trouble admitting that he still found Hannah, 27, attractive.
“She does look hot,” the Virginia-based realtor continued, “but I also know all of her and I’ve been there, done that. But, she is beautiful and she does look beautiful now.”
Nick also discussed the claims that he had talked negatively about Hannah’s looks to his male costars.
“I never called her a grenade; I would never call someone a grenade,” Nick explained. “I did tell Ramses [Prashad] and Garrett [Joseman,] off camera in guy talk, that I was a little underwhelmed by how she looked, but at that point, this was before we went to Mexico. We had such a crazy connection I’m like, ‘Look, dating hasn’t worked in the past, and this could really work.’ So, that’s just guy talk, off camera. It’s not meant to be repeated.”
Hannah and Nick didn’t make it to the altar during Love Is Blind season 7, but he said that he “wanted it to work.”
“There were moments in each episode that I was taken back by the things she was saying, but I also knew so much good about her,” Nick told Kaitlyn, 39, during his interview. “There wasn’t a moment I was like, ‘It’s done,’ but it would be stupid to say that [after the Halloween party] it was going to work out. I was invested.”
As for whether or not Nick and Hannah are friends now after their split, he was open to the idea, but she seemingly wasn’t up for it.
“I’ve tried. That’s on her because that’s the type of person I am,” Nick shared. “I’ve reached out. Like a week ago, after watching the last batch of episodes, and I’ve seen the hate she’s been getting, I’m like, ‘Hey, not that you need it, but I’m here for you. We went through this together and I know it would help me just talking about it. We went through this unique experience and we shared these moments, if you ever want to talk I’m here for you.’”
The former Canadian Football League player claimed that Hannah never responded and revealed that she had “just blocked him” two days before he recorded his podcast appearance.
Hannah found herself getting slammed by fans for her treatment of Nick throughout Love Is Blind season 7, and while she has since admitted that she spoke “horribly” to him, she didn’t necessarily regret her actions.
“It’s really hard for me to understand it and I still have trouble understanding him to this day. But I think he was surprised because he wanted to go all the way,” Hannah admitted to Us Weekly on October 23. “I don’t think it should have been a shock because it was pretty obvious that we weren’t gonna make it. I was talking to him horribly and I apologize for that, but I just can’t believe he let me. I should not have done that, but he’d let me do it.”
