Are Ashley and Tyler From ‘Love Is Blind’ Season 7 Still Together?

• “Love Is Blind” season seven featured a forged of singles from the Washington, DC space.
• Ashley and Tyler, two professionals of their 30s, have been certainly one of seven {couples} to get engaged.
• On the reunion, they confirmed their marriage standing and talked about their off-screen controversy.

Warning: Spoilers forward for the “Love Is Blind” season seven reunion.

The “Love Is Blind” season seven weddings lastly answered the query of which {couples} tied the knot. The reunion confirmed that each season seven {couples}, together with Tyler and Ashley, have been nonetheless married.

Within the season finale, which aired October 23, 34-year-old account supervisor Tyler and 31-year-old advertising director Ashley grew to become certainly one of solely two {couples} to make it to the altar. After getting engaged with remarkably little drama within the pods, they have been certainly one of six pairs that producers selected to comply with on a post-engagement trip to Mexico.

Early within the season, Ashley and Tyler had a comparatively dissonance-free storyline. Nonetheless, it was difficult afterward by Tyler’s revelation in episode 9 that he had been a sperm donor for a feminine pal and her spouse — one thing that hadn’t come up pre-engagement within the pods.

However that is “Love Is Blind,” and far of the drama occurs outdoors of the hundreds of thousands of eyes (and in flip, subscribers) that Netflix brings to every new season.

Information that Tyler had fathered kids broke on social media earlier than it was ever addressed on the present, and claims that Tyler was greater than a distant sperm donor to his kids circulated as nicely. In the end, the controversy continues to be good for Netflix’s backside line — even when it is occurring off-screen, it is retaining “Love Is Blind” within the dialog.

Along with their relationship standing, Tyler and Ashley addressed the off-screen controversy on the reunion.

Ashley and Tyler bond within the pods and make all of it the best way to the altar

In episode one, Ashley is enamored by Tyler’s nerves on their first date. In addition they bond over their shared love of cooking and meals, their non secular religion, and the truth that they each used to trip horses.

In the identical episode, Tyler opens as much as Ashley about how exhausting his mom labored to lift him and his siblings after his grandmother died and his grandfather lower his mom off. Because of this, he says, he desires to have a “large household” — somebody with whom he may share his love.

The couple celebrates Tyler’s birthday on a date in episode three. Tyler proposes to Ashley, and she or he accepts. Later in that episode, they meet in particular person for the primary time — and fortuitously, producers select them to take the post-engagement journey to Mexico with 5 of the opposite {couples}.

Not like among the different {couples}, Ashley and Tyler haven’t any vital on-camera pressure whereas on trip. All in all, the primary batch of episodes, which premiered on October 2, leaves their relationship in place.

In episode eight, issues proceed shifting alongside as Tyler will get Ashley’s father’s blessing. However issues take a significant flip in episodes 9 and 10: Cameras seize Ashley and Tyler debriefing about an off-screen dialog during which he revealed that he already fathered three kids.

Tyler tells Ashley that he served as a sperm donor for a feminine pal and her spouse, who needed to have a toddler. He additionally advised her that the kids did not know what he appeared like, and mentioned that he would not be upset if Ashley determined she did not need to get married as a result of he’d initially stored this data from her.

“I am not upset by you making an attempt to assist a pair have children. I believe that is admirable in sure methods, however the subject is available in with me feeling like I used to be not getting the total image of you,” Ashley says in episode 9. “And as soon as you are not given the total image of one thing, it is exhausting to not query all the things.”

However the couple patches issues up, and Ashley tells Tyler in episode 11 that she nonetheless desires to marry him — although she warns him that any related revelations going ahead might put that in jeopardy. Later in that episode, they make good on certainly one of Ashley’s pre-marriage needs: going skydiving together with her fiancé.

Within the season seven finale, Ashley and Tyler go on their respective bachelorette and bachelor events, after which get married. They finish the ceremony by leaping the broom — a marriage custom with roots in American slavery, when Black slaves weren’t capable of legally wed and jumped a brush as an alternative. At the moment, some Black People have reclaimed the custom, incorporating it into their weddings as Ashley and Tyler did.

Ashley and Tyler are nonetheless married — and mentioned that their on-screen conversations did not inform the total story

On the season seven reunion, Tyler and Ashley confirmed that they have been nonetheless married. Tyler mentioned that the almost-year that they’d been married had introduced “development.” Earlier than the present premiered, they lived in a “bubble” — however after, they have been topic to on-line commentary about their relationship.

In early October, quickly after the primary batch of episodes premiered on Netflix, allegations circulated on-line that Tyler had fathered three kids, however lied to girls that he’d dated about it. Pictures showing to indicate Tyler posing with the kids, together with one exhibiting him carrying a shirt that claims “Dope dad elevating dope children” whereas holding two of them, circulated on-line.

After all, Ashley and Tyler addressed his kids — and the truth that he did not point out them within the pods — on the present. However what he advised Ashley seems to contradict what individuals are saying on-line: specifically, that the kids do not know what he seems like.

Bri Thomas, a lady who recognized herself on-line because the mom of Tyler’s kids, mentioned that Tyler, who she mentioned was her greatest pal on the time, had served as a sperm donor for her and her spouse. Nonetheless, after she and her spouse separated, Bri mentioned that Tyler grew to become a co-parent to that little one, and so they later conceived twins naturally collectively.

In keeping with Bri, the twins even have Tyler’s final identify. Bri mentioned that she and Tyler did not date, and she or he supported his choice to go on the present. Nonetheless, she mentioned that Tyler hadn’t seen the kids since September 30, 2023, the day earlier than he left for filming.

Tyler and Ashley did not explicitly tackle the controversy whereas the present was nonetheless airing. However after somebody accused Tyler on Instagram of “making an attempt to delete your previous,” he advised them to “simply be affected person” and that he would “clarify all of it very quickly.”And on Tuesday, the day earlier than the reunion aired on Netflix, he reposted a morning prayer from the Instagram account @kingofsolomon on his story.

“Assist me to show my trials into my testimonies,” one bolded phrase within the prayer reads.

On the reunion, the couple lastly spoke about how the controversy had performed out each on- and off-screen.

“These children, that household, they didn’t join this,” Tyler mentioned of the net controversy.

Tyler mentioned that he had helped his pal and her spouse have a toddler. After his pal’s spouse “left her excessive and dry,” he determined to assist his pal out with the kids. In keeping with Tyler, that is why he had been photographed spending time with the children.

He didn’t explicitly identify Bri because the pal. Bri didn’t instantly reply to an Instagram DM request for remark despatched outdoors customary enterprise hours.

“Ashley is aware of all this. That is information to the world. This has by no means been information to us,” he mentioned. “I am giving this rationalization now, as a result of I really feel just like the world is ready for it. However I do not owe anybody a proof however my spouse.”

Ashley mentioned that what viewers had seen wasn’t the total image and that she and Tyler had an off-camera dialog earlier than they filmed their dialogue in regards to the subject. She mentioned that whereas Tyler did not need to discuss it on digital camera, she felt that they wanted to handle it in order that she would have the ability to proceed taking part within the present.

Nonetheless, Ashley mentioned that there was some data that Tyler wasn’t snug sharing on digital camera. In flip, she mentioned that Tyler had lied to the cameras that the kids did not know what he appeared like.

“After all he divulged that data to me,” Ashley mentioned.

The couple mentioned that they weren’t letting on-line chatter have an effect on their relationship.

“After I mentioned ‘I do,’ I mentioned ‘I do’ to all of it. I used to be conscious and I took on what I needed to,” Ashley mentioned. “And this can be a once-in-a-lifetime form of love. This can be a rarity, and it is one thing that’s price risking something for.”

“Love Is Blind” season seven, together with the reunion, is now streaming on Netflix.