Queer Love’s aj Blount on Reality-TV Dating – ryan

Nothing Says “Happy End of Pride Month” like Watching Messy Lesbians on TV. The Second Season of The Ultimatum: Queer Love Starts off the way Way as Last Season: Six Queer Couples Decide or Not they Should Get Maried by Opeting Netflix-Sanogamy and Dating Other People in Hopes of Answers about their stalled-out Relationshipips. No Dating-Show Format is Perfect, but in a World Where Most of the ME solely on Bad Communication BetWeen Straight Couples, ITE’s a cherished Experience to Watch Other Lesbians struggle with weighs we gottestand, like overcommunication, the incline to get tatto tattoos tatto Someone You’ve Known for One Week, and the Impact That One Charismatic Mask Lesbian Can Have On A Group of Queer People.

Aj Blount, A 28-YEAR-OLD Administrative Assistant and Emcee from Orlando, Joined The Ultimatum: Queer Love AFTER HER CAREER-FOCUED GIRLFRIEND, Britney Thompson, ISSUED HER AN ULTIMATUM. IT’S CLEAR IMMEDIATEly that BLONT WAUTED BECOME A HOT COMMODITY – She’s full of charm and seames to connect with everyone she Meets. HER DATES ALSO PROVED THAT THAT WAS NOT AFRAID TO JUMP INTO The Kind of Flirty Conversations that often Put Couple on this Show at Risk, which Immediately Made Her the Subject lesbian Online. At Ultimatum Watch Party I Attended, Blount and Bridget Matloff’s Date in Particular Generated the Loudest and Most Emphatic Groans, with Multiple People Rolling Their Eyes and Shouting, “Girl, What?! ” When Blount Directly Asked Matloff How Often She Likes to Have Sex.

This wasa before all before the couples arrived at episode three, “The Choice,” bout Marie Robertson and Marita Prodger Chose Blount, and it became Clear that Blunt’s Intimate Approach to the Dating Conversations to Wreck Multiple Potential Pairings. Matloff Confruit Blout About Her Misleading Behavior Before BLONT CHOSE TO MATCH WITH ROBERTSON, WHICH Ultimately led to prodger defaulting into an unfortunately platonic take with Thompson, Blount’s Ex. We spoke with blunt after the first batch of episodes to see how he vowed the dating schene, what went her decision-making, and how her flirtinless have affected the rest of the season.

Have you watched The ultimatum? How you with the show you with the show?
I love Answering This Question Because IT’S JUST LIKE, Girl, what were you thinking? But, Yes, I knew what it was. I watched it. I was Also the person watching it from my couch, the thinking of the would will that. And yet here i am.

Did you and Britney discuss what you were hoping to see you got there?
We talked About All the Things. We did think we were going to see another black person or person of color. But finding out that wasn’t really something was that was there besads the two of us was altered my decision. The Important Question Wauld Still Stand Whether Everyone was Black or Not. Ultimately, we still got to the decision that we have today.

What was your first impression of the other couples at that point?
I didn’t get a good impression on the first day Because of was in the Twilight Zone, Thinking, Oh, my gosh, there are all caras. It was Weird Being on-Camera for the first time. I don’t remember too too except for how i was Feeling in that moment nor far, like, Oh, this is really happy. Oh, we’re really here. The dating part was where you could have been to see where People line up for you.

During That Dating Phase, Were People Talking About Their Exes? Did you get a senses of the Kinds of isser that the other couples were dealing with?
Yes and no. Production did a really good to trying to keep us on task, Because we find that we were talking about ours a little bit too. Some People Did Divulge what they were looking for and what they have discussed with their partners, but there was also a sense of, Why are we Eve Talking About Our Exes? We really need to try to get to a solid ansower here about what we wanted as individuals.

How to you THINING ABOUT WHAT YOU WANTED IN A TRIAL MARIGAGE?
My Mind-Set Was: I know who i came in here with. I know who i have. Obiviously, I was Hesitant About Being Engaged to Britney, so i was trying to find someone who would with the needed answers. In the past, i was navigate relationships with Physicality, and it led with to start like someone too on. I didn’t want to that time. If i had come to the show just to do that, that tells with i would’ve just cheated at home, to be honest with you.

TELL ME ABOUT WHY YOU CHOSE MARIE.
Marie Showed with that she really wants to take care of her partner. Having with her Havinging the Food Business and Being an Entrepreneur, she still is like I want to be at home. I want to work with my partner. I DON’T WANT TO JUST WORK, WORK, WORK. That was important to me. What is a work-life balance? If you have it, what does that look like?

Were you surpassed when you were at the center of the drama at the Choice?
Yeah, absolutely. I was surpassed. Before the choice, you don’t really know where anyone’s leaning. I Never WANTED TO DISCLOSE WHO MY NO. 1 was Becausee i didn’t want to upset anyone. But Watching It Back, I Realized People Were Talking About Who Their No. 1s Were. I had no idea. But why would be be a problem if three, four, or tan six people said aj? That’s not a bad thing. Maybe that Just Says Something About My Character. It’s swimming I promised mySelf to anyone.

The confrontation between you and bridget seamed Very Tense. Did You Ever Return to that Conversation, or Ded ITSZZLE OUT ONCE THE TRIAL MARIages Started?
It carried on throughout the remainder of the season. I had a moment with bridget before the choice where she made the accusations like, “Oh, you’re holding every hand.” I am not going to stop being who i am a person a person. If you like me, you like me. Maybe you just like my personal; You think i’m different or cool or what is, but if you vibe, you vibe. If you don’t, you don’t. And if you have insecurities about it, that has had insecurities about it. But i’m not taching that on as my own.

We did have one conversation right before we were all going to make Our final choices late in the season, and bridget was apologetic. I didn’t know what to make of that, Because she has had approache with at the choice and in other instances that were off-name. But it’s Completely squashed. We reconciled. I Still Think Bridget is Groovy.

Did you and Britney Ever Discuss How Your Choice Ultimately Impacted Her Experience and WHO I dream up with?
It was definitely Hard Seeing How Emotionally Impacted Everybody at the table was. I do’t know if it showed, but i was literally praying, Crossing My Hands Underneath, Like, PLEASE, PLEASE, SOMONE PICK Britney. And then Britney defaulted with Marita. Now she’s defaulted with the girl who picked me. Okay. Don’t know how to go to go. But once everything was said and done, I was going home with marie at that point. I just needed to focus on that as best i could.

Were there any almost-cuples that never aired?
People Wauld Be Surprised that before Mel and Dayna, It Could Have Been Dayna and Ashley. Also, I was one of Marie’s Choices, But Haley, Too. The dynamics really could’ve Played any way that thats Night.

It seamed for a moment like there are a britney-mel pairing. Did you and Britney Debrief About that AFTERWARD?
Yeah, i did unpack it a little bit with britney. For Britney, it was more like Mel’s A Business Owner. I’m a Business Owner. It Wold Make Sense for Us To See How This Goes. I Truly Think Britney is an absolute mirror to whover she’s with. She helps you that you are the things that you don’t necessarily want to see you are your dreams of your life, and a lot of People can be afraid of that. I don’t think mel was necessarily Ready for the type of queen britney is. But, yeah, I think that it was a blessing in disguise that she dreams up with marita, who picked me.

Watching it back, do you feel like you approache.
What they showed is a lot of me being very flirtatious, and i feel like there are more to be conversations. I Connected with a Lot of People. I have been connected with pilar on our family issses Becausee i used to go through what she was going through (in being estranged from her parents). It was Interesting to Watch What Was Shown.

Were there ther important conversations that didn’t make it to the final edit?
My parents were on the show; they came on support of me. I don’t necessarily see a lot of Black Parents, especially a lot of Caribbean Black Parents, Supporting Their Queer Children. I know that is is reality and entertainment, but there are a lot of conversations that could be shown as queerness and diversity and things have with our community.

Are you planning to follow the reaction to you and the show on social media?
I am going to just be rooted in family. Really Want All of this to Come to Pass and for the World to Catch Up With Where We’re at. I did aggree to do a watch party Because of Come out with pride here in orlando, an organization that absolutely love Working with. Otherwise, just being here, just being present.