“Perfect Match” Season 2 cast members Dominic Dafoe and Brittan Bird have accused Netflix of removing their unlikely romance from the show.
Dafoe and Bird, who identify as bisexual and have appeared on different seasons of Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle, took to social media to reveal that they ran into each other during the Perfect Match reunion that took place in episode 9. They did, but Their conversation was not like that. make the final cut.
“We met at a party, had to leave immediately, and were not pressured into a second dating show in a row,” Defoe said of Tik Tok. She also refers to her and Byrd’s lack of screen time on Too’s respective seasons. Hot to Handle.
In response to a comment on social media, Defoe was asked why viewers didn’t see Defoe and Bird’s match at the party, Defoe responded that Netflix “cut off,” adding that “guys were lining up to talk with us and we were basically just working, we were going out…”
In a TikTok video in which Dafoe captioned the “existential crisis of girls on live dating shows,” Dafoe and Bird expressed the feeling of being invisible on “The Perfect Set,” saying they were convinced that “there are no ” and, instead, “are.” human devices.” They are imagination.”
They recalled the TikTok video a day after the couple attended a Perfect Match event, where Defoe told Bird at the party that the two “just existed.”[ed] each other.”
A representative for Netflix did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Defoe raised similar concerns about parts of his “Perfect Match” story when the first batch of the season was released in early June, noting in particular that talks with his play Brighton Constantine were cut. While the show shows discussions between Defoe and Constantine about topics such as yoga or the show’s problems, Defoe in one TikTok video stated that their arguments were the result of Constantine’s use of “hate rhetoric” against “entire groups of people”.
Defoe was one of the first group of contestants in the Perfect Fight house, while Bird was later recruited to join the eligible contestants. The episode 9 mixer brought together couples in the house, as well as currently mismatched singles, leading to a possible match between Defoe and Bird.
The Perfect Game finale premieres Friday, June 21 on Netflix.
