Love Is Blind’s Jimmy Presnell spoke out after a TikTok user named Ryann Stringfellow posted a video accusing an anonymous contestant of dating her behind the scenes while filming the show.
The Love Is Blind season six star spoke out after a TikTok user named Ryann Stringfellow made a video accusing an unnamed contestant of dating her off-screen during the show’s filming, which had fans pointing fingers in his direction.
Reposting Ryann’s video to respond to the rumors, Love Is Blind’s Jimmy Presnell insisted in a Feb. 22 TikTok video, “I don’t know this woman. I never met this woman. It’s not true.”
The reality star went on to call her video an “incredible marketing ploy” to profit off his name.
“She doesn’t say it’s me,” Jimmy continued, “but she’s definitely insinuating it’s your boy.”
And while the 28-year-old considered not commenting on the claims at all, he admitted he felt the need to respond after he had “so many people send this to me.”
“I think she’s running at about 16 million [views] right now, which is absolutely insane to me,” he explained, “and bizarre that it’s getting that much traction, so I wanted to come on here and tell everybody it’s not true.”
Jimmy who chose to propose to contestant Chelsea Blackwell in episode four of the season posted his response three days after Ryann shared the video alleging she was dating a season six contestant while the show was being shot.
“Imagine my surprise when I turn on the new season of Love Is Blind this morning and see my f—king boyfriend,” Ryann said in the Feb. 16 TikTok. “Are you shocked? Because I sure as hell am.”
While Ryann never revealed the identity of the contestant in question, she did hint in her video that the mystery reality star was talking to a woman “who had a child,” leading many to believe she was referring to Jess Vestal, a single mother who Jimmy dated in the pods before breaking it off to propose to Chelsea.
“How can I compete with that?” Ryann asked in the clip, before adding, “She’s stunning.”
And that wasn’t the end of Ryann and Jimmy’s back-and-forth.
She later dueted Jimmy’s response video, coyly reacting to his denial while casually eating chips and guac.
Under the Feb. 19 clip, Ryann wrote simply, “Two sides to every story…right?”