Leo Braudy and Brittany Wisniewski’s romance on the seventh season of Love Is Blind was tumultuous, to say the least. After initially hitting it off in the pods, Brittany was continually disappointed with Leo’s refusal to choose between her and Hannah.
After Hannah ultimately chose to be with Nick D., Brittany accepted Leo’s proposal during episode 5. However, a rather mysterious onscreen message revealed that the pair hadn’t made it to Mexico with the other engaged couples, instead opting to travel to Miami. So what exactly happened to Leo and Brittany after Love Is Blind season 7 ended?
Leo and Brittany’s first face-to-face meeting was awkward.
In an interview with People, Brittany and Leo addressed the first time they saw each other in the flesh, and explained why the moment was a little strange. In episode 5, Leo was shown telling Brittany he loved her, but she couldn’t return the compliment. And when he left the room, she could be heard asking herself, “What have I done?”
“I was overjoyed to see her, but there was absolutely some awkwardness,” Leo told the outlet, noting that the couple’s emotional chemistry didn’t translate on a physical level. “I could also tell that as much as I was into her, I think she was not quite as into me,” he added.
Brittany admitted to being “completely overwhelmed” when she met Leo for the first time. She told People, “I was thrown off by how I felt when he proposed, because immediately I was like, ‘I don't think this is right.’ It was an energy thing.” She continued, “I just didn’t feel the things that you would think that you would feel when you’re getting proposed to, despite having such a strong connection.”
However, it wasn’t Leo’s appearance that made Brittany question their relationship, as she called him a “very attractive guy” with a “strong magnetic presence.” Instead, she trusted her “intuition” in the situation. “It was solely just, ‘This isn’t my husband and now I’ve got to figure this out,” she told the outlet.
Confirming just how quickly she realized Leo wasn’t right for her, Brittany told Tudum, “I could talk to [him] behind the wall and have this emotional and intellectual connection, but in person, I was like, ‘Oh, fuck.’”
They were disappointed to miss out on the group’s trip to Mexico.
While speaking to People, Leo revealed that he was “crushed” to miss out on the trip to Mexico with his fellow Love Is Blind contestants. He explained, “Who doesn’t want to go to Cabo with all these new friends you’ve made and your fiancée, and then also all of the other women that you’re interested in seeing what they look like?”
Even though Brittany was sad about not being selected for the show’s next step, she wasn’t entirely surprised. “I knew we were the weakest link,” she told People. “Let’s just be honest, I was the only one that didn’t say, ‘I love you’ back to the person I was engaged to.”
The show’s creator, Chris Coelen, discussed the difficult decision to eliminate Leo and Brittany from the show in an interview with Variety. “We have the budget to follow five couples and sometimes we stretch to six,” he explained. Seven couples ended up getting engaged during season 7, so one had to go. As Brittany and Leo seemed the least likely to make it to the altar, they were the obvious choice to drop.
“I think certainly they’ll be at the reunion,” Coelen explained. “And maybe someday we actually will follow more [couples] into the real world. I would love that, it’s just complicated and a lot of story to to tell.”
They went to Miami, where they realized they weren’t meant to be.
After missing out on the trip to Cabo, Brittany and Leo traveled to Miami together. At the start, their vacation seemed to be going well. “We had so much to talk about,” Brittany told Entertainment Weekly. But within a few days, she was ready to leave. “I kind of got a little cranky, a little moody—I wanted to go home, I wanted to see my cats,” Brittany told the outlet.
“The first couple of days were electric,” Leo told Tudum of the couple’s trip. He also confirmed to People that they “had a really wonderful time in Miami,” but reality dawned on them both the longer they were there. After deciding that marriage wasn’t in the cards for them, Leo said they came to the realization they were “just better off as friends.”
Their breakup was mutual.
While their tenure on Love Is Blind seemed pretty dramatic, their breakup was anything but.
“We had a lot of conversations throughout the trip, and mutually came to the conclusion that we just didn’t see it turning into marriage,” Leo told People of their split.
Brittany confirmed Leo’s assertion that the breakup was mutual, telling Entertainment Weekly, “There is no bad blood or anything, so nothing crazy happened. I’m very lucky of how that turned out.” She also seemingly understands that viewers might be hoping for a more scandalous story to accompany the split, but there simply isn’t one.
“Honestly, I sometimes wish there was, because maybe it would give a better explanation to why things didn’t work out,” Brittany told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s really just, you know when it’s right and you just know when it’s not, and we’re better off as friends.”
Pointing to a lack of chemistry between them, Brittany also told People, “He’s just not my person.”
Leo has reflected on his indecision between Brittany and Hannah.
Throughout his time in the pods, Leo seemingly couldn’t choose between Brittany and Hannah. While he appeared to lean towards proposing to Hannah, it was Brittany who never wavered in her dedication. Understandably, it became more difficult for Brittany to trust Leo as time went on, particularly when she’d been so open with him about how she felt.
“I think that I got really stuck in a lot of indecision and it led to a lot of stress,” Leo admitted to People. “I’m certainly never going to be in the situation where I’m as torn as I was. That, I know, because it was really not fun.”
At the Love Is Blind reunion, Leo and Brittany revealed that they’ve remained friends since the experience ended. As Brittany told Tudum, “I really think that he’s a friend for life.”
