Jimmy Presnell is shutting down the rumor manufacturing unit. The season 6 star of Love Is Blind took to TikTok this week after a video went viral of a woman named Ryann Stringfellow claiming to be relationship a person who appeared on the Netflix present.
Within the clip, Ryann did not identify the contestant, however closely implied it was Jimmy, saying he dated a single mother, who was contestant Jessica Vestal.
Jimmy stitched the clip on TikTok, instantly denying the claims.
“Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don’t know this woman, never met this woman, not true,” Jimmy shared. “It’s an incredible marketing ploy. She is getting so many clicks and she’s making so much money off my name, it’s insane.”
The video has already amassed greater than 17 million views, with Ryann claiming the unnamed man is the “love of my life” and that she hopes to work issues out with him regardless of discovering he went on the present after watching it on Netflix.
“She doesn’t say it’s me, but she’s definitely insinuating it’s your boy,” Jimmy says. “I have had so many people send this to me and I wasn’t going to address it, but at this point I need to.”
Noting that his feedback sections are “an absolute dumpster fire,” Jimmy goes on to handle his critics, saying, “Just know there are two sides to every story.”
Jimmy shaped connections with two contestants on season 6 — single mother Jessica Vestal and flight attendant Chelsea Blackwell. Finally, he will get engaged to Chelsea and the 2 have an ungainly first encounter, through which Jimmy says that Chelsea “definitely lied” to him about resembling actress Megan Fox.
The 2 have continued on of their romance on the present, although they have been confronted with a sequence of disagreements.
ET spoke with Jimmy and Chelsea by way of Zoom this week the place they talked in regards to the viral Megan Fox feedback.
“I don’t remember the Megan Fox comments being that big of a deal,” Jimmy admitted to ET, noting how “hard” it’s to rewatch the second realizing that it led to a lot negativity. “I mean, obviously my ears or my eyes perked up a lot when she said Megan Fox… But, God, I would have done everything to have that moment back.”
New episodes of Love Is Blind drop Wednesdays on Netflix.
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