A “Love Is Blind” alum has revealed he’s getting a measly $4,000 after the Netflix reality hit recently settled its million-dollar lawsuit with former contestants over unpaid wages.
Lawyer Haseeb Hussain addressed the lawsuit — filed in 2022 by fellow season 2 participant Jeremy Hartwell — with multiple second season alumni also sounding off.
“Producers of ‘Love Is Blind’ just settled their class action lawsuit and I just got the notice in the mail,” Hussain said in a TikTok video posted Monday. “So they’re paying a total of $1.4 million — $10,000 to the class representative, which is [Hartwell], 35% to the attorneys, which is just about half a million dollars, which is crazy, because all I’m getting is $4,000.”
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According to Hussain, the legal letter explains how the show initially “miscategorized us as independent contractors, when we’re alleging that we were actually employees.”
Meager payments also appear to apply to some other contestants of “Love Is Blind” seasons 2-5, as well as those who appeared on seasons 1A and 1B of fellow Netflix reality series “The Ultimatum.”
“If I want more, I can opt out and sue individually and might end up with more than that $4,000 amount,” Hussain continued. “But that would mean a lot more work that I would have to do.”
Hussain’s comments section was alight with feedback from Hartwell, as well as season 2 stars Kyle Abrams and Shayne Jansen, who were briefly engaged on the show to Shaina Hurley and Natalie Lee, respectively.
“It’s based on how long you were on the show,” Hartwell clarified. “You’re welcome by the way. This was a nightmare.”
“Yeah, my number was different,” Abrams wrote, but did not share the monetary amount he’d be receiving.
“Wait I’m getting money?” Jansen asked, to which Hussain responded that he’d likely be awarded more than him.
In his lawsuit, Hartwell alleged that Netflix, production company Kinetic Content and casting company Delirium TV subjected their participants to “inhumane working conditions and altered mental states” during filming. He claimed producers controlled their subjects through a “combination of sleep deprivation, isolation, lack of food and an excess of alcohol” and said cast members were “intentionally underpaid.”