- Cheers to divorce! - I’m with that.
[upbeat music]
- Welcome to Costa Rica,
where six recently divorced couples
are about to search for love again.
But they’ll have to do it right alongside their ex.
- Oh, [bleep]!
♪ ♪
- So who wants to [bleep] Brooks?
Brooks still tries to get back together with me.
He needs to realize I’m moving on with my life,
as should he.
♪ ♪
- Do you think that the best way to date other people
is to flaunt it in front of my face?
- You were literally talking to people
the entire time we were together.
- Right.
♪ ♪
- Our two winning ladies are...
Casey and Gillian.
Which two men will join them on a date?
- David. - Oh!
- Okay!
- I was gonna choose David.
- Oh!
- She let it be known that, "Even though I’m done,
we’re not really done."
- I’m kind of, like, hoping that this will be
a really good experience for us.
- Are you over him? - No.
- Don’t answer for him. - [gasps, screams]
♪ ♪
- You trying to paralyze me.
- It was just always arguing, arguing.
- That’s what pushed for us to divorce.
- All of you aren’t gonna make it
to the end of this process. - What?
- Each week, we will let someone go
who just isn’t ready for a new relationship.
- Oh, my God.
- The ladies and I, we all spoke.
We felt like the person that should go home...
was Brooks. - Wow.
[dramatic music]
[tango music]
- ♪ Shame on me ♪
♪ Double shame on you ♪
♪ One more piece is all I need ♪
♪ My transformation near complete ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ So why you gotta make it hurt so good ♪
- Yeah, will you do my back, by the way?
- Of course. Yes. - Thank you.
- "Forever in my heart," for my dog.
- All right, you should be good.
- Thanks, love. - Yeah.
- Elimination was tough, but now that Brooks is gone,
I almost feel like a weight has been lifted.
- What’s going on over here?
You trying to make me jealous already, Casey? [laughs]
- Plenty of this to go around.
The date with David was a good time,
but I’m single, and I now can flirt freely.
You better be super fast.
I’m gonna pick someone else next time.
- I know. [laughs]
- I think, between Casey and I,
there is kind of a small physical attraction, at least.
But there are still a lot of things that I’m trying
to figure out about my relationship with Gillian.
- Gillian, are you excited for today?
- Whoo-hoo! I’m so excited.
- Anybody who, like, caught your--caught your eye so far?
- Casey. She puts herself together really well.
- Mm-hmm.
- I’m just trying to, like, not think about the situation,
like, Dede being with somebody else,
you know what I mean? - Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Like, I’m just trying to push it out of my brain.
Before elimination,
I told everybody that Dede and I are done.
But if there’s anything that has helped me
get through things in my life,
it’s definitely having to dazzle people with my speech.
Give them the old smooth jar of peanut butter
when I’m talking to them.
- So even if Dede found someone else,
you would still not be happy about it,
like, even if you knew the guy?
- It would just take me, like, a minute,
you know what I mean? - Yeah. Yeah.
Dede is a very attractive girl.
But Thakur is hovering over her all the time.
Yeah, it’s a tough one. - Yeah.
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
- Good morning, guys. How is everyone feeling?
- Good. - Good.
- I’m feeling pretty good. - So last night,
you guys let go of one of our men.
By my count, that leaves us with six women
but only five men.
- [laughs] - But I don’t really feel
like that’s fair to the women.
- Yeah. - Right.
- I would have to agree. - Yeah.
- I feel like our ladies deserve some options.
- Ooh. - Yeah?
- Every single one of you has been through
the ups and downs of divorce,
and our new guest...
[hip-hop music]
Is no different.
He’s just a little late to the party.
- ♪ Oh, oh ♪
- [screams] - Whoo!
- Hey, hey, hey, hey. - Oh.
- Welcome, Dean. - How you doing? How you doing?
- Oh, my God.
- We got some fresh meat!
- Meet your new divorced and single housemate, Dean.
[cheers and applause]
- That’s right. That’s right.
- Hey, how you feeling, Dean?
- I’m feeling good. Y’all looking good too, so...
- Hey! - Hey!
- All right, now, I know you’re all probably
pretty curious about this hunk, right?
Get to know each other a little bit,
and then we’ll see you again at your next exercise.
- Thank you. - Welcome, Dean.
- All right. Enjoy.
- What’s up? What’s up? How y’all doing?
I’m definitely trying to spice it up.
I’m just hoping that whatever they cooking,
they can accept my ingredients, though.
First things first, I need a drink.
[laughter] Dean, man. Nice to meet you.
- Dean being in the house, we started sweating
a little bit because it’s more competition,
and I’m freaking out in my mind.
- Dean, I’m super single.
- Oh, oh, oh, me too.
- All right!
Whoo-hoo! Hallelujah!
I’m here alone, and I’m available.
This is my guy.
Welcome home. - Cheers.
That ain’t just water in there, is it?
- No, it’s just wa--why, you want me to get started?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Yeah. - You are a good time.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, don’t toast up,
it ain’t got no liquor in it. - That’s true.
- I love all types of women. Like, you can be cute.
Sometimes you can be ugly.
It don’t matter. [laughs]
Just be sweet if you that, though.
- So what about the situation with your ex?
Tell me about that.
- I mean, I don’t know.
You asking me too many questions first.
- Ah, welcome, welcome.
- Yeah, yeah, we supposed to be talking about us.
We supposed to be talking about us.
My ex-wife, Amber, like, we met in 2016.
We hit it off immediately.
We fell in love on just the adventure of traveling,
not caring anything else but one another.
But once we got married, she wanted to get away
from the traveling and start a family,
but I wanted to make some different moves.
I wasn’t really worried about kids.
We really couldn’t figure that out.
I felt like she thought she was more in charge now.
If I didn’t do anything that she wanted,
it was like, there’s no compromise,
and it’s like, "No, baby.
"I’m still a man of my own, like, you know what I’m saying,
and I’m also the man of this household."
- So, Dean, are you the kind of guy
that’s like, "Oh, guy code.
"I’m not gonna proceed with this hot chick here.
This is my boy now"?
- If your girl hit on me, talk to her; don’t talk to me.
- Oh! - You know what I’m saying?
’Cause I can’t control that. I can’t control that.
- Yeah, right.
- Dean walks like a pump, talks like a pimp.
I think he might actually be a pimp,
and that horrifies me.
But I know Dede, and I have a pretty good idea
as far as her taste in men,
and I’m not worried about him in that capacity.
- So anytime I break bread with people
and I do a shot with them,
I always got a little chant, so follow with me.
- Up to it. [screams] - Up to it.
all: Up to it. - Down to it.
[bleep] those who don’t do it.
We do it ’cause we used to it.
So drink, my divorced people. Drink.
- Oh, okay. That’s how it is. I like that.
- We’ve not even seen this energy yet.
He’s confident. He’s got swag.
And he’s got, like, this smooth attractiveness
about him, where it’s like,
"Okay, I know if I’m gonna go hang out with you,
we’re gonna have a good time."
- Yeah, we gonna get lit.
- [singing in Spanish]
♪ ♪
- Coming into this, I was like,
"I’m not getting back with David.
That’s not even an option."
Like-- - Same.
- But being here,
it kind of sends me back to, like,
my original place of being with you.
And we’re so good, like, in the space
that we are right now, like, two healthy, good people.
- Yeah, yeah. - But I get scared sometimes
that it’ll go away again like it did last time.
Early on, David was the kind to open the door.
Anything I needed,
I knew I could come to him.
But by the time we had got married,
we were not in our best place.
- It was a lot of stress.
I had been cut, so I was out of football.
That was new for me.
I was down on myself a lot, you know,
and I started to change.
I was irritable.
You know, I wasn’t pleasant
to be around at all times.
- I finally had to say, "You know what?
"[bleep] this cycle. I’m not doing it again.
I’m getting out."
So I pursued someone else.
- Once I found out she was sleeping with her ex,
I gave up all effort and was like,
"You know what? You know, we gotta get divorced."
- We were both struggling with depression at that time,
but it was the expectation that I had to keep going still.
David did not.
- Yeah, I don’t think I was good at compromising.
I talked about it.
- You didn’t give a [bleep].
- Coming here, it’s been really good for us.
I’m not saying we’re gonna get back together,
you know, definitively,
but I see it being more of a possibility.
And I still want to build on that.
- Like, it seriously took a ginormous toll on me.
- It would on anybody. I understand that now.
I was in my feelings...a lot.
- ♪ My heart ♪
♪ Wants to love you just the way you are ♪
- He’s doing the slide! - We in this [bleep].
We in that [bleep]. You heard me. Yeah.
- Oh, my God. - Ah!
- I’m nervous. I feel like I could get eliminated.
- No. - I really--I feel like that.
- I really don’t know who would.
- With the guys in the house, obviously they’re the ones
that are gonna have to make the vote.
I feel like I need time with them to let them
get to know me a little bit so that when they are
put into the position of having to make a decision,
they can make an informed decision.
- I do not like shots. - Oh, okay.
Just say that, then.
- I do not like shots. - There you go. Say it loud.
You know what I’m saying? - You over here drinking again?
- I don’t like shots. - Yeah.
You want to take a shot? - I’ll take a shot with you.
- That’s what I’m saying. - I’ll take a baby shot.
I’ll take a baby shot. - That’s cool. I got you.
- Just a little bit. Just a little bit.
That’s good. Thank you.
[unintelligible chatter] - [bleep].
- Dean is definitely the life of the party.
There is something attractive about his energy.
Want to come talk? - Where we going to?
- Want to sit in here, or want to sit outside?
And I’m really interested in what is beneath
all of the energy that he emits into the house.
- What’s happening? - Wait, you’re so far away.
- And I can’t hear. - This is, like, weird.
- Yeah, we got--yeah, we gotta get it popping.
We gotta get it--we gotta get it going now.
- We gotta get cozy. - Yeah.
- So tell us, why are you here?
Why’d you come to the house?
- Like, I’m not here with my ex,
but, like, for me and my ex,
it was kind of one of those things I think we had--
- Unresolved-- - Yeah, yeah,
unresolved differences, you know what I mean?
But to be around other used-to-be-married couples
to see, like, damn, okay, like, our problems
wasn’t--you know, wasn’t as bad.
Like, we was tripping, you know?
- Yeah, yeah. - You know what I’m saying?
So coming in and, like--
- Word, word, word.
- Because if I--like,
if I come in gung ho on one thing, then...
- Can I talk to you? - That’s what you gonna do,
and you’re not gonna let anything deter you.
- I go over here, you come sit by me.
I go over here, you come sit by me.
I haven’t had the ability
to make connections with other people
because I’ve been so hung up
on the drama between Thakur and I.
Are you upset right now?
- Yeah, because you went over and you flirted with him in--
- How is that-- - Right in front of me
and asked him to come outside with you.
- So that I can talk to him and get to know him.
- I just think it’s offensive to, like,
go and flirt with somebody like that
and ask them to come outside with you individually
while I’m sitting there.
- I’m sorry that you feel that way.
But I need to do me too.
Like, I can’t just constantly be concerned with you
and you being upset with me and how you’re gonna feel.
- Is that how--is that what-- - That’s a part of it.
- Is that what I’ve been doing?
I just--I would never overtly,
in your face, do something like that.
- You really feel like I’m just trying to hurt you?
- I think, very often, that is your drive, yes.
- Why? You know me better than that.
- Thanks for the apology.
[dramatic music]
- When we were married, Thakur would get upset
like this, I would take it on.
It would weigh very heavy on me.
You know, I would feel guilty.
I would, like, take the blame for things.
♪ ♪
I would put it all on me.
Now I don’t do that.
- I didn’t get one apology from you.
- You feel like I owe you an apology?
- 100%. - Why?
- What is your problem?
Like, why is everything a [bleep] problem with you?
What you did was not correct.
- Why are you so pissed? You know you need help.
- Hey, calm down. - Are you serious?
- It was--it was--calm down. There was--
- You need help. - Dede.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Oh, live a little louder ♪
- Hey, gorgeous. - Hi.
- Hey, whenever y’all ready for shots, I’m ready too.
[laughter]
- Oh, my God. - Yes!
- Oh, I forget that this isn’t a deep pool,
that I can actually walk-- I can walk over here.
I’m trying not to get in this, like, funk that I’m already in
with not making progress with Blair.
’Cause I thought when I saw Blair for the first time
that he would be open to seeing me again
and welcoming, and it was the opposite.
So I’m like, "Okay, Ariel, I’m here to meet people.
Stop just focusing on that."
- I have, like, this, like, slight anxiety,
because I’m usually very responsive.
I, like, try to respond to all my DMs and stuff.
So it’s weird to be, like, disconnected...
- Detached. Yeah.
- And be like, "I’m not accessible to you,"
because, like, I’m never like that.
- I don’t really understand Ariel’s intentions.
I know for a fact, in the real world,
she would never look twice at David.
Even, like, I play "Fortnite" with, like, 12-year-olds
that are, like, my fans, seriously, and it’s so fun.
- I’ve actually never played "Fortnite."
I’m not that cool. She tells me I’m not that cool,
and I’m starting to believe it. - Oh, I’m so sorry.
- No, it’s okay. - But you sound hurt.
[laughter] He’s hurt.
- David, you said I call you not that cool?
- Yeah, you literally told me that, like, a couple weeks ago.
- Sarcastically, for a joke.
That’s what you hold on to weeks later?
- I’m not holding on to it. I’m just having a conversation.
- Okay.
- Gillian and I used to watch sports together.
We used to play video games.
And all of a sudden, it just became a chore.
At one point, you wanted to do this for me,
but now that we’re gonna be together forever,
now you don’t care?
- Okay, let’s sort this out.
Is he cool, or is he not cool? - Yeah, Gillian.
- Now I don’t know. - Am I cool, or am I not cool?
- I don’t know. - Most of the time.
- The weeks leading into this, I kept telling Gillian
that I wanted to fix us,
and I guess I just wasn’t listening enough.
She doesn’t want to get back together,
and it’s something that I need to work through.
If I’m not cool, tell me how I can be.
[laughter]
- ♪ Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na ♪
♪ Na-na-na-na-na-na ♪
[laughter]
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. - Hello.
- What’s up? - Hey.
Hello again. - Come on over.
- Hey.
- It’s time for your second exercise.
- And who better to lead us through an exercise
than our very own Dr. Jada?
- Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- So as you learned last week,
these exercises are not just
about you gaining information about a potential partner.
It’s about getting a better look at yourself.
- And this week, we are once again
sending two winning couples
on an adventure outside of the house.
And trust me, guys, when I say this,
this one is worth the effort.
- Also, anyone that goes on a date
is safe from being eliminated.
- Got it. - Wow.
- So first, we’d like everybody to pair up
with a person you’d like to go on a date with.
The only rule: it can’t be your ex.
- Thank God.
[laughter]
- All right. Don’t be shy, you guys.
It’s time to match up. Find your partners.
- Devon. Come here. Come here, boy.
- Let’s do it. Let’s do it.
- All right. - Let’s do the damn thing.
- All right.
- You better not make me lose.
- Thakur and I gravitated towards each other
when we realized that we were the only people not chosen.
[sighs] My first impression of him was him having
a really terrible argument with my girl Dede.
And who wouldn’t prejudge that?
- All right, you’ve had a few days
to get to know each other.
But a lot of you aren’t opening up.
It’s time to peel back those layers
and find what makes you tick.
- Each of your clipboards
are filled with a list of bad habits.
- Oh, yeah?
- Your task is to rank them
from no big deal to big deal breaker.
- The two couples whose lists are most similar
from top to bottom are the most compatible.
In other words, you both agree on the biggest deal breakers
in a relationship, which means you win the date.
- All right. Let’s get to it. - Whoo!
- These are some interesting choices.
- Yeah.
- I think I did this one two ways.
- Don’t overthink it. You remember multiple choice?
- C. Always.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Okay, wait, no, I’m not ready yet.
- It’s pretty easy, though. - Is it?
- Yeah, it’s pretty easy.
- Are you cheating? - No, I’m done.
I know what I want.
- Time is up, everyone.
- All right. Let’s figure out our winners.
Let’s go to the new guy in the house.
Dean and Dede.
- Rock it, rock it, baby.
- Let’s see what you got.
Which were your big deal breakers?
- "Can’t take a joke." - Okay.
- My ex-wife was very sensitive,
but you can’t be sensitive all the time.
Take a joke.
- So the two of you are not very aligned.
Your only match was your lowest-ranked,
"cares too much."
- All right, let’s move on. Blair and Ally.
- "Dishonest" was mine. That’s the top.
You know, I learned the hard way
that you can’t have a relationship without honesty.
I was very dishonest in my marriage.
Full disclosure: I cheated on Ariel.
- I found out that he cheated on me because he told me.
Like, he came clean to me.
- After I told her, she was devastated,
and she also told me that she didn’t love me anymore.
If you’re trying to be dishonest,
it’s always gonna come back and bite you in the ass.
- We tried to fix it,
and honestly, it was me,
at the end, that was like, "We need to divorce."
In hindsight, I would have handled it differently.
- All right, it does look like you guys
do kind of agree on a lot when it comes to these.
- Okay. Let’s see Gillian and Thakur.
- Wow. Oh, my God. - Well, who knew?
- Interesting.
- I really enjoyed the exercise,
because you really get an idea of the person.
- "Always late." I’m late. It don’t matter.
And she’s later than me, I’m cool with that.
I don’t got a problem. [laughter]
- Being able to identify kind of, like, where you are...
- Oh. - Ooh!
- Oh, you close.
- And where other people stand
with some of those same things.
- All right, last but not least,
the biggest height difference in the room,
so Casey and Mims.
- So it was an opportunity
to get to know each other on a different level.
- All right, our two winning couples are...
Thakur and Gillian and David and Alexis.
Gillian and David are going on a date again,
just not with each other.
- Oh, okay.
- Tomorrow night is our elimination,
and one of you women will end her journey.
- I’m definitely not ready to go,
because I miss having Blair as a friend.
And I’m not trying to be selfish.
I want that for both of us, because we both
wouldn’t have been such close friends
to the point where we got married if there wasn’t,
like, something of value there for either of us.
- We will see you guys soon, okay?
- Thank you.
- All right. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I’m coming back to you ♪
- We can sit on the couch if you want to.
- Yeah. Let’s do that.
- I still have things that I’m working on with myself,
trying to figure out,
do I want to be with David after this?
Or do I just want to be friends?
- Say you win the next challenge.
Who’s your choice of date?
- Truthfully, there’s nobody here
that I’m going to come out of this house with.
That’s just what it is.
- So you’re not attracted--
- Not enough to come out of here winning.
- All of us are here to find love
in, potentially, a match,
whether that’s with their ex or someone new.
And she’s not.
- When I first got with David, I wasn’t attracted to him.
- Wow. What changed? - The way he treated me.
- Like you deserved.
- Like I was gold, you know what I mean?
- Yeah. - Like, all the time.
So when he no longer was doing those things
that made me fall in love with him,
now I’m left with just the way you look.
- She’s making it very [bleep] clear
she does not want to be here.
I mean, it’s a waste of space.
So but, like, when you see him now,
does he do it for you physically?
- No, he doesn’t make my panties [bleep].
- Wow.
[dramatic music]
- ♪ She moves like flames in a fire ♪
- [screams] - [laughs]
- Why can’t I ever get this right?
- How’s it going?
- Pretty good. You find any connections?
- I don’t know. I can’t really tell.
Can you give me some advice?
- Keeping true to yourself.
You know, I think you’re doing that already.
You’re kind of living your life
without caring what other people think, you know.
I mean, it’s pretty ballsy to move out to LA on your own.
- The reason I moved to LA was because he did cheat on me.
I didn’t trust him anymore, and I just felt like we were
so broken that in order to be put back together,
we would have to start over.
I wish I did things differently and better,
and regret is a useless, like, emotion,
but I’ve thought this many times,
like, what if we, like--
- I’m gonna make a coconut.
[dramatic music]
I wanted to stay together, but she moved to LA.
I was wrecked, angry, pissed, sad.
I think because I show no emotion,
she feels like it didn’t mean anything to me.
You moving to LA, it was like,
"Oh, I’m totally abandoned." Like--
like, I had nothing.
I didn’t even have a [bleep] car.
Why are you crying?
- Because I get emotional when I talk to you
’cause I miss having, like, just you as, like, a--
even just, like, a friend.
We were best friends.
And I’m not mad at him anymore.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what happens.
I just want him to be happy, ’cause I do love him.
- I remember, like, two days after,
there was some post:
"Guys, I’m so much happier now," blah blah blah.
Meanwhile, I’m [bleep] crying myself to sleep
every night in my [bleep] brother and sister’s house.
Like, give me a break. That’s [bleep].
- Ariel is just trying so desperately
to get those walls taken down.
And they’re just not getting anywhere with it.
- I don’t understand how our relationship
is gonna continue on.
What, am I gonna call you up?
"Hey, how’s it going in LA? Cool? Okay, great."
- Blair’s showing a lot of anger, but he’s hurt.
Like, I’m telling myself in the back of my head,
like, "This is good.
Like, he’s hurting ’cause he still has feelings for me."
I don’t know. I just--
♪ ♪
- Toothpaste, toothpaste, toothpaste, toothpaste.
- What do you think? I need to brush mines too, though.
But I just-- - Your breath always stink.
Stop playing. - I know you ain’t talking.
Girl, your morning breath smell like cow [bleep].
- Your morning breath smells like [bleep].
I don’t know which one’s worse.
- Cow [bleep], definitely. - [bleep] you.
Me and Devon have this type of relationship
to where we like to just take shots at each other
back and forth, jab there, jab there.
But it’s mostly as just a weird way of flirting.
So sharing this room with this man
is gonna be dangerous for me,
because he sure knows how to push my buttons,
and he knows what I like.
How do you feel about me going on my date?
- I’m okay. I really don’t care.
It was Alexis who said,
"I think we should get a divorce."
But I was not ready to let go.
She wasn’t ready to let go either.
So we’ve definitely slept together
since getting a divorce.
What you need to do
is focus on that damn date with David
and have a great time.
- Right.
- She’s not only going with David.
- Well, you know, you are too.
But you’re going with Tupac Thakur.
[laughter]
- ♪ Ooh, ah, ah, ooh ♪
- Whoo! - Hey, guys.
both: What’s up? - Fancy meeting you here.
- Yeah.
- Yet again, I’m going on a double date with my ex,
and we’re not dating.
- ♪ Show me what you got ♪ - Whoo!
- Alexis is a very pretty girl,
but I think we both went into this as friends.
- Whoo! - Yeah!
But these dates force you to have fun with someone else,
and I’m getting much more open to explore
some kind of connection in the house.
We’ll see.
- Whoo! - Nice.
- Wow. - Nice. Attagirl.
- You came in-- you’re so handsome.
- Appreciate it.
- And then it’s like, this personality--
it was like, all the girls were drawn.
- Yeah. Appreciate it. Yeah.
- I’m, like, so happy that you’re here.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, nah, and--
- I needed you. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I’ve definitely connected with Casey.
You know, I mean, I think that’s ’cause we both have
loud personalities.
And also, she’s a looker too.
Like, she’s a good-looking woman.
When I was married, if the whole rooms loves me,
a lot of girls, you know, are into me--
- Running up to you, yeah.
- Guess who I’m leaving with. - Yeah.
- And they gonna be looking like, "Damn."
- Yeah. Right?
- "I thought we had him." Nah, you ain’t never had me.
- I love that. - You ain’t never had me.
- Dean is confident, and he’s a smooth talker,
and I’m just so intrigued by that.
So I was like, "Hmm, hmm."
The feeling of being desired, like you said--
my ex and I, we were never intimate.
And that’s important to me.
Like, I think sex is so important.
- Come on, now. - I was like, "Hey,
how can I spice things up?"
Like, okay, if my man comes home,
I’ll be cooking in the kitchen, wearing some sexy lingerie.
I could do that, and he’d be like,
"So what are you-- what are you making?
’Cause I’m tired."
- I would come in the house and be like,
"I’m ready to get more tired." - [laughs]
- "I’m trying to get more tired."
- I love that.
I’m trying, at this point, to claim the Dean.
The Dean is mine.
[laughs]
- That was so much fun. - That was awesome.
- To be totally honest, you completely rubbed me
the wrong way when I met you.
- Oh, Jesus.
- I kind of was sitting all awkwardly
in the middle of you guys having an argument,
so I really only heard Dede’s side of the story.
I’m kind of interested to know your perspective
of what went down.
- Yeah, I mean, our biggest problem was that
I was never honest with her.
She’s an amazing person. - I know that. Yeah.
- And I--I know that you do. - I really like her.
- Yeah, and I took-- I took advantage of that.
- It takes a lot of courage
to admit that you have a problem.
So at the end of the day, that is guy showing progress.
- So then what about you?
I’ve spent a lot of time with David.
- Oh, that guy? - He’s like--yeah, that--yeah.
- The guys who keeps stalking me on all these dates?
- Exactly, yeah.
Seems like you guys have a really good
relationship with each other.
I know that there’s a lot of love there.
It’s something that I envy personally,
because that’s not something, you know,
that I feel with Dede, so it’s really nice to see.
- David is such a sweet, real, genuine guy.
But the pandemic affected our marriage.
We both lost our jobs,
and I think we were both depressed.
That was hard.
Yeah, it’s complicated.
I feel like I was doing better as an individual
before I got stuck in a house with him.
- Yeah.
- ♪ Why can’t I let you go ♪
- I have no idea what I want with David.
And I don’t know if I could ever move on.
[bleep].
- ♪ You’re making me weak ♪
- What was your favorite sport--playing?
- Basketball. - Yeah?
- Hands down, basketball.
- We can definitely have a one-on-one basketball game.
- I mean, if you want to lose, then we definitely can.
- Yeah, as long as we don’t tell anyone that I lost.
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- - It’s been good, actually.
Me and Ally haven’t had this much time
to talk and kind of really address our issues.
And a lot of them, for me-- it was like,
I held on to a lot of things,
and, you know, I didn’t forgive.
To blame the other person for this [bleep]--
once you remove them out of the situation,
you can’t do that anymore.
It’s like, "Okay, now it’s all me.
Now I realize that, you know, maybe that was me."
Went through a lot of [bleep]
at a young age in our marriage,
and it really turned us against each other.
You know, being out of that situation for a little bit
gave me some clarity on just, you know,
how we would handle things differently now
than we did five, six years ago.
- I totally get that. - Yeah.
- ’Cause, like, for me, I can never move on
because I always feel like
there’s this unfinished business...
- Yeah. - That, like, I don’t want him
to be this guy that was, like, my ex-husband that hurt me.
Like, no, because that’s not the memory I want.
- Yeah.
I still think she’s hung up on Blair,
and I think Blair is totally over that.
I don’t really know if she’s really open
to go on dates and stuff.
So she would be my pick to go home at this point.
- Like, I was in love with him, and he was my best friend.
He did a lot of things that were [bleep] up.
- Yeah. - But at the end of the day,
like, I didn’t marry, like, a piece of [bleep].
- Yeah.
- ♪ Killer, oh, mamacita, you know I feel ya ♪
- Oh. You know what I mean?
Look, look, now I want to stand still
and let you put that-- ah, yeah.
- Drop that down to the ground.
- Come on, now. - Hey.
- Oh! Watch out.
- Drop that down.
- Yes.
- All right, we got a game going.
- I’m much more focused. Holy [bleep]. Like, what?
- Like, whoa.
Ooh! There you go. - I’ve never done that.
- Ariel kind of stands out.
You know, you see her, she’s a beautiful girl.
She’s tall. She’s--she’s gorgeous.
- [shouts]
- She plays video games. I’m a big nerd.
Like, I like to play video games.
- Let’s sit down somewhere comfy.
- Sure.
I’m in the mindset that I’m looking
at potential love interests.
And if it’s gonna be real, I want to explore it.
So now I’m trying to pick her brain
to see where she really is at.
What do you want to know? - Whatever. Like, anything.
- I don’t know. I’m a big kid. - Mm-hmm.
- I watch cartoons. I watch anime.
You know, like, real loser [bleep].
- Just so you know, anime is, like, really cool. Like--
- Growing up, it wasn’t the cool thing to do.
Like, people would, like, beat you up for it, you know.
- So weird. Now it’s cool.
- Absolutely.
- I feel like Ariel knows how to play the game.
I don’t want to see my ex become a pawn
in a strategy game.
If David was smart, he would take his time.
- We’re actually helping each other
by having all of these conversations and being like,
"Hey, like, maybe-- what are you like?" you know?
Like, "You want to get to know me, maybe?"
- I do, by the way.
- What? - Want to get to know you.
- Okay, that’s good to know.
- Yeah. - So, girls, he’s off-limits.
- [laughs]
- David deserves to be with a woman
who is genuine and true.
I don’t think she’s good enough for him, no offense.
- [laughs]
- They say, "Ooh-la-la" ♪
♪ Every time you smile ♪
- You’re floating away. - Come to me!
- I see some things here, man, I like.
Put my shades on so I can look wherever I want to.
- [laughs]
- I’m definitely having a blast right now.
You know, it’s crazy.
I haven’t seen Lex in a minute, and I’m not a hater.
She been looking good. Shorty been looking good.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- So what do you think?
I saw you and Dean having some long conversations.
- Yeah. Ow. We did.
Listen, it’s survival of the fittest out here.
Tonight is elimination night number two,
and I want to make sure that I’m not going home.
I have this attraction towards Dean,
and I want to stay and explore that.
Okay, so for elimination tonight,
have you boys talked about it?
- I mean, I’ll be honest, I was like,
"Who would be the least hurt if they got sent home?"
Honestly, it would be you.
[dramatic music]
If you were to go home... - I’ll be all right.
- You could have dudes. Yeah.
- But, like, this is the first time
I’m doing something for me... - Yeah.
- Without catering to Brooks’ feelings.
- Yeah.
- So it’s like, all of us kind of had, like,
a different way of how we would and should be at the house.
Talking to Ally, she’s not attracted to Mims whatsoever.
- Ally? - Ally isn’t.
She was like, "He doesn’t do it for me
when I look at him." - Interesting.
- She also said, "None of these guys
in this house do it for me."
- Oh, shit. Okay. - So there’s that.
- Ally was totally under the radar.
But she’s not interested in any of the guys, not even Mims.
That’s funny. I didn’t know that.
- Yeah. - Now I’m like,
you should be up for elimination.
That makes a lot of sense.
I would have never guessed that from Ally.
- Yeah. - Interesting.
♪ ♪
- ♪ I got a surge running through my veins ♪
- Hey, hey. all: Hey!
- Whoa, hey! What’s happening?
- All right, let’s take a seat. Let’s start talking.
- ♪ This is my battle cry ♪
- All right, how is everyone feeling?
- Feeling good.
- Good. - I think so.
- So how about the elephant in the room, then?
We got a new face that’s here...
- Yeah. - At elimination.
So how has the arrival of Dean
changed any of the dynamics here in the house?
- He is great.
He brought good energy into the house.
- Yeah. - Casey’s happy.
- I slept better last night knowing Dean was here.
- Oh, Dean, how does that make you feel?
- Excuse me, I’ma talk to her. [laughter]
It makes me feel good that the--
you know, that the energy was welcome.
So thank you, ladies, and talk more.
[laughter]
- All right, guys, each week,
the power to eliminate
will bounce back and forth
between the women and our men.
- Last week, the women had the power to eliminate,
so this week, it’s our guys that get to decide
who stays and who guys.
Gillian and Alexis, you both went on a date this week,
so you are safe.
- Chill. Cool as a cucumber.
- Look good. [laughter]
Now it’s the tough part. The guys have a choice to make.
So, ladies, I’m gonna ask you to step away for a few minutes
and give us some privacy.
- I really hope I get the opportunity to stay,
because I did come here to get my best friend back.
And I feel like he came here for me.
- All right, guys.
So this is where we kind of break it all down.
Dean, who’s catching your eye right now?
- I enjoy the-- like, the energy of Casey.
She’s a cute girl. I’m excited for her. You know?
- What about you, Blair?
- Dede seems like, you know, she’d be fun to take out.
- I know she wants to date. I know that for a fact.
But she seems a bit apprehensive.
- Thakur, I think you are still hovering too closely
for her to be comfortable talking to any other guys.
You know, she goes to sit down on the couch,
and then you come over.
Well, obviously she’s not gonna talk to any other guys
while Thakur is sitting right there.
- For you, David, Gillian’s been
on two dates now with two different guys.
What has that been like for you?
- We’ve had plenty of conversations since, you know,
she filed for divorce and, like, moving forward.
And we’ve been having this tug-of-war.
I would chase her, and she would back off,
and then when I’d back off,
she’d try to, like, reel me back in.
And I think, right now, I’m still kind of confused,
and that’s why I’m here.
I’m trying to figure out, is it because we have 16 years
and it’s comfort and familiarity?
And that’s what I’m trying to juggle.
- So we need to start to identify some of these ladies
that you’re not connecting with.
- Who do you think should leave tonight?
- On the top of my list, I would have to say Ally.
Mims, like, is Ally-- do you think
that’s something that you would pursue further?
Casey told me that Ally was not interested
in any of the guys here.
- I was sure, like, me and Ally was done.
- Yeah.
- But I know I’ve worked on myself a lot
in the last couple years, and I can tell she has as well.
I don’t think anything’s off the table.
- Okay, so I think that’s something to think about, then.
- Right, so then who would you say on that side, then?
- Ariel, I think--I mean, she’s cool and everything.
I just don’t see her making the same effort.
She still can’t deal with the part of--you’re over it.
- Yeah, Blair, do you feel like Ariel has moved on from you?
- I couldn’t tell you, because I don’t let her talk, really.
I am an ice king toward her.
- But you can pick up on her energy.
Do you feel like if you said,
"Let’s give it another go," she would say okay?
- She would say yes.
I think if she’s here or not, I don’t care, honestly.
- Is there somebody here that would be like,
"Whoa, no, no, no.
Like, I really want to pursue Ariel"?
- We actually finally had a conversation last night,
and it was a great time.
And we just found some common ground.
I think that’s an avenue worth exploring for myself.
So it’s possible.
- Yeah, don’t be scared to find out.
- That’s why we’re here.
- We obviously have to make a decision
at some point, you know?
♪ ♪
- Who has a chance to really grow something?
Who is really invested in wanting to find something?
I think those people need to stick around.
- Ariel and Ally are on the chopping block.
I don’t want to cause anyone emotional pain.
It’s a tough decision.
♪ ♪
- All right, guys, let’s get the ladies back in here.
- Whoo-whoo. Come on, now. - [wolf whistle]
- I know David’s not gonna vote me out,
so I’m not even worried about it.
There’s so many other people that could go home,
outside of me, at this point.
- All right, guys.
- So it was a very tough decision,
because obviously all of you are amazing women.
And it came down to two ladies:
Ariel...
and Ally.
Ally, you know, you’re an amazing woman.
You speak your mind.
But from our side, no one has felt
that you’ve expressed interest in them.
Ariel, you haven’t shown anybody that you’re all in.
They think you’re stuck on me.
Unfortunately, the decision came down to...
♪ ♪
Ally, you’re being eliminated.
♪ ♪
- My heart drops, because I felt like
I had really been doing the work in that house.
I’m really glad that I had this experience.
I feel like my situation is not done.
But, you know, I’ll figure it out.
- Ariel, you know, you were on the chopping block,
and I want you to know
we’re not gonna rekindle our relationship.
I’ve moved on.
I have done everything I can
to better myself from that situation.
And moving forward, you need to show these guys that you are
actually interested in having a relationship with them.
Let’s just be friends.
- Yeah, and remember, guys, our goal at end of this
is to find one couple who has found closure with their past
and is ready to love again.
Ally, thank you so much for being here.
- Thank you. I appreciate it.
It just blew my mind
that I was the one that they voted for, truthfully.
My revenge is going to be me getting healthy and moving on
and someday finding a healthy relationship.
- Mims, go ahead.
- It was sad to see her walk off,
but I think it was the right decision.
Still pretty good friends,
but I doubt the relationship part is gonna be rekindled.
- All right, we want to help you guys move on
to something better.
That’s why we’re always moving you
outside of your comfort zones and keeping you on your toes.
- You know, you might hear your doorbell ring in the morning.
- What the hell? - [laughs]
Y’all have a good night. - Have a good night.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Good night. - Holy shit.
I don’t know what is gonna happen in this house now.
♪ ♪
- ♪ The fire comes ♪
♪ And drowns me out ♪
- Hey. - Hey.
- ♪ It burns up the world ♪
- So how you feeling right now?
I know it sucks, but...
- [crying]
♪ ♪
It’s just frustrating, ’cause I feel like
we were working on something new,
and I was able to let go of the past.
- I know. We still got a lot of work to do,
but I feel like this was a huge step.
You know, we can build on this.
- Yeah.
What I gained from this experience is my friend back.
I couldn’t have asked for anything better.
Just get out there and mingle.
Bye. - Bye.
- I’ve been trying so hard to, like, get something out of,
like--really fix it.
Like, he’s almost like, "Maybe"--
- It shows support.
- "Maybe, Ariel, at the end of this,
we’ll be friends." - Mm-hmm.
- And I’m like, "So I’m gonna spend my whole time here
trying to, like, make you like me as a friend?"
- Mm-hmm. - "Like, no."
- Right. Right.
- I think I’m, like, disgusting him
by trying to fix things with him.
- I know. I think--
- Or, like, he’s, like, repulsed by me.
- No, no, not that at all. I just--I think
that he doesn’t feel comfortable being your friend
unless he knows you’re 100% out of the equation
as far as a relationship.
- Now I’m like, I shouldn’t have [bleep] come here.
- No. No, no, no, no, Ariel.
- Yes. Yes. I feel so [bleep] stupid...
- Why? - For coming here.
- Why did I [bleep] with him?
I’m so mad. I’m so--
- Let me get you a tissue. Listen.
- Like, "Okay, Blair, thank you.
"You want to tell everybody
how [bleep] over-- over me you are?"
- Right. - Blair, like, always needs
to be really [bleep] straightforward.
He should be more straightforward with me, then.
- Then he should--yeah. - Like, aah!
- He has told everybody-- and this is news to me.
I did not know this.
- No, he’s not [bleep] open.
He’s not straightforward with me.
Now, I feel stupid. - Why?
- I’m mad that this is gonna be on TV,
and I’m looking at the camera
because this part is not [bleep] going on TV.
- Wait, wait, Ariel, you don’t--
Ariel, relax. Hold on for a second.
Listen. - I feel so dumb.
- Breathe. Breathe.
♪ ♪
- Next time on "The Big D"...
- I don’t know what the surprise is gonna be today.
[doorbell rings] - Uh-oh. Somebody at the door.
- What?
I’m freaking out right now.
- Have you guys been with other people
since you guys took breaks?
- You put others ahead of my feelings.
- No, I haven’t. She wasn’t disrespectful.
- Both of you were. Ariel, I’m sorry.
I don’t want to question your character and your intentions.
But it’s what I feel in my [bleep] gut.
- What is it you’re trying to say?
- I may still love you. That’s all I gotta say.
- Please don’t cry.
- I just don’t want anybody touching you like that.
- He’s making all of us uncomfortable right now.
I’m not entertaining [bleep] like that.
- He didn’t do anything wrong.
He didn’t do anything to hurt me.
I don’t want to argue. - You know what? [bleep] you.
I’m about to knock somebody the [bleep] out.