Matthew from 'Love Is Blind' season 6 walked off the show. Here's what we know about what he's doing now.
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- Warning: Spoilers ahead for the first six episodes of "Love Is Blind" season six.
- Matthew leaves after Amber Desiree "AD" confronts him for saying the same things to her and another woman also named Amber.
- Here's what we could deduce about what he's been up to since filming.
Matthew Duliba might be the most controversial contestant on "Love Is Blind" season six.
The 37-year-old senior financial advisor is introduced as a stoic guy who seems resistant to opening up. His initial pod dates are pretty stilted, too, as he awkwardly attempts to strike up a conversation with several women. (Demanding that the person you're courting pick a number and answer a stock question about themselves is not it, my guy.) He even walks out of the pods in the middle of a date with Sarah Ann, apparently bored by what she's talking about.
In several scenes shown in the men's quarters, Matthew also seems unwilling to interact on a friendly level with his fellow contestants, brushing off their attempts to figure out which women he's forming connections with in the pods.
But then Matthew ends up connecting with someone who brings him out of his shell — former dancer Amber Desiree "AD" Smith. The two form an unlikely, opposites-attract connection. Matthew even insinuates that he's ready to propose to her.
But things fall apart suddenly and spectacularly.
In the women's quarters, AD learns from the other Amber, Amber Grant, that Matthew was also dating her in the pods and, most egregiously, said nearly identical things to both of them. Amber decides to leave "Love Is Blind" when she learns about Matthew's similar overtures to AD. Matthew, who insists that it's not true he was saying the same things to both women, decides to exit the show after, telling AD he "can't commit to the plan" she wants.
"It hurts because I've never felt the way I did with you before," he tells AD before deciding to leave. "But you know, America, they do love a good underdog and they do love comebacks. I think I now got the entire country of America on my side."
Back in the men's quarters, Matthew dramatically announces he's going to go get Amber, clearing the way for AD to accept a proposal from Clay Gravesande.
So Matthew leaves the show without an engagement or really even having to explain himself, and that's the last we see of him (for now). Here's what we could figure out about what he's been up to since.
What happened to Matthew after leaving "Love Is Blind"?
We're only six episodes into a 12-episode season, so it remains to be seen whether Matthew will turn up again at a pod squad gathering that's inevitably coming.
As far as his career, Matthew seems to still work at Vanguard, where he's been a senior financial advisor since 2019, according to a LinkedIn profile that appears to belong to him.
On Instagram, Matthew hasn't posted anything to his grid about being a contestant on the show. His fairly minimal presence on the app is mostly pictures of dogs and one of him with a fish. If you clicked on his profile, there'd be virtually no indication that he was even on "Love Is Blind" — except for several season six contestants being among his followers, including Kenneth Gorham, Jimmy Presnell, and Jeramey Lutinski. (Matthew has followed back Jimmy, but not Ken or Jeramey, as of writing.)
Most interestingly, Matthew and AD are also following each other, which is a little surprising based on how things ended between them. Apparently, they've patched things up, because she recently told the New York Daily News that she and Matthew "had a few conversations" since filming ended and he apologized.
"Mathew and I, we had a few conversations, nothing too intense, nothing too crazy," she said. "We are friends and we left it at friendship."
"Matthew had a realization that the way he kind of went about the experiment probably wasn't the best way and he apologized and I accepted," she continued.
While AD and Matthew appear to be on good terms now, Amber isn't following Matthew, which seems to indicate he did not, in fact, go get her after leaving the show.
While Matthew hasn't posted his "Love Is Blind" portrait on social media like virtually every other contestant this season, he has acknowledged the show subtly. On Wednesday, after the season premiered, he reposted a meme of himself shared by Netflix's account to his Instagram Story without comment.
Matthew Duliba/Instagram
The next three episodes of "Love Is Blind" season six air on February 21.
