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Love is Blind UK's Olivia and Conor have been unveiled as one of the show's undercover engaged duos.
Contestant Shirley Bekker dropped a bombshell in a TikTok video as she revealed more than just the six couples viewers saw got engaged.
"Although you see a total of six engagements, 11 of our cast got engaged. There were only four of us who didn't get engaged and I was one of them. That's a little bit embarrassing," she confessed to her followers.
In a chat with Tudum, the London-based Olivia, 28, and Dubliner Conor, 31, shed light on their hidden romance.
Conor gushed: "Olivia was incredibly beautiful and lit up the whole room. It was intense and passionate and just a relief to be able to finally physically be with each other."
Olivia echoed his sentiments, expressing how she felt "safe" around him, adding: "Let's be realistic here - who wouldn't be delighted to see Conor at the reveal? ".
The pair whisked away to Greece for some quality time off-camera, with Olivia sharing: "We continued to talk about our future, what it could look like, what we wanted to do next, and where we would live to make the relationship work, all over a lot of wine on the beach."
Sadly, they realised that the challenges of maintaining a long-distance relationship were too great, leading them to part ways, reports the Mirror.
"Connecting in the pods is a very specific situation and removes a lot of the circumstances of real life from the equation," Conor underlined. "Entering back into the real world poses challenges to the relationship. In the end, we decided it would be better to remain as friends."
While their romantic journey has come to an end, they have parted on "amicable terms", each possessing a "huge amount of respect" for one another.
Reflecting on the experience, Olivia expressed: "I feel extremely fortunate for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and to have experienced it with such an incredible person like Conor."
Love is Blind UK is available to stream on Netflix now.
