Brenden Guthrie was all-in on Annie Lancaster before their devastating Love Is Blind season 9 breakup in the pods, but could they date again?
“The short answer is no,” Brendan, 32, said on the Wednesday, October 22, episode of costar Joe Ferrucci’s “Table for 1” podcast, reflecting on his pod journey with Annie, 31. “I did really care for her. I truly did. You know, she knows a hell of a lot about me [and] I know a hell of a lot about her. We got very far in the experiment together.”
Brendan and Annie met and connected sight unseen in the Love Is Blind pods, at the same time that the hairstylist was also getting to know her eventual fiancé, Nick Amato. Before Nick, 28, popped the question, Annie broke it off with Brendan after he couldn’t give her certain reassurances about his feelings.
Fans, however, watched Brenden completely crash out when Annie called it quits and proclaimed that he was ready to get down on one knee.
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“I would have liked to have thought that we would have given it a real go,” Brenden said on Wednesday about potentially proposing to Annie. “I don’t really think I’m like Nick and I don’t think Nick’s like me. He’s a great guy, but we’re two totally different people, so I don’t know if that would have worked for Annie or not — and I don’t know if that would have worked for me or not.”
While Brenden can’t definitively say if he and Annie would have made it to the altar, he’s not entirely convinced the pair would have worked in the so-called “real world.”
“From the outside looking in, we probably would not have worked,” he guessed.
Annie’s relationship with Nick also didn’t last either, though, with the luxury watch dealer calling off their engagement due to fundamental differences.
“Getting to the altar, that’s not a happy idea for me,” Nick told Annie on the show. “The wedding is not something I want to do. The reason I’m not willing to marry you is because I am unhappy.”
As for Brenden, he also ended the experiment single and didn’t try to date Annie — or any other LiB castmate — back in Denver.
“I’ve been on some sporadic dates here and there,” Brenden told Joe, 29, of going out in the two years since filming wrapped. “Sometimes, I’ll just stop dating altogether just ‘cause I may not be in the right headspace for it or maybe it’s not the right time.”
He continued, “I went on some dates from time to time, [but] I’m in a place where I do still intentionally date, find my wife and be married.”
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As Brenden continues to search for The One, he revealed that he did briefly reunite with Annie.
“I think we were last together at a group setting not too long after filming had wrapped up,” Brenden said of the last time he crossed paths with his pod ex. “We didn’t really talk that much. I don’t want to say there was a connection or anything, but that was in a group setting. We never one-on-one saw each other.”
The Love Is Blind season 9 reunion airs on Netflix Wednesday, October 29, at 9 p.m. ET.
