Love Is Blind Star Taylor Haag Addresses Season 8 Instagram Drama

Taylor Haag understands why viewers thought she and Daniel Hastings were the perfect couple on season 8 of Love Is Blind — after all, she did, too. At first.

This post contains spoilers from Love Is Blind season 8.

In an interview with Glamour published on Sunday, February 16, two days after the season debuted on Netflix, Haag, 32, addressed what went wrong between the two amid their onscreen social media drama.

During episode 4, Haag asked Hastings if he had ever followed her on Instagram during the pair’s fourth date, something he denied. “I can’t imagine that I do,” he said. “I have a weird memory when it comes to Instagram handles. And I can see the person’s profile picture in my head…I would recognize your Instagram handle and I don’t.”

But something still felt off with his answer. After the two said “yes” to getting engaged sight unseen and finally met in person, Haag started to doubt his reply.

“The primary concern was that he knew what I looked like during the experiment,” she told Glamour. “I’m guilty, too, of judging people off their looks and I’m sure that’s been done to me. I wanted that to be completely removed from this entire situation … So the thought of that very premise being compromised was terrifying to me.”

She asked Hastings again, and he again denied knowing her social media handle. The show’s producers ended the sixth episode right there — with fans clamoring for more and wanting to know: did Hastings actually see Haag online before filming the show?

Of course, Haag didn’t divulge what comes next, but she did speak on the experience and the social media plotline. “I’ve had a lot of anxiety about this bit of the story that happened because I thought it was going to be made into a bigger thing than it really was at the time,” she told the outlet. “It was in the teaser. It was in the trailer. I knew it was going to be a part of the storyline for me, but I just feel like it’s a lot more hype than it needs to be.”

She also explained that the idea Hastings might have followed her “scared me.”

“We’re operating on very limited information at the time,” she explained. “We don’t have our devices, we don’t have our people to talk to and bounce ideas off of. We’re running on minimal sleep and we’re running on adrenaline.”

Valentine’s Day 2025 was also the five-year anniversary of the first season of the popular Netflix reality series. Season 8 is set in Minnesota and was filmed in March 2024.

The first six episodes of Love Is Blind are streaming on Netflix. Episodes 7-9 will be available on February 21, and episodes 10-11 will debut on February 28.