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Who Is Love Is Blind’s Ben Mezzenga? Meet the Former Baseball Player Looking for Love in Season 8
Netflix’s popular reality show Love Is Blind season 8 returned on February 14, 2025, and this time hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey took the experiment to Minnesota. Thirty-two men and women from the area are hoping to find their forever before ever laying eyes on them, including Ben Mezzenga.
Warning! Spoilers for Love Is Blind season 8 episodes 1 through 6 ahead!
Who Is ‘Love Is Blind’ Season 8 Star Ben Mezzenga?
Ben’s bio for Love Is Blind describes him as having a “competitive nature” but is a “team player on and off the field.” This might have something to do with the fact that he’s a former college baseball player. Ben played for the University of Minnesota as an outfielder. The bio also adds that Ben has a “sixth sense” for being able to sense when someone is feeling left out.
“I have kind of a sixth sense for that and love to just bring people in and make them feel included,” Ben said.
As for what he’s looking for in a woman, Ben wants to find a partner who “can match his energy and lead with vulnerability.” It’s a bonus if that woman has a “competitive streak of her own” and is someone who “complements his outgoing and playful personality.”
Does Love Is Blind’s Ben Mezzenga Connect With Anyone in the Pods?
Ben hit it off with Sara Carton early on in the pods, but they hit a bit of a road bump when it came to their feelings on certain social justice issues. Sara revealed that she became really passionate about certain injustices, specifically after George Floyd’s murder and asked Ben his feelings on the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I’m not one way or another,” Ben replied. “I just kind of keep out of it.”
Sara was honest and said that she didn’t like his answers, but Ben eventually redeemed himself during a following date in the pods.
“I’m not looking at it as your responsibility to help me with that,” Ben explained. “I don’t want you to have any burden or any weight on your shoulders thinking that you have to teach me because I do have that motivation to grow into that and that internal feeling that we do have the same beliefs in these things. And yes, we will be on the same side of things.”
Does Love Is Blind’s Ben Mezzenga Get Engaged?
Ben proposed to Sara during episode 5 of Love Is Blind season 8. He popped the question shortly after explaining how he was willing to do the work to learn more about the issues she cared about and assured her that they did have very similar viewpoints.
While the midseason trailer showed Ben and Sara enjoying their time in a tropical paradise, it appeared as though the couple definitely ran into some problems when they returned to the real world. In one scene, Ben and Sara were meeting with parents (it was unclear whose parents they were), but it didn’t seem as though they were confident that the two were meant to be. Fans will have to wait and see what happens during Ben and Sara’s journey when the next batch of episodes drop on February 21, 2025.