While we have been known to binge-watch Love Is Blind in a single day, it's quite hard to know how long the experiment goes on for. Are they in the pods for days? Weeks? Months? Thankfully a past contestant has now cleared up the timeline of the show.

Season six of Love Is Blind arrived on Netflix last week (14 February), and unlike previous seasons it feels like we've had a lot more time in the pods, watching the five couples get to know each more, develop their connections and of course form some awkward love triangles, but how long did they actually stay in the pods for?

Kelly Chase, who appeared on season one of the show, revealed on TikTok that the cast go "speed dating" in the pods for between eight and nine days, before the proposals happen. "As you’re getting closer to day eight or nine, you’re eliminating people you’re not having a connection with. And you get down to your top three," she explained.

“And then everyone gets engaged on that one day. And then the next day is the big reveal day. And then the couples separate and go back through their own door. You meet them [your partner] for 15 minutes – the person you just got engaged to – and then you don’t see them again for a few days. It’s crazy."

The couples then head on honeymoon for a week, before moving into each other's apartments. Four weeks later, they decide to either make it official at their wedding, or say no to each other at the altar. Eek.

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Lexie Skipper, who was also on season one of the show, gave a more in depth look into the dating pods in an interview with Cosmopolitan UK. She explained on the first day in the pods, every contestant went on 15 dates – every woman dated every man, and vice versa.

“It’s the most dates I’ve ever been on in my life! We were essentially speed dating – every meeting lasted for seven minutes. And then at the end of the day, everybody ranked their dates from 1 – 15. Each day from there, the number of dates you went on would decrease, and the length of those dates would increase, as producers knocked people off the bottom of each other’s lists.

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“Essentially, it was a bit like an algorithm, and producers were matching up your priority list with other people’s priority lists, and looking at who was high on each other’s matches. By the end, we were spending hours chatting to a select number of people - we’d chat into the night, and early in the morning. There were a lot of dating rounds that weren’t really shown in the series – bearing in mind I went on dates with EVERYONE.” On day 10, the proposals happened.

Sounds intense.

Love Is Blind season 6 continues on Netflix.

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Dusty Baxter-Wright is an award-winning journalist and the Entertainment and Lifestyle Director at Cosmopolitan, having previously worked at Sugarscape. She was named one of PPA’s 30 Under 30 for her work covering pop culture, careers, interiors and travel, and oversees the site’s Entertainment and Lifestyle strategy across print, digital and video. As a journalist for the best part of a decade, she has interviewed everyone from Louis Theroux and Channing Tatum to Margot Robbie and Ncuti Gatwa, while she has also spoken on Times Radio and BBC Radio. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram here.

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