When Zack and Irina met face-to-face, sparks didn't fly. "Meeting Zack, there was something that initially didn't feel right in my gut with him..." Irina told Fox 13, adding, "I just didn't feel comfortable around him. I felt like I couldn't be my full 100% self." As she clarified, her discomfort wasn't due to his looks — some of it, she said, came down to his singing... "If I really truly loved Zack and was ready to marry him, I wouldn't have those things. His singing would be cute, not annoying," she shared with Extra correspondent Rachel Lindsay.
Zack, too, regretted his decision almost immediately. "On day two, I was really ready to leave Mexico. I decided to stick around out of respect because I thought it would be humiliating for someone to leave you in Mexico," he explained to BuzzFeed. By Episode 5, Zack told Irina that he wanted to pursue a relationship with his pod-ex, Bliss, and Irina divulged that she was attracted to Paul — yes, the same Paul who was engaged to her friend Micah Lussier.
Although Bliss expressed hesitancy at first, she and Zack reconnected in person, got engaged, and tied the knot at the end of the series. The Lee Ann Womack song "I Hope You Dance" — which they bonded over in the pods — played at their wedding. Meanwhile, since the show premiered on Netflix, Irina has been declared a "mean girl" by the internet.
