
Izzy Zapata and JP Pierce Monty Brinton/Netflix (2)
JP Pierce has a brand new love in his life after his damaged engagement with Taylor Rue, in response to Love Is Blind costar Izzy Zapata.
“He’s a extremely good man, like, I obtained to hang around with him one-on-one. I imagine he’s been seeing a woman for a 12 months now, so clearly he’s doing one thing proper,” Izzy, 32, stated throughout his Thursday, October 5, look on the “Viall Recordsdata” podcast. “I feel generally lots of guys will not be very in [touch] with their feelings or can’t categorical them very effectively and I feel that was simply the case with him.”
JP, 32, sparked an immediate reference to Taylor, 26, within the Love Is Blind season 5 pods. The duo — affectionately nicknamed “sugar” and “sugar butt” — went on to get engaged, sight unseen, earlier than ever leaving the pods. Nonetheless, their communication faltered after they got here nose to nose. JP even criticized Taylor’s full make-up look, upset she didn’t go fresh-faced. “It felt such as you had been pretend,” he stated in an episode of Love Is Blind.
“I did discuss to him in Mexico, and he was like, ‘Taylor’s lovely. I like the best way she seems with out her make-up. She has such pure magnificence,’” Izzy advised host Nick Viall of the firefighter. “Clearly, the best way he worded it to her was utterly horrible [and] he ought to have simply stated it that manner.”
Izzy continued: “He comes from a great spot. He has a very good coronary heart. I feel he simply must work on [the] presentation of how he delivers issues, and I feel that’s sort of a pattern of season 5. Our deliveries are poor.”

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Taylor, for her half, advised Us Weekly that she sensed a disconnect throughout their post-proposal reveal however “didn’t actually dig too deep” till their Mexico journey — and his feedback about her bodily look.
“I used to be actually harm and I used to be additionally confused,” she solely advised Us forward of the season 5 premiere. “I used to be like, ‘There’s simply no manner that our relationship is principally ending due to the best way I look.’ As a result of we had constructed such a robust connection between us and I used to be like, ‘That is my husband. We’re engaged.’”
Taylor additional pressed that she “would by no means finish” a romance primarily based on one other particular person’s opinion. “I left as a result of the model of JP that I fell in love with was now not there and that was scary to me,” she defined. “I used to be purported to go house and dwell with this particular person and I felt like I didn’t even know him in Mexico. So, I believed lengthy and laborious as a result of a part of me needed to remain and a part of me was like, ‘I’m achieved. I’m going house.’”
JP has not publicly addressed the pair’s breakup or his newfound relationship, however Izzy did additionally weigh in on his costar solely carrying patriotic outfits.
“I feel a few of the guys did [ask why],” Izzy quipped on Thursday. “I don’t assume I ever noticed him one time over there with out one thing [featuring an] American flag or purple, white and blue. He simply loves America, yeah. He [was] like, ‘America, f—ok yeah!’ he’d all the time say.”
