The Circle is all about discovering reputation and mates by way of social media, however Rachel Ward discovered that it didn’t prolong lengthy after they left the competitors.
“While you thought you have been mates with individuals from The Circle however they stopped speaking to you since you don’t profit them anymore,” Rachel, 25, captioned a Tuesday, July 4, TikTok video of herself.
Rachel — who competed on season 3 of The Circle, catfishing as her buddy’s boyfriend Jackson — didn’t reveal which Netflix stars had ceased communication along with her, however did seemingly shade them whereas lip-synching the phrase, “You’re a regular, common civilian. Act prefer it,” within the clip. Ward additionally captioned her put up with three clown emojis.
A number of of Rachel’s former opponents took to her TikTok feedback to specific their shock about her revelations.
“MY JAW DROPPED,” Daniel Cusimano, who additionally appeared on season 3, replied, whereas season 4’s Alyssa Ljubicich famous that she “gasped” and requested, “Who’re we fist-fighting?”
Rachel replied to Alyssa on Wednesday, July 5: “HAHAHA ily.”
Many eagle-eyed social media customers started theorizing which The Circle alums may have been her goal, particularly after Matt Pappadia commented that he “can’t await Nick [Uhlenhuth] to see this.” Whereas followers shortly thought Matt’s message meant that season 3’s Nick, 29, was the previous buddy in query, Ward shut that hypothesis down.
“I like Nicky,” she gushed within the feedback, referring to the Good Match alum.
Although Rachel didn’t identify any names, she did acknowledge one commenter’s hypothesis that the forged”similar to[s] to mess with us.” The fact TV alum succinctly replied: “Confirmed.”
Rachel was one of many OG contestants on The Circle season 3, which aired in fall 2021. Opponents — who can play as themselves or as catfishes — purpose to win a financial reward by rating one another and surviving “blockings,” all whereas dwelling in isolation from one another and solely having the ability to talk through “circle chat” and personal messages.
“Once I was auditioning for the present, I used to be like, ‘What’s gonna get me on the present?’ Not being myself,” she beforehand stated throughout an October 2021 look on the “Actuality Alert” podcast. “There’s most likely 100,000 different blonde bitches in L.A. that wish to play themselves, so I used to be like, ‘I’ve to be artistic and provides them one thing they haven’t seen.’ So, that was being a catfish.”
Since leaving The Circle, Rachel had continued to be in contact with a lot of her former costars, together with Nick.
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“She lives in L.A., and I reside in Austin. We haven’t been in a position to do an excessive amount of courting,” Nick advised Bustle in September 2021, noting that they’ve casually “been chatting” since leaving the competitors.
