Sara Carton and Joey Leveille From Love Is Blind Are Dating

The Minneapolis dating pool really is that small. Sara Carton and Joey Leveille from Love Is Blind season eight are officially dating, the two revealed in an Instagram post on July 14. “Happy. my newest life chapter title,” Carton captioned the post, which showed her and Leveille hugging in a couplelike manner in one photo and kissing in another. This confirmation comes after months of speculation that the two linked up postshow after being in two separate couples. Both made it all the way to the altar with their onscreen fiancés — Leveille with Monica Danús and Carton with Ben Mezzenga — but neither ultimately tied the knot. In the months following, the two blondies, whom audiences never saw substantively interact on the show, started dating despite Carton denying anything of the sort to Nick Viall while on his Viall Files podcast. “To be clear, me and Joey are not dating,” she said on March 13, while also revealing that they did date in the pods. “There was a love square between me, Monica, Ben, and Joey,” she said. “We were all talking to each other until the second-to-last day in the pods.”

Danús, meanwhile, responded by saying they should just admit to dating. “I’m so sick of the lies. Just own up to it at this point,” she told Elite Daily on March 19. “I texted Sara, ‘I’m hearing a lot of things about you and Joey. Is there anything you need to tell me?’ And she called me and said, ‘Nothing’s official, but we are seeing each other.’ She said they didn’t want to make anything official until any online hate dies down.”

Danús added at the time that she was hurt by the revelation that Carton and Leveille were together, especially since she suspected they started dating while she and Leveille were still figuring their relationship out. “All this time when I was venting to her about Joey and she was saying she had my back, she was actually with him,” she speculated.

Fans are also confused. Carton attempted to explain the timeline in the comments of her Instagram post. “To keep this very clear — Joey and I became friends September 2024 (6 months after weddings),” she said. “There was no crossover when we were filming and our first discussion of expressing interest was February 2025, right before the show aired. We just started dating a month ago :)” So was Danús right? Or … was Danús right?

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