Love Is Blind creator Chris Coelen shares promising update on making an LGBTQ+ version of Netflix dating show

Love Is Blind creator Chris Coelen has revealed helium is 'open' to moving retired however to marque an LGBTQ+ inclusive series.

There has been tons of chatter amongst viewers of the fashionable Netflix dating amusement astir their tendency for a queer mentation since it deed the streamer astir 5 years ago. 

And now, world tv shaper Coelen, 56, has confirmed that helium is 'interested' successful trying to flooded the wide logistical hurdles.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, helium said: 'I'm truly arrogant of the practice that we've had connected the show.

'It's truly important to maine connected a idiosyncratic level due to the fact that you privation to effort to represent arsenic wide a representation of the population.

'There are tons of radical with tons of antithetic backgrounds oregon identities and I deliberation it's important to correspond each of that.

'I deliberation with Love is Blind, determination are logistical considerations, [but] I would perfectly beryllium funny successful trying to fig it out.'

When asked what aspects of the amusement would request restructuring, Coelen said: 'There are 10 pods down the enactment and trying to get radical to rotate done the pods, radical are going to spot each other.

'It's not intolerable to fig out, but it's not conscionable similar a layup similar radical person said.

'There are ways that you could attack it, but it would beryllium a antithetic show.'

Love Is Blind debuted connected Netflix successful February 2020 and rapidly became the streamer's fig 1 trending program.

There are present 7 seasons of the show, arsenic good arsenic a multitude of planetary versions, including Love Is Blind Brazil, Love Is Blind United Kingdom, and Love Is Blind Mexico.

As it presently stands, the format follows 15 men and 15 women connected their quest to autumn successful emotion show unseen.

The men and women are kept separated and unrecorded successful gendered surviving quarters.

For 10 days, contestants day each different successful purpose-built pods, wherever they tin speech to each different done a talker but not spot each other. 

Initially, they are matched successful a speed-dating format, but aboriginal tin take to person longer dates.

Should they find a transportation successful the pods, the daters whitethorn widen a matrimony connection whenever they consciousness ready.

A mates tin lone conscionable face-to-face aft a matrimony connection is accepted.

The engaged couples past caput connected a one-week honeymoon wherever they walk clip getting to cognize their partners and person their archetypal accidental to beryllium physically intimate.

Given however the pods are structured, Coelen, who is down immoderate of Netflix's biggest dating shows, including Married astatine First Sight US, The Ultimatum, and Perfect Match, said determination would request to beryllium ample treatment connected what the acquisition would beryllium similar if it were to beryllium changed.

Love Is Blind fans person agelong been discussing however the show's format could beryllium revamped to marque it inclusive for queer contestants, but the contented with the pods has proved to beryllium a continuous stumbling block.

In a Reddit thread posted earlier this month, 1 said: 'I deliberation it would beryllium chill to see, but it would suck for the formed to isolated but for the dates.'

Another observed: 'The show's existent format would not enactment due to the fact that you'd person to support virtually each contestant separate.

'But I'm definite if the producers privation to, they tin fig retired a format that works.'

'I would emotion to spot that, and I hold that determination indispensable beryllium originative ways to alteration up the format,' a 3rd said. 'Ultimatum Queer Love worked great, arsenic play and messy arsenic it was!!'

A 4th added: 'It legitimately wouldn't enactment unless they were each wholly isolated.'

Coelen is nary alien to changing the formats of his shows to marque them inclusive of antithetic sexualities.

Last year, helium released The Ultimatum: Queer Love connected Netflix, which featured queer pistillate and non-binary couples connected the verge of marriage.

The 10-part bid saw the couples walk 3 weeks surviving with a alien successful a proceedings marriage, followed by 3 weeks surviving with their archetypal spouse successful a 2nd proceedings marriage.

Afterwards, the archetypal couples had to determine whether they wanted to get joined oregon divided forever.

The Ultimatum: Queer Love was well-received by viewers, scoring 88 per cent connected Rotten Tomatoes.