LIKE? Chelsea Blackwell (TV) and Megan Fox. Photo: COURTESY OF NETFLIX and AFP
Chelsea Blackwell (31) used the fact that she looked like movie star Megan Fox (37) as a check trick – and got hate. Now Fox comforts.
Sunday 14 April at 22:53
– I have never before experienced that so many people have texted me about something, says Megan Fox AND! News.
Even the “Transformers” actor had not caught up with the TV chatter before the first messages started to come in. Fox does not watch much TV.
– Even other celebrities have asked me, for example at Oscar parties, if I watch “Love is Blind”. I have answered no, but that I know what they are talking about.
Fox is referring to Chelsea Blackwell, who was completely unknown to the public until she appeared in the American “Love is Blind” on Netflix in February.
The reality series is about finding love and getting engaged for one has ever met face to face.
REALITY-SHOW: Chelsea Blackwell og Jimmy Ppresnell. Foto: NETFLIX
But after the 31-year-old enticed suitor Jimmy Presnell (28) with the fact that she had heard that she looked like the Hollywood star and sex symbol Megan Fox, she got to experience standing in the storm.
Because Presnell thought does not that Blackwell resembled Fox. He admitted as much when he saw her – after proposing.
The TV viewers were also not part of the comparison. Blackwell was allowed to review so it lasted on TikTok and other social media.
And there was no wedding.
«Enter a show to find love > get your ass dragged through the trenches“, she wrote on TikTok.
Blackwell has previously explained in a TV interview that she regrets the statement, and that she has tried to apologize to the film star – without getting an answer.
– I have addressed Megan Fox and said that I am sorry that I did this to her.
However, she has managed to take a humorous look at all the commotion.
Now – almost two months later – Megan Fox has come on board.
– I haven’t seen the series, but on a general basis I would say that no one deserves to be bullied, says Fox E!.
– She didn’t deserve it, and I think people have been far too harsh, she says of the TV newcomer.
FILM STAR: Megan Fox, here in New York last year. Photo: ANGELA WEISS / AFP / NTB
Fox also understands that Blackwell said what she said.
– I have seen pictures of her, and I believe her one hundred thousand percent when she says that people have said we look alike. She’s telling the truth, I think.
Megan says she hopes the reality contestant still “has the spark in her eyes” and that “the world hasn’t stolen it from her”.
– I send her my best wishes.
At the time of writing, Blackwell has not commented on the response from Fox.
Also Fox’s actor-ex-husband, Brian Austin Green (50), has come out and defended Blackwell. While he believes that “there is only one Fox”, he can see some similarities, and he is right TMZ asked people to calm down.