“Love Is Blind” star Nick Dorka says his ex-fiancée, Hannah Jiles, “looks great” but claims no one from their cast likes her.
The Season 7 participant shaded his ex while speaking to Page Six’s Danny Murphy and Evan Real at Monday’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” live show, sponsored by Tri-State Cadillac, at the Chelsea Table & Stage in New York City.
Talking about Jiles’ glow-up and dramatic weight loss, Dorka told us, “She does look great, she looks fantastic. But the thing is, I know her, I’ve seen all of her.”
He continued, “Just because you look attractive, that’s part of it. The other part is your personality and I know who she is and she has things to work on.”
Dorka, 29, also referenced Jiles’ fallout with co-stars Marissa George and Katie Bollinger, whom she met while filming the Netflix dating series.
“No one’s perfect, but it did surprise me that Marissa and her weren’t friends, Katie and her weren’t friends,” he said.
“At times, her parents and her brother had hard times. So I think she needs to do a little bit of self-reflecting, but like I said, none of us are perfect. We all have our red flags. … I think she’ll find the right person — someday — maybe.”
Dorka also denied allegations that he called Jiles, 27, a “grenade” when he saw her for the first time after dating in the pods.
“I never called her a grenade. I said I was underwhelmed by her looks, but all the guys were,” he said, claiming the other men on the show were also dissatisfied with their partners’ physical appearances.
“A lot got thrown out of context,” Dorka added. “I never called her a grenade.”
Dorka and Jiles’ brief love story and eventual breakup played out in the most recent season of “Love Is Blind.”
In the weeks before their wedding, Jiles repeatedly critiqued her fiancé for being “immature” — calling him out for not knowing how to make pasta and still being on his parents’ phone plan and car insurance policy.
“I’m younger and more mature than you,” she told Dorka in one episode.
Jiles also wrote down a list of the realtor’s flaws, which he discovered during their trip to Mexico.
“I was just writing a list of things that maybe he needs to work on or red flags I’m seeing and I laid it down,” Jiles told Page Six on Oct. 2, explaining she didn’t expect Dorka to find it.
She told us she didn’t “necessarily regret” making the list, explaining it “helped [their] relationship.”
Dorka, however, told us that he wished Jiles would’ve approached him about her concerns instead.
“I understood exactly where she was coming from, but it’s a conversation to have like this,” he explained.
“You don’t need to write some things down and put it beside my bed. That’s a conversation that should be face to face.”
Dorka continued, “Everyone comes from different backgrounds, right? Everyone has a different way of handling things. You know, I appreciate her at least putting it out there, you know, rather than holding it in.”
After the season wrapped, Jiles underwent a major glow-up as she embarked on a health and wellness journey, she told Us Weekly in October.
At the time, the reality star — who admitted she had liposuction before the show — revealed she weighed 145 pounds.
She also denied taking Ozempic to achieve her weight loss despite online speculation.
“Unfortunately, it just made me too sick. I couldn’t do it. It made me nauseous and made me want to vomit,” she said, explaining that instead she’s become “more cautious” about her food choices.
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