Warning: Love Is Blind Season 9 spoilers forward. They’ve had one of the crucial dramatic relationships since leaving The Pods, however are Joe and Madison nonetheless collectively from Love Is Blind Season 9? We discovered a telling clue to their present relationship standing.
Joe Ferrucci, a 29-year-old gross sales skilled, and Madison Maidenberg, a 28-year-old UX/UI designer, had been one in every of six {couples} to get engaged in The Pods on Love Is Blind Season 9, together with Megan Walerius and Jordan Keltner; Annie Lancaster and Nick Amato; Kalybriah Haskin and Edmond Harvey; Ali Lappe and Anton Yarosh; and Kacie McIntosh and Patrick Suzuki. (Kacie and Patrick broke off their engagement instantly after the reveal.)
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Whereas Joe and Madison appeared to kind a connection in The Pods, he confronted backlash after he revealed in a confessional interview that Madison wasn’t his “typical sort” as a result of he most popular “thinner girls.” “Yoooooo WHERE DID THEY FIND THESE PEOPLE?!?! Joe saying he normally goes for a thinner girls however he’s okay with a bigger physique… is the bigger physique within the room with us?!?!? #LoveIsBlind #LoveisBlind9,” a person wrote on X.
“You understand she isn’t greater and has a standard physique? Shes acquired curves !! 😭 actually disappointing,” a person commented on Joe’s Instagram. Another person wrote, “Greater lady? She is just not massive in any respect. Shocked.” So are Joe and Madison nonetheless collectively from Love Is Blind Season 9? One clue tells us all we have to know.
Are Joe and Madison nonetheless collectively from Love Is Blind Season 9?
It doesn’t appear to be Joe and Madison are nonetheless collectively from Love Is Blind Season 9. In response to the on-line public information search for Denver County’s Workplace of the Clerk and Recorder, nobody with Joe or Madison’s names obtained marriage licenses in Denver between 1859 to 2025, although it’s doable that Netflix didn’t have the {couples} get legally married for Season 9 to not spoil the ending like earlier seasons.
On the time of writing, Joe and Madison nonetheless comply with one another on Instagram. Whereas their following can also be a crimson herring to not spoil their present relationship standing, Madison hinted that she wasn’t nonetheless along with Joe in an interview with Glamour after his feedback about her weight, which she referred to as the “worst case situation.”
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“This was [the] worst case situation for me,” she stated. “Worst case situation is the individual you fall in love with isn’t drawn to you, and rapidly it turns into not concerning the connection, however the attraction. And whereas I feel that’s crucial, that is Love is Blind. We did it for the emotional expertise. It was undoubtedly a tough watch.” She continued, “The issues that he stated type of carelessly actually did influence me, you recognize? It’s actually essential to bear in mind that phrases carry weight.”
Joe, for his half, additionally advised the journal that he felt “not nice” about watching his feedback about Madison on Love Is Blind. “I by no means need to contribute to anybody feeling that means,” he stated. “She at all times got here throughout as assured and cozy in her personal pores and skin. Thoughts you, in our dialog, I used to be not shaming her. Simply being truthful of who I went for previously. I discovered her enticing, each in how she regarded and the way she carried herself.”
Since filming Love Is Blind in February 2024, Madison advised the journal that she’s now “wholesome” mentally because of a “nice therapist.” “I actually realized that on this experiment, you are feeling so uncontrolled, proper?” she stated. “I feel coming again to actual life and being with my household, my mates, getting again into my routine, was one thing that was actually useful.”
She additionally instructed that she wasn’t involved with Joe by telling the journal that she hopes Joe’s feedback will make him mirror on how he views future companions. “And truthfully, I hope that it places in perspective for Joe that he must be way more aware when he’s talking about companions and girls normally,” he stated.
Joe and Madison additionally hinted that they weren’t nonetheless collectively in an interview with Individuals, by which they mirrored on their battle in Mexico after Joe seemingly drank an excessive amount of. “It was really worse than that,” Madison stated. “After you see me exit on the patio, I’m crying, he will get again in mattress sooner or later, they flip off the cameras and so they’re leaving. And he pops up off the bed, he’s like, ‘Did dinner come? The place’s the meals?’ Utterly popped up, able to go, prepared to speak, all chipper. And I simply had it, I used to be like, ‘You have to go away.’ I really made him get his personal room that night time.”
She continued, “I used to be so disenchanted and so genuinely harm. [It was] so dismissive of me on the pool occasion to the way in which that he acted within the room.”
Madison additionally revealed how Joe broke the fourth wall whereas filming the battle with Madison. “It was actually disheartening, that’s how he selected to point out up for me,” Madison stated. “Sure, what you noticed is precisely the way it occurred, if not worse, particularly as a result of they minimize. There’s a component there the place, once I wake him up, he’s like, ‘Why are the cameras right here?’ And he really will get mad at me. And the producer was like, ‘Joe, you knew we had been filming tonight.” It was disgusting.’”
Joe, for his half, blamed his habits on being intoxicated. “I don’t know in case you’ve heard of the time period open bar, however I feel I took full benefit of that,” he stated. “I undoubtedly might have paced myself a little bit bit higher, however feelings are excessive. All people’s having a lot enjoyable. Then I feel I in all probability acquired the worst of it.”
He continued, “I swear there was one level the place in my thoughts, it simply clicked, ‘I acquired to go. I acquired to go proper now. I acquired to go take a nap. I’m too drunk.’ Went again and slept it off, which I in all probability wanted a little bit bit extra sleep … It was onerous to observe.”
He additionally reassured that he’s taken “accountability” of his actions. “I do know I used to be at fault there,” he stated. “I imply, I didn’t have to drink that a lot, nevertheless it was lots,” he says. “I truthfully in all probability ought to have introduced Madison within the dialog, paid extra consideration to her. I do know that’s what she was wanting, and it in all probability acquired away from me.”
Madison, for her half, additionally admitted that she wasn’t “100% sober” both, however she wasn’t near Joe’s “degree” of intoxication. “I undoubtedly wasn’t to that degree,” she stated of the “complicated” interplay. “I feel at that time I used to be actually in commentary mode. That is our first time as a pair being in a bunch setting. That is our first time as a pair in individual being collectively. I imply, we’re solely two or three days in to really bodily being collectively. And at that time, I used to be actually simply attempting to watch. ‘Is that this how you use? Is that this how you progress by means of the world?’”
Joe additionally addressed his perceived “physique shaming” feedback about Madison’s weight. “I hope it didn’t come off as physique shaming or something like that. I feel they requested me, ‘What would’ve been the individuals that you’ve got gone for previously?’ My exes and girlfriends are perhaps smaller, a little bit petite, I’d say, in physique, and so it in all probability got here off unhealthy, nevertheless it was no dig in Madison… Madison may be very enticing,” he stated. “However that’s the experiment, proper? You don’t know. So, you don’t know. You’re attempting to construct that emotional connection earlier than, and in order that’s precisely what I used to be there for.”
