On the set of the first season of the French incarnation of “Love Is Blind,” which has been available on Netflix since September 2025. SOPHIE KOHLER/NETFLIX
Reality TV and labor law have long made for uneasy bedfellows. The French adaptation of Love Is Blind, whose first season has been available on Netflix since September 10, 2025, may have offered a new example of this mismatch. Le Monde has learned that three contestants from the show have brought their case before a labor tribunal to denounce, among other grievances, “inhuman or degrading treatment” during filming. As compensation for the harm they claim to have suffered, each is seeking €200,000 in damages.
Hosted by Olympic judo gold-medalist Teddy Riner and his wife, Luthna Plocus, the show is a matchmaking game in which contestants get to know each other in individual booths, without seeing one another. At the end of this first phase, some couples become engaged before discovering each other physically. Those who stay together must then go on a brief honeymoon and then move in together, before potentially taking the final step and marrying on camera. A contemporary version of The Dating Game, the program, not entirely free of gender stereotypes, is produced by the French subsidiary of the British production company ITV. A ratings success, Netflix has presented it as one of its 10 most-watched non-English-language programs around the world.
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