“Perfect Match” fans were shocked by the winners of the second season. Today, actors claim that secret pacts influenced the vote.

• Warning: spoilers ahead for “Perfect match” season two.

• Christine Obanor and Nigel Jones were the surprise winners of the show after teaming up in the final.

• Now the actors claim secret pacts helped the couple win.

Fans of the second season of “Perfect Match” were surprised when the new couple was named the winner of the series. Today, the actors accuse each other of having concluded secret pacts to influence the vote.

The dating series, which was one of Netflix’s most popular TV shows in June, sees contestants on the streamer’s reality offering try to find love.

Every few days, new contestants, who stay in a separate hotel from the main cast, are brought into the house to shake things up. Anyone left without a partner at the end of the night must leave.

At the end of the series, all the contestants from inside and outside the house come together to vote for a winning couple – but this season’s finale was more complicated than the last.

During the cast reunion that aired on June 21, singles from outside the house criticized longer-lasting couples, accusing the male contestants of not being authentic. The cast then voted Christine Obanor and Nigel Jones, the new couple who reunited in the finale, as winners – angering fans who were supporting the other couples.

Amid fan backlash following the result, Chris Hahn and Harry Jowsey claimed that contestants who had not found a partner had worked together to vote for Christine and Nigel rather than the more long-lasting couples.

Christine and Nigel spent most of the series in the hotel and only entered the house in the later episodes.

On Tuesday’s episode of his podcast, “Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey,” Harry said the hotel group hated couples for rejecting them and didn’t believe the longest-lasting couples were loyal to each other, so they voted for their friends. , Christine and Nigel.

“I remember sitting through the finale. I was like, ‘Wait, when did they become a couple? How the fuck did that happen?'” Harry said.

In a TikTok video shared on Friday, Chris accused the hotel group of making a pact to vote for one of their own in the final.

“Everyone outside during this pact voted for Nigel and Christine to win it,” Chris said. “Are they a good couple? Maybe. I think so. Did they deserve to win ‘Perfect Match?’ Absolutely not.”

But Christine, Nigel and other cast members of the hotel group denied the report and claimed there was another pact between the couples within the house to keep new contestants out at all costs.

Stevan Ditter, who was present throughout the series, also supported this theory.

“The girls kind of had a crazy girl code at home. They just didn’t want new girls,” Stevan told “The Viall Files” podcast in an episode that aired last week. “They were talking about sending guys on dates with girls who obviously weren’t for them.”

It has become common in later seasons of reality shows for contestants to become more strategic and competitive, leading to fake relationships for the camera. This may have been the case with the second season of “Perfect Match.”

Dom Gabriel, who starred in both seasons of “Perfect Match,” said the house was much “healthier” in the first season because no one had a “competitive spirit.”

Regardless of Christine and Nigel winning, they were perhaps the most compatible couple on the show. Nigel and Christine said on social media after the finale aired that they won a compatibility challenge and went on one more date during filming, but were kicked out of the series.

Plus, they seem to be the longest-lasting couple.

Christine said in a YouTube video about her “Perfect Match” experience that she dated Nigel for nine months and they only officially ended things a month ago.

In contrast, the rest of the couples said in Netflix’s “Where Are They Now” video that they ghosted or broke up shortly after the show.

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