Courtesy of Netflix Tap Here To Add Us Magazine As A Trusted Source Love Is Blind season 11 contestant Scott "Stew" Stewart was admittedly blindsided by Jacqueline "Jax" Guelli ending their pod engagement moments after meeting face-to-face.
"How did I feel about the rejection? I mean, at the time, [I was] completely shocked, completely caught off guard [and] did not see it coming," Stew, 34, began in a Sunday, October 18, Instagram video. "But, unlike most of the bad dating moments in my life, I've been able to relive this one as many times as I've wanted to with you guys in real time."
He continued, "With the benefit of hindsight, maybe [I should have] seen that one coming."
Stew proposed to Jax, 31, sight unseen in the Love Is Blind season 11 pods, only for the skincare founder to call off their engagement moments after meeting in person.
In watching back his proposal, Stew learned lessons to apply to his dating life moving forward.
"Maybe a proposal isn't the best time to bring up how I think the [New England Patriots] are gonna do this year," Stew quipped on Sunday. "That all said, the comments, DMs, everything have been fantastic. I'm glad how many of you had the opportunity to laugh along with my missteps. It's been a crazy ride, you know, stay tuned [because there's] more to come."
Stew and Jax had a seemingly effortless pod bond throughout the experiment, which was filmed in 2025 and began airing on Netflix earlier this month. Their in-person reveal, however, was a turning point for Jax.
"I'm most nervous about the physical connection to kind of lock it in ultimately," Jax said in a confessional before entering the reveal tunnel. "I mean, can you even break up during this? I don't know."
Jax, who felt Stew was "very New England" and not who she pictured for her fiancé, subsequently informed producers that she wanted to leave the show on her own.
"Jax has just informed us, she does not want to go to Mexico with you," a producer told Stew in a follow-up confessional. "She asked to go home immediately. We offered her the opportunity to sit down and talk with you. She declined. ... She actually asked us not to provide any sort of situation for you to talk with her at this moment."
Stew, for his part, had been excited about his next chapter with Jax before her breakup bombshell.
"Wow, I guess the feelings were not mutual. It seemed like this really could've been something," he mused to the cameras. "I would still say that this was a profoundly positive experience. I have no regrets about taking this step. I have no regrets about doing this. Life goes on, and I'll be heading back to Boston, and we'll see what happens."
Stew and Jax are set to come face to face — again — in an upcoming episode of Love Is Blind to rehash their short-lived engagement .
The first five episodes of Love Is Blind season 11 are now streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays.
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