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Amber Desiree \u201cAD\u201d Smith\u2019s time in Netflix\u2019s reality-TV universe constantly proves her levelheadedness and commitment to the long game. While her time on Love Is Blind<\/a> might not have ended as planned (she got blindsided<\/a> by her fianc\u00e9, Clay Gravesande, at the altar), after spending her summer on Perfect Match<\/a> and leaving with Love Is Blind: UK<\/a> star Ollie Sutherland, she\u2019s redefining what it means to win a reality dating competition. <\/strong>Just like last season, Perfect Match season three featured a lot of drinks, sexy games, and drama. While the rest of the contestants mixed and matched with varying success, any viewer with a pulse could see the instant chemistry between Sutherland and Smith from the moment he started teaching her how to throw the word innit into a sentence.<\/p>\n But chemistry alone wouldn\u2019t guarantee an easy path to victory. Like any couple, the two faced challenges, specifically, Smith getting eliminated from the villa and Sutherland kissing former Love Island contestant Justine Ndiba and lying to Smith about it when they reunited. Still, Smith always kept her head in the game and managed to reenter the competition at the cocktail mixer, where half of the men in the villa were much too comfortable flirting with and kissing women who were not their current matches, even though Smith was sitting right next to them, quietly watching everything. When she returned to the house and told all of the women what their men were up to, the men knew they had been played. By the finale, Smith and Sutherland appeared to be the strongest match and likely victors.<\/p>\n So how the hell did Too Hot to Handle<\/a> star Lucy Syed and Dated & Related alum Daniel Perfetto, who was one of the naughtiest boys at the mixer, wind up winning the title of \u201cperfect match\u201d and the free vacation only to break up weeks later? Your guess is as good as Smith\u2019s. But after nearly playing a flawless game only to end up in second place, she\u2019s not too stressed about it. After all, she got the guy and the happy ending. As revealed<\/a> ahead of the Perfect Match premiere, Smith and Sutherland are engaged and preparing to welcome a baby girl.<\/p>\n Coming into Perfect Match, were you optimistic that you would find that lasting, real-life love?<\/strong> You and Ollie seemed to lock in instantly. How did it all feel in the moment?<\/strong> Why do you think Daniel and Lucy wound up winning over you and Ollie despite that connection?<\/strong> Were you frustrated that they won and then broke up a couple of weeks later?\u00a0<\/strong> On shows like these, it seems like the conversations you wind up having off-camera are the ones that solidify the bond. What were you and Ollie\u2019s conversations like behind the scenes, and how did they confirm to you that this was the real deal? What stuck out?<\/strong> I was really bummed to see you get kicked out of the resort, even briefly. What are the accommodations like for the singles outside the resort? <\/strong>You know what it is. It\u2019s not the best place to be. You don\u2019t want to be outside the house, regardless of where you\u2019re being sent. But obviously, they don\u2019t send you to, like, a graveyard.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m optimistic that I\u2019ll find something real in Whole Foods. I think love is out there, so it\u2019s not a matter of me going on a TV show to find love. That was an opportunity that was presented, and I was excited to meet other people, make new friends, spend the summer away, and have a good time. The fact that it played out the way it did makes it even better, but I\u2019ve always been a lover girl. Perfect Match just made it a bit easier for me.<\/p>\n
It felt as amazing as it looked. I didn\u2019t know he was going to be there; he didn\u2019t know I was going to be there, and just to have a spark like that immediately is, I think, what everybody wants when you\u2019re looking for love.<\/p>\n
You know, that is an answer I\u2019ll never fully know because I can\u2019t tell you what was in everyone\u2019s heads. I think they saw a little more drama with Ollie and me and a little less with Lucy and Daniel. I don\u2019t know. Because Daniel and Lucy\u2019s was a little bit more behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t say frustrated. I mean, what is \u201cwinning\u201d and \u201closing\u201d in Perfect Match? It\u2019s not like Love Island<\/a>, where you have a $100,000 prize. You\u2019re just going on vacation afterward anyway.<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t say any conversation in particular really stuck out. It was more the behavior and character that I observed off-camera that made all the difference for me.\u00a0There\u2019s a lot of joking and playing and a lot of fun times on-camera, but off-camera, there are moments where you are just alone with your person and you get to see a different side of them. That was what made it easier for me to fall for Ollie. I think the TV world was getting a different version and view of him than I was.<\/p>\n