Catfish Poll: Will Chelsea And Lennie’s Lovefest Really Last?

A young man and woman seemed to have noticed their happy ending on this week’s episode of Catfish, yet will they really make their relationship work and go the distance?


Chelsea, a 28-year-old from Salt Lake City, had reached out to Nev and visitor sleuth du jour Tallulah Willis (aka the writer/artist daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore) because she wanted to finally meet Lennie, a 30-year-old from North Carolina.


But Chelsea hadn't met Lennie on a dating site or app -- she first became enamored with him once he appeared on the reality TV show My Big Fat Fabulous Life. Soon after contacting him on his fan page, they started talking almost every day for an entire year, even talking marriage/kids. Nevertheless there were issues -- like, you know, the fact that he wouldn't even FaceTime with her.


Nev and Tallulah rapidly began investigating. Their first move: sending a message to Pierce, one of Lennie's social networking friends. And Pierce delivered some bad news.


“His involvement with [his fan] page is minimal, at best,” he mentioned, adding that Lennie never had much to do with his fans directly and, worse, that the page was operated by "a bunch" of different people.


So was "Lennie" just one of the fan-page managers who took a liking to Chelsea and assumed the former reality TV star's persona? Nope. Lennie was really Lennie. And while he and Chelsea finally met face-to-face, he had a bunch of excuses reasons for why he'd never met or perhaps FaceTimed her.


“It’s sort of hard with my schedule," he mentioned. Besides, he added, “She has seen me on TV and she has that understanding of me... [And] I’m just sort of concerned about how she photographs me in her head versus reality.” Furthermore, he mentioned, "It’s sort of a long-distance thing. Flights are expensive.”


He later reiterated all his concerns directly to Chelsea. “I’d like a relationship," he instructed her, nevertheless figuring out how to do that is the tough part.”


hey answer? "I don’t feel like you ever really had the intention of having anything serious. You just admired the idea." Then, proving she has a heart of gold, she reported, "We’ll be friends.”


The good news? The two stayed companions. The even-better news? That friendship turned into a relationship. “I’ve been talking to Lennie pretty much each and every day,” Chelsea announced throughout a video catchup with Nev and Tallulah three weeks later, adding that her now-official “boyfriend” had “started making actual attempts at making things work.”


Meanwhile, Lennie mentioned he was planning to visit Chelsea soon. “I feel like I didn’t express how much I cared about her, and I was a little bit shy," he mentioned. Right now I’m attempting to put forth the effort into actually making a relationship with her.”


Hooray for the happy ending, however we’ve got to ask: do you know Lennie is really interested in making his romance with Chelsea work, and will their relationship blossom? Vote in our poll and then tell us your thoughts, and be sure to catch another Catfish Wednesday at 9/8c.