- Hey guys.
It's Michael Anthony from season one of "Ready to Love."
How y'all doing?
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I don't go to a lot of places that people go to date.
I don't go to clubs.
If I see a woman in the gym, she's working out.
I don't want to be the guy with a girl
and the headphones on, like: "Excuse me.
Hey, let me interrupt you while you're
on the treadmill breathing hard."
It's just hard for me.
Since "Ready to love," I have dived deep into my childhood
dream of being an actor.
I'm actually in Chicago right now filming a show.
I'll be here 'til the end of the month.
So, that's what I've been doing, man.
Just honing in on my craft.
Writing and acting.
And eating a lot of chicken wings.
But that's about it.
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My update on my journey to finding love
has become a very private one.
I learned "Ready to love" was a beautiful thing.
I met a lot of people.
I made new family members.
I didn't regret doing it.
I loved it.
But I realized that privacy, when it comes to my love life,
was something that, I didn't know
how important that was to me.
So, my update is private.
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Getting through the quarantine for me
was more of a selfless moment.
I know it sounds corny, but I didn't think so much
about myself in that moment.
I thought about the--
I think the earth needed a break from us.
We burning all the trees down, killing all the fish.
Polluting the air.
I think the Earth was kind of like, [SIGHS]
So, in that moment, I just stayed at home.
I'm pretty much by myself all the time anyway.
I've been quarantining for years.
I'm a homebody.
So, yeah, I think it was well-needed for the earth.
We think we run it.
We just, we forget that we are a part of something,
and we think we actually run it and we don't.
We are part of something.
And we're very selfish creatures, we are.
But, I think there is--
I still believe in a higher power,
and I think a higher power has the say-so.
And I think with that, if the whole entire world is feeling
it, I think somebody else is probably saying: "Yo, sit
your asses down for a second."
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As far as keeping in contact with other castmates.
I think afterwards, me and Pastor Chris, we definitely--
we definitely built a very strong brotherhood.
He's like my big brother.
He's still my big brother.
And me and Shea.
After everything kind of settled, all the dust settled,
me and Shea, of course, have a great friendship.
Me, my family, her family.
But as far as really being in contact
with a lot of the castmates, I think everybody-- we've grown.
We all got our things going on.
I don't think there's any bad blood between castmates.
But I think everybody, well for me,
we're just kind of focusing on-- focusing
on bettering ourselves.
And in doing that, you don't really--
you don't always have time to communicate as much
as you did in the beginning.
So, yeah, still cool with everybody.
It's all love for everybody.
But I haven't really been in contact
that much since the show.
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I think "Ready to Love" has changed my views
in dating relationships.
I think self-reflection is the one thing I learned
the most about "Ready to Love," or being a part of "Ready
to Love."
Just seeing how fans reacted and also
seeing how castmates reacted.
A lot of times, you may be viewed
a certain way from everybody else,
but view yourself differently.
And you don't really see yourself
from the outside looking in.
So, a lot of times, people start blaming edit.
"Oh, the edit, it was that. " Well, no, you did that.
And it was caught on film several times.
So, we showed it several times.
It's who-- it's something that you have.
We all have flaws.
Well, I think we all say nobody's perfect.
But then, when somebody points out an imperfection.
You're so quick to fight against it versus saying, "You know
what, Let me work on that."
I think that was one thing I learned from "Ready to Love."
It's like-- seeing how people were
so in up-rage and uproar about the imperfections being shown.
How to take a step back and look at myself and say, "You know,
I don't want to do the same thing."
So, to be-- to be someone that someone wants to date.
Instead of just always talking about what
you expect from somebody else.
It made me focus more on what I should expect from myself.
To be able to offer it to somebody else
before I can say what I want.
So, that's what I learned from "Ready to Love."
The biggest thing was self-reflection.
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