There have been some seriously awkward kisses in reality TV history. These programs are already
painful enough to watch, thanks to adult temper tantrums, table flips, catfights,
and relationship drama. But it's these terribly, terribly awkward kisses that really stand out.
For those who've seen Love at First Kiss, you know that the show is basically designed to be awkward.
Two strangers meet in an echoey, stark white room and kiss each other at first sight.
It's... as uncomfortable to watch as it sounds. But it also makes for hilarious TV.
Of all of the kisses on the show, Shad and Aleska's had to be one of the worst. To be
totally fair, the kiss itself didn't look so bad… aside from Shad's awkward arm touch.
What makes this encounter so eek, however, is what Shad says after the kiss.
"Thanks for kissing me."
Shad winds up kicking himself for saying something so corny. But, alas,
the damage had already been done.
Everyone wants a hot and spicy kiss, but Carly and Evan's long and hot kiss on Bachelor in Paradise
was just a little bit too much. They both had to eat habañero peppers, and then were tasked with
kissing for 90 seconds in a pretty gross effort to break the Guinness World Record for "Longest
Habañero Pepper Kiss." In a word: it was sloppy. It looked equal parts disgusting and painful.
But they did it! Carly and Evan smooched for one minute and 41 seconds — which was
ten seconds more than the kiss had to be for the record. Perhaps the
couple enjoyed it more than their faces of pure pain let viewers believe? After all,
the two went on to become a lasting couple from The Bachelor franchise. Who would have thought?
Josh was notoriously awkward on Love at First Kiss. He had a few opportunities to get it
right on the show, and arguably failed all of them. Poor Josh had pretty high
expectations for his chance with Emily going into it, and radiated a certain confidence.
“I think my strategy is just go for the kiss, maybe slip tongue.
And from there, things take off, and who knows? Maybe she's my first girlfriend."
But what Josh did after he got into the room where Emily was impatiently waiting for him wasn't
exactly what anyone was expecting. He... kissed her hair? It's like he psyched himself out of it,
and instead of going to plant one on her lips, he gave her a hairy cheek kiss.
What's worse than a kiss that's just plain bad? A kiss so snotty it's downright
gross. You can thank Shannon from Jason's season of The Bachelor for giving us
all the snotty kiss we never asked to see.
Before the cringeworthy moment, Shannon went on a tangent about how much she had to
offer Jason. They had a connection -- she just really wanted him to see it!
Distraught, Shannon decided that a snotty kiss could and would make it all better.
So in between sobs and sniffles, she planted one on Jason's mouth,
complete with snotty napkin bits. The girl knew how awkward it was,
too, admitting in an interview afterwards that she could feel Jason cutting it short.
Josh had not just one, but a few, painful-to-witness kisses on Love at First Kiss.
His kiss with Annalisa was probably one of his better attempts, but it wasn't great.
"It didn't feel like a kiss. It felt like I kissed his teeth."
Annalisa gave John two shots, too. Taking note of his nervousness, she assured him not to worry and
asked if he was down for a second try. It was... endearing. Josh hadn't successfully
kissed anyone at this point, and while this kiss turned out to be a failure,
viewers loved him for his enthusiastic effort, positivity, and sheer vulnerability.
Josh opened up about the experience in an interview with Vice, saying:
"People have never seen someone go
27 years without a first kiss. They don't think that's real — but that was me!"
He added that he's gotten messages from people telling him how brave he is,
some even older than him, which made him feel much less alone.
Who remembers their first kiss? If you shudder at the cringe-inducing memory
of your first-ever smooch, you're not alone… especially if that smooch involved a "lesson"
from a more experienced partner. Now imagine getting that kissing lesson as a grown adult
on national television. That was exactly what happened to Ben on The Bachelor,
when Jamie insisted on giving him step-by-step instructions on how to kiss her in front of
all of America. Not surprisingly, it wasn't one of the best first kisses in TV history.
Don't get us wrong. We're all about communicating your wants and desires to your partner. After all,
being clear and up-front about what you like and don't like is key to a healthy and fun love life.
But there's certainly a way to go about giving a kissing lesson that
isn't so... clinical? No wonder Ben just couldn't deal with Jamie in that moment!
Looks like the third time was the charm for reality TV's most awkward kisser,
Josh, who finally did it... he had his first real kiss with Roxanne on Love at First Kiss.
While it wasn't exactly the hot-and-heavy kind of kiss to make you swoon, both Josh and Roxanne
actually seemed to be into it. Roxanne even leaned in after the kiss ended for more! While their
super-stiff posture wouldn't suggest love at first sight, the pair kissed for quite a long time.
Sure, it looked like Josh was eating her face, and her red lipstick was smeared
all over her adorably dimpled smile. But she said that it was, quote, "nice" at the end
and, meanwhile, Josh was just plain twitterpated. Like, over the moon.
"I feel on cloud nine right now, I feel ecstatic.
This is one of the best days of my life, to have that magical kiss, finally come true."
Josh must have worked some kind of magic during that kiss, because later in the show,
he proposed to Roxanne… and she said yes. While things ultimately didn't work out romantically for
the pair, Josh told Vice that they've remained friends. Which is, mostly a happy ending.
Even if you're not an avid connoisseur of reality television,
you've more than likely seen Ryan and Shanna's face-eating kiss from Virgin Diaries. It's
arguably one of the most famous (or infamous) kisses in reality TV history.
The long-anticipated smooch occurred on Ryan and Shanna's wedding day. The couple had waited for
years to share their first kiss with each other, despite how difficult it was to abstain at times.
"Oh, I really wanna kiss you right now. Nope!"
On their blog, they explained why they decided to hold off for so long, saying:
"We wanted to kiss each other all the time [...] but there are several reasons why we waited
until the rings were on our fingers. Some say it was for religious reasons,
but that makes it sound like we were just following some rule."
And that wasn't the case, as they say it was
more about their relationship with God than anything else.
Viewers were happy for the excited couple to finally share their first kiss at their wedding,
even if it was difficult to watch.
Shondo and Amanda Panda's first kiss on Love at First Kiss didn't actually look too bad.
In fact, it looked like a solid, passionate kiss. Shondo and Amanda Panda both seemed to enjoy it,
even saying so after the kiss was over, in the interview portion of the show. Amanda Panda
declared that their shared smooch was literally exactly how she kisses and likes to be kissed.
It's just that, for the rest of us, the kiss was... so, so audible.
It probably doesn't help that they were in a very empty, echoey room. But no one else
on the show shared a kiss that was that loud while in the same surroundings. Watching (and
hearing) that kiss made for some incredibly uncomfortable TV viewing, to be quite honest.
It might not be a dating show, but Nick Cannon got a kissing lesson in front of a massive live
audience on America's Got Talent. The smooch occurred when Joanna Kennedy, a love and
intimacy coach, took the stage to showcase her talent for bringing partners closer together. She
actually walked Cannon and a lucky audience member through a passionate kiss... in front of everyone.
The kiss itself seemed like it went pretty well, largely thanks to Kennedy and her sagely advice.
She strategically placed the pair's hands on each other's bodies, and talked them through the kiss
step-by-step. But it was the parents covering their children's eyes in the audience and the
judges dropping their jaws to the floor that made the whole thing just a bit weird to watch.
"Are you guys
booing our kiss?!" (buzzer) "What is going on?!"
Fortunately, Cannon was a total champ and acted
pretty silly throughout the whole thing, which hopefully diffused some of the awkward tension.
Of the many couples who have starred on 90-Day Fiance, Big Ed and Rose stand out; that's mostly
because Rose is shamelessly uninterested in Big Ed, who tries so hard to get her to love him back.
So when Big Ed asked Rose if he could steal a kiss from her – all while massaging her feet,
no less — it made for one of the most uncomfortable moments on reality TV, ever.
After looking at Big Ed with a less-than-enthusiastic expression on her face,
Rose told him he could kiss her on the cheek or forehead.
"What about on the lips?"
"Sure."
Afterward, Big Ed relished in his own excitement that he and his sweetie had just
shared their first kiss, while Rose looked as though she wanted it to be their last.
Not surprisingly, Big Ed and Rosemarie never made it down the aisle.
Josh and Amanda of Bachelor in Paradise were so obsessed with each other, it was kind of
adorable. They were constantly kissing each other in all corners of the beach house. And
they didn't seem to care one bit about who was around, who was trying to have a conversation,
or who was attempting to just hang out. Instead, Josh and Amanda always managed to plop themselves
in the middle of everyone and everything, and just make out for what felt like forever.
But what made Josh and Amanda especially awkward
was less about how much they kissed and their impeccable lack of social awareness,
and more about how loud they were — especially Josh — when doing so. For some reason
unbeknownst to viewers everywhere, they were always moaning while kissing. Like aggressively.
Interestingly enough, Josh and Amanda went on to get engaged, but then quickly split up afterwards,
according to E! News. It seems that there wasn't much substance to their relationship,
and they didn't appear to have much in common beyond their love of kissing. And moaning.
The Bachelor Pad is a spinoff in The Bachelor franchise that gathers both memorable contestants
from and super-fans of past seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, and houses
them in a mansion together. They're all ultimately competing for a cash prize of $250,000 in the end,
but along the way, they also compete in regular challenges to win dates with each other.
One of those challenges was an incredibly awkward kissing contest. Yup, The Bachelor Pad kissing
contest takes the cake for giving viewers the longest stretch of cringeworthy kissing
in reality TV history. In the challenge, contestants stood blindfolded while others came up
one-by-one to give them a smooch. However, some of the contestants were in relationships,
and some were each other's exes. Some of the kisses went on for a long time, while others
were painfully short. Some of the smooches were "grandma kisses." And some were even… smelly?
In the end, two victors came out of the contest with the best kissing skills of the group,
but boy the rest was uncomfortable.
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