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- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪

- Have you got what it takes...

to spot the fakes?

When put to the test,

can you spot a romance scam?

- We got this, baby! Let's go! - [laughs]

- A group of seemingly loved-up couples...

- I love you, baby. - Are moving in together

and will play the ultimate game of deception.

- Let the games begin. [all cheering]

- While some are real couples

in real relationships...

- I wanna spend the rest of my life with you.

- Hidden among them are liars.

- Are you guys thinking us?

- Oh, [bleep].

- Fake couples determined to swindle the lovers

out of a massive cash prize.

- Jake told me that they were talking about

you guys being a fake couple.

- What's going on here?

All you've done is lie, lie, lie.

- The couples will compete in activities designed

to test their relationships and unearth suspicions.

Can you sniff out your partner's pit?

- [laughs]

- Oh! - It was the most unconvincing

kiss I've ever seen. - Each night

at the Truth Ceremony,

the couples will have to vote off

who they think is lying about their love.

- Give them a few minutes to think of the next lie.

- We don't fake [bleep], bro.

- I have never met anyone

as snake-y in my whole life.

We trusted in you so much that we voted our friends.

- [gasps]

- Clearly you were trusting

the wrong people.

Each time they get it right,

the prize fund grows by $25,000, but...

- Oh! - Kick out a real couple...

- What? - What the hell, you guys?

- Be aware that backstabbing will be happening.

- And the prize fund stays the same.

- You guys really think that we're fake?

- Are you kidding?

- [sobbing]

- I don't trust anyone right now.

- Are you lovers, or are you liars?

- You're a bit of a bitch, babe.

[dramatic musical sting]

- This is "Love at First Lie:

♪♪ ♪♪

[upbeat music]

Welcome to the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta,

where this scheming game of deception

is about to begin.

♪♪ ♪♪

- ♪♪ Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies ♪♪

- Right now, eight couples are arriving

at this luxurious villa,

believing they're here to take part in a competition

that'll test their relationship to the max.

- What do you guys do for work and stuff?

- I'm a runway and print model. She's a aesthetician.

- Love the tattoos by the way.

- Obsessed with tattoos. He doesn't have any.

- No, I'm boring. - So how long do you guys

have together, if you don't mind me asking?

- So we've been together 24 months?

- Have we?

- No, that's a [bleep] lie.

- I was like... [laughter]

- Hmm, interesting.

As they get acquainted for the first time,

what they don't know is...

[all cheering]

I'm about to hit them with the truth

and this cute little strapless pink number.

Hi, you guys. [all shouting]

- Tori Spelling, she is the host?

This is crazy. - She looks unreal.

We were literally like... [gasps]

[cheers and applause]

- Yes, queen, yes.

- I love you too, queen.

[laughter] - Aww.

- Look at all of you gorgeous couples.

- Look at you. Yes, girl. - Girl, you look fab.

- We got this. [laughter]

All right, you guys.

As you know, you are all here to battle it out

and take home a massive cash prize.

[all cheering]

But wait... [record needle scratches]

There's a twist.

- Oh.

- While some of you are lovers,

real couples in real relationships,

some of you are liars...

- What?

- No way. - Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God. - What?

[dramatic music]

- Fake couples here to deceive you...

- What?

- And con you out of the cash prize.

- Boom. - Yeah.

- What is going on?

- This is--was not what we was expecting.

We was expecting something totally different.

- Every night at the Truth Ceremony,

you will vote for one couple to leave the competition.

The couple with the most votes

will leave the house immediately.

If that couple are liars,

you will add $25,000 to the prize pot.

[cheers and applause]

But if that couple are lovers,

you get nothing.

♪♪ ♪♪

It's up to you to investigate

who among you are lovers and who are liars.

- We're gonna catch the fake couples.

Trust and believe.

- The last couple standing will walk away

with the cash prize.

So go ahead, take a look around you,

but trust no one.

[all oohing]

- Yes, girl. - Thank you.

- The couples now have just 12 hours

to work out who they believe are fake

before their first vote tonight.

- Everyone has such great energy and great vibes.

- Oh, my God. What?

- Everyone seems all right. - Everyone seems nice, yeah.

- So who been lyin'? [laughter]

- No, for real. - Let's go.

- I'm usually pretty good at this,

but it is a competition,

so we gotta-- - We gotta--

- Sharpen our skills up a little bit.

- This is crazy. - The more we get to know

people, like, cracks will start to show.

And, like, maybe then we'll be, like, a better detective team.

- But if you're having to lie,

you're having to live with people 24/7.

- Yeah, absolutely, but that's how you'll find out, right?

Because you'll see people together all the time.

- Do you know what? If we got everyone drunk,

tea would spill! - Yes!

- I think we'll be able to spot 'em out.

- For sure. We grew up in Chicago.

- Try Hollywood.

Fakes come supersized.

But not me. I'm the real deal.

- This is true.

[Mabel's "Mad Love"]

- But right now, I haven't got a clue

who's a real couple and who's a con.

- Wow. - Now that I've hit them

with the news, they can relax

and explore their luxury new villa.

- ♪♪ Don't let me down, do-do-down ♪♪

- And take a load off.

[crack] - Oh, I broke it!

I just broke the bed! I just broke the bed!

- Or maybe not. - I snapped it.

How are you meant to have sex on a bed like this?

- Very carefully.

Okay, all you detectives at home,

pay attention.

Can you figure out whether this first couple

are cons?

- Energy. All right.

[mumbling]

[upbeat music]

My name's Jake. I'm 21 and I'm a makeup artist.

- Hmm, so you're good at making things up?

Convenient. - And I'm Alfie, and I'm 25.

- I've been nonbinary for, like, five years.

Growing up, I just was like,

why the [bleep] is it, like, two?

You can be this or that?

I felt like, Miss Bitch, I'm in the middle.

- Hon, you can be anything you like.

- When I first met Jake, I really was taken back

because I was like, Jake looked like fully-fledged sex doll.

And I was just like, this is just a bit much.

- I think if someone was to criticize our relationship--

- We fight-- they fight too much.

- Yeah, because Alfie's genuinely [bleep] wrong.

- [laughs]

- I think we're gonna win the money

because people really like us as a couple,

and we're also really [bleep] good

at sussing people out.

- But do these two seem sus to you?

♪♪ ♪♪

- Do you guys have an idea of when you wanna get married?

- One to two years.

- And you don't live together?

- We don't live together yet.

- Is it, like, a religion, like--

- Yeah, well, my religious thing, so...

- Oh, a religious couple.

Well, they've gotta be telling the truth, right, guys?

- ♪♪ Oh, happy day ♪♪

- Hello, I'm Cecilia.

- Hi, I'm Reasey.

- We are high school sweethearts.

We met in the basketball court.

- We met--yeah, we met in bas--

we, uh, met together playing basketball.

- Uh, she did just say that.

Not the most convincing start.

- When I saw her from across the gym,

I was like, damn, that girl is very beautiful.

- My parents have raised me Catholic.

I truly believe in God and in the beauty and love

that He brings to me and that He makes me feel

and that I wanna share in my future life.

- I was raised as a Buddhist.

My parents,

they weren't really strict on it,

so I was learning more about God

from my friends, my Christian groups.

And it brought me closer to God today,

and I'm so thankful for that.

- He is my first true love, my only true love,

and I hope to be your last.

- You will. [laughter]

- I love everything about him,

from his smile to his, you know, beautiful body.

[laughter]

Your eyebrows.

[bright shimmery music]

- I mean, look at us.

We're strong, we're sexy,

and we got what it takes to

take on this competition. - [laughs]

- Oh, they are too cute.

I'm praying they're real, but what about you?

Do you have faith in them?

[dramatic music]

- Reasey and Cecy, they're cool.

The Mexican girl with long beautiful hair.

- I watched them, like, afraid to hold hands.

Like, he went to grab her hand, and she, like--

they pulled away, like--

it's like they don't know what to do.

- We don't know what to make of it.

Don't know who to trust.

Kind of overanalyzing everything.

- I feel like if you're in a relationship, though,

you should be okay with grabbing your man's hand.

- Yeah. - Do what you want, yeah.

- It's not adding up.

- Fake couples, beware.

[Raphael Lake's "All in My Head"]

- Welcome back to "Love at First Lie."

Eight couples have just come together

to take part in what they believed

was the ultimate relationship test

until I dropped this on them.

But wait.

There's a twist.

Yep, some of them are real couples

in real relationships,

but some of them are cons.

- What? - Fake couples

out to steal the prize money for themselves.

- No way. - Way.

The game has started,

and they're already sussing each other out.

- You live together? both: We don't live together.

- Not yet. We're not mentally there yet.

- No. - So we started

living together when we moved to Dubai.

So we didn't live together in England.

And then we literally moved to Dubai,

to a new country, started living together

for the first time, and got new jobs.

- Yeah. It was full-on.

- Okay, time to get to know some more couples.

Who have we got here? - All right.

- Steady, big breath, and... - You ready?

- Go.

- Hi, I'm Annabell. I'm 29--

No, I'm not. [laughing] I'm sorry.

That's you. You're 29. - I'm 29.

- Oh, snap.

I'm 29 too, guys.

Totally not lying there.

- I'm Annabell.

I am 28 years old

and I'm in a relationship with him.

- We met at university about five years ago now.

- No, you've said that wrong. - What'd I say?

- You're making up fake [bleep].

From Dubai? - How are you two

gonna pull this off? - We have been together

for nearly seven years now.

It isn't the fact that we don't know each other.

It's the fact that Joey is stupid.

We're literally each other's best friends.

Like, before anything. - Yeah.

You're like one of the boys, eh?

[laughter]

Six months ago, we got engaged. - Whoo!

Locked in for life, baby. [laughter]

You can't get away now.

- You can, but it does get messy.

Ask Johnny Depp.

- We are very competitive.

- I actually have good confidence

in the fact that we have the ability to win.

- I am a Scorpio,

so Scorpios are, like, really nice to you

and really friendly, but if you mess with them,

then they've got a sting in their tail.

[laughter] - True.

- Well, you're messing with my head.

Could these two sweethearts be fake?

[mysterious music]

Oh, hello. What's this?

One of the couples has snuck off for some alone time.

Could it be a pair of liars

trying to get their story straight?

- How do you feel right now?

- Not gonna lie, a little nervous.

- Yeah? - A little nervous.

Yeah, a little nervous.

How are you feeling?

- I feel good. We got this.

- We got this, baby.

- ♪♪ You look like you're so damn scared ♪♪

- I'm Josh. I'm 24.

- I'm Monica. I'm 25.

- I'm an underwear model.

- Hello.

- I was like, "Oh, oh, cool.

Show me some of that." [laughs]

- He's not a piece of meat, you know.

But pass me the chimichurri 'cause he looks delish.

- Yeah. - We don't live together,

but we still make it work.

- We do make it work, yeah.

You're so pretty.

- And now, we're going on two years.

- Two years. - We are super mushy.

[laughs] - Yeah.

And we're gonna see how that works out

'cause some people may think it's not, like...

both: Real. - Or authentic.

- Super mushy with a nice tushy.

But what do you guys think?

A real couple or just real nice to look at?

- So what do you guys do for, like, job, careerwise?

- We're both personal trainers. - Yeah.

Both into our fitness. - Yeah.

You guys look-- I definitely see that.

Strong. - I actually hollered at

Arabella on Instagram. - [laughs]

She slid into my DMs. - Yeah.

- Oh, the DMs. We love a good DM.

- Okay, this is new age. - Slide in the DMs.

- It's like Tinder, innit? Instagram is the new Tinder.

- Yeah. - It is, girl.

- Oh, come on. These two are already shifty.

Not a great start, girls.

- I'm Arabella. I'm 27.

I'm a personal trainer, and I'm from London.

- I'm Steph. I'm 28, and I'm also a personal trainer.

[Sigala and Digital Farm Animals' "Only One"]

- We've been together

for, what? Is it coming on,

like, the fourth month?

- Yeah. - Four months?

I've got cheese in my fridge older than that.

- Four months of pure bliss. - Hell.

- [bleep] hell, babe. - I'm joking.

- That's rude. - I'm joking.

- I have a 2 1/2 year old daughter.

I fell pregnant at 24 years old,

gave birth at 25.

Wait, does that work?

Yes, it does. That works out right.

[laughter] Oh, God.

- Oh, thank God there's someone

blonder than me on this show.

- What is it about me?

- The boobs, of course.

- Stop it, Stephanie. - Come on.

- And don't forget that cute butt.

- Oh, my God, I'm so competitive.

Like, it's painful. It does stress me out

because I'm too competitive.

- I'd say, watch out; I don't think you guys

are ready for the heat. - Come on, babe.

Give us a snog.

- I mean, they look incredible,

but if that kiss is the best they've got,

mm, I'm not convinced.

[upbeat music]

- So actually I am a licensed aesthetician,

so I specialize in skincare beauty.

- Yo, I need some tips. I need--

- I got you guys. We're all gonna have

a slumber party, so... - Oh, yeah.

- Yo, she will shower you down with tips.

[laughter] - I just really love it

because I wanna look young forever.

- Oh, me too.

The secret is drink a lot of water.

Oh, who am I kidding?

Just get a good plastic surgeon.

- ♪♪ Something 'bout you ♪♪

- We're coming, and I warn you, we're dangerous.

- ♪♪ A dangerous woman ♪♪

- I'm Riani. I am a Puerto Rican queen.

- Yes, girl.

- I like to work out

and, you know, I like to be cute.

- So what's up, yo? I'm Chantz.

I'm a runway and print model.

And yeah, I'm her king.

- But is he a lying king?

- We actually met in our high school homecoming.

- 2014.

- I love her smile.

That's definitely the most beautiful thing to me.

- So I would say three years together,

because we did break up for two,

two long-ass years.

- I was young and dumb.

I made a mistake that I will never make again.

- I just gotta brush it off.

I don't care anymore.

Chantz is a full package.

Like, my man is fine all around.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, we get the picture.

No more details needed.

Well, they talk a good game,

but could they be a couple of cons?

♪♪ ♪♪

- And what's your favorite thing about her?

- I love her lips. For me,

when I first saw her on Instagram--

- He, like, fully stalked my Instagram.

Like, he went back... - I liked all her pictures.

- 2015. - All her pictures.

- Oh, you went deep-deep-deep. - I went deep, no shame.

I went deep-deep. - So just full-on stalker.

Come on now. What's these two's story?

- ♪♪ Come on, shake your body, baby, do the conga ♪♪

- If anything, I'm gonna dance you to death, okay?

- [gasps] I love them.

- My name's Alicia. - My name is Yuriy.

And I'm originally from Ukraine,

but I've been--

oh, is that too much?

Sorry.

- We got married-- I think it's like

almost five months ago now.

So now we both live in England together.

- These two are already dance partners,

so could that marriage line be a curveball?

- ♪♪ Day and night ♪♪

- We train together, we work together,

we live together, everything.

- ♪♪ Oh, I'd never be lonely ♪♪

- My hips don't lie. [laughs]

- What about your mouth?

- Ah, gimme more. - [laughs]

- Well, they claim to be married.

If that's true, their story has to be tighter

than their tango.

♪♪ ♪♪

Back in the bedroom, the couples continue

to suss each other out.

- You know when you work in retail and they're like,

"People make an opinion of you in 3.5 seconds"?

Everyone in here, I think, is nice.

- Yeah. - And all these couples,

every single couple we met I was like, you're nice.

- Right, right, no, I did not think anybody was fake.

Like, I-- - No, I didn't think so.

- I did not think-- - Do you guys live together?

- We do. both: We live together.

- And we actually-- we both have, like, a child

from previous relationships.

- Oh, wow, and do both of them

live with both of you or no?

- So we are, like--we co-parent.

- Mm, sounds interesting.

Let's get the lowdown.

- It's game on. It's game time.

We're here to win.

We've been together for a little over two years.

Aah.

Two long years.

[laughter]

He always says I'm, like, spicy,

fiery-- oh, bossy, you can say.

I definitely always win the arguments.

It's just--I feel like I'm always right.

- Most of the time she does win 'cause most of the time

she is right. - Yeah, mm-hmm.

Thank you for finally saying it.

He has never said that out loud.

It's like, wow.

We both have a child from a previous relationship.

- I was so nervous to meet her son.

I'm like, oh, my gosh, if he don't like me,

she ain't gonna like me.

Now it's amazing.

I love him just like he was my son for sure.

I wanna kiss her right now, but she got lip gloss.

I ain't even tryin' to get that on my mouth.

- Are Brian and Karla the real deal

or telling the mother of all lies?

♪♪ ♪♪

- Right now we live in, like, a one-bedroom apartment.

- Right, right, right. - So it's like--

- It's a lot. - That's why we really need

the money, 'cause we're like--

- Oh. - Like, we really wanna

buy a house. - If you're [bleep] lying...

- I swear to God. - That will break my heart.

My heart will shatter.

- That heart of yours might be in

for a rough ride, Jake,

because there are definitely liars in the house.

- Aw. - ♪♪ Tell me lies ♪♪

- ♪♪ Lying with a lie ♪♪

- As the sun dips

on their first day in Malta,

things are about to get real for our couples.

Tonight they'll face the Truth Ceremony,

so they need to figure out quick

who's a real couple and who's a con.

- ♪♪ Lying is just easier than hurting you ♪♪

- We 100% think that we're gonna be good detectives.

[sneaky jazzy music]

You have to hold, like, a...

I'm gonna hold a-- what is it called?

No, you can't copy me.

You gotta do your own one.

Three, two, one, go.

Hmm. [laughs]

- Uh, yeah, you're gonna need more

than an imaginary magnifying glass

if you're gonna find the fakes.

Start digging, guys.

- Yeah.

- If we were lying,

why would we have said that we've been together

for seven years? Do you know how much

I would have to remember? - Yeah.

- To have seven years. - I'm thinking of, like,

little stupid things like habits.

So like saying what's their most annoying habit

and then looking out for that habit.

- The only reason I'm questioning Arabella

and Stephanie is because their relationship is so short.

It's not a very mature relationship.

- Maybe it's like a friends vibe, maybe it's this.

So we're also gonna be keeping an eye on them.

- With speculation mounting and time running out,

I've decided to help 'em out with a little icebreaker game.

The rules are simple.

Give the wheel a spin,

and wherever it lands,

your partner must complete the challenge.

- Tell a fact about you.

- I have a kid. - Do you?

- Brian breakdances. [cheering]

- A fact about Alicia is she is a triplet

that was born on a leap year,

February 29, 2000.

- Do I believe the words that are coming out of your mouth?

- Yeah. - Very planned.

Very like they studied all night.

- Planned and bland.

- Planned... both: And bland.

- I love you, baby.

- Ooh, bit much.

- Never have I ever stormed out of a restaurant

during an argument and caused a scene.

- Ooh.

- You've never done that, any of you?

- Basically, every single time we go for a meal, it happens.

[laughter]

So the woman came over to my table and put down my food,

and she went, "Enjoy, sir."

Like looked me up and down, and I was like,

okay, it's when you look me up and down,

count my ten pounds of makeup

and my 46 [bleep] inches of hair

and be like, "Sir."

- Jake, Jake, what do you prefer to go as?

- I prefer they/them, but like, I'm not gonna be, like,

ugh.

- Because I get it. I get it.

It's hard. It's hard to think

before you gender someone.

- Jake and Alfie, I'm not too sure on them.

- See if we could pick little things out...

- Mm. - And just see where we are.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- Show you partner you love them.

- [scoffs] - Ooh.

- Oh, here we go.

Ew, there it is.

But it does look steamy to me.

- Baby! - Whoo.

- Let's go!

- No way. - Oh.

Jake's not buying it.

both: Oh, my God.

- Oh, God. Oh, my goodness!

[laughter]

- It's getting steamy. - Whoo.

- I got hot. [laughter]

- It was the most unconvincing kiss I've ever seen.

- It was just a bit intense, wasn't it?

- No, it was just so much movement.

- Never have I ever.

- Never have I ever had sex.

- Whoa, was not expecting that.

- Shocked. - Shocked.

- Is it just you that hasn't done that

or you haven't either?

- Both. - Both of you haven't, oh.

- We're both virgins.

[air whooshing]

- At first, it was very uncomfortable.

- Obviously, you've not just had sex,

but have you done other stuff?

- Ooh. - At all?

- I feel bad questioning anyone's relationship,

but it's the name of the game. - That's our job.

That's our job. - I don't normally share

this type of information straightaway.

- She sleeps head up and I sleep head down,

so it's like... - Really?

- Everybody was intrigued.

They wanted to ask us questions.

- So your head is by her feet

and her feet are by your head, right?

- Yeah, I get to smell her feet.

- So what's your thing again?

- Reveal a secret.

- "We're fake." [laughs]

[laughter] - A secret.

- Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me guess.

- This is, like, our thinking caps.

[laughter] - Yeah, what?

- Josh prefers to model Monica's underwear?

- What's our secret? - I don't know,

but just say something, guys.

Anything here. - All right, all right.

We got one.

- Oh, here we go.

- So our secret is...

we're, like, super big foodies.

- Are you kidding? That's it?

- Like, he loves donuts

and I love Oreos.

- Oreos. [giggles] - Wild.

Biggest reveal? Donuts?

And, uh, Oreos? - [laughs]

[laughter]

- They've just been very sketchy

since the beginning.

- They just don't act like a couple.

They act more like friends, I would like to say.

- They just blown their cover.

Like, they just did it to themselves.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Well, that game certainly stirred the pot.

And Chantz and Riani's tongue action

has got tongues waggin'.

- I think that, like, the game told a lot about

the couples as people, you know, their morals,

the way that they live their lives.

And I think following that,

it actually identified quite a few holes

in some of the relationships. - Yeah, 100%.

Well, our biggest thing was Riani and Chantz.

We thought the kiss and everything, was, like...

too over-the-top, so fake.

- Crazy. - Whoo.

- We were literally like... [gasps]

- Oh, my-- - I was literally like, yeah.

- It was nuts.

- It was less than what it looked,

so really what it was-- they, like, locked lips,

and it was just a bunch of moving with, like, the face,

instead of, like, exactly.

- And, like, we just can't tell, like,

if it's just them and how their relationship is

or if it's, like, just an act.

- Unfortunately, though, for Yuriy and Alicia,

their act is also being reviewed.

- The dancers-- - Boy.

- Oh, the dancers, yeah, yeah.

- I'm not too sure. - Are you not?

- I don't know. I'm in two minds.

- No couple is that perfect.

They're a little too perfect.

Our least favorite couple is Yuriy and Alicia,

only because they're a little extra.

He's a little extra.

- I know, right?

[lively music]

♪♪ ♪♪

- So wait, they're dancers. When you're a dancer,

you need to learn how to be very affectionate.

- And very-- - It's skill.

- And you can turn it on like that,

and it's like, dun dun-dun dun dun.

- Do we think the accent's real as well for him?

This is my favorite sort of thing, just reading people,

analyzing, seeing who's telling the truth, who's lying,

and who's just a bit of an [bleep]

but telling the truth. - He doesn't seem like

a husband, and the way that she carries herself,

I don't see her being with a man like that.

- I thought we were good detectives.

And then we talked to the other couples, and I was like,

oh, my God, I'm so naive and I believe

everybody's [bleep] and oh, my God.

- Did anyone's, like, gaydar go off?

- Hey, uh, yeah.

Honestly, he's just, very, like, flamboyant or something,

like, very energetic--

- Dancers are like that, though.

- Dancers are like that. That's true.

- It's not the way that he acts.

It's the things that he said.

- Do I look like a Greek god?

- When we walked into the house,

we were talking about the shower situation.

He said, "Oh, I can't wait to see all these asses."

- He did not say that. - Yes, he did.

- Wait, what? - Oh, come on, Josh.

You're an underwear model.

You get that all the time!

- Welcome back to "Love at First Lie."

Despite barely knowing each other,

our couples are about to eliminate

one of their roommates at the Truth Ceremony

in the hope of adding $25,000 to the prize.

- We definitely don't want any liars

to be stealing our money, so we just gotta get 'em out.

- I don't trust

Alfie and Jake. - Why?

- I don't know. There's just something about them.

Like, I feel like they are just trying to convince people

that they're real and they trying to, like,

keep the focus off of themselves.

- Yeah, yeah, and put it on other people and...

- Yeah. - Get cool with everybody

type [bleep], yeah. - We got this, babe.

What do you think? - We got this, baby.

- Meanwhile, in the bedroom,

Jake has gathered the troops.

- I need to tell you, as my friends...

- Right. - The conversation

that Chantz is trying to push,

it feels attack-y.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Against you guys? - It feels like an attack.

- What? - And people are like...

[gasps dramatically]

- Wait. What are they like?

- [gasps dramatically] - Just checking.

- What are they saying?

- The way that Riani and Chantz posed it,

it was just-- I can imagine

you've probably gone through it a lot as a dancer,

where it's assumptions in relation to sexuality.

- What, about Yuriy? - Gay or that sort of stuff.

- I'm so comfortable with my sexuality,

I can show it, I can get up, I can do all of this.

I don't care because I'm so actually confident

in the fact that this is probably

one of the hottest women you're ever gonna see.

She's my wife. - Oh.

- Like-- Chantz and Riani,

for some reason, they're trying to tell everyone

that I'm gay. - Just very, like, flamboyant

or something, like, very energetic.

It's not the way that he acts.

It's the things that he said.

- You've never questioned it,

and I'm not even talking about the gay comment.

It's fine. I don't care.

- He's saying he's straight,

but is it a straight-up lie?

[dramatic music]

- The fact that he's choosing to disclose something

that one, might not even be true,

and two, is not for him to disclose,

that--that's really pissed me off.

I've absolutely no respect for Chantz anymore,

and if Riani doesn't say something to him

about the way he's speaking about people,

I will lose respect for her as well.

I don't even wanna be in the same room as that man.

- Well, it's a good thing he's outside then.

- What that couple did, it's a personal attack.

They deserve to go.

- Hey, the tension in this house...

- In this house. - After the damn elimination,

both: It's gonna be real.

- The only thing I am worried about

is how the couple's gonna react when we pick them.

- I really, really, really hope

that the couple we pick is fake,

because at the end of the day,

there's a lot of money at stake,

and we need an extra $25,000.

- Yeah. - Let's be real.

- Yeah, we could all use some extra dollar, Karla,

so you better make sure you pick a couple

that's lying about their love

or you could be going to bed with nothing.

- I used to think that I, like, had, like,

a really good instinct on people,

but, like, since I've been here,

I'm, like, feel like I'm, like, useless.

- It's only the first day, so it's really difficult.

- I feel like we don't know people well enough

to send people home. - Exactly, exactly. I agree.

- And we really need that time to, like, sit down, connect.

- I feel good. I don't feel nervous at all.

- I feel nervous. - She's nervous.

- You're telling me.

I've gotta host this thing.

- At the end of the day, like, are you a real, like,

relationship is what we're really going for.

- That's what truly matters.

- ♪♪ Can you handle it? ♪♪

- Tension?

Not even the word for it right now.

- ♪♪ You can run if you want to ♪♪

- It's like game on, bitches.

[laughter]

- We just need to make sure

that they don't [bleep] start questioning us.

- ♪♪ But the truth gon' find you ♪♪

- This is it, guys.

It's crunch time.

- I feel like the truth always has

a funny way of showing itself.

- Everything boils down to this.

- We know who we want to vote for tonight.

- Yep. - I've got my suspicions,

but what about you?

- Someone's gotta go home,

and it's not gonna be me.

[tense music]

- After spending the day trying to suss out the liars,

our couples must now call out who they believe are fakers.

♪♪ ♪♪

Welcome to your very first Truth Ceremony.

- Feel like the nerves are slowly starting to work up.

- I'm just anxious.

Like, I just want to see, like, what's up.

- Good evening, couples.

It's nice to see you again.

Tonight, each couple has one vote

for the couple they feel should leave the competition.

♪♪ ♪♪

The couple with the most votes

will leave the competition immediately.

♪♪ ♪♪

If you eliminate a couple that are true lovers,

the prize fund stays at zero.

But if you successfully eliminate true liars,

the prize will jump from zero to $25,000.

[cheers and applause]

Phew. Not bad.

Time to hit 'em with my catchphrase.

So have you...

got what it takes...

to spot the fakes?

Nailed it. Thank you.

Oh, God. Did I just do a thumbs-up?

Ugh, kill me now.

♪♪ ♪♪

Yuriy and Alicia,

it's time to find out whose love you think is a lie.

♪♪ ♪♪

- The couple we are voting to leave the house is...

[dramatic music]

♪♪ ♪♪

Chantz and Riani.

♪♪ ♪♪

We just felt that

there wasn't a genuine romantic connection between them.

We couldn't see it at all.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Reasey and Cecy,

which couple do you want to leave the house?

♪♪ ♪♪

- The couple we are voting to leave this house is...

♪♪ ♪♪

Josh and Monica.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Josh and Monica, what do you think about their vote?

- Genuine confusion.

I feel like we really connected with them,

and I'm not sure what we could've done.

And I guess I thought I wouldn't need a reason

why people would vote for us, but in this moment,

I feel like I would like one. - I agree.

- So we basically just were discussing

before entering to vote

that we didn't really spend much time together.

We will definitely get to know you if you guys stay,

and if we stay, you know.

- Hopefully we get the chance to sit down and chat.

- Yes, yeah, we were just talking about it too, so...

- [chuckles] - No worries.

- Yeah, we were.

- So that's one vote for Chantz and Riani

and one vote for Josh and Monica.

Let's see what these two think.

Jake and Alfie,

which couple do you think is lying about their love?

- We have noticed awkward interactions

between the couple that didn't feel authentic.

The couple we are voting to leave the house is...

♪♪ ♪♪

- Riani and Chantz.

- I think that's some bull[bleep].

- Some big bull[bleep].

I don't know when you seen awkward.

- How about the kiss? The first kiss we saw?

- You didn't even kiss your man.

- I genuinely really like you,

so you don't need to pipe up to me.

- You can pipe down.

- She can pipe up if she want to.

- Right. You can relax, honey. - As far as us--

- 'Cause I didn't even see you kiss your man.

Oh. Oh, okay. [laughter]

- Um, you're definitely seeing it now, Riani.

♪♪ ♪♪

- All right. - Are you happy, queen?

Are you happy? - Like, that's awkward.

- Do you feel like you guys

are not affectionate with each other?

- The chemistry for us is always there.

We laugh together, we vibe together--

- Do you? 'Cause I've not even seen you [bleep] standing

with each other to be honest, honey.

- I just think maybe you're intimidated.

- [laughs] Don't make my jaw dislocate.

I'm literally not here for your drama.

- Baby, you treat your man like your assistant,

so don't even say [bleep]. - Jake has had some animosity.

I feel like he got inner issues he needs to deal with--

- Right, okay. You are misgendering me.

And you're well aware you're doing it.

- That's fine, that's fine.

I don't care about none of that.

I don't see what they see.

- I don't see nothing between you, sis, so...

- Sis. Ah! - Oh, sorry.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

- You misgendering is not cool.

- That was genuinely my fault. - I'd be wrong

if I said something next, but I'm not--

- I just said sorry immediately.

That was genuinely my fault.

- That's fine, that's fine.

- Okay, well don't tell me you misgendered me

and it pissed you off if you don't care.

- That's fine. I'm really confused.

- Jake and Alfie, Chantz and Riani,

let's move on.

- Lip liner on my chin? - No.

- And on the top of your lip.

It's like right under your nose.

- Thank you. - Yeah.

- You're a babe for that.

- Go shrink your lips. Like, deadass.

- Oh, dear.

- That is not cool. - Yeah, that's not cool at all.

- That's not cool.

- Well, you misgendering is not cool.

- I've said sorry. - I don't give a [bleep].

- I can't.

♪♪ ♪♪

- What is happening? [laughter]

- No clue.

Um, can we just cut to the commercials now?

This is super awks.

- Welcome back to "Love at First Lie,"

where I've just realized

how awkward this series is going to be.

- You're a babe for that.

- Go shrink your lips. Like, deadass.

- That's not cool.

I've said sorry. - I don't give a [bleep].

- I knew I should've listened to my agent.

Anyhoo, so far, Monica and Josh have one vote,

and these two have two.

[dramatic music]

Chantz and Riani,

it's time to reveal your vote.

- We think this couple love is a lie,

because they seem like best friends.

- And I see one treating the other like [bleep],

and I don't [bleep] with that vibe.

- The couple we are voting to leave the house is...

♪♪ ♪♪

- Jake and Alfie.

- Shocker.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Brian and Karla,

which couple do you think might be lying?

- The couple we are voting to leave the house is...

♪♪ ♪♪

Monica and Josh.

♪♪ ♪♪

- They're just playing a game, and an answer was told

that was just a little awkward.

That just didn't really sit well with me.

I just thought from the answer that they was a fake couple.

♪♪ ♪♪

- Monica and Josh,

it's time to find out whose love you think is a lie.

- We just feel like this couple hasn't really connected

on a physical level, and we are really affectionate

through touch, and we search for that in other couples

and see how they do what we do.

And we haven't seen that at all.

- The couple we are voting to leave the house is...

♪♪ ♪♪

- Riani and Chantz.

- We are affectionate.

I feel like we're a lot more affectionate

than some of the other couples.

But I respect their decision.

- There's been three votes for Chantz and Riani,

two votes for Monica and Josh,

and one for Jake and Alfie.

Chantz, Riani, if you receive one more,

you will be leaving the house tonight.

Joey and Annabell,

this is a very important vote.

Who do you suspect is not telling the truth?

♪♪ ♪♪

- So we feel like these people

might just be really good friends,

and we also think that they've been kind of dramatizing things

to kind of make us try to believe that they're more

than what they seem, but we haven't really believed it.

The couple we are voting to leave the house is...

♪♪ ♪♪

Chantz and Riani.

[somber music]

- Damn, damn, damn.

- Chantz and Riani,

you are eliminated immediately

from the competition.

♪♪ ♪♪

How are you guys feeling,

being the first couple to be voted off?

- Obviously, down,

but it is what it is. - Yeah.

And we definitely wish, you know, you all the best.

- Chantz and Riani, it is time for your moment of truth.

[dramatic music]

If Chantz and Riani are liars,

the prize fund will go up to $25,000,

but if they are actually lovers,

the pot will stay at zero

and these guys will have made a very expensive mistake.

Are you lovers, or are you liars?

both: We are...

♪♪ ♪♪

both: Liars! [cheers and applause]

- I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.

[upbeat music]

- Well played.

- So we are actually BFFs. - We knew it!

- It was very hard for me to be playing this role...

- Yes. - And to make sure

no one suspected that I was gay.

- ♪♪ Ha, how you like that? ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪

[cheers and applause] ♪♪ You gon' like that ♪♪

- To me, it wasn't that bad

because Chantz is one of my close friends.

But was it hard? - It was bad for me.

- It was hard, okay. - It was really bad.

I don't like girls. [laughter]

Man, oh, my God.

Like, I had to hold her hand this whole time,

I had to hold her hip. - The kissing?

- And then we had to show our love.

The struggle was very real.

And there was some times where

I know that things got out of hand,

but, you know, playing a heterosexual male

was, how am I going to take the light off of myself?

And there were certain things that kind of, I guess,

helped me throw that light onto Yuriy.

So you know, I do apologize if I offended anyone.

Um, but yeah, I was playing a role.

And now you know. - Okay.

Chantz and Riani,

sadly you are leaving here empty-handed.

But you have your friendship, you're BFFs,

and that's what truly matters.

It's time to leave the house. - All right, you guys.

- Bye-bye. - Oh, [bleep].

[laughter]

- ♪♪ Top of the world, yeah ♪♪

- Hi, guys.

This is-- - Yo, yo, yo, yo.

- This is the real Chantz and Riani.

This is one of my best friends,

but we did actually meet--

- At homecoming. That is true.

And then ever since high school we did stay close.

The biggest motivation for me to be on the show

was to show that it's not about what you are.

It's about who you are.

- It's amazing to watch each other grow up,

because look at us.

- ♪♪ Top of the world ♪♪

- Couples, because you voted off liars,

the prize fund just went from zero to $25,000.

[cheers and applause] Yeah!

♪♪ ♪♪

You're all one step closer to winning that cash prize.

But there are still liars among you,

so use your time wisely,

and remember, trust no one.

I will see you tomorrow.

- This season on "Love at First Lie"...

- This is getting out of control.

- They're gonna be questioning us.

- We've been dating for just about a year.

Or two years? Sorry. Why do I keep [bleep] that up?

- People are [bleep] lying.

- [sobbing] - Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no.

- This is mad!

- Meet your new couples.

- We're ready to make this game ours.

- We're gonna [bleep] the game up.

- You should be embarrassed and you should be embarrassed.

- That was so extra.

- I'm British. What do you expect?

- Oh, my God.

- You're gonna let me finish.

- No, [bleep].

- Tacky-ass fake [bleep]!

[all shouting]

[dramatic music]

♪♪ ♪♪