The following is a cast guide for the OWN program “Ready To Love” and its spin-offs.
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Ready To Love: Make A Move
General Information
- Time Passed (1.7): According to Verneashia, in conversation with Mizell, a month has passed.
Nick
Nick is a 40-year-old barber and fitness trainer.
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 8
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Trey
Trey is a 38-year-old warehouse manager for a garage oil company that covers four regions, and at night, he is a personal trainer.
- Introduced In: Episode 7 “Mixin’ It Up”
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Mike
Mike is a military veteran who served for nine years and messed up his knee due to a vehicular accident in Afghanistan. But, since his military career, he has worked as a project manager in construction, and his longest relationship was six years. Thus, the 31-year-old is probably one of the most interesting of the men we’ve met on paper.
- Introduced In: Episode 7 “Mixin’ It Up”
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Brandon
Brandon is a 43-year-old personal trainer.
- Introduced In: Episode 7 “Mixin’ It Up”
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Will
Will is a 39-year-old community engagement manager at a facility that supports fatherless boys. He has been in New Orleans for five years, has a six-year-old, and has never been married.
- Introduced In: Episode 7 “Mixin’ It Up”
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Darius
Darius is a 31-year-old photographer who, in Zadia’s mind, is a duplicate of Cameron.
- Introduced In: Episode 6 “A Big Easy Birthday”
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Danzie
Danzie is a 44-year-old pharmaceutical rep who focuses on selling drugs that treat rare diseases.
- Introduced In: Episode 6 “A Big Easy Birthday”
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Kenneth
Kenneth is a 35-year-old high school principal who hasn’t been in a serious relationship in ten years but has been in situationships during that gap. He wants one or two kids but isn’t in a rush for them.
- Introduced In: Episode 6 “A Big Easy Birthday”
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Cantrelle
Cantrelle is a 39-year-old high school social worker from New Orleans with two kids and is an assistant basketball coach. He has been single as long as he has because he has a good example of what marriage is, and won’t settle with anything less.
- Introduced In: Episode 6 “A Big Easy Birthday”
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Dylan
Strangely called Chris, originally, by Zadia, Dylan is a 31-year-old teacher who only recently moved to New Orleans after being in New York for six years. He teaches fourth-grade English, is in his first year teaching, and notes he is dyslexic.
- Introduced In: Episode 5 “Blast From The Past”
Mizell
Mizell is a New Orleans native who is a 55-year-old High School Dean who was born in February, during Pisces season. He also owns a big dog named Ranger.
- Introduced In: Episode 5 “Blast From The Past”
Tabari
48-year-old Tabari is a realtor and restaurateur and owns his own radio station.
- Introduced In: Episode 5 “Blast From The Past”
Christopher Keelson
Likely one of the few people who give their first and last name, Christopher is a 35-year-old insurance agent whose nickname is Boxx due to the shape of his head. We’re told it has been 3-4 months since his last relationship, which lasted 3 ½ years.
- Introduced In: Episode 5 “Blast From The Past”
Gary
Gary is a 45-year-old father of two boys, 15 and 14, who works in transportation, but his passion is really doing sports commentary on social media and via his podcast.
- Introduced In: Episode 4 “Keep Your Options Open”
Justin
Justin is the 35-year-old food and beverage director of the Magnolia Hotel, who is from Baton Rogue.
- Introduced In: Episode 4 “Keep Your Options Open”
Keith
Keith is 50 years old, was born and raised in Louisiana, and while he has been engaged, he has never been married. However, he is very much married to his job as a barber and running his own salon.
- Introduced In: Episode 4 “Keep Your Options Open”
Kirsten
Kirsten is a 36-year-old former NFL player turned entrepreneur, with no word on what business, or businesses, he is involved in to substantiate what he means by entrepreneur.
- Introduced In: Episode 3 “Seeing Double”
Walter
Walter is a 46-year-old musician with over 33 years of experience in music. He was born and raised in New Orleans and was married for 19 years. No word if he has kids or not.
- Introduced In: Episode 3 “Seeing Double”
Cameron
Cameron is a 36-year-old pharmacist and photographer with his own photography company, which has international staff. He is from Omaha, Nebraska, but went to school in Atlanta and, surprisingly, went to the same college as Zadia for a short time.
- Introduced In: Episode 2 “Wake-Up Call”
Maurice
Maurice is a 51-year-old attorney who is divorced with four children, of which the youngest is 21.
- Introduced In: Episode 2 “Wake-Up Call”
- Veteran (1.10): He was active for a year and spent 6 in reserves, with experience in the Gulf War.
Ramon
Ramon is a 38-year-old former basketball player who was in the G league in the United States and played for multiple international basketball teams. His last relationship was in 2008, and it lasted two years.
- Introduced In: Episode 2 “Wake-Up Call”
Marcus
Marcus is a 41-year-old high school assistant principal.
- Introduced In: Episode 2 “Wake-Up Call”
Jabari
Jabari is a 43 year old program analyst who has a daughter in college in Texas, where he went to school (Texas Southern).
- Introduced In: Episode 1 “Welcome To Nola”
Tamica
Tamica is the Tommy for “Ready To Love: Make A Move,” and she touts herself as a professional matchmaker as her credentials, alongside being married with two kids.
- Introduced In: Episode 1 “Welcome To Nola”
Antonio
Antonio is a 38-year-old Marine Corps engineer officer from Baltimore who has three kids, aged 13, 11, and 4.
- Introduced In: Episode 1 “Welcome To Nola”
Donald
Donald is a 35-year-old videographer and is divorced.
- Introduced In: Episode 1 “Welcome To Nola”
Richard
Richard was Zadia’s original choice, who is a 41-year-old high school principal, but because she didn’t like the way he started their conversation, like skipping over what her name is, she switched over to Jabari.
Also, he was married for five years previously.
- Introduced In: Episode 1 “Welcome To Nola”
Ashlee
- Introduced In: Season 1
Additional Information
Quotes
It’s not time to listen, it’s time to talk.
— Ashlee (1.7)
Zadia
- Introduced In: Season 5
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- Life Update (1.6): She is now a makeup artist
- Degree (1.9): She has a degree in exercise science
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Shareese
- Introduced In: Season 7
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Verneashia
- Introduced In: Season 4
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- Degree (1.10): She doesn’t have a college education
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Does everyone on ready to love wear veneers? They all have perfectly straight white teeth.
Does everyone on ready to love have veneers? Every last one of them seem to have perfect teeth.
I’m mad you said that lol
Can “Ready to love” consider a BBW (big and beautiful), version? I know you have to have a variety of ladies in your pool. However, I felt it was unfair for full figured sisters like Tessa, who almost got eliminated early, because she just wasn’t the majority of the men’s “type”. You’re either attracted to plus size or you’re not. In the end, they may reconsider their position, but those types usually end up not lasting or having a brother wanting to change a sister. BTW, thanks for changing your format from what you had in season 1. Having 12 women competing for just 4 men, had me livid. WTF?!
I totally agree with Crystal about Arron, he should not have even been on the show Period!
Just wondering if OWN TV and Will Packer Productions conducted background checks (criminal, civil) on the cast of Ready to Love. An internet search revealed one of the females has a criminal record and the occupation of one the males is questionable. Both were in the Cabin episode. Were these people properly vetted?
Hello, I’d like to say I really liked the Series Ready to love watching the show really represents the reality of what it’s like to get to know someone on a different level which was real for me, I can’t wait until the next season. One more thing Arron was full of mess from the beginning I don’t know how he made it to the end.