Burning Love Recap 2: The First Cut is the Deepest

Greetings Gasmii!

This a big night for our beloved fireman Mark Orlando. The second episode of Burning Love is all about the first cuts that have to be made.

Mark is certain to struggle with the decision.

The women are all mingling and Mark tells us he really wants to get into their heads to understand them better. He admits that he’s never been in love before. He’s enjoying a friendly chat with Titi, who sounds darling as she tells him that she’s really family oriented, but then Ballerina interrupts them.

“I have great taste in donuts.”

This catches Mark’s attention. Poor Titi can’t compete with Ballerina’s sultry and seductive ways. In fact, Ballerina comes on to tell us that she believes she and Mark would make great bi-racial babies together.

Ballerina is a very effective communicator.

Sadly, Lexie interrupts this love play to get some alone time with Mark. She takes him to a corner and apologizes for interrupting, but she explains that although she doesn’t want to put a lot of pressure on him, she really needs this to work out and she’s pretty much hanging on by only a thread.

You’re scaring him, Lexie!

Luckily, before Mark has to answer this incredibly awkward admission, he and Lexie are interrupted by a bashful Julia. She finally remembered the saying she wanted to impress Mark with at their first ecounter, so she’s going to try it again.

“Virginity is like a bubble.
One prick and it’s all gone.”

They both seem delighted with her profound words. But Tamara P. needs a few minutes alone with him too.

Once they establish who she’s talking to.

She tells Mark that she is a photographer, which surprises him. She shows him her handiwork, which of course, is blurry. Mark seems a little uncomfortable with her blindness – like he keeps forgetting she can’t see and wonders why she’s always looking in the wrong direction. He seems relieved when Tamara G. steals him away.

She tells Mark she knows they just met,
but she was already missing him.

Unfortunately, the interruptions are coming more frequently as that is all Tamara G has time to say before Vivian absconds Mark for her own alone time. She admits to us that she’d like to start a family soon. Say… sometime around June 19th. So her questions for Mark are very pointed. She asks him if he’s a spanker and how the schools are where he lives.

Mark thinks the spanker question is kinky but we find out more about our hunky bachelor as he reveals

He hasn’t been in school since the 8th grade.

I guess Mark manages to get away, because he enters the living room and says hello to all the ladies, followed by the show’s host, MIB. MIB drops a bomb on everyone by revealing that the first elimination will actually be made by the women of the house.

Everyone is shocked.

In no time at all the votes are tallied and MIB announces the person going home.

Ballerina is the first one out!

“Can it be the blind girl instead?”

Mark is absolutely gutted that he’s losing Ballerina. He tells us that of all the girls, he felt the most connection with her and was sure she would go the distance. He holds her hand as he escorts her to the waiting limo.

“Don’t trust those bitches, Mark. They’re all fake.”