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"When Newlyweds: The First Year premiered back in May, we talked to Kim and Alaska about how to survive the first year of marriage. And we&amp;#x27;ve more or less seen each of the show&amp;#x27;s couples survive. The show&amp;#x27;s season finale airs tonight at 10/9 CT, so I caught up with couple Tina and Tarz about the past year and what to expect from tonight&amp;#x27;s drama-filled finale. Are you excited or sad for the finale? Tina: We&amp;amp;#8217;re definitely looking forward to more, if there is. Tarz: Yeah, I&amp;amp;#8217;m anxious to see how everything wraps up for the season, but I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of sad. Even though we were in the show, we were participating and watching with everyone else. Tina: It&amp;amp;#8217;s like watching other people. I want to see what happens next for Tarz and Tina! It&amp;amp;#8217;s weird because you forget stuff you did&amp;amp;#8212;especially the bad moments, the not-so-pretty moments. I will say, I knew what was coming because I am on the show, but I still cried watching the season finale. It&amp;amp;#8217;s intense. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know how Bravo smushed 365 days in eight episodes&amp;amp;#8212;and they did it flawlessly and brilliantly. Do you feel like they covered everything? Tarz: Well you can&amp;amp;#8217;t cover everything, but I think they covered really big things going on in our lives at that point in time. Tina: I mean, what do you really need besides our bare asses? Tarz: That was actually a big theme for us: feeling uncomfortable. Honestly, the show was far less traumatic and uncomfortable than that photo shoot. The crew was absolutely amazing. They really were flies on the wall, and they really let you be yourself. Tina: They were so kind and gracious and warm. Tarz and I kept waiting for an asshole to show up to make us feel uncomfortable, but there was never. Everybody on the Bravo crew was incredible, and that really allows you to just forget they&amp;amp;#8217;re there and be yourself. We were who we were. Did your background in performing help you feel more comfortable around the cameras? Tarz: I actually think it did. For a lot of people, when you&amp;amp;#8217;re in front of cameras it&amp;amp;#8217;s a little intimidating. Because we&amp;amp;#8217;ve been in front of cameras, it was OK. It didn&amp;amp;#8217;t bother us, and we didn&amp;amp;#8217;t need to play to it. We just were ourselves. Tina: I used to be way more insecure before meeting Tarz, and he&amp;amp;#8217;s made me realize we&amp;amp;#8217;re just human. We all screw up. We all say horrible thing sometimes. We&amp;amp;#8217;re not perfect, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s OK. So because of him being confident and just being who he is, that&amp;amp;#8217;s rubbed off on me enough that I&amp;amp;#8217;m like, &amp;amp;#8216;OK, America, this is me.&amp;#x27; Some people hate me, some people love me, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s fine either way. Everybody&amp;amp;#8217;s entitled to your opinion. I think a lot of people&amp;amp;#8212;not only newlyweds, but people just in relationships&amp;amp;#8212;can relate to each of the four couples. It&amp;amp;#8217;s really interesting to watch the show for us because we&amp;amp;#8217;ve never met them, and we don&amp;amp;#8217;t know them. We weren&amp;amp;#8217;t hanging out with them during the filming. Have you met any of the couples since? Tarz: Just Blair and Jeff. Tonight we&amp;amp;#8217;ll meet them all at Watch What Happens Live. There&amp;amp;#8217;s a lot of commonality in everything that goes on. It&amp;amp;#8217;s actually amazing to see everyone&amp;amp;#8217;s got family issues, everyone&amp;amp;#8217;s got partnership issues, everyone&amp;amp;#8217;s got sex issues. Tina: Yesterday we met Blair and Jeff. Blair and I feel like we&amp;amp;#8217;re so alike, and Jeff and Tarz feel like they&amp;#x27;re so alike. We had these similar issues of&amp;amp;#133;Jeff and Tarz were getting advice on how to &amp;amp;#8220;tame&amp;amp;#8221; Blair and I, and Blair and I were just like, &amp;amp;#8220;Oh, they&amp;amp;#8217;re so this and they&amp;amp;#8217;re so that.&amp;amp;#8221; It was so funny because we&amp;amp;#8217;re obviously different&amp;amp;#8212;they&amp;amp;#8217;re the quote-unquote &amp;amp;#8220;gay&amp;amp;#8221; couple and we&amp;amp;#8217;re the &amp;amp;#8220;interracial&amp;amp;#8221; couple&amp;amp;#8212;and yet, we&amp;amp;#8217;re just very, very alike. Looking back, were there any moments that you thought, &amp;amp;#8220;I need to change?&amp;amp;#8221; Tina: I think there was the bare-ass episode where I kind of thought, I need to change that. Tarz: My perspective is that there&amp;amp;#8217;s going to be lots of moments every year that I look back and go, &amp;amp;#8220;Wow, I shouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t have done that. I should have been more this way.&amp;amp;#8221; It&amp;amp;#8217;s an interesting way to reflect because it&amp;amp;#8217;s documented. But you&amp;amp;#8217;re seeing it with the music, so you&amp;amp;#8217;re not taking it exactly as it went down. Tina: I did other things besides curse at my new husband at my wedding! Tarz: It&amp;amp;#8217;s an interesting way to look back and reflect, and say &amp;amp;#8220;OK, well, those are the things I obviously need to work on.&amp;amp;#8221; Tina: And as you can see from the show, I&amp;amp;#8217;m just perfect. I never say the wrong thing; I never overreact. [Laughs] Oh my God, I was a train wreck the whole show. That&amp;amp;#8217;s OK! There&amp;amp;#8217;s always a year two! Do you get tons of relationship and marriage advice now that you&amp;amp;#8217;ve done the show? Tarz: We do, but honestly some of it&amp;amp;#8217;s probably warranted. We live-tweeted throughout all of the episodes because we were reliving it at the same time as everyone else. Tina: I will say, the one thing that was really sweet was all the pregnancy advice I got. I actually had two miscarriages&amp;amp;#8212;only one was covered on the show&amp;amp;#8212;so people were really generous about advice. I really want a girl because I really miss my mom; I want to have that connection with my own daughter that I had with my mother, which was priceless. So people were always giving me advice about how to have a girl, how to get pregnant, and to hang in there, it&amp;amp;#8217;s going to happen, you&amp;amp;#8217;re not that old. Tarz: That&amp;amp;#8217;s sweet because most of the advice I got was &amp;amp;#8220;Run, Tarz, run!&amp;amp;#8221; Tina: See, that was good advice&amp;amp;#8212;people were on your side. They get it. How did you meet? Tina: My whole life I grew up performing Indian music&amp;amp;#8212;my whole life was Bollywood, so I thought the only person I could marry was someone like me who could tolerate me. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never been into the blond-hair, blue-eyed thing, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s growing on me&amp;amp;#133; Tarz: We go back and read the emails sometimes because she actually told me specifically that &amp;amp;#8220;I am just using you. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not going to marry you.&amp;amp;#8221; It was an interesting courtship. Tina: I really did like flirting with you; I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t know I liked you. Tarz: I worked with her cousin, and Tina was performing in the city. I used to always tease her cousin because I was like, &amp;amp;#8220;Oh, I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to hook up with your hot cousin,&amp;amp;#8221; just to pick on her&amp;amp;#8212;I could care less about looks, it really was to give her a hard time because she&amp;amp;#8217;s overprotective. Tina: I saw him, and I did that whole thing you&amp;amp;#8217;re not supposed to do where you judge a book by its cover. I thought he looked like an asshole, like a dumb, blonde surfer dude. Turns out, he&amp;amp;#8217;s a genius and a softie. Tarz: We basically met in passing, and then she got signed by Sony so I went to the signing party. We had this amazing conversation about likes and interests and how she loves steak. I was kind of interested in talking to her more. I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t feel right going around Tina&amp;#x27;s cousin because she was overprotective, so I actually asked her cousin if I could email Tina. I emailed her just a &amp;amp;#8220;Hey, if you ever want to get together when you&amp;amp;#8217;re back in town, maybe we can go grab a steak because we both love it.&amp;amp;#8221; And she had completely forgotten that we had that conversation. Tina: OK, I had just been signed to Sony. Everyone was giving me shots! I was completely wasted. All I remember that night is that there was this hot dude, and I was feeling his pecs. Tarz: She wrote me back and said, &amp;amp;#8220;Oh my God, how did you know I like steak?&amp;amp;#8221; Then we just started having this back-and-forth. Tina: Then we had our first date, and I moved in. I&amp;amp;#8217;m a good Indian girl. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t hook up or just kiss anybody. But with him it was like, here&amp;amp;#8217;s my flower. Tarz: I&amp;amp;#8217;m not like that either, I&amp;amp;#8217;m a relationship guy. But I cleared out a drawer for her, which in Manhattan is a big deal. Tina: That was it. It was undeniable, instant, crazy chemistry, which I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t think actually ever happens. Tarz: And it&amp;amp;#8217;s been torture ever since. Tina: You tolerate me, it&amp;amp;#8217;s very sweet. And what will we see in the finale tonight? Tina: It&amp;amp;#8217;s intense. It&amp;amp;#8217;s a great summary to the year. I will say, everyone&amp;amp;#8217;s been waiting to find out if we&amp;amp;#8217;re pregnant. And clearly, you can see from my stomach that I&amp;amp;#8217;m not. So that&amp;amp;#8217;s all I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to say. Tune in to see the finale on Bravo TONIGHT at 10/9 P.M. ET/CT! Photo: Bravo"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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