<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11739784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matt-barnett">Matt Barnett</keyword> and <keyword id="11739785" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="amber-pike">Amber Pike</keyword> celebrated their two-year anniversary on the "After the Altar" episodes.</li><li>Pike told Insider they wanted to stay far removed from any drama with fellow cast members.</li><li>"We were actively avoiding it," she said. </li></ul>Warning: This article contains spoilers for "<keyword id="23955" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="love-is-blind">Love Is Blind</keyword>: After the Altar."Two years after Amber Pike and Matt Barnett tied the knot on "Love Is Blind," the couple reunited with their fellow cast members on the three new "After the Altar" episodes, which premiered Wednesday.Ahead of the cast's anniversary party, they went in with a plan to steer clear of any conflict. "We made it really clear that we wanted nothing to do with the drama. That's not our life," Pike told Insider."It's not an arc in a TV show, it's our life," she said, adding, "We don't want the drama. We were actively avoiding it."<div type="image" title="matt barnett amber pike love is blind anniversary party" height="2160" width="3840" msid="84825773" hostid="261"></div><h2>Barnett and Pike dodged interactions with Jessica Batten</h2>Pike has previously taken issue with Jessica Batten, a cast member that was also interested in an engagement with Barnett on season one. She previously <a href="https://www.insider.com/amber-confronted-jessica-during-the-love-is-blind-reunion-2020-3">confronted Batten</a> during the cast's 2020 reunion, saying her lingering feelings for Barnett, a then-engaged man, were inappropriate.On the "After the Altar" episodes, it's evident that Pike still hasn't forgiven Batten, at one point referring to her as "Voldemort" rather than by her name."It just seems awfully bold to go to a party celebrating a couple that you tried to break up," Pike said.<div type="image" title="giannina gibellie and jessica batten love is blind" height="1570" width="2093" msid="84825775" hostid="261"></div>Barnett, on the other hand, ignored any mention of Batten.When asked how he feels about the possibility of seeing his former costar at the anniversary party, he replied: "Next question."Batten did end up attending the event, with champagne flutes for the couple in tow. When she approached Barnett to deliver the peace offering, he avoided eye contact and refused the gift, telling her he's "not allowed" to accept it before walking away. "We had an inkling that certain people might show up, but we understand where we stand with the situation. I didn't want to be in a position or put in a position where I was forced to talk to somebody or do something that would upset me or my wife," Barnett told Insider. "I tried to avoid the situation as much as possible." He continued, "The thing that pissed me off the most was that there was understanding that I was trying to avoid it and certain people wouldn't leave it alone."<div type="image" title="amber pike and matt barnett love is blind anniversary party photos" height="2160" width="3840" msid="84825777" hostid="261"></div><h2>Pike says she and Diamond Jack resolved their conflict</h2>Also at the anniversary party, Pike gets into a heated discussion with Diamond Jack about Lauren "LC" Chamblin's accusations that Mark Cuevas <a href="https://people.com/tv/love-is-blind-lc-splits-from-mark-claims-he-was-dating-another-woman/">cheated on her</a> and infected her with the novel coronavirus after the show wrapped.Cuevas, however, has <a href="https://people.com/tv/love-is-blind-lc-splits-from-mark-claims-he-was-dating-another-woman/">denied cheating accusations</a> and said the couple was never exclusively dating. Pike defended Cuevas, who didn't attend the party but remains a close friend to her and Barnett, while Jack tried to explain Chamblin's perspective.Viewers don't see how the conversation ends, but Pike told Insider that things between her and Jack were "fine and dandy" later on in the evening. <div type="image" title="amber pike and diamond jack love is blind" height="2160" width="3840" msid="84825780" hostid="261"></div>"We all kind of agree to disagree. Between me and Diamond, we both agreed that we're not actually in the center of it, so it's not any of our business. It doesn't make any sense that we would get into a fight over it so we didn't. But we were pretty grounded in the corner of each of our individual friends," Pike said.She continued, "We were standing up for our friends, but between us personally, there was no issue."

'Love Is Blind' star Amber Pike says she and Matt Barnett wanted nothing to do with the drama in the new 'After the Altar' episodes

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11740402" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="damian-powers">Damian Powers</keyword> brings <keyword id="11740401" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="francesca-farago">Francesca Farago</keyword> to an anniversary party on "<keyword id="23955" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="love-is-blind">Love Is Blind</keyword>: After the Altar."</li><li><keyword id="11739785" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="amber-pike">Amber Pike</keyword> told Insider that the "Too Hot To Handle" reality star's appearance came as a surprise.</li><li>"There's a crossover that nobody was warned about," she said.</li></ul>Warning: This article contains spoilers for "Love Is Blind: After the Altar."In <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword>'s three new "Love Is Blind: After the Altar" reunion episodes, Damian Powers brought Francesca Farago to a party marking what would have been his and Giannina Gibelli's two-year wedding anniversary, had he not left her at the altar. Gibelli, who was zeroed in on saving her and Power's on-again-off-again relationship at the time, was caught off guard by the "Too Hot to Handle" reality star's appearance.But, according to "Love Is Blind" couple <keyword id="11739784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matt-barnett">Matt Barnett</keyword> and Amber Pike, who were celebrating their two-year wedding anniversary that evening, everyone else at the party was too. "I didn't understand why she showed up," Barnett told Insider. <div type="image" title="francesca farago damian powers giannina gibelli love is blind" height="2160" width="3840" msid="84824005" hostid="261"></div>Pike described Farago's arrival at the event as a "confused" moment and said none of the "Love Is Blind" cast members knew she was coming ahead of time. "I don't think we understood exactly what was happening," she said, adding, "There's a crossover that nobody was warned about.""I was like, 'Wait, "Too Hot To Handle," should we be in bikinis right now?'" Pike joked, referencing the other Netflix dating show, on which the contestants wear swimsuits for the majority of the season.On the episodes, which hit the streaming platform on Wednesday, Powers explained that he became friends with Farago several months prior to the reunion event. The week of the party, Farago happened to be in Atlanta for a modeling photo shoot, so Powers invited her to attend with him.When she asked if he considered her to be a date or a friend, he told her they'll "see where the night goes."However, this wasn't the first time the pair's friendship caused a rift in Powers' relationship with Gibelli. He mentioned that she was previously upset when <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/love-is-blinds-damian-powers-gets-cozy-with-francesca-farago/out-on-the-town-9/">paparazzi photos</a> came out in August 2020, showing him and Farago holding hands in Los Angeles.

Amber Pike says 'nobody was warned' that 'Too Hot to Handle' star Francesca Farago would show up at the 'Love Is Blind' anniversary party

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11739785" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="amber-pike">Amber Pike</keyword> and <keyword id="11739784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matt-barnett">Matt Barnett</keyword> got married on season one of <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword>'s "<keyword id="23955" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="love-is-blind">Love Is Blind</keyword>."</li><li>Pike said she rewatches the moment they met in person whenever she's angry at her husband. </li><li>"I've played that one episode a few times," she told Insider. </li></ul>Warning: This article contains spoilers for "Love Is Blind: After the Altar.""<a href="https://insider.com/category/love-is-blind">Love Is Blind</a>" cast members Matt Barnett and Amber Pike got engaged before ever seeing each other on season one of the popular Netflix reality show. Trusting the bond they formed while they were in their respective "pods," Pike accepted Barnett's proposal. Only then were they given an opportunity to meet in person for the first time. "I couldn't be happier right now," Pike said in a confessional after seeing Barnett face-to-face in episode three. The moment serves as a reminder for the couple, now out of the pods and going on their third year of marriage, of why they fell in love in the first place. <div type="image" title="amber barnett love is blind" height="529" width="939" msid="84822602" hostid="261"></div>Pike told Insider that they haven't rewatched the entirety of their season, as they both explored connections with other people before choosing each other."It's not like it's a home video that we go back to, to relive," she said. Pike does, however, find herself revisiting the scene in which she met her husband outside of the pods for the first time, especially when she's upset with him."I do have moments where I get mad at Matt and I will go back and watch the first time we saw each other so I'm not as angry," she said. Pike added, "I've played that one episode a few times." <div type="image" title="amber pike and matt barnett love is blind anniversary party photos" height="2160" width="2880" msid="84822605" hostid="261"></div>In the new "Love Is Blind: After the Altar" episodes that premiered Wednesday, Barnett demonstrated his own method of handling conflict and keeping the marriage stable through ups and downs.At a reunion party celebrating the couples' two-year anniversaries, he surprised Pike with a video montage of himself kissing her every morning.He told Insider that he initially got the idea for the video after he and Pike had an argument before bed one evening."I was like, 'How can I show Amber, just in the future, that I still care for her every day even if we have a bad day where we argue or fight?'" Barnett recalled.So, he discretely recorded himself kissing Pike before he left for work to show that "no matter how angry we are at each other when we go to bed, we still wake up happy with each other."

'Love Is Blind' star Amber Pike says she rewatches the moment she first laid eyes on husband Matt Barnett whenever she's mad at him

<img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5e83bf0592e19111ad55bf25-2400/chris-caulfield-rn-office.jpg" alt="Chris Caulfield RN Office" />IntelyCareChris Caulfield is a cofounder of IntelyCare, a nurse-staffing agency.<ul class="summary-list"><li>As health systems rush to find nurses to work on the front lines of the rapidly growing coronavirus outbreak, nurse-staffing agencies are responding to the increased demand.</li><li>Companies like <a href="https://www.fastaff.com/">Fastaff</a> and <a href="https://www.nursefly.com/">NurseFly</a> are offering about $5,000 a week to registered nurses who go to outbreak-heavy areas like New York City. The average registered-nurse salary is $71,730, or about $1,400 per week.</li><li>"It has always been difficult to retain staff and fill shifts given the nursing shortage, but even more so during this difficult time," Chris Caulfield, a cofounder of the staffing company IntelyCare, said.</li><li>If you're a travel nurse working during the coronavirus pandemic with an observation to share, contact aakhtar@businessinsider.com.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>As businesses across the country shut down or downsized to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, US jobless claims spiked to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-weekly-jobless-claims-record-coronavirus-unemployment-insurance-labor-recession-2020-3">3.3 million for the week ending March 21 - tripling the record set in 1982</a>. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-will-likely-cause-a-massive-hiring-slowdown-2020-3">Hiring freezes</a> meant the 23 largest staffing firms <a href="https://www2.staffingindustry.com/eng/Editorial/Daily-News/World-Staffing-shares-tumble-as-stock-markets-plummet-53060">lost 20% in stock-market value</a> between February 10 and March 9, according to <a href="https://www2.staffingindustry.com/eng/Editorial/Daily-News/World-Staffing-shares-tumble-as-stock-markets-plummet-53060">Staffing Industry Analysts</a>.But some industries, like nursing, have seen job growth soar. Economists have projected <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-hiring-to-help-or-look-into-coronavirus-outbreak-2020-3">nursing</a> is among the most in-demand jobs during the coronavirus outbreak and one of the only ones that can <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-jobs-that-will-grow-during-the-next-financial-recession-2019-9">withstand an economic recession</a>. And companies that staff nurses are cashing in on the new demand. <a href="https://www.fastaff.com/">Fastaff</a>, a rapid-response nurse-staffing firm, ended March with six times the average incoming orders from hospitals for nurses, the company said. Fastaff offered intensive-care-unit nurses who go to coronavirus-heavy zones like New York and California weekly pay as high as $4,900, the company told Business Insider. The average registered-nurse salary is $71,730, or about $1,400 per week, according to the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurses.htm">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>.Nurse-staffing companies are seeing record-high demand, according to four business leaders who spoke with Business Insider. And they're paying nurses willing to go to hard-hit coronavirus-outbreak areas triple the average rate.The situation marks a sharp contrast to the wider economy in general and the recruiting and staffing industry in particular, which is beginning to undergo layoffs, including at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-will-likely-cause-a-massive-hiring-slowdown-2020-3">ZipRecruiter over the weekend</a>. Even elsewhere in healthcare staffing, the crisis is leading to cuts. Alteon Health recently cut hours for clinicians and pay for administrative employees; suspended 401(k) matches, bonuses, and paid time off; and converted salaried physicians to hourly workers, <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/coronavirus-er-doctors-nurses-benefits">ProPublica reported</a>. The hospitals that pay these firms have been losing revenue from postponed elective procedures and a drop in noncoronavirus visits. Health insurers are also processing claims more slowly."Our jobs open and close so quickly, they're not on the website," Lauren Pasquale, vice president of marketing at Fastaff, told Business Insider. "We are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of open opportunities for nurses because of the COVID-19 coronavirus."<h2>Nurse shortages looms in the wake of coronavirus, giving healthcare staffing firms an edge.</h2>Nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic - which has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-everything-we-know-deadly-2019-ncov-wuhan-spread-2020-1">infected nearly 200,000 Americans as of April 1</a> - have struggled to work effectively despite mask and gown shortages.The lack of protective gear puts nurses at risk of contracting the virus, meaning they must leave work and can no longer treat patients. Charles Yingling, interim associate dean at the University of Illinois school of nursing in Chicago, told Business Insider that once one nurse starts infecting her colleagues, the initial illness can cause a "domino effect" and lead to mass staffing shortages.Nurse-staffing agencies help mitigate such shortages by sending travel nurses - or workers with short-term contracts in one location - to an employer. <img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5e84a01b14f18f52d230802c-2400/gettyimages-1215196278.jpg" alt="nurse coroanvirus" />Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty ImagesNurse-staffing companies are offering workers $5,000 a week to go to hard-hit coronavirus-outbreak zones like New York City.The San Francisco-based company <a href="https://www.nursefly.com/">NurseFly</a>, owned by IAC, has seen job postings go up 300% in March in coronavirus hotspots like New York and New Jersey. Increased demand has raised pay for travel nurses as high as $6,000 per week for four-to-eight week contracts.But NurseFly does not employ nurses directly, meaning workers aren't offered paid sick leave and quarantine pay if they get sick. Some staffing companies that directly employ nurses take on extra costs associated with paid sick leave, housing, and travel. IntelyCare, which connects nurses to long-term health facilities, directly employs its contract workers, and takes on costs associated with travel. The company set up a free COVID-19 training course for workers going into nursing homes, which can <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-residents-care-home-infected-coronavirus-covid19-no-symptoms-2020-3">house high-risk patients living in closely together</a>. Chris Caulfield, a nurse who cofounded IntelyCare, told Business Insider the company did not take extra money from facilities that offered premiums to nurses willing to travel to high-risk areas. "Our partnered facilities need more nurses to meet the rising demand," Caulfield said. "It has always been difficult to retain staff and fill shifts given the nursing shortage, but even more so during this difficult time."<h2>Travel nurses get high weekly pay, but are often first to get let go if hospitals cut costs.</h2><a href="https://www.ayahealthcare.com/">Aya Healthcare</a>, another travel nurse company, told Business Insider that hospitals have increased nurse pay rates based on rapidly increasing demand. The company saw an increase in open positions of 11,500 from early March to mid-March due to the coronavirus outbreak.Nurses on Aya Healthcare can make over $3,500 a week going to a high coronavirus outbreak area. Aya pays travel nurses directly as employees, and said it works with hospitals to determine fair pricing. Amber DeBruin, an Aya Healthcare travel nurse in Phoenix, called herself one of the "oldest travel nurses you'll find" at 35 years old. DeBruin, who has been a travel nurse with Aya since 2018, said the company covers her housing costs and offers higher rates than what she used to make as a staff nurse in Canada. But being a travel nurse also means being floated to departments different than what she was hired for, and to getting shifts cancelled before staffed nurses. DeBruin was just working in a pediatric unit, and she said her hospital just cancelled all traveler contracts due to <a href="https://www.insider.com/a-pediatricians-coronavirus-outbreak-advice-for-parents-2020-3">less children visiting the hospital because of coronavirus</a>. "We're the lowest on the totem pole in terms of staffing in the hospitals," DeBruin said of travel nurses. "If they don't need us, we're the first to go."Do you have a personal experience with the coronavirus you'd like to share? Or a tip on how your town or community is handling the pandemic? 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'Love Is Blind' star Amber Pike says she and Matt Barnett wanted nothing to do with the drama in the new 'After the Altar' episodes

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Nurses are making $5,000 a week to go to hard-hit coronavirus-outbreak zones - and staffing agencies are cashing in on the new demand

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