Yawn! Another fake coupling and another split announced a week after the show finishes. How refreshing. 
Season 4 of MAFS NZ will stream exclusively on 9Now.
How old is that information? It was announced on Instagram on 17 April and the post said that the split came before the end of the show.
"Iâm saddened to share that toward the end of the show airing, our relationship came to an unexpected end. "
John Aiken and relationship and sex therapist Jo Robertson will be the two experts for season 4 of Married at First Sight NZ.
The upcoming season will also be the last for the NZ version, the new NZ boss of Warner Bros Discovery, Juliet Peterson, said yesterday.
Season 11 of Married At First Sight Australia finished on air in the UK this week (April 30) with record numbers. It was E4âs highest rating show of 2024 in live and consolidated ratings, and E4âs second highest rating show since 2022 in Total People, 25-54s and 16-34s (second only to MAFS UK).
Please note the following figures do not include multi-device viewing (phones, laptops, tablets, desktop computers)
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Itâs the highest rating show across all digital and pay-TV channels in 2024 in 25-54s and 16-34s.
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Consolidating to over 1.6 million total viewers, 950,000 25-54s and 315,000 16-34s (7-day ratings).
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Consolidated ratings are up more than 14% year-on-year in Total People, up more than 23% year-on-year in 25-54s and up more than 3% in 16-34s.
Source: Intellygence Consultancy Ltd
Married at First Sight NZ season 4 premieres on ThreeNow on May 26, and on Three at 7pm. The Australian airdate is TBC.
Does anybody honestly believe that this or any of these kind of shows are on the up and up?
Didnât this season rate its best in years?
I have no idea. What i mean was that who doesnât think itâs all orchestrated
Right. Thatâs not what you said at all. But, yes, itâs fake.
Former contestant Olivia Frazer features on the latest episode of Background Briefing on ABC Radio National.
Now i understand it. These shows are just like professional wrestling. In that the audience knows the whole thing is a complete work but donât care.
Of course we know they are highly edited but itâs usually those that behaved badly that then have an issue with that aspect being pushed in the show strongly. Olivia will do anything to try and stay relevant and keep talking about it.
Do they really though? If that was the case, the way audiences react to shows like MAFS would be similar to how wrestling fans react to how wrestlers behave in that theyâre heightened and exaggerated versions of the actual person behind the wrestler.
In reality, audiences seem to think that what is shown is an accurate portrayal of not only what the show is suggesting took place but who the participants that feature in them are actually like. If that wasnât the case, there wouldnât be a visceral reaction to people like Olivia who (rightly or wrongly) get an unfavourable edit because audiences would know that things have been crafted in a way to produce a certain narrative.
Michael Brunelli and his young son are on the cover of Sunday Life magazineâs Fatherâs Day issue, inside The Sun-Herald and Sunday Age today.
(paywall article)
Taking to Instagram, Mel shared her excitement about being back in Australia, specifically at Bondi Beach, where she will be living for the next couple of months.
The TV personality, who recently moved back from the UK, opened up about how sheâs focusing on her health and recovery after recent battle with colon concer.