Note that MAFS UK production company (CPL Productions) differs from MAFS Australia (Endemol Shine Australia)
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I know this program flies close to the edge at times but the reports from The Daily Fail and Jackie are hardly to be taken as âgospelâ. In the last season some of the women were more abusive and Jackie and her husband still have a large âaxe to grindâ with the show. The UK show and our local version are made by different companies and I believe any bad behaviour or assaults would have been called out on the local one. Jackie needs to be careful or she may be facing a few legal battles.
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No decision will be made on the future of MAFS UK until the external review into contributor welfare on the reality show has been completed, C4 CEO Priya Dogra said at a media briefing on the broadcasterâs 2025 financial results this morning.
Dogra said a report that the show had been cancelled and its already filmed 11th season will not air is âwholly inaccurateâ during the briefing, held at the broadcasterâs London headquarters, which was dominated by questions from reporters about the controversy.
Dogra said all episodes had been removed from C4âs streaming service to avoid âjigsaw identificationâ of the people involved, to whom she expressed her sympathy.
The groom has alleged he was pressured to stay silent after reporting an alleged sexual assault involving an on-screen co-star. Speaking to the Mirror following the airing of the Panorama documentary the former groom alleged the co-star became aggressive after a night of drinking.
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This has so much bigger then the scripted and giving these allegations are being made there are serious issues with how a show such as this could actually continue given trh seriousness of the allegations. Even for the Australian version, to now have allegations coming out about sexual assault , abuse and domestic violence , I donât see how Ch9 could even think it would be possible for this shit to continue .
Even with two different productions involved the allegations that have come out , channel 9 should either release a statement supporting the victims or do their own investigation.
It sounds like a massive cover up.
The shit has hit the fan and surprised no has been killed yet from this show.
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The Australianâs Media Diary has a small article on Second Marriage at First Sight.
As if trying to carve out a career in television wasnât difficult enough amid the ongoing collapse in ad revenue, Aussie producers and crews are anxiously waiting to learn whether a special Ashes-inspired season of Married At First Sight will end up dead and cremated before theyâve even filmed a single frame.
Diary can reveal British television execs had been secretly preparing to film the one-off series in Sydney in September, with sources telling us âitâs supposed to be a mix of Australiaâs best former contestants marrying the UKâs best former contestantsâ.
While numerous freelance crews have already been locked in for the lucrative run, word is the project is now up in the air amid an ongoing scandal in Britain, after two female contestants alleged they were sexually assaulted during filming on the UK production, and that the program had failed to adequately protect them.
Yes. The big difference with the UK is that these seem like genuine claims that were raised BEFORE the show aired. So they are serious allegations. Very different to stabby, wishy washy comments made by Jacqui (who wants to remain relevant) years on about other people that donât back these up. Not surprising from Jacqui as we already know that Jacqui and Ryan filed restraining orders against each other, that was to prevent contact and online comments post the show airing.
How is it a cover up? Very big call to make. There havenât been this sort of serious allegations made of the Aussie version. It would be absolutely inappropriate for the Aussie version to do their own âinvestigationâ.
Essentially what you are saying would be like something happening on an overseas Love Island format meaning the end of the format here, or every version needing to do something about it (when they are all prudced/run completely differently to that version). Or something like the incident on US Survivor (season 39, Idol of the Idols), where there were claims of inappropriate touching and ultimate removal of a contestant, meaning it should have been addressed, responded too or investigated in Australia. No, not really.
May be a big call to make but I believe something ainât right.
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Itâs only a matter of time before more serious allegations come out but for now:
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âSafeWork NSW said all inquiries were now closedâ.
And they havenât in 11 years. What I find uncomfortable is seeing people who dislike the show almost assuming that the same kind of horrible things would suddenly surface here. These are serious allegations that have happened recently during filming in the UK, not here. It isnât really a great place to take the conversation.
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As Iâve said before. Itâs only a matter of time before all sorts of allegations will be tabled towards this show and it eventually implodes.
In the words of the late great Kerry PackerâŚ
âGet this shit off the air!â
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Channel 4 has taken down all MAFS UK episodes online as it awaits the results of an âexternal reviewâ into contributor welfare on the program, which was announced by newly appointed chief executive Priya Dogra last month.
The future looks bleak.
The BBC interviewed nine former contestants of Nineâs version of MAFS as part of the investigative report.
Reacting to our investigation, a spokesperson for the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) told the BBC it âacknowledges the serious and disturbing mattersâ raised by former participants on the show.
The regulator said that its jurisdiction is limited to investigating whether content that has been broadcast complies with the relevant industry codes of practice.
It is understood that there are no provisions about the treatment of programme participants in those codes of practice.