Katie Johnston and Tim Gromie did not sleep in the same room after their wedding, and while sometimes that’s down to personal choice, former MAFS bride Lauren Dunn has revealed how couples are sometimes forcibly separated.
PR and marketing consultant Lauren was a bride in season 11 of Married at First Sight Australia where she was married to Jonathan ‘Jono’ McCullough. They famously separated at the end of the experiment when Jono’s texting fling with Ellie Dix was exposed, and ironically, Jono and Ellie are still very much together.
Though she wasn’t lucky enough to find a husband on MAFS, Lauren has dished on the behind-the-scenes activity of the show in a recent interview with So Dramatic. Here’s what she said.
Producers forcibly separate MAFS couples to stop further conversations
In an earlier episode of MAFS Australia, just after Tim basically refused to give his marriage to Katie a real shot, they seemed to separate into different rooms at the end of the evening, unlike Dave and Jamie who were very much pretzeled in bed. According to MAFS viewers down under, it’s something we will see a few other times throughout the series but we won’t spoil who.
Though participants can “request a different room” if “something’s going wrong” like a big argument, Lauren revealed on her So Dramatic spin-off podcast that more often than not the decision is made by producers “without them asking.”
Is it to protect their emotions? Of course not, it’s to make sure ALL the drama is captured on camera.
She told the gossip site: “[Producers] don’t want them to continue to talk about their arguments during the night and either resolve them or have something else happen that they haven’t caught on film.”
Elsewhere in the episode of MAFS Afterparty with Lauren Dunn, she revealed why couples are sometimes forced to remain in the experiment when one of them states leave at the commitment ceremony.
“Look, the reason for this is so that people can’t just quit when they’ve had a bad week,” she said. “In a real marriage, you don’t just quit if you’ve had a bad week. People have bad weeks all the time. It gives them a chance to rethink and reevaluate and hopefully make up. A lot of the time they do makeup.”
Lauren also noted how if a participant states leave two weeks in a row, they aren’t forced to return for the third week.
“Also, you don’t have to stay. If you want to leave the show then you leave the show,” she added.
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