Latest / The KIIS Breakfast Wrap with Chris, Amy & Jack / 👰🏼♀️ UK MAFS Brides are claiming assault from their on-screen husbands
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The celebrity news you like that guards all right?
- 0:03Speaker 2: Obviously, Married at First Sight is like our biggest reality
- 0:06Speaker 2: show here in Australia. They even watch our show over
- 0:08Speaker 2: in the UK, but they do have their own UK
- 0:12Speaker 2: version and overnight. Two brides from the twenty twenty three season,
- 0:17Speaker 2: so three years ago, have now come forward and alleged
- 0:19Speaker 2: that they were sexually assaulted by their on screen husbands.
- 0:23Speaker 2: So yeah, this ally was found out via an investigation
- 0:26Speaker 2: undertaken by the BBC over there claiming that Maths and
- 0:30Speaker 2: the program hasn't taken enough protocols to ensure the safety
- 0:32Speaker 2: of their participants. So one of the brides, her name
- 0:35Speaker 2: is Shona Manderson, and she's spoken a panorama which is
- 0:38Speaker 2: like similar to our four corners, and she's spoken out
- 0:41Speaker 2: about what happened to her on the show. Now I'll
- 0:43Speaker 2: give a little bit of a trigger warning here. The
- 0:45Speaker 2: audio does depict sexual acts and it's a story on
- 0:48Speaker 2: sexual assault one eight hundred respect if you need to
- 0:50Speaker 2: speak to anyone, but have a listened to the claims
- 0:52Speaker 2: that she has made.
- 0:53Speaker 3: And bad We are being intimate, consensual, completely consensual, and
- 0:57Speaker 3: we were having sex and a bound you is asked
- 1:00Speaker 3: completely my partner bagged me without my consent. We had
- 1:05Speaker 3: agreed that we were pulling out. I was shocked. I
- 1:08Speaker 3: was confused. We said that we weren't doing that.
- 1:11Speaker 2: And another thing as well is She later claimed in
- 1:13Speaker 2: the same interview that she was then forced to take
- 1:15Speaker 2: the morning after pill to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.
- 1:18Speaker 4: Oh man, there is so much to unpack there.
- 1:22Speaker 2: You've done reality TV in Australia, So how serious, like
- 1:26Speaker 2: how intensely do they look into your background before you're
- 1:29Speaker 2: allowed on the show? Well, they did a massive background
- 1:32Speaker 2: check on me and I got a call from one
- 1:34Speaker 2: of the producers saying I needed to delete a post.
- 1:37Speaker 2: They said, oh, this is something you put up and
- 1:39Speaker 2: I panicked because I thought, oh god, I've done so
- 1:41Speaker 2: many ten red wines, you know, three am on Facebook
- 1:45Speaker 2: back in the day, and I was like, what is it?
- 1:46Speaker 2: And I won't say what it was, but I had
- 1:48Speaker 2: to delete something from twenty sixteen.
- 1:50Speaker 4: So if they go that far back, that's what I'm saying, Brooklyn,
- 1:53Speaker 4: If they go that far back on someone like me,
- 1:55Speaker 4: who's just some schmuck, like whatever, why aren't they going
- 1:58Speaker 4: back and finding out that these guys possible have a history,
- 2:01Speaker 4: but it's.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Hard to not like, you can't tell off social media
- 2:03Speaker 1: if if a man is going to do that, can
- 2:05Speaker 1: you have to.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Do a criminal check, police check?
- 2:07Speaker 3: Yep.
- 2:08Speaker 2: So maybe they haven't offended or been caught prior. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 2:11Speaker 2: but shouldn't they be doing like like psychology tests I
- 2:15Speaker 2: do and analyze.
- 2:17Speaker 1: With Brooklyn though you're not going to pick all of
- 2:18Speaker 1: that up. So that this is a big story in
- 2:20Speaker 1: the UK, and even one of the women are saying
- 2:24Speaker 1: that they raised the issue right, So the show was
- 2:27Speaker 1: filmed obviously when it happened, they raised the issue with producers,
- 2:31Speaker 1: yet the show still went to where with them.
- 2:35Speaker 2: That's the issue that's they raised it at the time.
- 2:37Speaker 2: It's like they stayed silent out of fear. And now
- 2:39Speaker 2: the show is like, well, you should have told us.
- 2:41Speaker 2: They did tell them, didn't do their duty of care.
- 2:44Speaker 2: So I'm sure we'll find out more about that.
- 2:47Speaker 1: And only now with this BBC Four Corners thing coming
- 2:50Speaker 1: out that they now the episodes have been pulled from
- 2:54Speaker 1: streaming just now now, and and the women are like, well,
- 2:57Speaker 1: we've been complaining about this since it.
- 2:59Speaker 4: Actually it doesn't say everything about this whole clickbait TV
- 3:03Speaker 4: it's just all about the right to reality again. After that,
- 3:06Speaker 4: I would, but I don't know. If I do well
- 3:08Speaker 4: merritive for a S why not? I don't know. I
- 3:10Speaker 4: just worry about I just I have interviewed nearly every
- 3:13Speaker 4: contestant that's come off those shows, just doing radio as
- 3:15Speaker 4: you guys would have. And they can edit you. You
- 3:19Speaker 4: literally sign a contract. I to sign a contract. We
- 3:22Speaker 4: can depict you however.
- 3:24Speaker 1: We see fit.
- 3:26Speaker 4: Those words are in the contract, yes, Nat, And that
- 3:28Speaker 4: panicked me, and then I went, oh, but I'm a
- 3:31Speaker 4: pretty good human.
- 3:32Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a nod But everyone would think
- 3:34Speaker 1: that though, wouldn't they?
- 3:35Speaker 2: I know.
- 3:35Speaker 4: But then I didn't get a villain at it. I
- 3:37Speaker 4: was lucky because I don't think I have a villain.
- 3:40Speaker 4: I'm a dude, I'm a bogan whatever. But they can
- 3:43Speaker 4: have to be a villain.
- 3:44Speaker 1: It has to be a villain in every show. Even
- 3:46Speaker 1: when you watch a current affair, every story there's a villain.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Builders Yeah, that you could just become that to make
- 3:54Speaker 1: good TV.
- 3:54Speaker 4: But the problem is these people want to be famous
- 3:56Speaker 4: so badly they sign their lives away.
- 3:58Speaker 2: And I'm assuming as well, like every MATHS contestant for example,
- 4:02Speaker 2: has a producer set to them Yeah, so they actually
- 4:04Speaker 2: get in their ear and go, we need you to
- 4:06Speaker 2: do this tonight. And you're in such like a pressure
- 4:08Speaker 2: cookery environment that you feel like pressured into performing in
- 4:11Speaker 2: a way they want you to to get screen time.
- 4:14Speaker 2: They'll convince you it's the right thing to do.
- 4:16Speaker 4: I had a rumor that the Maths producers. This is
- 4:19Speaker 4: only a rumor, totally alleged. I don't know that they
- 4:22Speaker 4: would get cash bonuses if they could get the people
- 4:25Speaker 4: that they were looking after to cry.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Oh oh really that makes sense because it makes good TV.
- 4:30Speaker 4: Doesn't it? Well, it does. Why do you think it's
- 4:31Speaker 4: the highest rating reality TV? Tears means ticks, guys,