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MAFS fame went to my husband’s head – he put me through months of hell until fan’s Valentine’s Day bombshell, says Peggy
In our exclusive video interview, Peggy Rose reveals behind-the-scenes Married at First Sight secrets
THEY seemed to be one of the very few success stories from last year’s Married At First Sight.
Peggy Rose even thought she and Georges Bert would “outlast” Tasha Jay and Paul Liba - the only couple still together from their series.
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But as soon as MAFS finished airing, Georges broke it off.
Now, Peggy claims she later found out he’d cheated on her through a message on Valentine’s Day - allegations he denies.
In an exclusive interview, Peggy, 33, opens up about their break-up, revealing she “went through hell” in the months afterwards.
Alarms started ringing in December, a few weeks after the final episode of MAFS aired.
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She tells us: “Boys like attention, especially when boys haven't had the attention before. I feel they get a bit big headed and like, ‘I'm in demand.’
“He even said to me on the show that he's been sexually desired by all his ex-girlfriends. Who says that?
“That's the sort of person who he was.
“Then he started acting really weird around Christmas, and I thought ‘I’ve got to follow my gut now.’”
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But she still stayed with Georges, and went to Paris with him for her birthday at the beginning of January.
She continues: “Bear in mind he’s always said he's very sexual and things like that, it wasn't right.
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“I was like 'I'm having to put in a lot of effort here. It doesn't feel the same. Something's happened.'"
"Then at the end of January he said he wasn't happy, but he didn't want to go public with our break-up because he didn't want to deal with the public opinions and the attention because he would be heartbroken.
“I was thinking, ‘Hold on, you're the one that's heartbroken when you broke up with me?'
"'You don't want to tell people because you can't deal with it.’ But I was just like, ‘Yeah, that's absolutely fine.’”
Valentine's Day bombshell
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Peggy and Georges agreed to issue a joint statement to inform fans they had ended their relationship.
But Peggy then went ahead and told her followers on Valentine’s Day, when a girl messaged her with pictures and video evidence of Georges on two dates in December with another girl.
She says: “When you are in the public eye, you can't get away with anything. You can't cheat on someone and expect to get away with it.
“You can't talk to another girl without people seeing it.
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"If anything happens off camera, they will make you do it on camera. If they film 95% of you, only 5% of that is going to get shown, and they don't actually show everything, because it'd be impossible to fit into an hour. They film literally all of your conversations. But obviously, what happens behind closed doors? They don't. You rarely get time to mingle with the others off camera, and that's why they keep you all separated, so that when you do talk, it's all captured, because otherwise things just don't make sense, and they have to re-record stuff."
"You don't have your phone. So the morning of my wedding when I was getting ready with my mum, they take your phone, and then you're officially in the process. So then it's like being locked in a cage, like, right, this is it, now, there's no escape. You can request your phone, but they will watch you whilst you're on your phone to make sure you're not telling people where you're filming and you're not telling people about who you're paired with. At that stage in the process, it should be only the family that knows about it."
“I was heartbroken. I remember crying my eyes out.
“I feel like I trusted my gut in the show, which is a bit hard because I did put Georges before my family, and despite my family's concerns about Georges, I did go with my gut.
“And to be fair, my family ended up loving Georges, which is hard because they trusted him too.
"So I do feel like I kind of let down my family, but at the end of the day, it was my decision, my mistakes, and I made my bed, so I've got to lay in it.”
'Normal' new man
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Peggy now thinks that Georges breaking up with her was the “best thing that’s ever happened,” as she’s dating a new man, who she met on a night out, and she loves that he’s not a celebrity.
“I am quite a private person,” she adds. “Yeah, I put my life on TV but I didn't do it for the fame. I didn't do it for people to know everything about my life.
“I did it for love, because I do want love. My brother's happily married. My mum and dad have a great relationship.
“Despite my dad being a bit how he is, my mum puts up with it, and you do think I want that, and that's why I did it, because I wanted that for myself, not for anyone else.
“And I guess that's the hard bit.
“But no, this person isn't in the public eye. He's just a normal guy, he's not a millionaire.”
Another tick for Peggy’s new fella is that he wants a family - something Georges never wanted.
She continues: “I want someone that wants children as well. Georges didn't want children, and it's hard for me, because I do want a family, but you‘ve got to compromise in any relationship.
“And I was willing to stay with Georges, even though he said he didn't want kids and kids are a big thing for me. So, yeah, I'm seeing him at the moment.
“I just hope he's the one.”
Hard to trust men
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Peggy is refusing to make it official with this man - who’s not in the public eye - until he asks her to be his girlfriend.
She says: “I feel like that's gone nowadays. It's like, you go on a couple dates, they just assume it's exclusive, and yet they can probably still go out and cheat and do whatever they want.
“You need to be faithful, to be loyal.
“Until there's a name on our relationship, whatever it is, I'm going to keep my options open and just trust my gut, because I think that's all you can do.”
Peggy also confesses that she finds it hard to trust people, especially after Georges allegedly cheated on her.
She explains: “I didn't think Georges would do what he's done, and that surprised me.
“It made me think, ‘Well, if I publicly said that I'm gonna trust this person, and I put my all into it, put my life on the line for him, and he's done that, how can I trust anyone else that isn't in the public eye?’”
With this new man not being used to having his life plastered all over social media, Peggy admits she does find it hard that he knows she went on MAFS - but she’s trying not to let it get to her.
She says: “Obviously I've married a stranger, and I get that that must be upsetting. But the thing is, when you're with someone, you need to take them for who they are, and the past is the past. “I'm not asking him how many girls he slept with, or anything like that. I'm not asking the intrusive questions, because I'm taking him at face value.
“And I mean, so far so good, but my trust with men is just diminished, like it's so hard.
“But I need to trust someone, or I'm going to be single for the rest of my life. It'll just be me and my dog.
“I do feel hopeful about this relationship, and I'm just trying to trust him.”
Wedding on the cards?
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In fact, Peggy is even thinking about getting married again, already.
“I honestly thought my wedding with Georges would be the only wedding,” she says. “It was always Georges that said to me, ‘no, we're gonna do it properly again.’
“And I was like, ‘No, we don't need to. Let's just have kids’ and then I thought, ‘no, do you know what? If he wants to get married again, we will.’
“And then, obviously, when we broke up, I was like, that's it, I'm done, I'm never getting married again. I'm finished.
“But I would love to get married again. I haven't lost hope in getting married again.”
However it’s not going to be the lavish fairytale wedding Peggy had with Georges on MAFS.
She finishes: “At my age, when I know the person's right, I don't think I want to hang around and plan the wedding for two years.
“I wouldn't mind if it's just a close-knit wedding with our nearest and dearest and then focus on house and kids. But I want to make sure we’re financially set up as a couple before I do have babies.”
The Sun reached out to Georges for comment, who denied being unfaithful to Peggy.
He said: “I never cheated on her, it was her actions that pushed me away - the actions we all saw on the show; gaslighting, manipulation, constantly putting me down.
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“I received messages during our time together that she was buying Christmas presents for her ex-boyfriend and hand delivering them, so Peggy should stop playing that card. Especially when I didn’t cheat.”
He added: “It’s boring now. This isn’t a thing so, Peggy, stop talking about me.”
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