Controversial MAFS groom Alexander hits back at trolls after he dropped ‘wife swap’ confession

MAFS groom Alexander Henry, 28 has hit back at critics who disapprove of his wife swapping comments in the first episode of the E4 show.

A heated exchanged blew up among the contestants when just minutes into the episode, Alex began discussing a potential wife swap.

He said: "I need to be mentally stimulated," he admitted. "What if I am not totally attracted to my wife? And there is another lady I'm attracted to."

He pondered: "You go into this and you have to consider every option, have you not?” But the rest of the group, including the viewers were not keen on this idea and his comments sparked a chorus of criticism on social media.

Taking to X - formerly known as Twitter - one viewer posted "Alex eyeing up everyone else’s wife," along with a crazy eye animated GIF.

Another remarked: "Oh this guy said he would do a wife swap already like w**."

But now Alex has taken a stand against the online backlash, but admitting that he was just raising a possibility. He said: “Bro, I just asked a question and now everyone’s triggered, I didn’t say I was gonna do that s***.”

This is not the first time that ex-RAF man Alex has plunged the show into chaos, after it transpired that he had been jailed when he abandoned the RAF without permission to appear on the show.

Alex Henry abandoned his post at an electronic warfare base to try to find love and fame on Channel 4’s dating show.

He was seized by military police when he returned and was sentenced to 34 days in a military prison.

Henry, 28, served 24 days before being sacked.

The Air Specialist had asked his commander at RAF Spadeadam, Cumbria, for extra leave last winter to take part in the TV show.

It was refused but Birmingham-born Henry went anyway.

Henry’s spokesman said: “He returned after filming of his own volition and handed himself into the military authorities.

“He was sentenced to 34 days in a military prison and served 24 as a model inmate.”

This month we also revealed how Henry was accused of abuse after C4 shared his promo reel, with one woman branding him a “dangerous individual”.

The RAF refused to comment.

Indeed when his promo video was shared online by E4 ahead of the new series, one viewer labelled him a ‘dangerous individual.”

A group of women have clubbed together to petition Channel 4 to reconsider airing scenes including the personal trainer from Birmingham, and even reached out to Married At First Sight UK's celebrity dating expert Mel Schilling.

They say they have presented evidence of their allegations to Channel 4.

Despite acknowledging the claims, Channel 4 has confirmed Alex will remain in the edit.

And an expert has now shared their thoughts, at the Married At First Sight launch event, ahead of the brand new series.

Dating expert Charlene Douglas, who appears on the show alongside Mel Schilling and Paul C. Brunson, said:

“We knew this was going to come up today, I think it’s really important that we can focus on all the positive things that’s going on with Married At First Sight.

I think Channel 4 have released a statement that we do take safeguarding really seriously and it is really important for us."