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Married At First Sight fix row as fans spot major change to ‘set up wife swap storyline’
MARRIED At First Sight is involved in another fix row after fans spotted a major change to ‘set up wife swap storyline’.
During last night's instalment of the E4 show, the three couples finally got to meet the rest of their co-stars at their first dinner party.
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Hannah and Stephen, Amy and Luke and Sionainn and Ryan entered the experiment earlier this week.
Before meeting the gang, Hannah and Stephen knocked on Holly and Alex's apartment door to say hello - which has never actually been done before on the programme.
As Alex opened the door, the pair announced: "We're your new neighbours!"
Holly said of the group: "Everyone is just dead friendly, dead bubbly. Dead welcoming. "
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"I'm so glad," Hannah replied.
"Ours (marriage) has been a bit of a roller coaster.
"Our wedding was incredible but we clash hard and we're still not back on track."
Holly was keen to know if the newbies were going to attend the party, and Stephen confessed: "We're ready for people."
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Hannah added: "A bit of different interaction."
Alex asked what they did for work, to which Hannah said she works in fitness - and then told him that he "clearly goes to the gym".
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Despite the positive conversation, Holly didn't seem impressed.
She said: "That was crazy! She's nice and that but I don't know if there is going to be clashes in the group..."
Alex confessed to the camera: "The new couple coming in might rock the boar a bit and turn a few heads.
"Who wants to live a boring life anyway?"
Many viewers took to social media to say the same thing about the encounter.
Mafs couples that have stood the test of time
Loved-up Tayah Victoria and Adam Aveling of series six fame had the first Mafs baby.
The pair couldn't keep their hands off each other on the programme and quickly found their feet in the outside world, moving into Adam's Doncaster home.
Just 18 months after meeting, the couple welcomed their daughter Beau.
Season five couple Michelle Walder and Owen Jenkins also managed to make their marriage work away from the cameras and had their first child in December.
Teacher Michelle, 29, has no regrets about taking part in the experiment. She told us: “I just feel very lucky and thankful that it has worked out - and excited for everything to come.”
Michelle and Owen were both sick of dating apps when they applied in 2019.
Owen recalled: “I had been out for some drinks with a friend after work.
"While he was out for a cigarette I was scrolling on Instagram waiting for him to come back in.
“The MAFS advert was the last thing I saw, and I joked, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if I signed up?’
“A few beers later when I was back at home I sent in the application, and the rest is history.”
Another couple to make Mafs UK history is Zoe Clifton and Jenna Robinson.
Despite a slight rocky start, where they clashed over Jenna's vegan lifestyle, the show's first same sex pairing are still going strong.
They even have a successful podcast together called Life With a Pod.
Jenna shed light on being involved in the show earlier this year when she told us: "We're not legally married, and I never felt like we were. I definitely feel the process makes you take the relationship a lot more seriously and having the help of the experts… if you can survive that process it sets a firm foundation for a long-lasting relationship."
One wrote: "How come they let these couples meet before the Dinner Party? I don’t think they’ve ever done that before. Weird.#MAFSUK."
Another added: "I thought the same thing this is definitely a set up for some reason or another…. She’s guna bump into him in the gym (we’ve seen that allllll before) and they will bond over leg curls."
"Felt a bit scripted. Designed to cause trouble," a third chimed in.
A fourth pointed out: "Wife swap incoming ….."
A fifth tweeted: "So staged."
Later on in the episode, Holly got upset when she saw her husband Alex getting chatty with newbie Amy.
She got up and walked away from everyone, and Alex only realised until Amy pointed it out to him.
He thought that she was overreacting and didn't want to talk about it in front of everyone.
Viewers will know that at the start of the experiment Alex opened up about his views on wife swapping.
During the stag do, he confessed he would be open to do so if he wasn't happy with who he was paired with.
He said: "I need to be mentally stimulated. What if I am not totally attracted to my wife? And there is another lady I'm attracted to."
He then continued: "You go into this and you have to consider every option, have you not?”
The group were shocked by his comments.
When Holly found out about his comments she confronted him in front of the group at the dinner table.
The action then jumps ahead to the couples sat around the dinner table, where Holly yells at Alex: "I'm not coping with someone who is so f***ing disrespectful. Never would a man be around my kids who speaks like that."
As Alex scowls, the other couples look on in horror.
"Let me tell ya, Let me f***ing tell ya," Holly continues as she gets up from the table.
The action then jumps ahead to the couples sat around the dinner table, where Holly yells at Alex: "I'm not coping with someone who is so f***ing disrespectful. Never would a man be around my kids who speaks like that."
As Alex scowls, the other couples look on in horror.
"Let me tell ya, Let me f***ing tell ya," Holly continues as she gets up from the table.
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