It’s the reality show that’s taken its viewers on a rollercoaster ride of emotion since January.
And things appear to be getting heated off-screen between the cast of Married At First Sight, as reports have emerged that show producers have been forced to separate the cast and boost security.
According to an ‘insider’ quoted in NW on Monday, Channel Nine bosses are nervous there might be a little biff.
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‘There have been threats of violence between the boys with all the wife-swapping that happened,’ the insider told the publication.
‘Some of the cast were gunning so hard for a punch up that production had to intervene by pleading with one groom over text to take it easy.
The magazine claims that security on the show has been ‘massively boosted.’
‘There have been threats of violence between the boys”: An insider says that producers are fearful things could get heated between the cast
It comes after ‘alpha male’ Dean was dumped by his TV ‘wife’ Tracey Jewel on Sunday.
In an interview with The Fix the following day Dean said that he had gone into the ceremony with high hopes.
‘I was really confident until she turned around and said: ‘You don’t deserve me,’ he confessed.
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‘As soon as those words came out of her mouth, I was like: ‘What’s going on here? I wasn’t expecting that at all.”’
The crestfallen rapper added that Tracey even tried to call him after she broke the news, but he was too heartbroken to pick up.
‘On the way back to the hotel, Tracey had messaged me and tried to call me, but I just didn’t really feel like talking to her at that point, so I didn’t answer the call for a few hours after that,’ he said.
Taken aback; ‘I was really confident until she turned around and said: ‘you don’t deserve me,’ he said ‘As soon as those words came out of her mouth, I was like: ‘what’s going on here? I wasn’t expecting that at all”’
Admitting that the pair had since ‘reconciled’ and decided to remain friends, Dean also revealed: ‘We didn’t talk for a while after that, but we did talk later that night.’
The forlorn creative director added that not only was he heartbroken by Tracey, he also felt ‘cast-off’ by the show’s crew as soon as Tracey broke the news.
‘Not long after that [the crew] were just kinda like: ‘Oh well, that’s it, Dean. see ya later,’and I got put into a car and was driven off to my hotel.’
Busted rhymes: The crestfallen rapper added that Tracey even tried to call him after she broke the news, but he was too heartbroken to pick up
Admitting that she could not overcome Dean’s ‘infidelity’ with series villain Davina Rankin, Tracey gave him his marching orders on Sunday.
‘I’m so sorry, Dean. But I have too many doubts to trust you,’ Tracey said to her betrothed.
‘I want to believe you have truly changed and we have so much murky water under the bridge between us…I just can’t continue this relationship with you.’
Too soon: ‘On the way back to the hotel, Tracey had messaged me and tried to call me, but I just didn’t really feel like talking to her at that point, so i didn’t answer the call for a few hours after that,’ he said.