{"id":135712,"date":"2025-09-11T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135712\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:23:09","slug":"married-at-first-sight-star-lachlan-rofe-dies-suddenly-aged-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135712\/","title":{"rendered":"Married at First Sight star Lachlan Rofe dies suddenly aged 47"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reality TV contestant who appeared on Married at First Sight and Farmer wants a Wife has died suddenly.<\/p>\n

Lachlan Rofe was found dead at home in Camden on the outskirts of Sydney on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The farmer, who was also known as Lachlan McAleer, appeared on the first series of MAFS in 2015.<\/p>\n

\"ClareClare and Lachlan’s wedding day at Dawes Point, Sydney as seen on Married At First Sight Season 1 (Nine)<\/p>\n

The next year he was on another reality show, Farmer wants a Wife.\ufeff<\/p>\n

NSW Police said they were called to Old Razorback Road, Razorback near Camden at 10am on Tuesday after a 47-year-old man was found unresponsive in his home.<\/p>\n

Paramedics tried to save him but he couldn’t be revived.<\/p>\n

Police are investigating and \ufeffa report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n

Another former MAFS contestant Ryan Donnelly said it was “tragic”.<\/p>\n

“I was born in Camden, very sad to lose a local so young RIP,” he wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\"MrRofe appeared on “Married At First Sight” with fellow contestant, Clare Tamas. (9NEWS)<\/p>\n

In 2016 Rofe was ordered not to approach his then-girlfriend within 12 hours of drinking or taking drugs after an alleged incident between the pair.<\/p>\n

In 2017 he was found guilty in Picton Court of assaulting her.<\/p>\n

He launched an appeal after being handed a 12-month good behaviour bond and the charges were overturned.<\/p>\n

Married at First Sight is made by Nine, which owns this website.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Nine has been contacted for comment.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reality TV contestant who appeared on Married at First Sight and Farmer wants a Wife has died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-135712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}