The UK version of Married At First Sight UK has been cancelled after explosive rape allegations rocked the highly popular series.<\/p>\n
The show\u2019s cancellation comes after a BBC Panorama investigation in which two of the female contestants claimed they were raped.<\/p>\n
The show, created by production company CLP, was aired on Channel 4 – who launched an external review following the Panorama episode.<\/p>\n
In the Panorama show, one woman alleged she was raped by her onscreen husband and threatened with an acid attack.<\/p>\n
The other alleged she was raped by her onscreen husband and then complained to Channel 4 and production company CLP. Despite her allegations, her episodes were still aired.<\/p>\n
A third woman accused her onscreen husband of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n
One man was arrested after the Panorama show aired but was released on bail while investigations continue, according to the Met Police.<\/p>\n
The men have all denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
Channel 4, chief executive Priya Dogra, said on Thursday that the show\u2019s budget would be redirected into new programming.<\/p>\n
She also apologised to the women who had complained for the \u201cdistress they have clearly felt\u201d.<\/p>\n
The women said they felt the duty of care around the show fell short.<\/p>\n
Channel 4 launched an external review which found that CLP did have Ofcom-compliant safeguarding processes but had fallen short of them.<\/p>\n
UK media watchdog Ofcom has also launched an investigation into the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK version of Married At First Sight UK has been cancelled after explosive rape allegations rocked the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[469946,376914,28327,521342,521350,521359,380545,64,63,17192,32140,30112,521344,20294,134,521358,521345,480274,521352,521346,42299,37689,245576,178572,521353,521348,389853,521351,327521,521338,55903,521357,2349,521354,521340,495152,521349,521356,521347,521339,521341,378595,60939,459830,380136,521355,521343,9357,521337],"class_list":["post-953734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-s-budget","tag-s-cancellation","tag-28327","tag-a-bbc-panorama-investigation","tag-an-acid-attack-the-other","tag-an-external-review","tag-an-investigation","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bail","tag-care","tag-channel-4","tag-chief-executive-priya-dogra","tag-clp","tag-entertainment","tag-explosive-rape-allegations","tag-first-sight-uk","tag-her-allegations","tag-her-episodes","tag-her-onscreen-husband","tag-investigations","tag-mafs","tag-mafs-uk","tag-married","tag-new-programming-she","tag-ofcom-compliant-safeguarding-processes","tag-one-woman","tag-production-company-clp","tag-rape-allegations","tag-sexual-misconduct-one-man","tag-short","tag-short-channel-4","tag-show","tag-the-distress","tag-the-allegations-channel","tag-the-duty","tag-the-female-contestants","tag-the-highly-popular-series","tag-the-met-police-the-men","tag-the-panorama-episode-in","tag-the-panorama-show","tag-the-series","tag-the-show","tag-the-uk-version","tag-the-women","tag-them-uk-media-watchdog-ofcom","tag-third-woman","tag-thursday","tag-two-female-cast-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953734","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=953734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}