{"id":16049,"date":"2025-09-11T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16049\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:09:14","slug":"lachlan-rofe-original-married-at-first-sight-cast-member-dies-aged-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16049\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachlan Rofe: Original Married At First Sight cast member dies aged 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Original Married At First Sight cast member Lachlan Rofe has died aged 47.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Rofe appeared on the reality series in 2015, paired with Clare Tamas on the TV dating show, and was cast on Farmer Wants A Wife in 2016 where he met girlfriend Belinda Reid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Also known as Lachlan McAleer, he and Ms Reid split before the show\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The cattle farmer\u2019s death was confirmed by loved ones earlier this week, according to <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-15087179\/MAFS-star-Lachlan-Rofe-dies.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb\">Daily Mail<\/a>, with the cause of death yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Unable to escape controversy off-screen, Rofe was found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend Kasey Williams in 2017, but later had the charges dropped after appealing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Ms Claimed claimed she was attacked by Rofe in front of her two-year-old daughter at his Sydney property in late 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/43dfe12e8396849e99074248687657dc8efb5775.jpg\" alt=\"Lachlan Rofe spoke to 7NEWS in 2018 about his wrongful conviction.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconLachlan Rofe spoke to 7NEWS in 2018 about his wrongful conviction. Credit: 7NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Rofe spoke to 7NEWS in 2018 following the charges, saying he was afraid to begin a new relationship, and hoped to repair his reputation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI\u2019m too scared to even go see women \u2018cos I just feel with everything that\u2019s happened, I just feel like I\u2019m a target,\u201d he told 7NEWS at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Original Married At First Sight cast member Lachlan Rofe has died aged 47. Rofe appeared on the reality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,14991,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-16049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-influencers","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}