After the investigation aired Channel 4 removed all episodes of MAFS UK.<\/p>\n
Shona Manderson, a contestant who appeared on the 2023 series, was among those who spoke to the BBC.<\/p>\n
Manderson alleged her on-screen partner Bradley Skelly committed a non-consensual sex act.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was shocked, I was confused, we said we weren\u2019t doing that,\u201d she told the BBC.<\/p>\n
About a week after leaving MAFS, Manderson discovered she was pregnant, although she didn\u2019t know if it was Skelly\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Skelly and Manderson stayed together for six weeks after leaving the show before separating. <\/p>\n
CPL, the production company behind the show, and Channel 4 decided to remove the couple from the show shortly after the incident, amid concerns the relationship was potentially unhealthy, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n
Skelly told the BBC he categorically denied \u201cany allegations of sexual misconduct\u201d or that he was \u201ccontrolling\u201d.<\/p>\n
Shona Manderson appeared on the 2023 series of Married at First Sight UK. Photo \/ CPL Productions<\/p>\n
Another woman, known as Lizzie to protect her anonymity, alleged her on-screen husband raped her during the taping of the show.<\/p>\n
She said her on-screen husband would at times \u201cjust explode\u201d and go into an \u201cabsolute focused anger\u201d, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n
She said she \u201cfroze with fear\u201d during the alleged rape, which left visible fingerprints where he had grabbed her.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said that if I told anybody what had happened, that he would get someone to throw acid at me,\u201d Lizzie told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for Lizzie\u2019s on-screen husband denied all claims against him.<\/p>\n
A third woman, known as Chloe, engaged in consensual sex with her on-screen husband, but on one occasion he had started to have sex with her even after she said no.<\/p>\n
The man continued before recognising she was not participating and stopped.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for CPL said its welfare protocols were \u201cgold standard\u201d.<\/p>\n
On the show, couples discuss their \u201cmarriages\u201d with relationship experts. CPL told the BBC experts carry out psychological checks on contributors, and provide oversight by a welfare team and offer access to psychologists and ongoing support.<\/p>\n
In a statement regarding an external review of MAFS, Channel 4\u2019s chief executive, Priya Dogra, expressed her sympathy to contributors \u201cwho have clearly been distressed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen concerns about contributor welfare were raised, and based on the information available at the time, Channel 4 acted quickly, appropriately, sensitively and with wellbeing front and centre,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the investigation aired Channel 4 removed all episodes of MAFS UK. Shona Manderson, a contestant who appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[74,26676,1763,17704,1975,45456,1968,58276,156,16863,1888,9610,111,139,69,34458,31530,17703,18916,1961,437,1613,1455],"class_list":["post-434096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-after","tag-allegations","tag-article","tag-assault","tag-at","tag-channel","tag-discusses","tag-emerge","tag-entertainment","tag-episodes","tag-first","tag-married","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rape","tag-removes","tag-sexual","tag-sight","tag-this","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434096","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=434096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}