{"id":479254,"date":"2026-06-16T00:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479254\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:55:07","slug":"married-at-first-sight-australia-allegations-disturbing-says-countrys-watchdog-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479254\/","title":{"rendered":"Married at First Sight Australia allegations &#039;disturbing&#039;, says country&#039;s watchdog &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5rZWhXdkNPT29xY05mS2piRXNkdTVwZldVVmZMRU1kMFdySURtbUM0c3Rlb3BFR0FfT2lDRlFpOG5fX3U3TDZILUtxNmxuSnJTUjkteEpxSHduZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Married at First Sight Australia allegations &#8216;disturbing&#8217;, says country&#8217;s watchdog<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxOekxpWmZOdXc0OERfUUNhYThsSnhiT2pydXR1UkJlcUdtS1pWOUUzb0N5OUU1T3F4TGwzMUQ5X0ZvalhfQzBGU1JtTTBxNkxseTNfbDdhNUZmM2loWmJrV19CU3l3Y0NleG5GY2g3aU1CaFZmelZ5ekpKM3RweFRITVo1cDhiV1R0a3Nyem1WbFJvVEdieDdRb3psTjN6dU05RU1lSF96UWU1TGNJaXZBYTFXelhPZXFfWVBQcGRwYUNNdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MAFS Australia contestants claim they weren\u2019t told about partners\u2019 criminal pasts<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi3wFBVV95cUxNNmRvZEo4WUxuMTFJNVY1aGNEc2dXbjFXZlBoeHBJaENxVjVXbzQ2NkNjRE9DdGtybmFBR1RmaDhZQXZURXh4bzEtb1BEUDE4YmdyVTQ1LXZUTmRKQzBNeU02VGhYbEdNVmhnaVp6WHdOYTdvMnFlazNyRGIxc2wwMVJsWW1ydTZybE1tX1JUc2ZfSzdDYWNkRV9sNWlVeHA1Y1J2QVlySGFYMDNHdUxxb2JqTDNudUM4REp1TnJ0eDllS0pTdHlYSEVlc1Flemt5TVlsdjVIYzZfUm12X0E0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Brides are not safe&#8217;: MAFS stars say they were matched with grooms who had criminal convictions<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFA4amdxWk9Rb1dmRTRwbTN0SVlKY1dqZTdkcjVxRVVZVjNjd3lhNFNCZGRVa0J4MzZad0lyN3lpZnVILTV2OWhsZ1BlY3lRZWJhcDRGT01KT0VLdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Married at First Sight Australia stars not told partners had drug and violence convictions<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Married at First Sight Australia allegations &#8216;disturbing&#8217;, says country&#8217;s watchdog&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCMAFS Australia contestants claim they weren\u2019t told about partners\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-479254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479254","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=479254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}