{"id":489622,"date":"2026-03-22T17:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:46:13","slug":"married-at-first-sights-sam-stanton-unleashes-on-chris-robinson-and-reveals-what-really-went-wrong-behind-the-scenes-im-pretty-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489622\/","title":{"rendered":"Married At First Sight’s Sam Stanton unleashes on Chris Robinson and reveals what REALLY went wrong behind the scenes: ‘I’m pretty hurt’"},"content":{"rendered":"

They weren’t the loudest couple on Married At First Sight.<\/p>\n

But behind the scenes, the cracks between intruders Sam Stanton and Chris Robinson were quietly building long before their relationship fell apart.<\/a><\/p>\n

From communication breakdowns to simmering resentment, their connection didn’t explode overnight – it slowly unravelled. And now, Sam, 34, is finally telling his side of the story.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Daily Mail in a raw and unfiltered interview, the groom admitted watching the series back has been ‘frustrating and confronting’ – but it was one unseen moment that left him reeling.<\/p>\n

‘Watching everything back… it really takes me back to how I felt in that moment,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘But the biggest thing sitting with me now is the unseen footage… I’m pretty f***ing hurt by it.’<\/p>\n

\"They \"Pictured: <\/p>\n

They weren’t the loudest couple on MAFS, but the cracks between intruders Sam Stanton and Chris Robinson (both pictured) were quietly building long before their relationship fell apart<\/p>\n

\"Speaking <\/p>\n

Speaking to Daily Mail in a raw and unfiltered interview, the groom admitted watching the series back has been ‘frustrating and confronting’ – but it was one unseen moment that left him reeling<\/p>\n

Sam said he was blindsided after hearing how Chris, 38, allegedly spoke about him behind closed doors – including claims about his finances and living situation that he insists are completely false.<\/p>\n

‘Not only was it nasty – it’s not even true,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘I never once used a coupon in the time we were together\u2026 I actually think I spent more money than him over the experiment.’<\/p>\n

‘I lived with my best friend – not in a share house, dorm room situation like he made it out.’<\/p>\n

He added that even if those claims were true, they should never have been weaponised.<\/p>\n

‘If I did use coupons or lived with more people, that’s not a reason to insult someone anyway,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘That just makes it worse.’<\/p>\n

While Sam admits he’s less surprised now seeing it play out, he said hearing those comments at the time would have changed everything.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"'Watching <\/p>\n

‘Watching everything back\u2026 it really takes me back to how I felt in that moment,’ he said. ‘But the biggest thing sitting with me now is the unseen footage\u2026 I’m pretty f***ing hurt by it’<\/p>\n

\"Sam <\/p>\n

Sam said he was blindsided after hearing how Chris allegedly spoke about him behind closed doors – including claims about his finances and living situation that he insists are completely false. ‘Not only was it nasty – it’s not even true,’ he said<\/p>\n

‘That’s not the Chris that I thought that I knew,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘And that’s not the Chris that I tried to make it work with for another week.’<\/p>\n

‘It makes me really angry watching it back.’<\/p>\n

On screen, the couple appeared relatively stable early on – but Sam said the issues were there from the beginning.<\/p>\n

‘I felt like I was being spoken over quite a lot,’ he revealed.<\/p>\n

‘If you look back at our first commitment ceremony, he talks the whole time.’<\/p>\n

‘I remember saying, ‘Can you let me speak a bit more?’ – and he still spoke over me.’<\/p>\n

According to Sam, that dynamic only intensified, with Chris becoming defensive whenever he tried to raise concerns.<\/p>\n

\"He <\/p>\n

He added that even if those claims were true, they should never have been weaponised. ‘If I did use coupons or lived with more people, that’s not a reason to insult someone anyway,’ he said<\/p>\n

‘The first time I tried to speak up, it just blew up,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘He couldn’t see my side because he was so focused on protecting his image.’<\/p>\n

‘It stopped being about the issue almost immediately.’<\/p>\n

Sam also claimed key moments never made it to air – including what he describes as a pivotal conversation where he felt his concerns were turned back on him.<\/p>\n

‘He said I’d shut him down many times,’ Sam said.<\/p>\n

‘When I asked for examples, he said he didn’t have any.’<\/p>\n

‘You can’t just flip things like that\u2026 that’s gaslighting.’<\/p>\n

He added: ‘He doesn’t take accountability. He just deflects.’<\/p>\n

\"On <\/p>\n

On screen, the couple appeared relatively stable early on – but Sam said the issues were there from the beginning. ‘I felt like I was being spoken over quite a lot,’ he revealed<\/p>\n

Another major fracture in the relationship centred around future plans – particularly where they would live.<\/p>\n

Sam said while he had expressed openness to relocating, it was never a mutual agreement.<\/p>\n

‘I said I was open to moving\u2026 but we never had a conversation that I would move for him,’ he explained.<\/p>\n

‘It became this big plan that we’d never actually discussed together.’<\/p>\n

For Sam, everything shifted at the commitment ceremony when Chris chose to write ‘leave’.<\/p>\n

‘I went in thinking we were both going to write stay and work on things,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘But as soon as I saw him write leave, I was like\u2026 what am I doing here?’<\/p>\n

‘Why have I put so much effort into this?’<\/p>\n

From that point on, he said the emotional connection was gone.<\/p>\n

Unlike some of this season’s most chaotic pairings, Sam and Chris didn’t implode in one dramatic moment.<\/p>\n

Instead, their relationship quietly deteriorated through a series of unresolved issues – miscommunication, defensiveness and emotional imbalance.<\/p>\n

And now, with the experiment behind him, Sam isn’t holding back.<\/p>\n

‘I think I’ve already said too much,’ he joked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They weren’t the loudest couple on Married At First Sight. But behind the scenes, the cracks between intruders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[97,96,51088,7482,391,478,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-489622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-married-at-first-sight-australia","11":"tag-reality-tv","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-tvshowbiz","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}