{"id":494471,"date":"2026-03-25T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494471\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:45:07","slug":"mel-schilling-married-at-first-sights-paul-c-brunson-pays-tribute-to-fearless-and-tough-late-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494471\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Schilling: Married at First Sight&#8217;s Paul C Brunson pays tribute to &#8216;fearless and tough&#8217; late star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before Tuesday&#8217;s show, an E4 announcer said: &#8220;Everyone at Channel 4 is hugely saddened by the news we&#8217;ve lost Mel Schilling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was Mel and her family&#8217;s wish that we carry on showing Married At First Sight and celebrate her mission to help others find love and happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alessandra Rampolla, another coach on the Australian show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWRiFGBlaPm\/?img_index=1\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also posted a tribute, external<\/a>, saying her heart was shattered by the news of Schilling&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel so incredibly grateful for the time we shared last week&#8230; to look you in the eyes, to hold your hand, and to say the things that truly mattered,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is a gift I will carry with me for the rest of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described her as &#8220;so much more than a colleague&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You were a constant, a guiding force, and to me, someone I admired and learned from &#8211; like a big sister, a woman of immense heart, wisdom, and generosity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Tuesday&#8217;s show, an E4 announcer said: &#8220;Everyone at Channel 4 is hugely saddened by the news we&#8217;ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-494471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494471","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=494471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}