In a separate letter, Priya Dogra, chief executive of Channel 4, addressed questions put to the broadcaster by MPs.<\/p>\n
One of those questions was about when Channel 4 first became aware of the allegations made in the Panorama programme.<\/p>\n
In her letter, Dogra said: “Channel 4 was aware of some, but not all, information pertinent to the allegations ultimately raised in the Panorama programme prior to the broadcast of the relevant series of Married at First Sight UK.”<\/p>\n
She added that decisions to broadcast the series were “only made after careful consideration of the contemporaneously available information”.<\/p>\n
MPs also asked Dogra why Channel 4’s initial response to the allegations was “so dismissive”, with the broadcaster calling them “wholly uncorroborated and disputed”.<\/p>\n
“Channel 4 has never been dismissive of the matters raised in the Panorama programme,” Dogra responded, adding that the phrase had been “taken out of context by the BBC”.<\/p>\n
She also insisted the show is produced “under some of the most comprehensive and robust welfare protocols in the industry”.<\/p>\n
Married at First Sight UK – known to many as MAFS – sees single people agree to “marry” total strangers, after meeting for the first time at their mock weddings.<\/p>\n
The marriages are not legally binding, but viewers see the couples go on “honeymoon”, before moving in together and navigating their relationships – all while being filmed, almost every day.<\/p>\n
Following the Panorama programme, the Metropolitan Police urged potential victims of sexual assault on reality TV show Married At First Sight UK to get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a separate letter, Priya Dogra, chief executive of Channel 4, addressed questions put to the broadcaster by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617362","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=617362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}