Another reality show, another protest over editing.
Married at First Sight participant is unhappy over editing and ready to spill all once her contract expires.
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A Married at First Sight participant has taken to social media, speaking out against the “highly edited” show.
Clare Verrall, who simulated a marriage to Jono Pitman, featured in an episode this week in which he walked out on her.
“A HUGE thank you to all my wonderful friends, family & even the extraordinarily large number of amazing strangers who have offered me kind words of support this week. Watching last nights episode was certainly difficult & very confronting,” she wrote on Instagram.
“I’m looking forward to my contract being up in three months time so I can share all that went on, rather than the highly edited versions that are shown during the ‘experiment’! Luckily I had some of my closest friends & Dutchy there for support.”
Earlier this month she told friends on Facebook she believed the show would include a same-sex couple and highlight marriage inequality.
“Firstly, the ‘weddings’ on MAFS are not legally binding marriages,” she wrote.
“However, the reason I ended up accepting (to) do the show was I was told they were very keen to have a gay couple on our season which I was elated by & was what got me across the line agreeing to go ahead with the show.
“If this was a legal wedding there is NO WAY I would have done it.”
Nine’s third season later this year features a gay couple who have already filmed a simulated ‘wedding’ in New Zealand.
Via: News Corp
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8 Responses
You mean she wouldn’t have done the show if it was a real marriage? I’m shocked!!!
Rather than highlighting the need for “marriage equality” this show really just shows how marriage is not something worth the bigots wasting time and energy protecting … from those of us in the “non-hetero” community who would like to have the option to marry as a basic human right!
Fortunately our library protects us from the knuckle-dragging reality programming in Australia
The show at best is fantasy. People who watch this have no life.
I don’t watch this show but that comment is a bit mean – it’s the same as most other reality crap
Hey, I’m living!
The only reason I watch is because it is interesting to see what people to in that situation of a forced marriage. Compared to season 1, only 2 of the 4 couples seem to be realistic. The others are clearly acting and trying to boost their fledgling (read: non existent) reality tv careers.
Of course, it couldn’t be that participants’ social media spoutings are under tight control of the marketing/PR people. Because that would mean that complaints like these are part of the show’s advertising campaign too.
No, it’s much more likely that she’s broken her participation agreement/contract and is about to spill the beans & reveal the ‘truth’ to all the fans of the show in a ‘tell-all’ interview with a (certainly totally-unrelated) magazine…
(Or appear on The Project, which seems to be the current go-to neutral ground to avoid complaints of shameless network self-promotion…)
You mean to tell me that this & other reality shows are edited to reflect specific drama??
I don’t know what to believe in anymore…..