The first Married At First Sight episode for 2023 delivers a huge wedding-day bombshell. But thereโs more to the story than the episode shows.
MAFSโ 10th season kicks off with the wedding of Bronte, an online beauty educator from WA.
Bronte is 28 and has never had โthat big love storyโ.
She tells TV WEEK she felt โso lost, so confusedโ in her early twenties, and was hurt โmany timesโ by men she was dating.
โIโve admitted to letting guys walk all over me because I didnโt know my worth,โ she says.
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Will Bronte find love on Married at First Sight? Or will it end in heartbreak?
(IMAGE: Nine)In recent years, Bronte says, sheโs done all her โhealingโ.
She goes into her MAFS wedding ready to find love, and is thrilled with her groom when she walks up the aisle to meet him.
โThere was instant chemistry,โ she says.
โIt was like there was nobody else in the room. It was everything Iโd hoped for.โ
But at the reception, Bronteโs friend Jess โ who viewers may recognise from another of this yearโs reality shows, The Bachelors โ pulls her aside. Jess has something to tell her about her new husband, and thereโs photographic evidence on Jessโ phone.
โAs soon as I saw what was on that phone, my heart sank,โ Bronte says.
โI could not have been more upset. That sadness quickly turned into anger.โ
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Bride Bronte was gutted by what Jess had to tell her.
(IMAGE: Nine)She says she felt like ending the marriage right there at the reception.
โEvery fibre of my being wanted to leg it,โ she remembers.
โMy mum was crying on my wedding day. She was so devastated for me. I didnโt even get to eat my cake.โ
As furious as she was with her new groom at the reception, Bronte also found herself questioning Jessโ motives in dropping the bombshell the way she did.
โLook, itโs one of those things where I want to believe she did it with pure intentions,โ she says. โBut the fact is, she didnโt have to get miked up to tell me that.โ
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Have the experts gotten this match right?
(IMAGE: Nine)As if the wedding day drama wasnโt huge enough, thereโs more to come.
Not long after the wedding, Bronte finds out something about Jess that makes her view the whole bombshell situation a little differently.
โWe are no longer friends,โ Bronte reveals.