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In a statement, the company said that we became aware of Katie's claims through media reports in the autumn of 2017 and immediately contacted her to launch an investigation.

Since then, Katie has gone on to study law and launched OWL, which is a foundation to promote safety in the creative industries.

How have you processed the allegations coming out of Married at First Sight UK?

Katie, if someone young came to you now and said, I want to go on a reality TV show, what would you tell them?

What would you say?

Coming up, it's a global franchise, but will Married at First Sight keep going?

Actually, when you have looked into this world and you've looked at a lot of reality TV shows, do you see a pattern in terms of how contributors are treated when things are going wrong?

But it's not even formats that have a romantic element that have faced sort of, you know, historic scandal and, you know, abuse.

And I'm thinking specifically of the Jade Goody Shilpa Shetty racial abuse incident or, you know, X Factor's Lucy Spraggan who was raped and told producers and it was then said that she was ill and that was the reason why she wasn't on the show.

Us as an audience were told it was due to illness and of course it wasn't.

I know you've said you're very cynical about this, but there have been these moments of reckoning over the last couple of decades.

We've talked about the two Love Island contestants who took their own lives after appearing on the show, which felt like a moment in which things might change, the show might change, or future reality shows might have taken lessons on not just how to treat contestants or contributors as they are on the shows themselves, but the care they need after it's all ended.

I'm not a woman.

I was born as a man.

In light of all of this, where do you think the format goes next?

I mean, is it possible that Married at First Sight will just continue in the territories it's in?

Reality and Reality TV.

Shirin, thank you so much for your time.

Thanks for having me.

That was The Guardian's investigations reporter Shirin Kale and Katie Weisel, a campaigner for safety in television.