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The internal battle to get him on the show.

And the big things that have been left out of his backstory, which will shock you, infuriate you, but also help you make sense of what we're watching now and why we're watching it.

I'm also going to be sharing what his first wife has said in response to her ex-husband's rise to infamy because, well...

She's not happy and she wants the truth out there as well.

And it isn't just you and me, the viewers, who believe that his casting was both irresponsible and dangerous.

And the choice to ultimately cast Tyson has led to people within the Dragon's Den asking themselves...

What is this show that we're now making?

And when did we stop at least pretending that this show was about love?

They've now realized that the real social experiment we're watching, it's seeing how many people this show can rage bait, divide, and then ultimately put in danger as a consequence.

And on that word, danger, this is something I asked the biggest boss of Married at First Sight about as I approached her on the street for any comment or quote for this podcast.

And her response, well, to me, it said everything really.

As usual, guys, in order to tell this story, I must take us back to the very beginning.

Now, Tyson filmed his wedding to Stephanie on August 25th last year.

And as that eventually aired on TV two weeks ago, this is how he was introduced to us viewers.

Now, the thing you guys don't know about Tyson's wedding was...

I'm told that it was never actually meant to happen.

And I'm told that he'd been left on the backup list of potential cast members, the ones they'd spent a long time considering and having back and forth chats with, but ultimately he just proved too controversial internally.

Until two things happened which changed that.

Firstly...

Original groom Mika, who was axed from the show just days after filming his wedding on July 29th last year following a series of claims from his ex-girlfriend, I'm told that bosses had initially storyboarded him to be like this year's fuckboy, one of the male villains.