Tahlia Pritchard

You've been busy filming some other projects as well.

What can you share about those?

Right now, let's start selling some shows.

Fingers crossed.

Can't wait to check that out.

Excited for the new season of MKR, but appreciate you coming on the podcast, Colin.

Often known as Australia's most wholesome dating show, Farm Once a Wife is also one of the most successful reality TV shows in Australia, producing 11 marriages, 7 long-term relationships and 27 children since it premiered in 2007.

sweet effort in terms of money from going on the show and obviously it's all out of your own pocket by the end you're so emotionally drained that you just want to cry because you're so tired so that was ellen who was on farmer todd's farm last year now admittedly the two of us haven't been as well versed in farm wants a wife as we have other reality shows but this year we're both covering it for our respective workplaces so we've got our finger on the pulse

Which is pretty brutal.

So through my investigative slash stalking skills, I ended up getting in contact with Ellen and we wanted to ask her the questions that fans have always wanted to know about the reality show.

We learned a lot about Farmer Wants a Wife and its secret scandals, and some would even say that it makes maths look relatively sane.

One thing that stood out to me was the pretty horrendous pay conditions that the Farmer Wants a Wife participants have to agree on.

So contestants are paid $80 a day, and 40% of that is withheld until the show finishes airing on TV, basically to prevent them from speaking out.

Although it's been a year since Ellen was on the show, so she's allowed to speak as freely as she wants.

For context, though, mass participants are paid $150 a day.

So that's almost double Farm Once a Wife contestants.

Here's what Ellen had to say about that.

Now, I've heard from a few sources that there are women who quit their jobs to go and farm once a wife, which personally I think is a terrible decision considering some people don't even make it past the speed dates in episode one.

But Ellen said that not only are you not making much money for going on the show, but you also have to pay for a few things you might not expect.

Speaking of maths, it's pretty well known that Married at First Sight producers can be intense, especially how they grill participants on their show in their interviews and they sneakily ask certain questions hoping to get an answer or bring participants to tears.