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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome back to the Maths Funny Podcast and today guys I have an update on the situation in the UK, what that means for the future of our Australian season and what's now happening with the upcoming second Marriage at First Sight spin-off series which I've briefly mentioned on here before where former UK brides and grooms and former Australian brides and grooms were going to come together and get matched with new people.
Is that still happening? I've got the answers.
Chapter 2: Is Married at First Sight UK getting cancelled?
Firstly, is Married at First Sight UK getting cancelled? As of right now, no, it is not, and there is currently no plans for this to happen. Following everything I discussed in the last episode on here, where two anonymous former brides from the UK version of the show came forward, claiming they were raped by their on-screen husbands while filming the show,
and a third bride then claimed she was the victim of a non-consensual sexual act, which her husband has since denied. The boss of the network, which airs Married at First Sight UK over there, Channel 4, she has now spoken out publicly about all of this.
Priya Dogra, that's her name, she only recently became the boss of the network, and she wasn't in the role over there when these alleged incidents occurred. But a few days ago now, she said this.
Priya then addressed the speculation that the show over there has been cancelled, and she said this was wholly inaccurate, but she has now commissioned an external review into the welfare of the show over there, and any decision... about the future of Maths UK will be made after this investigation has been concluded.
When Priya was then asked why all previous seasons of Married at First Sight UK have been pulled from streaming services, she said this was done to prevent people going back and essentially watching every past season trying to figure out which brides may have made these claims against their husbands. She also added that the network will not be individually investigating those incidents.
And I quote her here when she said, And it is worth pointing out here briefly, just because that quote from her does read a bit off, that the brides who have come out and claimed they were raped, they have not reported this to the police. That's their choice. So when the boss of the network is saying, aren't going to investigate them because we're a broadcaster, not an adjudicator.
I kind of get that because if they were to be investigated, it would be by the police. Going on to discuss the network's investigation into the welfare a little more in depth, Priya added that, So now you've heard what she said. What I suspect will happen is they'll take a few months to, again, just look at how the show is made, everything they do behind the scenes. They'll make some changes.
They'll bring in more safety measures during filming. Maybe they'll follow some of the ideas I said in the previous episode about like
cast members the default being that they don't share a room until they choose to share a room whereas previously it's always been they're pushed together to share a room from day one until one of them says hey I want my own room you know what I mean like reversing it so there's not that pressure to be alone and sharing a bed literally hours after meeting on their wedding day
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Chapter 3: What did the network boss say about the allegations?
They want to watch the show. You don't have to keep trying to one-up yourself and go harder and harder and harder to the detriment of the people on the show.
Sorry, I've kind of not really got a script here today. So I'm just going to round off this part of the podcast by saying, again, the idea of the show being cancelled all around the world is unrealistic and extreme, especially when you factor in how the show does make millions and how networks will do anything to protect an asset with such commercial value.
But I do believe and hope that some kind of positive change behind the scenes will could come from all these voices across the different countries right now speaking out like they are. And with that united goal of them saying, hey, production companies out there, like, listen to us, do better.
And lastly, to round off today's little podcast, for those wondering what's going to happen with the second Married at First Sight spin-off series, I've done some digging, spoke to a few people, and it is currently still in pre-production in the UK, and it's meant to start filming in the UK in August. It will be produced by the Maths UK production company, but it's been produced, like, not...
as a season of Married at First Sight. It's almost being looked at as a whole new show, which is why they could be like, yeah, we're investigating what happens on set of Married at First Sight UK, but this isn't Married at First Sight UK. This is Second Marriage at First Sight, which is kind of dumb. But yeah, as far as I'm told, it is still going to start filming in August.
Filming is going to last for eight weeks. with the last week or two of the eight-week period being here in Australia. And yes, it will feature former Australian cast members and a few former UK cast members, and they will be matched with regular people who have never been on the show before. So it's not going to be like one of our former maths grooms matched with a former maths UK bride.
No, every former participant, I'm told, is going to be matched with a new cast.
regular random person the season will also be like a mini one it won't be as long as the regular seasons and a moment ago when I said they will be filming the last part of the season here in Australia that's because I'm told instead of like the usual homestay they'll be doing a country stay where the Aussies bring their new partners over here because I'm told at least like the twist on this season is going to be spoiler alert stop listening now if you don't want to know but apparently
all our former Aussie cast members are going to be matched with only UK people. And all our regular Aussie applicants who are applying right now and going through that process, they're going to be matched with the former UK bride's And grooms.
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