Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What allegations have been made against MAFS UK?
It's now a global juggernaut. The premise is that strangers are matched by relationship experts with an eligible partner. They meet for the first time in a pseudo wedding setting when they walk down the aisle. It's styled as a wedding ceremony, but it is not a legally binding marriage by any means.
I hope not.
So they're not legally married, but the show's premise is basically a marriage or an experiment of a marriage. You hear it called an experiment. thousands of times during the actual series. But from the wedding, these contestants go on a honeymoon, they move in together and they basically navigate a new relationship all while being filmed mostly every day.
In the UK specifically, Maths There has been running for 10 seasons and that show airs on Channel 4, which is a publicly owned commercial broadcaster in the UK. The Australian version, listeners will know, is on Channel 9. It's been going for 13 seasons here. But really interestingly, the Aussie version of maths is super popular in the UK. So UK audiences love maths from all over the world.
They love Aussie maths and they're very keen on Maths UK. The UK loves Australian shows. There's something about the way we produce TV here that just it's received well. It just hits well. Before we move on, can I ask, are you a maths watcher? I watched the early seasons of Maths. So it's been going for 13 years here.
I watched maybe the first five seasons semi-religiously, but then I got quite bored of it and it just got so sensationalized, which we'll unpack a little bit later. But yeah, it's for me, it was a bit like drag race. Like I needed to take a break. Okay. That's important context. We do have these claims that have come against the UK version of the show this week that
How did we find out about them and what's actually being alleged? So these allegations aired on Panorama. That is a long-running current affairs and investigation program on the BBC. It's kind of like the BBC's version of Four Corners that we have here on the ABC.
Now, they published an investigation by a BBC reporter whose name is Noor Nanji, and she investigated the UK version of maths and found allegations from three women who who appeared on the show at different times and all said that they were subjected to sexual violence by their on-screen partners, by their so-called husbands during filming.
Two of those three women have chosen to remain anonymous. They told the BBC both separately that they were raped by their on-screen partners during filming. And a third woman who's come forward, she has agreed to be publicly named. Shona Manderson appeared on the show in 2023. And she alleges that her on-screen partner ejaculated inside her without her consent.
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