Married At First Sight UK Off Air After Rape Allegations
Rogue Energy
iHeartPodcasts
3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A BBC documentary has rocked the dating reality show world. Two women have come forward alleging their on screen husbands raped them during the reality series, Married At First Sight. A third woman from season 8 claims she suffered from sexual misconduct from her on screen husband. The British broadcaster who carries the series has pulled every episode and paused all social media accounts while conducting an external review of the allegations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Monday, May 25th, and a hit. |
| 0:11.2 | A hit. |
| 0:12.2 | Dating reality show has been completely pulled off the air after allegations from two women who says they were raped by the person they were matched with on screen. |
| 0:25.2 | With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. |
| 0:27.6 | We should start, roves, with what the show we're talking about is certainly jumped out at us, married at first sight. |
| 0:32.6 | Yes, this is Married at First Site, UK. |
| 0:35.4 | So this is the British version, and it is completely separate from |
| 0:39.1 | the version here in the United States. In fact, a lot of things about the show are different. |
| 0:44.6 | But on the Married at First Site Rape show at – I'm sorry, the Married at First Sight show at the UK. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, we're getting to the rape, but yes, that's a tongue twister there. |
| 0:54.2 | Love that I just said that. But yes, two women told the BBC, this was a documentary that they |
| 1:00.2 | recently aired, that they were raped by their on-screen husbands. Now, in the UK version, |
| 1:06.5 | they don't legally get married. In the U.S. version, they are legally married. There is a distinction, |
| 1:12.8 | but these are their on-screen husbands. That's how they're described. And then a third woman |
| 1:17.7 | has accused her on-screen husband of sexual misconduct. Now, none of the women reported these |
| 1:23.2 | incidents to police. We should point that out. But because of these allegations now, the broadcaster |
| 1:30.2 | that has these shows, and there are 10 seasons of these shows, they have pulled every single |
| 1:36.8 | episode, every single season of the show off the air, they've paused all their social media |
| 1:42.7 | accounts, they've issued an apology, |
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