Channel 4 has pulled all episodes of Married at First Sight UK (MAFS) after two women claimed they were raped by their on-screen husbands during filming.
A third woman claimed she had an abortion following a non-consensual sex act by her partner on the reality television show.
The three former contestants said they were not adequately protected by the show, in which single people agree to marry strangers after meeting for the first time at their mock weddings.
Is there some lack of knowledge here, an information gap, about what marriage entails or summat? Or is the claim that new hubby beat ‘er around the head and shagged while she shrieked no, no?
Charlotte Proudman, Lizzie’s barrister,
Ahhhh, now, that does bias me, yes it does.
A third contestant Shona Manderson, who has waived her anonymity, alleged that Bradley Skelly, her on-screen husband, engaged in a non-consensual sex act by ejaculating inside her without permission.
So it’s not, not quite, as Whoopi said then…..
Words fail me on this story.
I mean it wasn’t in the contract that they had to consumate their fake marriage was it ?
This sort of stuff is inevitable when TV resorts to making trash like this. C4 can’t live on its past triumphs forever, it is long past its sell-by date. I dont think the govt could give it away now.
The Times reports:
A third woman, Shona Manderson, who was in the show in 2023…accused her partner, Bradley Skelly, of ejaculating inside her without asking her permission.
Odd, if not bizarre. If she consented to penetration, did she not consent to the chap ejaculating inside her?
She forgot to say “Cum on my face, luv”.
And she claims that she had to have an abortion after this encounter…
So, for a fee, she goes on a ‘let’s shag’ C4 reality show but without adequate contraception?
She gazed up at me with a quizzical expression, my ejaculate running from the corner of her mouth to her chin. She was silent for what seemed like a full minute, then she spoke.
”What the hell did you put in this sandwich?”
Haven’t looked at the details, frankly am astonished MAFS ever made it to air without someone asking whether this was all a good idea and realising it very obviously wasn’t, but is this a “consent if you use a condom” thing? Which is reasonable and indeed legally protected.
The problem is that “TV” now only really works for stuff that people share. So, stuff you talk about the next day. Like football, cookery competitions and this sort of trash. if you don’t watch it live, everyone else is going to be talking about it and you’ll be late to it.
I saw on the news this morning that the women haven’t reported these assaults to the police. Given the seriousness of the allegations that seems a bit strange….
Not strange for a shakedown…
Obviously an oversight and nothing to do with the civil courts having a lower standard of proof and different levels of financial compensation.
So, it took these women nearly 4 years to complain (unless it was live, it would have been made in 2022 probably). I guess they must have been triggered by seeing themselves on the telly.
Grift that keeps on grifting, “let’s screw some more money out of C4”.
Odd that it wasn’t reported to the police the next day. This omission obviously leads to speculation of what might be happening.
“So when did you first realize you had been raped?”
“About 3 years later when my social media channel was bombing and my number of followers dropped.”
“Me too.”
I think rather:
several years later when i was contacted by a vampire lawyer who said i could make some money out of claiming it.
I doubt Proudperson has to resort to that given she is the eminence grise of the progressive legal profession but to call her a vampire is far too kind. Probably the equivalent of a Lich or Necromancer. One of the very few who could legitimately be called more evil than Richard Murphy – absolutely horrific.
What’s the old “saw”..? “When did you know you’d been raped?” “When the cheque bounced!”.
“engaged in a non-consensual sex act by ejaculating inside her without permission.”
Jesus H Christ. Every sane woman knows this is always a risk if you let a bloke shag you.
Are you telling me that men might ejaculate during sex? Unprecedented!
Sometimes within 15 seconds…
If he’s called Justin, that’s a clue.
A risk? Shirely that’s the entire point.
Ah, but the descent into Clown World and retreat from reality as vast numbers of young Westerners now have prolonged, sterile, adolescence that runs into their 30’s.
Sending 50% of the young population to get indoctrinated and indebted at our world class Far Left activism hubs disguised as universities was a bad move.
So you know the legbeard feminists believe all men are rapists (“What, even the Pope?” – Shirley Valentine) and heterosexual intercourse, i.e. where babies come from, is cisheteropatriarchal late stage capitalism oppression of womens or something. Unrealistic expectations around “consent” are partly elderly academic dykes queering the pitch to try to sabotage normal heterosexual pair bonding, partly a cohort of young women who are arrested development only-children carefully raised by helicopter parents and the internet to not understand how adult relationships work.
So yes, there are gels out there who have gained the very strange opinion that shagging comes with a virtual checklist of “consent” requirements. Their Mums have failed them horribly.
“Their Mums have failed them horribly.”
They’re Eloi. You might have heard this a few times from newspaper feature writers:-
“I did my degree in history and have worked at the (insert name of newspaper) and I still can’t afford a flat in London. Society is being terrible to me.”
Yeah, you did a useless degree, and do a useless job in the most expensive place.
It’s all indulgent. It’s the opposite of a nurse living in Chippenham. Does a job people want doing, lives in a cheap place. A nurse can afford a mortgage there.
Seen elsewhere (Tattle):
I actually think it’s frightening how many people don’t actually still know what consent is. I think the producers could start there to be honest – all contestants need to go through a course on consent prior to filming,
“A course on consent” lol – the 100 IQ female mind and the desire to turn everything into an extension of yooni, which is itself just primary school for economically useless but credentialed adults.
Midwits love structure, and obeying “rules”. But sex isn’t about rules, is it? Penises don’t do coursework.
single people agree to marry strangers after meeting for the first time at their mock weddings.
Two thoughts occur. First, you’d have to be insane or dumb as fuck to agree to this and all it obviously entails just for a few quid, fleeting notoriety, and to titillate some viewers.
Second, what’s the difference between this and arranged marriage?
Arranged marriages are legally enforceable, not only by law but by the fists and boots of the bride’s male relatives.
I’d go further: C4 is apparently running a brothel.
Arranged marriages usually stick
And brothels are sticky.
So I am told.
A woman agrees to do this because she’s a shameless narcissist who fancies a random shag with a fee…but hopes to monetise her brief fame.
A man agrees to do this because he’s a shameless narcissist, fancies a random shag for a fee… and he’s so stupid that it never occurs to him that the women might have an, er, agenda…
How far this country has fallen.
Apparently this show originated in Denmark. Now has versions in 35 countries. How far the West has fallen.
“ejaculating inside her”
It was a chance she accepted when she welcomed him sticking his dick in her.
I am sure the survivors of the Grooming gangs are pleased the government continues to have the right priorities.
Hold on, you’re saying this was all fake, they were play-acting? All I’ve had to go on were the trailers which I paid very little attention to, other than some low level rumbling thoughts of: surely this is marriage/sex trafficking? Surely it can’t be legal.
I’ve just been to the registrar’s office this morning and popped into the bogs. Inside there’s a big notice: Marriage is Consensual. Have you given consent? Tell the receptionist if you are being pressured.
Something like that.
and
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8pz1k4r2lo
Of course, it’s all “he said, she said” stuff, that was discussed with the production team and said to be consensual at the time. There’s no proof, either way.
Change the name of the programme from “Married at First Sight” to “Britain’s Next Top Rapist”. Problem solved.
The three former contestants said they were not adequately protected by the show.
Let’s be honest, nobody’s virginity was taken here. The kind of women who go on these reality shows are just as likely to let 6 Championship footballers have a go on them at the Travelodge.
That’s not fair, many women have higher standards: Premiership players only.