MARRIED At First Sight Australia will return to UK TV screens in the summer, The Celeb Report can confirm.
Fans have been desperate to learn when the seventh series of the matchmaking phenomenon, originally broadcast Down Under in 2020, will air as the drama-filled sixth edition heads towards its finale on Monday.
They will only have months to wait before the show returns to E4 and on demand service All 4 – and they’ll eventually be able to watch the eighth series too.
A source told The Celeb Report that the broadcaster has also snapped up the rights to the latest season, which began this week in Australia.
Married At First Sight Australia has been a huge hit in the UK, with a consolidated audience of up to 1.9 million tuning in for the sixth series – E4’s highest ratings since it aired the final season of The Big Bang Theory in May 2019.
24 of the 25 most-watched programmes on E4 in the past year have been episodes of MAFS.
Viewers have been captivated by treacherous brides Jessika Power and Ines Basic, ‘Cyclone’ Cyrell Paule’s violent showdown with Greek beauty Martha Kalifatidis, and the love story between cricketer Cameron Merchant and entrepreneur Jules Robinson.
The couple, who welcomed a son named Oliver in October, have become MAFS’ biggest success story, and today gave their first UK TV interview on This Morning.
Speaking from Sydney, Jules, 38, said of their unlikely romance: “I literally searched the whole world to find my guy.
“I lived in the UK for 14 years and I came back a year before and I felt like I was the face of Bumble.
“We joke, we say we’re not what we ordered at all. He looked at me and he wanted blonde and fit and I was this voluptuous red head.”
Series seven will see former store manager Elizabeth Sobinoff, 29, walk down the aisle for a second time after her husband Sam Ball, 28, abandoned her on their honeymoon and had an affair with acid-tongued Ines, 31.
After losing one and a half stone and overhauling her look, she returned as an intruder bride mid-way through the seventh series and was matched with former AFL star and aspiring actor Seb Guilhaus, 31.
Series seven, which ended in Australia last May, will also feature the show’s first ever lesbian couple, as well as more cheating allegations, explosive bust-ups and matches made in hell.
The Celeb Report revealed this week that the UK version of MAFS, which began in 2015, will be revamped for its upcoming series to follow the Australian format, and move from Channel 4 to E4.
