‘I was stitched up’: MAFS UK bride who filmed series that’s been axed blows up at Channel 4
‘It’s disgusting. Where’s the respect? We’ve all put our lives on hold’
MAFS UK has been axed following an external review, it was reported yesterday. The review took place after a number of scandals plagued the show, and three brides raised sexual misconduct claims. Prior to the review, a new series of the show had been filming. And now the show has been axed, a bride from what would have been MAFS UK 2026 has spoken out, and she’s livid.
36-year-old Rebecca Burgess was set to be a MAFS UK 2026 bride, and has now accused the show of “stitching her up” with a groom just for drama, and not communicating with the cast over the show’s cancellation.
She claimed she spent 10 weeks filming, and was then left in the dark about the decision to cancel. The cast members were allegedly only told about the show being cancelled in an email yesterday morning, the same time Channel 4 announced the news to press.
View this post on Instagram
“They didn’t even have the decency to tell us what was happening,” she told the Daily Mail, speaking of the show being axed. “Why didn’t they let us know before the announcement? It’s disgusting. Where’s the respect? We’ve all put our lives on hold and this is the way they treat us.”
She added that having been through the intense experiment, she can understand why it got cancelled. “I feel really bad saying this but I can understand why it’s been axed,” Rebecca said. “It was a mental challenge that I never expected to experience in a million years. I came home a shell of myself.”
Rebecca claimed she honestly went on the show to find love, but felt as though the match she was given was more to cause drama. “You do actually think that they are going to find your one,” she said. “Obviously you know it’s a television show, but I did want to find love.
“And then the minute you get there and start filming you realise it’s all just for TV. I remember being on the honeymoon, I looked at production and realised then that they’d stitched me up. It wasn’t about finding me a love match it was about the drama that I could create.” She claimed she was “played a lot” by her partner, and set up with someone who wanted “to humble her”.
Rebecca is now particularly miffed that she put her entire life on hold, including a young daughter, to try and find love, and now the show won’t even air. “‘My whole life was up in the air and I feel like that the whole thing has been a complete waste of my time,” she said.
View this post on Instagram
Despite seeming pretty raging in this interview, Rebecca said on Instagram: “To Ch4 & CPL [the show’s production company] thank you for the biggest opportunity. I am not the same girl I was walking into that experiment and I will forever be grateful for the personal journey that has brought me to become this version of myself.”
Featured image via Instagram. For all the latest MAFS news and updates, like The Holy Church of MAFS on Facebook.
Latest
Claudia initially turned down The Traitors and told husband it would flop while filming for series one
She rang him to say she wasn’t convinced
James Acaster has a plan to rebuild his reputation after awkward Celebrity Traitors stint
He’s got a new project lined up
As ex-wife Katy Perry stays silent: The cutting words other celebs have said about Russell Brand
‘He is completely crazy and a bit of a vile predator’
Investigation didn’t ‘identify the source of the hearsay rumours’ about spiking at Bath Uni
Students were ‘terrified’ about spiking allegations during Freshers’ Week
Netflix reveals there was more to Rob and Michaella’s breakup in Love Is Blind deleted scene
Shock, it makes Rob look worse
I managed to buy a house by myself aged 25, and only needed a five per cent deposit
Cerys spent six months working ‘a lot of freelance jobs’ before she could afford a house deposit
Is AI killing critical thinking? Inside Adele Zeynep Walton’s Off the Shelf talk
Adele visited Sheffield to talk about her award-winning book
Celebrity Traitors’ Romesh shares big mistake Faithfuls made, and it happens every series
They need to come up with a better game plan
Abdul El-Sayed and wife Sarah Jukaku have been together since they were students in Michigan
‘JD, habibi, there is this delicious irony’
Maya Jama admits she broke strict Celebrity Traitors rule with co-star, but it wasn’t shown
Oh to be a fly on that wall
From students to the stage: The Notts Tab meets indie success Midnight Rodeo
The Nottingham Tab interviews Notts-based band Midnight Rodeo
‘I was stitched up’: MAFS UK bride who filmed series that’s been axed blows up at Channel 4
‘It’s disgusting. Where’s the respect? We’ve all put our lives on hold’
UCL lecturer and far-right influencer arrested following fight in front of university campus
The pair were both arrested on suspicion of affray after a brawl just outside of the Student Centre
‘I feel very misunderstood’: Aneha addresses backlash to her behaviour on Love Is Blind
‘When you cut it, it doesn’t look normal’
Why Joran van der Sloot hasn’t been convicted for Natalee Holloway’s murder, and might never be
He confessed to killing her in 2023
Love Is Blind’s Aneha details off-camera calls with her sister about her ‘concerns’ with Cam
‘I don’t think she saw a long-term marriage’
Ah, a cast engagement gets announced at the Love Is Blind season 11 reunion
Unfortunately it’s not Jax and Stew
An update on where Joran van der Sloot is in 2026, and his ‘cruel and degrading’ life in prison
Natalee Holloway’s mum is making sure the case is not over
Love Is Blind’s creator encouraged Aneha and Cam to ‘still go to the altar’ despite doubts
They had discussed off-screen that ‘most likely, it’s a no’
A look at what’s been up with Blake and Erika since their sudden exit from Love Is Blind S11
They’ve written some flirty things on socials