And just like that... MAFS is over

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8pz1k4r2lo

It was coming. You dont get good reality TV without people suffering.

This news however is awful. Bloody awful.

The Dean one was what stays with me

Paul came across so badly there

Just watching Channel 4 news and they've mentioned MAFS UK. What on earth! Will definitely be watching Panorama at 8pm. For sure whatever behaviour happened on the UK show will have been mirrored in Aus and US.

This is awful, those poor women!

I stopped watching MAFS a few seasons back when a lesbian couple were 'married' (Eve and Charlie). Eve was absolutely awful to Charlie, but she played the game so well that she, and the professionals, gaslit Charlie into thinking she was in the wrong and she kept apologising. It was deeply uncomfortable.

I remember watching the original MAFS pre Ixperts and dinner parties and it was interesting to watch but not full of drama and arguments, a bit like how the first series of big brother was just a load of normal people not wannabe influencers. Social media has ruined reality TV because everyone going into it now is looking for an influencer jump start

I don't mind reality TV like Sewing Bee or Bake Off. The competition element, you have to be GOOD at something to win. It's not about who creates the most drama or who is the biggest bitch. I also love Race Across the World and The Traitors, neither of which has gone down the route of casting attention seekers.

Most of these type of programmes are total sleaze. Young women having to dress in a certain way, expectation of some form of sexual contact if not full sex when you have only just met. That’s bad enough. But this sort of behaviour was bound to happen when boundaries can get blurred, and assumption by the males that sex was going to happen and assumed implied consent because the women appeared on a show where intimacy is expected. Obviously there needs to be full not implied consent, I am not excusing the men’s behaviour. And viewers all watching to see who has sex with whom. Each format of new programmes getting sleazier. Grim

For me it was the opposite

Eve wasn't good at manipulating the room and came off badly when she wasn't the bully

how does this even work? You go off and live with a stranger?

before anyone accuses me, I genuinely don't know. You can see I have a massive posting history on here. I'm not being a bot

I don't watch reality TV and I honestly don't know how this show works. Put me in the box of "I don't understand the world anymore".

are they living with these men off camera?

Edit to add - if reality TV is dead, which I kind of hope it is, will be easier to actually get people to go out?! or is it that they're glued to the Internet all evening? I have been assuming the latter....

Useful background. Thank-you. All of this highlights my disquiet over Big Brother: reality TV cold-bloodly uses members of the public as fodder to make money.

It was very uncomfortable. Sarah was basically piled on for not wanting to be physical with Dean, not wanting to hig him or kiss him...what happened to willing consent?

Watching nowv

Understand why

Oh who said itd be shona?

I knew it would be her.

Shona was on the News earlier, OP.

She's named in the article you posted. Did you not read it?

Ahh thank you, i didnt realise. Brave Shona.

About to plop kids into bed and watch it. I think we all know what's going to happen. These poor women 😢

I did, but didnt see that bit, I was in shock!

The so called experts are rubbish at picking up on coercive control a lot of the time.

Let's lock Bradley up, ive been stealthed, its wrong

scummy man

I'm amazed there's not been any unwanted pregnancies on MAFS tbh.

"Shona said she later went to get a morning-after pill and was accompanied by a welfare producer."

"About a week after leaving MAFS UK, Shona discovered she was pregnant. "I made the choice to go through with an abortion. It was really hard," she said."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8pz1k4r2lo

Didn't see this thread, I started one too. Not surprised it's that psycho Bradley, he was horrific.

He remind me of Stephen Bear

The thing is, if you complain, you're scared of being dropped and/or given a bad edit