‘Those words are in the contract’: Bianca Dye on why she wouldn’t do MAFS

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‘That panicked me. And then I went, oh, but I’m a pretty good human.’

Media identity Bianca Dye says she would not apply to appear on Married At First Sight.

Speaking on KIIS FM on Wednesday morning, Dye shared her thoughts on participating in the controversial show, after it was revealed this week that three MAFS wives alleged rape and sexual abuse during filming of a UK season.

Nat Penfold asked Dye, appeared on the first season of Nine’s The Golden Bachelor, “You’ve done reality TV in Australia, so how serious, like how intensely do they look into your background before you’re allowed on a show?”

Dye replied, “Well, they did a massive background check on me, and I got a call from one of the producers saying I needed to delete a post. They said, this is something you put up.

“And I panicked, because I thought, oh God, I’ve done so many 10 red wines 3 a.m. on Facebook back in the day. And I was like, what is it? And I won’t say what it was, but I had to delete something from 2016.”

Dye added, “If they go that far back on someone like me, who’s just some schmuck or whatever, why aren’t they going back and finding out that these guys possibly have a history?”

Bianca Dye discusses MAFS UK rape allegations

Co-host Brooklyn Ross suggested, “But it’s hard to know. You can’t tell off social media if a man’s going to do that.”

Penfold then said, “But did you have to do a criminal check? Yes. Police check? Yep. So maybe they haven’t offended or been caught prior.”

Co-host Mike E if the MAFS revelations would deter Dye from reality tv in the future.

“I don’t know if I’d do a Married at First Sight,” Dye said.

“I just worry about… I have interviewed nearly every contestant that’s come off those shows, just doing radio as you guys would have. And they can edit you.

“You literally sign a contract. I had to sign a contract. We can depict you however we see fit. Those words are in the contract.

“That panicked me. And then I went, oh, but I’m a pretty good human.

“I’m a bit of a knob. Everyone would think that though, wouldn’t they? I know. But then I didn’t get a villain edit.
I was lucky because I don’t think I am a villain.

“But the problem is these people want to be famous so badly. They sign their lives away.”

Shona Manderson has alleged she was raped while filming MAFS UK. Image: Instagram

MAFS ‘wives’ allege rape by ‘husbands’ during filming

Mediaweek reported on Tuesday that an investigation by BBC’s current affairs program Panorama has revealed that two women claim they were raped during the filming of Married at First Sight UK, while a third has alleged a non-consensual sex act.

Shona Manderson was a ‘wife’ on the 2023 UK season and the only one of the three women who is identified. She told the BBC in their investigation, “I don’t think that because you’re going on reality TV, you deserve in any way for things like this to happen to you.”

Manderson was matched with Bradley Skelly and the couple began their ‘marriage’ smoothly.

She told the BBC that they had agreed to use the withdrawal method of contraception, but that on one occasion he ejaculated inside her without permission.

“I was shocked, I was confused, we said we weren’t doing that,” Manderson said.

The BBC refers to another of the three women women as “Lizzie”. She told them about her ‘husband’ on the condition of anonymity, “He would just explode, he would go into this absolute focused anger,” and that their sex soon turned “violent.”

Lizzie added, “He said that if I told anybody what had happened, that he would get someone to throw acid at me.”

‘Chloe’, the third women to make allegations, told the BBC that her ‘husband’ uncovered her whilst she slept, “and grabbed my breasts and grabbed my bum.”

“I was saying no, no, stop, stop that, because I’d been asleep.

“He smirked and climbed on top of me, moved my leg… By that time, I’d really given up and I just didn’t want him to be angry at me when the cameras came.

“I just lay there, and I stared out the window.”

Bianca Dye. Image: Instagram

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