We’re just days away from the premiere of season seven of Married At First Sight. And while most details about the brand-new set of hopefuls looking for love have been kept under wraps, one of the show’s relationship experts has revealed some interesting new information.
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Speaking to the Brisbane Times, John Aiken has revealed the heavy vetting process potential candidates go through before being accepted into the Nine show.
“I match based on personality traits, in terms of their attachment style, which is how clingy they are, and also the communication style,” Aiken said.
“Vetting is done by production. Large-scale vetting. And it’s a long process, the actual matching side of it … it’s a good several months that we go through.”
The relationship expert also revealed that it’s a challenge to get men to apply for the show.
There were 15,000 applications for this year’s sixth season, and a staggering 80 per cent of them women, which Aiken puts down to the reluctance of men to open up.
“It’s gone to another level now, there’s a lot of people now wanting to get involved,” he said. “There’s definitely an element of people wanting to do the show because they have hopes of going somewhere further after, but men are the hard ones to get.
“Other [MAFS] production teams [across the world] say the same thing. When you’re on this show for 10 weeks for this experiment, basically you’re going to be exposed, you’re going to have everything essentially come out, you’re not able to wear a mask.
“And so maybe that scares the guys off a bit more.”
Aiken’s comments follow Nine producers claims that MAFS 2020 will be much tamer compared to the drama-filled action of previous seasons.
“There will be drama, there is no doubt and we’re not afraid of that,” Channel Nine’s Programming Director, Hamish Turner told TV Tonight.
“But the beginning of the show is definitely people looking for love and that should absolutely be the driving force behind it,” he added.
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