After a dramatic few episodes on Married at First Sight UK this week, a number of stars have been forced to speak out online to tell their side of the story.
It all kicked off when Hannah Norburn was accused of making inappropriate comments to two other grooms by the likes of Holly Ditchfield and Polly Sellman, who confronted her about the situation.
Holly, who felt that Hannah was trying to flirt with her husband Alex Henry, faced backlash from viewers about the way she handled things, but later took to Instagram to say she had no regrets.
"I wouldn’t change nothing in my life," Holly explained. “You live and you learn. I would have just liked to have been able to have that conversation with her before the girls’ day."
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Sacha Jones later weighed in on the MAFS UK drama, saying she was ‘struggling to fathom how other cast members are slating other cast members online and in stories and Q&As on scenes that happened a while ago'.
"So much is coming up that happens after but you're all acting like you're living in the moment right now, and we've still got a lot coming up,” she said.
The reality TV star added: "I mean, we get so much online already, like the trolling and stuff, that we don't need to be attacking each other online as well.
"Like, cause it's still causing arguments now. Just let it be. Just watch it and let it be. I know it's hard, but we're better than that."
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Holly has now responded, saying in a new series of videos that she wanted to jump on to her Stories to ‘explain’ what happened, and ‘clear something up’.
“I’ve been asked numerous times now why Polly apologised to Hannah and I didn’t,” she began. "Leading up to Girls’ Day, obviously numerous things had happened – what I’d seen Hannah doing, or heard Hannah doing – but I had no contact with Hannah before girls’ day.
“I wanted to speak to Hannah before Girls’ Day, and obviously, filming a TV show, it doesn’t work that easy.”
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Holly said that, as soon as they’d sat down for Girls’ Day, she wanted to address the situation ‘straight away’ so they could get on with things.
However, ‘other people had opinions they wanted to voice as well’, meaning things ‘blew up’ more than they were meant to.
Holly had intended to tackle the issue by herself, and hadn’t expected others like Polly to get involved.
“After we’d finished filming the Girls’ Day and me and Hannah had had a conversation, which you’d seen a minimal amount of, Polly and Hannah were then sat together,” she continued.
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“I’m sure there was an apology made, and there was hugging and everything was sweet.
“[...] I didn’t apologise to Hannah because I knew the person that Hannah is. There was gonna be more things that she was going to do to upset me, so I’m not making a point of apologising.
“If you’re the girl that you say you are, let’s just naturally let it fizzle out, and then, depending on your actions and my actions, we can eventually be friends.
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"But unfortunately, which is due to be seen, you will see that it didn’t go the way that I thought it was going to go, which is why I didn’t apologise.”
Holly stressed that she will always take accountability when she’s in the wrong, saying she’d been painted out to be the ‘mean girl’ for not apologising.
“I think the whole ‘bully label’ is absolutely disgusting,” she added. “If I was a bully, then I wouldn’t be on a TV show surrounding myself with people because the channel would not promote people who are bullies. It is disgusting.”
Topics: Married at First Sight UK, Reality TV, TV And Film
Jess Hardiman