Few couples remain together when Married at First Sight cameras stop rolling – and it could be because of the show’s fakery! Simone Lee Brennan, who appeared on the series’ Australian version, slammed the show for dooming couples by staging scenes and forcing conversations.

“Reality television, being the usual conniving, clever thing it is, caught hundreds of hours of footage of ‘married life’ and cut it down to a mere thirteen minutes per episode, per couple,” Brennan wrote on her blog. “Needless to say, our relationship, however it turned out, would have never been portrayed to its full authenticity. Not even close.