Random Behind-The-Scenes Facts From 'Married At First Sight' (13 items)

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  (#3) The Show Wants To Include Same-Sex Couples But The Casting Situation Makes It Difficult

  According to the show's executive producer Chris Coelen, they've discussed including same-sex couples in the cast but ultimately deemed it logistically challenging because of how they structure the casting process.

  While potential candidates are vetted, the women and men are kept in different rooms, separated by biological sex, which means there's a chance a same-sex couple could meet before the show. Coelen said in an interview, "If we could figure out logistically how do it, we’d love to do it." 
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  (#4) Some People Have Serious Regrets

  Some cast member revealed they had pretty significant regrets while filming, including Nick Pendergrast, who told The Knot he felt terrible about how he handled himself during a fight with his wife that made it onto the show. 

  "I could only imagine how she must have felt," Pendergrast said of his wife, who was not aware of just how upset he was during the argument in question until the day that the episode aired. The fight, which had to do with attraction, prompted Sonia Granados to defend her husband on social media and implore people to refrain from criticizing him. Pendergrast continued: 

  It was a hard week for sure, and I tried to stay away from social media and focus on other things to distract myself from being sucked into reading comment after comment... 

  I now entertain social media in a different light for sure! Not everyone is going to like you or view you how you want them to. I kept to the theme of wanting to be authentic, though, and the tweets, Instagram posts, etc. are really me and my thoughts and photos portraying my mood in that moment.
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  (#8) The Australian Version Of The Show Featured Scandalous Cheating

  On the Australian version of Married At First Sight, one couple revealed the cheating that apparently takes places both on and off camera. Contestant Dean Wells said not only did he and his wife cheat on each other while participating in the show, other non-paired couples also messed around on the side. 

  "We’re not supposed to party and that’s completely against the rules but pretty much every night it happens," Wells said. "All I will say is a lot of stuff happens in the hotel rooms that no one really knows about."

  The Australian version of the show does not include a legally binding marriage certificate due to federal law, but couples do commit to one another in the first episode during a ceremony. 
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  (#13) Most Of The Show Is Extremely Real

  Vaughn, one of the husbands from the show's first season, revealed in a Facebook post that although some of what happened was taken out of context, the majority of what happens is real.

  "Dinner scene and very few things were ever ‘staged,'" he said of the time he spent with his wife, Monet. 

  Courtney, a first-season bride, agreed with the assessment and said she was grateful the show did a good job of portraying what was really happening throughout the bizarre process:

  One of the good things about everything with me and Jason and our relationship is we were real the entire time... There were a lot of conversations that we had on camera for the first time ever, and there were a lot of times where we would say 'real talk.' Whenever we said 'real talk' that was like our code to our production [team] that this was the first time we were ever having this conversation.

   
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  (#10) Producers Didn't Tell People What They Were Signing Up For

  According to executive producer Chris Coelen, he and the other producers withheld the twist of the show from potential cast members who showed up to be part of it. According to Coelen, there was a good reason to keep things secret: 

  We wanted to make sure people were brave and bold. They would probably get a lot of people telling them not to do it. We wanted people who felt confident enough and independent enough that they would choose to go through with it.

   When participants finally learned about the twist, their reaction were extremely mixed:

  People were stunned by that. Some people got angry, some people laughed, some people were just dumbfounded... We had to tell them why we did the casting this way. We thought if we told people, from the beginning... the the kinds of people who we would attract are people, as they would say on The Bachelor, are in it for the wrong reasons.
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  (#11) Lots Of People Left Casting When They Found Out They'd Have To Get Married

  Producers' decision not to tell potential participants about the show's biggest twist proved risky. Executive producer Chris Coelen revealed around half the people who showed up for casting decided to opt out when they learned there'd be a wedding involved. Coelen elaborated: 

  About half said they didn’t want to [do] it... It was really scary as a producer; we didn’t know that we were going to get people who would agree to do the show. We thought we might come out of these workshops with nobody - with nobody agreeing to do it, let alone people we thought we could match.

  Finding the right people for the show was crucial, Coelen added, "because what we wanted to accomplish with the show was real, was genuine, we wanted to be successful, that was the motivation to do the show."

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