Channel Nine issues stern warning to ‘fame-hungry’ cast Married At First Sight

The new season of Married At First Sight will premiere on Channel Nine next week.

But it seems that controlling the cast is already proving to be a headache for the network with some ‘fame-hungry’ contestants refusing to hand over their Instagram logins.

A handful of girlfriends and boyfriends prevent Nine from announcing their official social media accounts because they won’t hand over their passwords.

“Some people have refused to hand over their login details as they still have questions and concerns about their editing,” a source told Daily Mail Australia.

“It’s standard practice for the network to be in control of their Instagrams while the show airs, and for several weeks afterward, but some cast members are reluctant to play ball.”

“They still have no response from the production after their experience filming the reunion last month. They are concerned about their editing,” the source added.

As of Monday morning, several key cast members still have full control of their Instagram accounts and have been posting as normal.

‘Everyone has been left in the dark. We were supposed to announce on Friday morning but they kept pushing it back without any explanation,” a cast member said.

Follow the reports Nine bosses were furious to discover that some brides and grooms were already trying to make the most of their newfound fame.

“The entire cast gave up their Instagram accounts now before the show, and the production has seen some of them already direct message brands trying to get freebies and offers from Instagram,” a source said. yahoo lifestyle.

“Some of them have been warned that this violates their contracts and makes the show look like a joke.”

Girlfriends Janelle Han, Melinda Willis, and Evelyn Ellis have already blue-checked themselves on Instagram before they even made their TV debut.

Beauty CEO Melinda has the most followers with 149,000 followers, while TikToker Janelle has 36,700 and former Big Brother UK contestant Evelyn with 64,500.

Melinda has been seen promoting her beauty salon, while outsider Tayla Winter is gearing up to launch her own podcast called Tassie Tigers.

MAFS executive producers Tara McWilliams, who is credited with transforming the show into the ratings juggernaut it is today, previously acknowledged that some of the contestants are not “100 percent genuine.”

She said mediaweek it is not ‘realistic’ to expect all brides and grooms to be ‘only motivated by finding love’.

But regardless of her intentions, she makes sure that all the contestants are ‘authentic’ in their own way and sincerely want to participate in the experiment, even if romance is not their main motivation.