The One Question MAFS Expert John Aiken Is Tired of Fans Asking Him
MAFS expert John Aiken sets the record straight on rumors of the show being ‘scripted’ and ‘staged’ as he says the villains are only to blame for their bad edits.
One of Married At First Sight’s relationship experts has revealed the most common question he’s asked by fans of the social experiment.
Psychologist and marriage counselor John Aiken told the television recharge podcast, he is constantly asked if Nine’s show is ‘staged’ or ‘scripted’.
While the show is heavily edited and post-production has a large role in crafting the stories, no aspect of MAFS is scripted or set up in any way.
John Aiken (pictured), one of Married At First Sight’s relationship experts, has revealed the most common question he’s asked by fans of the social experiment.
“Is this show scripted? Is it staged, John?” That’s the most common question I get,’ he told host Benjamin Norris.
‘The answer is very clear: no, it is not. The people in this experiment are very real and they do these things. It’s a good representation of who they are, even when the camera isn’t on them.”
He continued: ‘That’s one of the reasons it’s so compelling.
Psychologist and marriage counselor John Aiken (center, with experts Alessandra Rampolla, left, and Mel Schilling, right) told the TV Reload podcast that he is constantly asked if the Nine show is “staged” or ” hyphenated”.
“People don’t meet reality participants in their everyday world, so they see it and they get confused and think maybe this isn’t real, but it is.”
It comes after former MAFS star Olivia Frazer set the record straight on long-standing rumors that the reality show is scripted.
The former teaching student, 28, said during an Instagram Q&A in May that while the show sounds ‘scripted’ at times, this is not because the stars are being fed lines.
He explained that the dialogue occasionally sounds unnatural because the participants are told to repeat and rephrase the sentences to make them clearer.
It comes after former MAFS star Olivia Frazer set the record straight on long-standing rumors that the reality show is scripted.
For example, the stars of MAFS are frequently told to repeat a question a producer has asked them off camera before giving an answer so that it sounds spontaneous.
“You have to repeat the questions that the producers ask you, which is why it sometimes sounds like a script,” Olivia explained.
He added that the producers often ‘poke and prod’ during filming to get the contestants to say something, but there is never a physical ‘script’ on set.
The former teaching student, 28, said during an Instagram Q&A in May that while the show sounds ‘scripted’ at times, this is not because the stars are being fed lines.