‘When MAFS dropped me I begged to meet my wife - we fell in love and now have a baby’
09.09.2023 - 05:23
/ ok.co.uk
After months of waiting, the launch date of the new series of Married At First Sight UK has finally been announced - and it’s just days away. On 18 September, a whole new host of singletons will be marrying a stranger at first sight in an attempt to find their happily ever after. But while viewers may be familiar with former contestants such as Zoe Clifton and Jenna Robinson, one couple experienced a very different Married At First Sight experience away from the cameras.
After Ally Acklan and Paul Todd signed up for the 2020 series of the show, all appeared to be going well until the Covid-19 lockdown brought their wedding to a standstill. “We’d done six weeks worth of filming and I’d even gone through the hassle of confusing a suit salesman by telling him that I couldn’t tell him what colour the bridesmaids were wearing because I didn’t even know who I was marrying,” Paul, 35, tells OK!. “Two days before our wedding day, production called up and said it wasn’t going ahead.
I thought I was never going to meet Ally so I begged the experts to put me in touch with her or else I was going to message every single Ally on Instagram until I found her.” Soon after, Paul and Ally met each other via a video call that ended up lasting 90 minutes and the rest is history. “The funny thing is, it was never awkward.
The experts had been so reassuring that I knew Ally was the right person for me and I was the right person for her. We’d already bought into the idea of each other before we’d even met.
It was really natural,” Paul explains. After weeks of speaking to each other, the pair decided to lockdown together and Ally visited Paul three and a half hours away in Weston-Super-Mare. “I only packed two weeks worth of clothes because I
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