‘They took away our phones and gave us a lot of booze’, says MAFS UK’s Alexis

As Married At First Sight UK makes its highly anticipated return to our screens, last year’s star Alexis Economou has opened up about what goes on behind the scenes.

From being given “a lot of booze” to having their phones taken off them earlier than expected, Alexis revealed all…

“Behind the scenes there’s a lot of alcohol,” Alexis told OK! Online. “We kind of have a [drinking] limit to a certain degree as in whatever’s there, there’s no more after that. You either pace yourself or drown yourself.”

“It’s moderated to a certain extent,” she added. “But there’s no major limit as in you can only have one or two.”

Discussing what it’s like working with the show’s producers, Alexis insisted that they don’t get too involved and that everything viewers see on the programme is genuine.

She explained: “It’s very genuine from my perspective of being a cast member that’s part of the show. Everything on my side was genuine and I guess the producers are just doing their jobs also. You know, they’re friends at the time, but it’s also within their job role to bring out your best and your worst side.”

As many reality TV show viewers will know, a lot of show contestants have their phones taken off them during filming. This is only partly the case with MAFS UK though as the filming of the cast’s lives starts three months before the show properly starts, during which time they can have their devices.

“So prior to going actually into the show, you do a lot of filming about you, your life, and everything else. But from the minute you get in my room, or maybe a couple of days before that, our phones are actually taken away from us,” said Alexis. “Then we’re given a production phone.”

Alexis then went on to say that there were concerns of a leak last year, meaning the cast had their phones taken off them earlier than expected.

She recalled: “I think we were told that we’d have our phones until the morning of our wedding, but I think someone was in the car, maybe had found out who one of the husbands were, so production were worried that it would be leaked.

“They actually came and took all of our phones away earlier than we were supposed to, and I remember me and Amy [Christophers] sitting in the hotel room crying to production. We were like ‘We thought we’d have two more days with our phones. What are we going to do without our friends and family?’"

“At the time I was distraught,” Alexis added.

Watch Married At First Sight UK Monday – Thursday at 9pm on E4.

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