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MAFS star Bronte Schofield spills on major dinner party filming secret
'You don't finish the dinner party sometimes until 3am.'
While Married At First Sight fans know the dinner party episodes are always the ones that bring the most drama, former participant Bronte Schofield has shed some light on the gruelling filming schedule of the explosive events, saying "nothing can prepare you" for the experience.
Bronte, who starred on the 2023 season of MAFS, sat down with Yahoo Lifestyle's podcast Behind The Edit to chat about her time on the show, citing that some dinner parties lasted for over 12 hours from start to finish.
"It's exhausting on your mental health, people don't understand those 16-hour days and having lights and cameras in your face constantly," she shared, saying the earliest she ever got to a dinner party was at 3:30pm and many times the cast would leave at 3am.
'It was torture'
While on TV we see it play out as though the couples arrive, have some drinks, and then head straight in for dinner, the reality was very, very different, with Bronte sharing that each couple were put in separate tents and kept away from each other in between filming scenes.
"You can only imagine waiting in those tents and most of the time you're with your partner. It was Harrison who told me [about the tents], I thought we'd all just hang out together and it'd be great!" she said.
"You've got some snacks in there and they take your phone off you, you're not allowed to do anything and it was torture."
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Bronte then said after they film the couples arriving at the dinner parties, they go back into their tents before dinner.
"You go back into the tents and you do all the voxxies for like, an hour and a half and then you go into the dinner," she shared.
"You don't finish the dinner party sometimes until 3am, and sometimes you have to do a voxxie after that and you don't get home until 4 in the morning and then they [the producers] are at your door at 9 or 10 [AM].
"I didn't go [to one dinner party], I can't remember which one it was, but I was done, I wasn't just done with Harrison, I was done with the whole experiment, I just remember I cried for those last three weeks every day, I was just so exhausted," she said.
Subscribe to Yahoo Lifestyle's podcast Behind The Edit and listen to the full interview with Bronte Schofield here.
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