MAFS star reveals unseen intimacy week task: 'Embarrassing as hell'

From intense eye-gazing to five-minute make-out sessions, Married At First Sight’s intimacy week tasks are designed to bring the couples closer - no matter how awkward they appear on TV.

While this year’s season saw the addition of two new tasks - genital cupping and a very X-rated yes/no/maybe list - it turns out the experts previously introduced another challenge that never aired on TV.

Season 10 bride Tahnee Cook tells Yahoo Lifestyle’s podcast Behind the Edit that she and her ‘husband’ Ollie Skelton had to do a “tantric sex workshop” during Intimacy Week last year - which she describes as “the most embarrassing thing I've ever done in my life”.

“So we had to go to this place in Oxford Street and it was actually really interesting, I quite enjoyed it. It was all about breathing and having a sexual connection that wasn't super physical,” she explains.

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“And there was this scene, I was lying on this fur rug on the floor and then he had to run his hands over my body. It was bizarre, but it was all about connecting through breathwork. It was hectic, it was intense.

“We did that and that was part of one of our intimacy tasks, but that was never shown. It would’ve been embarrassing as hell.”

'Thank f**k I didn't get that one'

Tahnee went on to say that while she and Ollie didn’t do the “horrific” genital cupping task, there were some couples on her season that had to do it which was never shown.

“Sandy and Dan had that, and I feel like maybe Alyssa and Duncan had that as well,” she details. “They didn’t show that which is so interesting, because that was definitely a task. I was like, ‘Thank f**k I didn't get that one’.

“We had the three-minute hug. We didn't have the make-out one, which I was like, again, thank god. I think our hug was shown, but we didn't get any of those embarrassing ones.

“It would’ve been interesting if they tried to give us more challenging things, even with Confessions Week with all of that stuff like the phone swapping, we didn't get any of. And I do wonder, is that strategic? Because do they not want to create a very short drama between us, or do they want to with other people?”

Subscribe to Yahoo Lifestyle's podcast Behind The Edit and listen to the full interview with Tahnee Cook here.

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