Married At First Sight’s Mishel Karen makes bizarre claims she had ‘no human rights’ during filming – despite staying in a five-star apartment with a gym and swimming pool
Married At First Sight’s Mishel Karen has made extraordinary – and questionable – allegations about Channel Nine’s social experiment.
The 49-year-old police worker bizarrely claimed she ‘didn’t have any human rights’ while filming the experiment in Sydney last year.
She told The Daily Telegraph on Saturday that prisoners have more freedom than MAFS participants – a claim that is demonstrably false.
Are you sure about that? Married At First Sight’s Mishel Karen (pictured) has made extraordinary – and questionable – allegations about Channel Nine’s social experiment
‘We were sleep-deprived, we had everything we owned taken from us,’ she went on to allege.
Mishel also claimed producers had forced her to write stay during the commitment ceremonies when she actually wanted to leave her ‘husband’, Steve Burley.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Channel Nine for comment.
Just sour grapes? The 49-year-old police worker bizarrely claimed she ‘didn’t have any human rights’ while filming the experiment in Sydney last year
Mishel’s explosive claims should be taken with a large grain of salt, however.
The MAFS participants do not live in prison-like conditions. In fact, they stayed at the five-star Skye Suites apartments in Sydney’s CBD, where rooms cost $250 a night.
Producers foot the bill during filming from September to December, and agreed to pay extra when couples demanded to have separate rooms.
Locked up? Contrary to Mishel’s claims, MAFS participants do not live in prison-like conditions. In fact, they stayed at the Skye Suites apartments in Sydney, where rooms cost $250 a night
The complex offers a 24-hour concierge service, five-star fitness centre and swimming pool, and plenty of local amenities.
Contrary to what Mishel said about not being allowed to leave the experiments, the participants are allowed to leave at any time.
Natasha Spencer and Mikey Pembroke, Ivan Sarakula and Aleks Markovic, and Chris Nicholls and Vanessa Romito all left early without being forced to wait until the commitment ceremony.
More claims: Mishel also claimed that she was forced to write ‘stay’ at the commitment ceremonies. However Natasha Spencer and Mikey Pembroke (both pictured) left early on in the series
Also, Mishel isn’t the first person to claim she was ‘forced’ to write stay.
Connie Crayden told NW earlier this month she had been coerced by producers even though it was clear she and Jonethen Musulin were ‘nothing more than friends’.
‘They tried to convince me for 12 hours to write stay again. Finally they convinced me to write stay [and] I felt awful holding him against his will,’ she claimed.
Previous comments: Connie Crayden (pictured) told NW magazine earlier this month she had been ‘forced’ to write stay even though it was clear she and Jonethen were ‘nothing more than friends’
But she later backtracked on these claims, telling Hit Mid North Coast’s Krysti & Bodge on Wednesday that she was the one who chose to stay.
‘I wasn’t forced to write stay. I am the one who put the pen to paper. At the end of the day, the ball was in my court,’ she said.
‘No one held a gun to my head. No one blackmailed me or bribed me or anything like that.’
‘The ball was in my court’: However she backpedalled on claims, telling Hit Mid North Coast’s Krysti & Bodge on Wednesday that she was the one who chose to stay