Married At First Sight’s Melissa Lucarelli reveals the clever trick producers use to get emotional responses from participants
She’s never been shy to speak about her experiences behind-the-scenes on Married At First Sight last year.
And now Married At First Sight’s Melissa Lucarelli has revealed the clever trick used by reality TV producers to solicit different emotions in cast members during on-screen interviews.
Appearing in an interview with YouTuber Chrissie Swadling, the 39-year-old talent agent claimed that producers often ask the same question over many days, so that they can later cherry-pick certain statements and edit them out of context.
‘Say you have a part with your partner… the producers will ask you 100 questions about the fight straight after,’ she explained.
‘Then, later on they’ll ask you again, then the next day they bring it up again. And then if you’re not answering what they want, then they just ask it in another way.’
Melissa, who ‘married’ meditation teacher Dino Hira on the show, claimed that producers often edited sentences that she’d said on different days together.
Married At First Sight’s Melissa Lucarelli, 39, has revealed the clever trick used by producers to solicit certain emotional responses from participants during on-camera interviews
Claims: Appearing in an interview with YouTuber Chrissie Swadling, Melissa claimed that producers often ask the same question over many days, so that they can later cherry-pick certain statements and edit them out of context
The result was that statements she’d made at one point during filming were taken out of context when they went to air – often to her detriment.
The Bachelor’s Monique Morley, who famously called Matt Agnew a ‘dog c**t’ during last year’s show, was also present in the video.
She agreed with Mel, saying she had a similar experience with produces picking and choosing certain statements for the purpose of creating a predetermined storyline.
Tricks: Melissa, who ‘married’ meditation teacher Dino Hira (right) on the show, claimed that producers often edited sentences that she’d said on different days together
Un-real! The result was that statements she’d made at one point during filming were taken out of context when they went to air – often to her detriment
‘My mother say she breaks my foot. I’ll be like, ‘Oh my god, my mum broke my foot!” Monique explained, using a hysterical tone and motioning dramatically.
‘If they ask you it every single day for five days straight, eventually you’ll be like, ‘Oh, my mum broke my foot,” she added, this time using a blasé intonation.
‘So then it’ll be like, ‘Oh, she doesn’t care’, when instead [producers] are going to pick an example of when I’m either emotional or non-emotional.’
Endemol Shine produces both The Bachelor Australia and Married At First Sight.
Secret’s out! The Bachelor’s Monique Morley (pictured) who famously called Matt Agnew a ‘dog c**t’ during last year’s show, was also present in the video. She agreed with Mel, saying she had a similar experience on her show