Lauren Huntriss reveals why she and Matthew Bennett were edited out of the MAFS reunion

Married At First Sight star Lauren Huntriss has revealed the reason why she and her virgin groom Matthew Bennett were edited out of the show’s finale in 2019.

The pair only appeared for a few seconds in background and reaction shots during the reunion dinner.

In an Instagram Q&A on Thursday, Lauren claimed the couple were edited out of the finale because ‘she had broken her contract’ by criticising the show.

‘This was their way of getting back at me for breaking my contract and going rogue lol,’ she wrote.

Lauren also told her fans: ‘I was actually in the UK on a holiday and they made me fly back for the reunion.’

‘I had to cut my holiday short and they completely edited me out.’

After filming ended for the sixth season of MAFS, Lauren criticised producers and is understood to have broken her contract with Channel Nine and Endemol Shine Australia by doing so.

During an unauthorised interview with The Kyle and Jackie O Show in February 2019, Lauren said she ‘deserved’ to tell her story despite efforts to silence her.

When asked by a listener if producers cared about the participants’ well-being, she replied: ‘I don’t know. I like to think that they are humans [and] have feelings and compassion, but I don’t know…’

She later said it was irresponsible for producers to put certain people on television because they weren’t mentally prepared for it. 

Lauren had also previously claimed on Facebook, she was pressured into delivering certain ‘lines’ for producers.

In one controversial scene on MAFS, she told Matthew she ‘used to be a lesbian’. But according to Lauren, she was pressured into saying this because her previous admission (‘I used to see women’) apparently ‘wasn’t dramatic enough’.

Speaking on Kyle and Jackie O afterwards, she said: ‘[The producers] will say to you, “We’ll keep you here all day until you say what we want you to say”‘.