The Married At First Sight UK drama just doesn’t let up, does it? From Terence Edwards quitting the show amid claims Porscha Pernnelle snogged four of the other grooms during a game of Spin the Bottle to reports of Luke Worley being axed from the show after a physical fight with Jordan Gayle, it’s all kicking off.
But we still haven’t forgotten about one of the first major shocks of Married At First Sight UK 2023, when Brad Skelly was asked to leave the experiment by the show’s dating experts after being accused of disrespecting Shona Manderson and exhibiting “controlling” behaviour.
After slamming Brad’s “sh*tty behaviour” on social media, Shona has now spoken out to reveal the REAL reason Brad was removed from the show following an off-camera incident.
According to Shona, Brad most questionable behaviour happened when the cameras weren’t rolling. She explained how an incident after the third dinner party “resulted in the experts intervening and choosing to send us home”.
Although she said, “I won’t share the details because it’s just too much. It’s too much for me to go into,” Shona spoke about another incident where Brad branded her a “c**t” and caused her to have a panic attack.
During an appearance on the It’s Not You, It’s Them… But It Might Be You podcast, Shona said, “Something I am happy to share with you is an example of something that didn’t make the edit, but it happened in front of people. We were at a second commitment ceremony and my friend, Laura in the cast, has just been called a gold digger by another cast member, Luke. And a little bit of context, Bradley throughout the experiment he kept being like ‘don’t do this, don’t do that, I’m getting annoyed that you’re not listening to me and don’t rise to drama. We don’t rise to drama. Your yoga vibes and meditation vibes’, blah, blah, blah.
“And I’m sat there and my heart’s going for Laura and I’m thinking I want to stick up for her but hate confrontation, anyway, I do. And as soon as I do, Bradley lets go off my hand. And he goes, ‘what the f**k are you doing?’ And I just freeze and I come like a deer in the headlights you see it in the edit and I kind of like stumble on my words, my argument is rubbish. I feel really embarrassed. And then he just goes, ‘well done, you made a complete C-U-N-T out of yourself there’. And I’m just sat there.”
Shona then explained how she ran to the toilet and had a panic attack. When she brought up the incident in front of the experts, Brad claimed he’d called her an “idiot” but Shona admitted she didn’t correct him because she felt “scared”.
“And that was a huge problem in our relationship because I did a lot and a lot of protecting and in that I lost my light. I lost my voice because I was so fearful of what everyone else would think of him and that is my lesson that I will never let that happen again,” she added.
Shona and Brad initially bonded over the stars and the universe, falling for each other pretty rapidly, but things quickly went downhill before Brad was removed from the show.
However, Shona also admitted on the podcast that she and Brad were together for six weeks after they finished filming before she "woke the hell up" and ended things.
After the news about his removal from the show broke, Brad took to social media to share a passage about, "loss" and "suffering."
It's all very Brad is all we'll say.
We previously chatted to the reality TV star about his treatment of Shona and how he felt about being accused of 'disrespecting' her.
Brad admitted, "I've definitely learned lessons from, you know, the experiment and more. So people's boundaries and respects."
But Brad has already moved on and was was pictured necking on with his new girl, Hollie Baldwin, at Alton Towers before they went Instagram official earlier this week.