It’s been a while now since Married At First Sight UK came to an end and the 2024 brides and grooms have been getting on with their post-show lives ever since. The likes of Charlie Curtis, Caspar Todd and Ross McCarthy have all moved on with new partners, while turbulent couple Holly Ditchfield and Alex Henry previously sparked rumours they rekindled their romance.
Now, another of this year’s brides has opened up about dating after the show following the breakdown of her marriage.
Kristina Goodsell was matched with Kieran Chapman by the show’s experts and while it initially seemed like a perfect match, things started to go wrong towards the end of the experiment and they split before the final vows.
Despite the messy end to their relationship, it did seem like Kristina and Kieran could still salvage a friendship during the reunion when she asked him to go to a festival with her.
However, Kristina has now revealed that they’re not on speaking terms and ‘no longer friends’.
After cutting ties with Kieran, the dog walker turned reality star has been getting back into dating and admitted she’s seeing someone new.
‘I’m a new woman since Married At First Sight. It’s taught me to be unapologetically myself,’ she said in a new interview.
‘I am loving my single life, but I’m open to dating. I have been on dates, but it’s early stages. If someone is going to want me, they’re going to want me and I’m just going to go for it, because I’m not changing for anyone.’
As for where she stands with Kieran, Kristina told The Sun, ‘Unfortunately we’re not friends, my perspective of a friendship and Kieran’s perspective of a friendship is very different. It has now been apparent since the first reunion.
‘I treasure my friends and I need consistent friends, he unfortunately is not a consistent friend, so I wish him nothing but the best and send him so much love but 2025 is my year.’
It’s fair to say that 2024 wasn’t the experiment’s most successful year as, following the shock split of Lacey Martin and Nathan Campbell, none of the couples are still together.
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Nathan Katnoria is heat and Closer online’s Senior Digital Writer. He’s been a Married At First Sight UK fan ever since the show was rebooted on E4 and has spent the past few years writing about the wild on and off screen antics of the cast.