Married At First Sight’s Shona Manderson has secretly been dating one of her co-stars for monthsd.
The 31-year-old from Nottingham was originally matched with Brad Skelly on the Channel 4 hit show. However, she has now revealed a new relationship in an interview alongside her new partner.
After a turbulent romance with Brad on the show, it ended early due to being seen as “too unhealthy”. Shona then met Matt Pilmoor, 29, at the Married At First Sight reunion in June and they’ve been secretly dating ever since.
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Speaking in an interview with OK! magazine, Shona gushed about her new relationship with Matt. She said: "We have a really healthy, happy, safe, fun, relationship - I really appreciate Matt so much, it's what I deserve, we deserve each other. I'm proud to be his girlfriend and it just works."
Explaining in the interview how they kept their romance secret, Shona said: "Matt would be driving and I would be in the back, we would be walking around Nottingham and I'd be all the way over there, we were like secret agents on a mission". Matt quickly added: "We had to do it, we had to be so careful".
When asked if they wished they were originally matched on MAFS, Matt said: "We had to do what we had to do, my experience was good but we were meant to go on those journeys to find each other ... Being together from the start would have been incredible but I think it happened this way around for a purpose."
Talking about Shona, he continued: "We said to each other it's a bit soon, let's not meet straight away, so it was about five weeks after the reunion when we met," with Shona adding of their romance: "I wanted to learn from my experience with Brad, I didn't want to go in head first, I wanted it to be a slow burner."
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