Married At First Sight star Nathanial Valentino has made sensational claims about former wife Ella Morgan following his abrupt exit from the show last week.
Nathanial and Ella have had a rocky relationship since their honeymoon but the cracks in their relationship came to a head during recently aired scenes. The reality star came to blows with 29-year-old trans contestant Ella after he believed she had been cheating on him with newcomer JJ. Nathanial, who identifies as pansexual, was left fuming after finding out his wife was seeing JJ behind his back and sending flirtatious text messages to the 30-year-old groom from Essex.
When he confronted Ella over her actions at the dinner party, both Ella and JJ expressed that there was an undeniable connection between them. Left feeling betrayed, Nathanial decided to quit the experiment. He has since spoken out about Ella's actions behind the scenes and alleges his wife spent much of their time partying with fellow contestants and leaving him alone. It comes after he previously alleged that production had lied to get him onto the show.
Responding to a fan's question on Instagram about whether he had liked Ella, Nathanial issued a lengthy statement, stating he never had time to bond with her, claiming was 'getting drunk and partying every night', approached men for threesomes on their honeymoon and left him alone in bed '99% of the time.'
Married At First Sight's Ella was left 'upset' over Nathaniel's claimsHe wrote: "Ella isn't my usual type, I was attracted to her at the wedding and I when we were good we had so much fun... The truth is Ella wouldn't spend time with me, she was more into having fun with the girls, I was always in the apartment cooking cleaning shopping etc..."
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"She was more I into getting drunk and partying every night, than working on us (what we were there for) I went to bed alone 99% time... We promised each other we would protect each other and she betray my friendship and trust we created through this experience..."
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Married At First Sight's Nathanial quit the show last week (E4)"I put up with alot with her behaviour but this was too much. I left the show on the honeymoon after I found out production lied to get me on the show and Ella's drunk antics at hotel bar asking guys for 3sums...She begged me to stay and she was sorry for everything which you guys didn't see."
Responding to the claims, Ella said: "These claims which have been brought to my attention are really upsetting to read and are untrue. I worked really hard at my relationship with Nathaniel and unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be. So I would very much like to leave that in the past and move on with my life."
A Channel 4 spokesperson told The Daily Mail: "Nathaniel entered this process voluntarily with full and informed consent, and was actually provided with more information than we would ordinarily share with cast members. We take the matching of couples very seriously, using in-depth profiling, and research to match for compatibility.
"After being cast on MAFS UK, contributors have the ability and choice to leave the process at any stage, which audiences saw Nathaniel do during episode 20 last week. The welfare of all contributors on Married at First Sight UK is our top priority and we ensure that appropriate support is available to contributors at all times before, during and after filming. All broadcast episodes of MAFS UK are a fair and accurate reflection of the events that took place."