MAFS couple Arthur and Laura fume over Tasha and Paul's scathing remarks

09 November 2023 , 13:39

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MAFS couple Arthur and Laura fume over Tasha and Paul's scathing remarks

Married at First Sight UK's Arthur and Laura are left fuming tonight after another couple on the E4 dating series predict that their arranged marriage would last just five minutes.

Tasha and Paul are asked to rank the other spouses on how long they'd be together in the following amounts of times: five years, five months, five weeks, five days and five minutes. The game, which is watched by experts Paul C Brunson, Mel Schilling and Charlene Douglas from a separate room, quickly leads to tension amongst the newlywed couples as the solidity of their marriages was measured in blatant terms.

"I’ll go, and you can jump in if I say anything wrong," Paul, 26, tells wife Tasha, after being tasked with the activity. "We will do five years first. I’m going to say Peggy and Georges," prompting the childcare assistant to agree.

Paul and Tasha didn't hold back when predicting how long the other MAFS couples would last

Not everybody had the same faith, however, in Peggy and Georges' relationship. Clearly unimpressed with the assessment, Arthur exclaims, "Five years? Really?" in response to Paul and Tasha's positive judgement call.

"Arthur!" Peggy gasps, clearly offended by the tennis coach's swipe at her marriage. Georges is quick to show support for his bride following the cruel remark, protectively putting his arm around the Kent native in a gesture of solidarity.

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Paul and Tasha give the five months' prediction to Matt and Adrienne, who caused major controversy after entering the show as latecomers. The five week timeline is given to Erica and Jordan over concerns about the couple's distance from each other. Paul and Tasha proceed to predict that Ella and JJ will last five days, while Arthur marriage to Laura Vaughan is the most likely to end in five minutes. Unsurprisingly, the damning assessment doesn't go down well with the 34-year-old.

Arthur and Laura were unimpressed to hear their marriage would only last 5 minutes (E4)

"Let's stay together for 10 minutes," Arthur quips in response, prompting Peggy to ask him for clarification on his comment. "It's a joke," the athlete snaps back, seemingly irritated by his fellow MAFS contestant's question.

"Jokes aren't landing, mate," psychiatrist Mel Schilling, who also provided her expert advice on the Australian version of the reality series, observes from another room.

Last month, Arthur confirmed that he and Laura had split after a short-lived relationship. The couple's marriage had been wrought by turmoil from the start, with the revelation that Arthur had downloaded his vows from the Internet leaving both Laura and her friends, Cam and Lucia, unimpressed and suspicious. Her pals also didn't approve of the finance manager's husband, which only made tensions in the marriage worse.

"I was moving houses as well at the same time so I didn’t have time to sit down and think of how I felt," Arthur later told the Daily Star, when asked why he didn't write the vows himself. He also explained that, while he somewhat regretted copying the vows, it wasn't easy to gush about a total stranger. "How do you pick the words for somebody you’ve never met before?" he said.

Emma Dooney