The greatest season ever? MAFS 2026 trailer reveals raunchy hookups, screaming matches and runaway brides: ‘You are not coming for my husband’

Channel Nine has officially declared Married At First Sight 2026 ‘the greatest season of them all’.

And if this explosive trailer obtained by Daily Mail is anything to go by, it is clear the network has not made that call lightly.

The upcoming series promises bigger emotions, louder confrontations and more psychological chaos than anything the franchise has delivered before, with producers quietly warning it will make past infamous seasons look tame.

The jaw-dropping preview opens on what should be one of the most romantic moments of the entire experiment.

Bride Alissa Fay and groom David Momoh stand side by side at the altar as their celebrant delivers the traditional vow.

‘I now ask if any person has a genuine reason why these two should not be joined in marriage. Please speak now or forever hold your peace,’ the celebrant says.

Seconds later, the entire wedding detonates.

‘I’m really, really sorry. I don’t think I can marry you,’ Alissa tells her groom.

Gasps ripple through the ceremony, before one shocked bride is heard screaming, ‘Oh my God.’

Moments later, the trailer cuts back to David, who delivers the line already destined to become one of the most quoted moments of the season.

‘You must have got my email. I’m your Nigerian prince.’

A booming voiceover follows: ’18 new strangers.’

From there, the season accelerates into full emotional freefall.

Another bride is heard muttering, ‘I actually feel sick,’ before Rebecca Zacharia is shown sobbing into the cameras.

‘I don’t want to be with anyone that gets arrested,’ she sobs.

Viewers are then introduced to bisexual bride Julia Vogl, who admits she has no idea who she will be matched with.

‘I don’t know if I’m gonna be matched with a man or a woman.’

The trailer then crashes into dinner party chaos, with Rebecca screaming across the table at another bride: ‘You are not coming for my husband.’ 

The trailer also makes it clear that while some couples are collapsing before the vows are even finished, others are wasting no time getting very comfortable.

Between the tears and tantrums, viewers are also treated to steamy flashes of newlyweds hooking up in the ocean and kissing under running showers.

The trailer lands after Daily Mail exclusively revealed that MAFS 2026 has been engineered to become the most explosive season in the show’s history.

Insiders have confirmed producers deliberately created a rotating roster of villains rather than relying on a single troublemaker.

‘No one is “the” villain because everyone is the villain at some point,’ one insider said. ‘It changes every week. It is emotional whiplash.’

Sources inside production say the women have emerged as some of the most volatile brides the franchise has ever cast, with tantrums, screaming matches, walk outs and off-camera sabotage becoming so extreme that producers were forced to screen a private montage of the participants’ worst behaviour in an attempt to rein them in.

‘They were stunned seeing themselves like that,’ one crew member said. ‘But the chaos still continued.’

Several brides are said to have entered the experiment with burner accounts, influencer strategies and pre-planned media game plans.

‘They were talking about brand deals on the honeymoon,’ one insider revealed. ‘This is the most calculated group we have ever seen.’

The grooms are described as equally unpredictable, creating what producers have called a constant pressure cooker of emotional tension.

‘You do not get a moment to breathe,’ a producer admitted. ‘People flip from sweetheart to nightmare in under an hour.’

Friendships have already imploded behind the scenes, with alliances forming and collapsing before the show has even aired. Some brides now refuse to film together, while others have cut ties entirely after off-camera arguments became personal.

Production has also been rocked by a runaway bride who vanished for 14 hours mid-filming, prompting frantic searches before she resurfaced late that night threatening to quit the show. 

Another couple was axed entirely after unverified TikTok accusations surfaced, blindsiding them after they had already completed their wedding and honeymoon.

All of this has unfolded under the strictest rulebook the franchise has ever enforced, including weekly drug tests, curfews and zero-tolerance policies around criminal histories.

Even so, insiders insist this remains the most volatile cast ever assembled.

‘We basically ran a daycare for adults who refuse to behave,’ one crew member joked.

Producers are already comparing the scale of chaos to the franchise’s most infamous eras, including the Cyrell Paule and Martha Kalifatidis feud and the Domenica Calarco and Olivia Frazer saga.

‘It feels like seasons six and nine combined,’ one source said. ‘But now it’s happening across the entire cast all at once. No one is safe.’

Married At First Sight returns February 2 at 7.30pm on Channel Nine.