MAFS UK Star Amy Kenyon Seeks Therapy After Degrading Experience

star Amy Kenyon had to have therapy after feeling 'sexually degraded' on and off camera by her husband, Luke Debono.

The former wedding planner, 30, has shared her experience on the television programme which was hit with rape allegations in a Panorama documentary last week.

Three women made allegations of rape and sexual misconduct against their partners on the show.

In the wake of the claims, Amy, who was on the 2024 series and then went on to star on Celebrity , said she felt 'uncomfortable' with her partner Luke and claimed he was 'very sexually explicit and constantly making derogatory jokes'. 

Reflecting on her time on the show in a new interview, Amy told The Sun: 'I had a very, very, very difficult time on the show. And went through all that like sexual harassment publicly. I had to have therapy afterwards.

'Sexual harassment went on, and mine happened on camera. I just had to deal with it, and everybody was just laughing at it. It was making good TV, even if I did feel uncomfortable 80% of the time.'

Amy claimed things were bad from the moment she walked down the aisle and she burst into tears afterwards. 

She said the jokes and sexually explicit comments started 'straight away' - despite Amy asking Luke to 'tone it down' during their Bahamas honeymoon.

Amy said: 'As soon as he saw people laughing at things he was coming out with, it just got worse and worse and worse.'

When the show aired, Luke faced backlash from viewers due to several comments he made about Amy. 

During a pottery class, he made highly explicit sexual innuendos and crude jokes while handling the clay.

He also openly discussed his sex life on camera with fellow groom Kieran, using a crude 'garage; metaphor to imply that Amy preferred not using protection. 

A horrified Amy said she had asked Luke not to share details about their sex life on camera as she wanted to watch the show with her family. She said he 'promised he wouldn't'.

Amy continued: 'Then he spoke about it to another groom, and the scene was included. And I didn’t know until like the week that they rang me and said, "just to let you know, this is going to happen. "And he was speaking about parking the car in the garage, which sounds disgusting.'

The couple made it all the way to the final vows but split in the last episode. 

The reality star believes she had a 'lucky escape' and doesn’t lay any of the blame on the broadcaster and believes they undertook all the necessary checks.

Amy thinks there should now be 24-hour surveillance in the MAFS apartments, if it were to return for any future series. 

The Daily Mail has contacted MAFS UK and Luke for comment. 

It comes after it was revealed that the new series of Married at First Sight was 'axed' by  bosses following the rape allegations. 

The dating show was set to return to screens for its eleventh series in September, but plans to air the episodes, which wrapped last month, have now reportedly been scrapped. 

Earlier all ten series of Married at First Sight UK, known as , were removed from the channel's streaming service and an external review into contributor welfare commissioned.

Channel 4 said that no final decision on the future of the series has been made, with a spokesperson adding: 'We have just announced an external review into contributor welfare on MAFS UK and we need to see what that finds before deciding what happens next.'

It's been warned the series could even face a police probe. Security Minister Dan Jarvis has said he is 'extremely concerned', adding: 'I think it's highly likely that there will be a referral to the police and it will be a police matter for them to investigate.' 

Shona Manderson, the only woman of the three who is identified, alleged her partner, Bradley ejaculated inside her without her permission leaving her 'shocked' and 'confused' as 'we said we weren't doing that'.

Shona later went to get the morning after pill and was accompanied by a welfare producer. But soon after she discovered she was pregnant and made the difficult decision to have an abortion.

She says she does not know for sure whether the pregnancy was a result of the incident. Shona later informed production company CPL about it, but lawyers for the firm say she told them she did not have a problem with it. 

Around the same time, Brad was being called out on air by the show's experts for speaking to his partner in a controlling manner. The couple were later removed from the show due to concerns that their relationship was unhealthy.

In a statement to the BBC, Brad said he categorically denies 'any allegations of sexual misconduct, or that he was controlling'.

A second woman, referred to by the pseudonym Lizzie, told Panorama her on-screen husband raped her and subjected her to violent sex that often left her with bruises, despite her telling him to stop.

She described how one night: 'He tried to have sex with me. And I kept saying no, that I didn't want to do it.

'But he kept saying, "You can't say no, you're my wife". And he just did it anyway.'

Lizzie added that she was too scared to tell anyone about what was happening as: 'He said that if I told anybody what had happened, that he would get someone to throw acid at me.'

Lawyers for CPL told Panorama that Lizzie did not mention the 'can't say no' comment to its team and the 'acid' remark was mentioned as a 'passing comment', not a threat. CPL took action as soon as Lizzie said she felt unsafe, the lawyers added.

A third woman, Chloe, also described being raped by her MAFS husband, with her allegations being raised both with CPL and Channel 4 prior to them being shown to the public - but the episodes in which she featured were aired anyway.

She told the programme: 'He smirked and climbed on top of me, moved my leg… By that time, I'd really given up and I just didn't want him to be angry at me when the cameras came.

'I just lay there, and I stared out the window.'