MAFS star 'reveals' how much cast get for show as she complains about production

A former Married at First Sight UK bride has spoken about having appeared on the show, including discussing financial compensation, contracts and her wedding. Her comments come amid the new series of the E4 show.

Erica Roberts appeared on MAFS back in 2023 and was matched with Jordan Gayle, whom it was later announced she had split up from after a reunion episode. Following the show's return just days ago, she's opened up about her experience as part of the cast in posts shared this week.

She had been asked if the cast are compensated and if they are contracted for reunion shows by a fan on TikTok recently. Erica responded: "So we don't actually get paid for being on the show but they do give us our loss of earnings."

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Erica suggested that it was "capped," saying: "If you earn three grand a month you get three grand a month back. Like they will compensate you for that. If you earn anything more than three grand a month, they don't cover it. I'm not entirely sure if it was three grand, I think it might have been a little bit more. But anyway, there was a cap."

She added: "They would also give us like £120, I think it was, a week, which was food because obviously when you're living in the apartments we were basically living just like a normal life. Like we had to go to the shops, buy food shops, cook for ourselves etc."

Erica continued: "When it comes to reunions, we do get paid to go to the reunion. Not everyone's invited to the reunions and you're also not contracted to anything, to be honest." She said that throughout the process, the cast aren't in a "strict contract" that requires them to stay for a certain length or time of attend the reunions.

She said: "Get asked to go to the reunion [but] you don't want to go to the reunion, you don't need to go." Erica added that if someone decided two weeks into the show that they wanted to leave, they can, saying: "Essentially you can leave whenever you want to leave that process."

Erica went on to discuss speculation about contracts for couples on reality TV shows. She said: "One thing that actually makes me laugh so much [is] when I see people come off reality TV and then they break-up and people are like 'oh it's because their contract ended, their three month contract was over'. That's not a f***ing thing. [...] None of us are contracted to be with each other."

She suggested that couples from reality TV shows could decide to stay together for opportunities though. Erica said: "They might stay with that person and think 'ah, let's like milk this a little bit, see what we can get out of it' but they're not contracted. That is insane!"

In another TikTok video, Erica complained about production not paying for guests to attend her wedding on MAFS. She told fans: "With the weddings, you're only allowed to have 12 guests, I'm sure it is. But those 12 guests have to make their own way there. They have to pay their own way there."

She told fans that herself and her family travelled "down south" from Scotland. Erica said: "I actually don't know for sure where the wedding was. I know they got me a train to London and then I was in a cab for maybe like an hour or two to wherever [the venue] was.

"My guests had to get there as well. So they all had to fork out and pay to come to a 'fake' wedding. Remember, that's trains, that's hotels, Ubers, whatever, food. Everything."

Erica said they had to be there the night before and then have a "long a** day" at the wedding itself and "then obviously the night after the wedding". She said: "So that's like three whole days that they're having to like give up."

She concluded the video message on TikTok by saying: "I actually got married on Mother's Day so they were giving up their Mother's Day to be at the wedding and they had to pay for it, which I thought was a bit s***e."

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