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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning.

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Speaker 2: One point seven w s.

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Speaker 1: So Married at First Sight has been rocked by explosive

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Speaker 1: claims from a contestant that staff manipulated her into saying

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Speaker 1: things on camera by threatening her that she did not

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Speaker 1: she didn't say what they said, Australia would hate her.

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Speaker 2: This we're talking about Poppy I haven't seen the show,

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Speaker 2: but Poppies is saying that she on the show was

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Speaker 2: painted as someone who was a miserable winger, a bogan,

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Speaker 2: single mum. These are the words she'd used to fit

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Speaker 2: an agenda. She said she actually, in reality wasn't allowed

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Speaker 2: to say what she felt, which was she felt the

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Speaker 2: man she'd been paired with was a little bit creepy.

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Speaker 2: She didn't feel comfortable. There were times she felt scared

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Speaker 2: and she spoke to the staff about that and they said,

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Speaker 2: just say these words, you'll come out of it. Okay. Well,

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Speaker 2: she's not happy with how she's been depicted and not

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Speaker 2: happy that the reality of the situation wasn't shown. But

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Speaker 2: as you just said earlier, Brendan, these shows aren't about reality.

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Speaker 2: These shows are heavily scripted, they're heavily manipulated. I don't

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Speaker 2: think the audience cared. I think that is enjoying the drama,

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Speaker 2: but the people who go on them. We spoke to

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Speaker 2: Dean from Married at First Sight. He went on Dancing

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Speaker 2: with the Stars to try and say to people, Hey,

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Speaker 2: I'm not the horrible monster that I was painted on

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Speaker 2: that program. A lot of people have come out of

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Speaker 2: these shows saying they weren't happy with their portrayal. And

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Speaker 2: it's interesting last year because a lot of questions are

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Speaker 2: being asked about the duty of care of these production

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Speaker 2: companies and the networks. These people, they're not TV people.

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Speaker 2: They go into this stuff without any idea of what

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Speaker 2: they're in for, and they get a trolled, they get

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Speaker 2: edited very heavily. They have a lot of mental health

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Speaker 2: issues afterwards. So the network for nine, Channel nine is

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Speaker 2: offering past contestants free psychological support. This came after a

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Speaker 2: ruling where someone from House Rules Channel seven was ordered

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Speaker 2: to pay workers comp to this woman. She argued her

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Speaker 2: negative portrayal on House Rules triggered post traumatic stress anxiety

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Speaker 2: depression made her unemployable.

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Speaker 1: Because Poppy on the show, it always seemed that she

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Speaker 1: was just complaining that she was missing her kids.

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Speaker 3: Obviously left on two little boys a home, so I

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Speaker 3: left a lot behind to come here. Struggle with that

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Speaker 3: more than I could probably explain, being very upset over it.

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Speaker 3: I said my vows, he said his vows. But then

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Speaker 3: I guess or I could think of honestly my kids all.

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Speaker 1: Day and it would be hard. The honeymoon, for example,

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Speaker 1: goes for four days. You see it on the Telly.

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Speaker 1: It goes for about five minutes, not ever mat But she.

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Speaker 2: Says the reason she wasn't happy with that relationship is

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Speaker 2: she just didn't like him and actually felt very, very uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: And it's like what you said, these people haven't worked

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Speaker 1: in media. We've been working in media for a long time.

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Speaker 1: We know all the tricks, all the tricks that produces.

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Speaker 1: TV producers will do to get you to say stuff.

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Speaker 1: I've been on two reality shows, and I used to

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Speaker 1: say to them, particularly on Dad's with the Stars, I said,

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Speaker 1: what storyline are we looking at? Fellas? What do you

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Speaker 1: want me to do so we can get out of

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Speaker 1: here quick? And they literally say, oh, can you just

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Speaker 1: go yep? Done. But these guys aren't definite enough because

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Speaker 1: they're selling cosmetics one week and now they're expected to

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Speaker 1: be a TV host and it's you know, as Bond

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Speaker 1: Scott said, I tell your folks, it's harder than a look.

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Speaker 2: You have to be a robust person to handle it.

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Speaker 2: And these people get a lot of trolling. There's a

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Speaker 2: case recently, a very sad thing Caroline Flack. She's the

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Speaker 2: host of Love Island in England. She has taken her

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Speaker 2: own life. Two contestants from previous series have taken their

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Speaker 2: own lives. There's a big push now to stop the

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Speaker 2: press going for these people. Because she had a court

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Speaker 2: case that even she was alleged that she'd assaulted her boyfriend.

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Speaker 2: This was due in court. He said, it wasn't really,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't an assault. We're fine where a couple go away.

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Speaker 2: But the courts were pressing ahead and the media were

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Speaker 2: in her face. She became the butt of a thousand jokes.

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Speaker 2: And the way that you're portrayed on TV reflects therefore

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Speaker 2: in how you're portrayed in newspapers and magazines and the

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Speaker 2: way that the trolls attack you. This is terrible stuff.

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Speaker 2: You were saying before that you think it's fair enough

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Speaker 2: if you sign up for this stuff suck.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's true. You see, you're sold to the devil

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But if you want fame, and this is what happened

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Speaker 1: to you, look at all the people in time, Heath Ledger,

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Speaker 1: Michael Hutchins, all these guys like I remember speaking to

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Speaker 1: Heath Ledger when he was first starting at and he

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Speaker 1: wanted it so bad. He wanted it, And we spoke

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Speaker 1: to him before he died, you know, broke Back Mountain,

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Speaker 1: and he was over it. You know, you can't once

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Speaker 1: you release the fame, Genie, once you make that deal

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Speaker 1: with the devil, you can't put it back in. Michael

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Speaker 1: Hutchins gave his soul for that, and then at the

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Speaker 1: end he was hating it. He was hating being followed.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want that anymore. But you can't switch it off.

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Speaker 2: But what is it that these are people who want

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Speaker 2: this fame? But what is it about us that turns

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Speaker 2: it so negative? Why are we so hateful to these people?

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Speaker 2: I think we have to look at our own behavior.

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Speaker 2: That's sport now that we just knock them down.

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Speaker 1: He's a jealousy because you're thinking, well, hang on, why

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Speaker 1: is this person being escalated, why are they getting on?

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Speaker 2: I think we just think they're if they're fodder. It's

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Speaker 2: it's it's become a gladiators thing for us. We just

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Speaker 2: watch them literally die in front of us. I think

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Speaker 2: we have to look at our own behavior and we are.

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Speaker 2: We do need to be responsible into how we react

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Speaker 2: to these people.

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Speaker 3: Joines The and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning at one point seven