MAFS 2021: TV watchdog confirms complaints for Married at First Sight the most ever for the series - PerthNow

“A significant proportion of the complaints alleged the program included personally abusive interchanges between participants through gaslighting, social, verbal and mental abuse, and that the program perpetuated and promoted the theme of domestic abuse,” ACMA said in a statement.

“Married At First Sight generated 10 complaints to the ACMA in 2020.

In 2019 it generated 45 complaints,” ACMA said.

“Under the co-regulatory system, the ACMA will refer complainants to the broadcaster in the first instance,” ACMA said.