Cyrell Paule made a heartbreaking confession on Monday’s episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Australia 2026.
The Married At First Sight star broke down in tears on February 2 as she revealed that she has been hiding a secret scar on her forehead.
She explained that she was accidentally burned as a child, admitting that her biggest fear about joining IAC was being seen without make-up on.
“One of my biggest fears was to come here without make-up,” she admitted through tears.
“And it sounds so silly, but I was really so scared to show my face without makeup and how people would react to it.”
Talking to her campmate, Concetta Caristo, Cyrell shared that she has never had the confidence to be seen publicly without wearing make-up.
“Do you know no one has ever seen me without makeup besides my partner and my son?” she said.
“This is my first time really showing the world my scar on my face.”
“I was so worried when I woke up the first day in the jungle. I thought you guys were all going to be like, “What’s wrong with her face? What happened to her face?” she added.
Cyrell said she got bullied as a child over her scar and told how people’s cruel criticism led to her doubting her partner Eden Dally’s love for her.
“My partner being a white Australian man, people just did not see why he would be with a short, black Asian,” she said.
“He was on Love Island. He’s known to get girls with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I always get comments like, “What’s he doing with her? How can he wake up to a face like that every morning?”
“It made me question, truthfully, ‘Why are you with me? You can get such beautiful girls’.”
Cyrell said that showing her scar on national television has been a step towards loving herself, adding, “This is who I am and you either love it, or don’t, but this is who I am.”
Scroll on to read more about Cyrell’s life.
Who is Cyrell Paule?
Cyrell rose to fame on the sixth series of Married At First Sight in 2019.
She was matched up with Nic Jovanović at the altar, but they went their separate ways shortly after the show ended.
“I think I’m at that point where I probably won’t be dating for a while. Not until this s**t quietens down,” she told our sister publication Woman’s Day at the time.
What happened to Cyrell Paule from MAFS?
Shortly after appearing on MAFS, Cyrell started dating Love Island Australia star Eden Dally.
They welcomed their son, Boston, in February 2020, shortly after they first got together.
Cyrell has also appeared on numerous reality TV shows, including The Amazing Race Australia.
She competed on the show alongside Eden last year, while she has also appeared on The Challenge.
Now, she has joined I’m A Celebrity and is hoping to ditch her nickname “Cyclone Cyrell” on the show.
“I’m over being called Cyclone Cyrell, there’s much more to me than just that,” she told The Daily Telegraph.
“If you come for me, expect me to retaliate with full force. And if people don’t like my approach, then maybe just don’t start me. I never instigate things, but I will surely finish them.”
Are Cyrell Paule and Eden Dally still together?
Yes! The couple has been together since 2019 and is still going strong.
“He’s one of those guys who’s so attractive that at first I was like, ‘no’, but then you talk, and it grows,” she previously shared.
They announced they were expecting their first child together just five months into their relationship.
At the time, Eden admitted he was surprised when Cyrell first told him she was pregnant.
“I didn’t know what to feel. I was a bit in shock and took a while to process it,” he told New Idea.
“Then we spoke, and I said, ‘Whatever you want to do, I’ll support you and be there for the child.”
They briefly broke up in October 2019 but reconciled just two months later, and they welcomed their son, Boston, in February 2020.
Cyrell has previously said she doesn’t feel the need to get married, and said they would rather spend the money of a wedding on a house.
“A piece of paper doesn’t need to tell us we are married. We have a kid together already as it is, so what is a piece of paper?” she told The Daily Telegraph.
