NEED TO KNOW
- Married At First Sight bride Brook Crompton has announced she is pregnant and engaged!
- Baby’s father is Brook’s former boyfriend, now fiancé, Harry, whom she started dating again shortly after leaving MAFS last year.
- Brook’s MAFS husband, Chris Nield, has broken his silence on the drama.
Married at First Sight groom Chris Nield has broken his silence on Brook Crompton’s engagement and pregnancy as shocking new details have emerged.
Just days before her MAFS exit was revealed, Brook, 27, confirmed that she has rekindled things with her former partner of two years, Harry, and is engaged and expecting a child with him.
Now, Chris, 31, has finally broken his silence on the news during an appearance on MAFS spin-off show After The Dinner Party.
Chris was asked by host Laura Byrne whether he thought Brook was talking to her ex during filming, and he had a very telling response.
“Ask me yesterday, I’d say, no, I didn’t, ask me today, and I’d change my opinion,” he said.
Chris also claimed that Brook had told him of her trip to the Maldives, but claimed it was with her family and friends, while it has now emerged that it was with Harry.
Speaking to our sister publication Woman’s Day, Brook said she went on holiday with Harry just weeks after filming ended to give their relationship one final go, but insisted nothing happened between them during filming.
However, unseen clips aired on After The Dinner Party showed Brook revealing that she was still in contact with Harry during her “marriage” to Chris.
During an honesty task, Brook was seen telling Chris that she last slept with someone just two days before their wedding, before revealing to production it was “someone in her life”.
“But it’s like, that’s the thing, it’s in my past, I’m here for Chris now,” she added.
When asked when she last spoke to her ex, she revealed, “When he wanted to buy me flowers, and I was like ‘you do realise I’m married now’.”
“I’m friends with my ex, I don’t hate him, we’re friends, if he texts me, I will respond,” she added.
According to the show, Brook was invited to appear on After The Dinner Party but declined.
Read on for everything you need to know about Brook’s engagement.
When did Brook Crompton get engaged?
The Daily Mail was first to report on the news that bride Brook Crompton has rekindled her relationship with her ex-boyfriend, Harry, and is now pregnant with his child.
She subsequently confirmed the happy news to New Idea‘s sister publication, Woman’s Day, adding that she and Harry are also engaged.
Confirming her engagement, Brook said she knew Chris wasn’t the person for her after watching his shocking audition tape comments.
“I’ve actually never been with someone that speaks about women that poorly — so right from the get-go, I was like, ‘This person is not for me,'” she said.
Within two weeks of their “marriage” ending, Brook had reunited with Harry, whom she split from just three months before MAFS filming started.
They jetted off to the Maldives in September to try and give their relationships a final go, and they quickly got back on track.
“We just had the most beautiful time. We were better than we ever had been,” she shared with Woman’s Day.
Shortly after the trip, she discovered she was pregnant, and their baby is due in August.
How did MAFS’ Chris find out about Brook’s pregnancy?
New Idea was reliably told that the baby bombshell “blindsided” Brook’s MAFS husband, Chris Nield.
“The cast heard whispers quite a while ago that Brook had fallen pregnant after filming ended, but it was fully confirmed to them a few weeks ago,” a MAFS insider tells New Idea exclusively.
“Everyone was very, very surprised. Chris was totally blown away by the news.”
Our insider adds that “Chris 100 per cent had feelings for Brook. He was really into her, so he was more shocked than anyone.”
Are Chris and Brook from MAFS 2026 still together?
Clearly no, they are not! The Daily Mail’s source added that Brook and Chris’ marriage “never stood a chance”.
The wheels apparently fell off for Brook, 27, and Chris, 31, during the recent Revelations Week task.
“Brook was completely turned off by Chris’ comments that she saw in his audition tape,” New Idea’s MAFS insider adds. “After that, things went downhill fast.”
Our insider believes that Chris was unhappy that Brook seemingly checked out of their relationship after that event, which played out on-air last week.
“This also explains why he was so shocked when he heard that Brook was pregnant,” the source adds.
Who is the father of Brook from MAFS baby?
Despite the scandal surrounding her baby’s conception, Brook is said to be over the moon to be pregnant. She has previously opened up about her desire to start a family, saying she always hoped to experience all the joys that motherhood brings.
Brook and Harry reportedly decided to give their relationship a second shot after she opted to leave the experiment. Filming on MAFS concluded in the latter half of last year.
In video footage obtained by the Daily Mail, Brook and Harry can be seen decorating their Christmas tree in October 2025. They also reportedly enjoyed a romantic getaway in the Maldives together, post-filming, around this time.
The Daily Mail also added that Brook was still referring to Harry as her “boyfriend” in April 2025, just a few months before she started filming Married At First Sight.
“She was technically single when she entered the experiment,” our insider explains.
“But some cast had concerns about how serious she really was about giving the experiment her all.”
“We always wanted kids!”
In a new interview with Chattr published on February 9, Brook seemingly confirmed her rekindled romance when discussing her “beautiful” Valentine’s Day plans with a “beautiful, non-fat shaming man” – a direct reference to Chris’s on-air fatphobic comments.
The Gold Coast-based model further explained that she’d broken up with her ex, Harry, shortly before filming MAFS, and that they were very serious and had openly talked about starting a family together.
“I had come out of a relationship where we were settling down,” Brook told Chattr.
“We were talking about wanting to have children, you know, I wanted someone mature who adores me for me. I was coming out of that, I wanted someone that’s mature, that knows who they are.”
