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Married at First Sight participants Dave Hand and Veronica Cloherty weren’t originally paired with one another on the show, but fans are convinced their friendship has since become romantic in nature.
While both the reality stars had interacted in group settings at both the dinner parties and commitment ceremonies, it wasn’t until they were paired together by the experts for the controversial partner swap challenge that they begun to know each other on a deeper level.
But despite the speculation, Veronica has denied that anything more than a friendship ever existed between the pair.
“I find it so hilarious this whole thing is circulating in this way. I’ve actually been abstinent for almost two years,” she revealed on the MAFS Funny podcast.
“I think everyone is just looking for someone to blame, to be honest, and I’m an easy target given how everything’s been unfolding for me recently.”
Her comments came mere days after Dave also commented on their rumored relationship.
“Just to be clear nothing happened and you know Veronica and I obviously had a connection and we got along and that was it,” he shared with Hit Central Queensland in mid-March.
“I’m not going to sleep with someone jumping in my bed for one or two nights, it’s not how it works, especially when I’m married to someone else. It’s a bit ridiculous that people would think that, but yeah, [cheating] definitely goes against my morals,” he also shared with Chattr that same week in a tell-all interview.
His comments came shortly after Veronica admitted to producers on-screen that she felt like she would “have been better matched with Dave” in the experiment instead of her husband Eliot whom she exited the experiment with at the end of Feedback Week.
“Dave is a very attractive person. We’ve got a very similar sense of humour. He’s ticking a lot of boxes,” she shared at the time.
“I’m obviously not matched with him but in terms of thinking about what I really want, and if I had to model someone that I wanted it would probably be Dave,” she added.
Dave shared these sentiments, telling producers that he thought he and Veronica were “pretty similar.”
“She is a good person. We have good banter.”
While Dave and Veronica did share a bed together during the couple swap challenge, and were even filmed giggling and looking cosy during the final morning of the challenge – the pair have both denied anything else took place.
Despite this, Eliot has taken to social media to share a video poking fun at what many fans are speculating occurred between his former television wife and fellow groom.
Jamie and Dave have long been one of Married At First Sight’s most rock-solid couples. In fact, it was not long ago that Jamie, 29, was telling the other girls that she wanted to start a family with him!
“I want to have a bunch of his little babies,” she told fellow bride Beth on the first night of the retreat, adding she had “never felt like this before”.
But, things took a shocking downturn during Feedback Week as groom Adrian Araouzou forced the blonde bombshell to confront some harsh truths about her relationship with Dave, and his inability to reciprocate her feelings.
Things then went from bad to worse at the dinner party that same week as he exhibited dismissive and selfish behaviour towards Jamie that left her and the other couples – gobsmacked.
“Jamie has always worn her heart on her sleeve, but she didn’t want to rush into telling Dave how she was feeling,” a MAFS insider has previously told New Idea, saying Jamie was devastated when he didn’t say “I love you” back.
“It’s left her questioning their whole relationship,” they added.
Dave’s also recently been spotted out partying with other grooms, with Jamie nowhere to be seen.
On top of this, New Idea has obtained pics of Dave enjoying laughs with bride Veronica once cameras had stopped rolling during filming last year – leaving fans wondering if his marriage to Jamie will soon come to a cataclysmic end.
“Jamie can’t understand how it went so wrong, so fast. She was already imagining their future. She was so distraught by how things fell apart during this week,” the insider added.
More recently, Dave defended Veronica after the brunette beauty was swamped with backlash from fans of MAFS for her behaviour on the show.
“I think Veronica’s great. I think this is really hard…it’s a big TV show to be put on display like this,” he shared with the Daily Mail on March 16.
“You’ve seen how we got along, and I thought….it makes you think. I think that her edit is getting chopped and changed, and it must be really rough for her to go through what she’s going through at the moment.”
