When audiences were first introduced to the intruder couple, Teejay Halkias and Beth Kelly, on Married at First Sight, it was clear that they had an instant connection.
Both sharing a home state of Queensland and a genuine desire to find that special someone to spend the rest of their lives with, fans were certain they would be a couple to watch as the experiment progressed.
However, their relationship ended shortly before Final Vows. Scroll on for a recap of everything that happened since and during their marriage on MAFS.
Connecting after filming
While their MAFS experience ended with no happily ever after, there is no bad blood between the pair.
Since the show finished filming, the groom has revealed that he reconnected with Beth.
“I tried to reach out and make sure she was doing OK I know that she was pretty upset during the show,” Teejay told 9Entertainment in late May, confirming he reached out first.
“She wanted to chat about a few things, so we had a chat and that was that,” he continued. “We had a long conversation, it was good.”
Since the brides and grooms got their Instagram accounts back in May, fans were curious if the pair were in contact.
One fan asked Awhina in an Instagram Q and A if they spoke to one another, and she shared a video of them both at the same MAFS cast catch-up.
“Things are obviously platonic between Beth and me,” Teejay told 9Entertainment. “It won’t be anything romantic… but amicable. If we see each other out, we’ll speak to each other and whatnot, but I wouldn’t say we’re best friends.”
The end of the road
As the remaining couples in the experiment prepared for Final Vows, Beth made the tough decision not to attend, revealing that she didn’t see the point in going as she already knew that Teejay would want to end their relationship.
“I don’t want to stand there, wear another white dress like I wore on my wedding day. Pour my heart out to you, pour my emotions out to you, for you to just reject me again. I deserve to be with someone who wants me and is sure about me. So final vows are not happening,” the brunette beauty told an unsurprised Teejay.
“This is just where we leave it,” she added.
Speaking later with producers about her decision to end her marriage then and there, Beth was candid in her response.
“It’s obvious that he doesn’t want me and he doesn’t want this relationship and I can’t go to final vows and stand in front of someone that I have had feelings for, confessed that I wanted a future with them, for them to tell me I don’t see a future with you. I’m not going to put my energy into it. I’m not going to waste my f****** time anymore. I genuinely thought we were going to walk out of this experiment together, I thought we were perfectly matched, and now…I’m just so sad that it didn’t work out.”
While Teejay admitted he was “disappointed” he couldn’t give his wife what she needed in their relationship, he did agree with her decision to end things.
“I’m upset that we couldn’t end this on good terms,” he confessed to the camera after Beth left him for good.
A final week in the experiment
With Final Vows just days away, and Teejay and Beth’s marriage looking highly likely it would come to an end, the pair jumped at the chance to partake in a final task that gave them the opportunity to meet with someone else the experts almost matched them with.
While Beth got on well with personal trainer Oisin and even exchanged flirty banter with the Sydney-based Irishman, she admitted Teejay was still on her mind.
But for Teejay, it was the opposite – the groom quickly became enthralled with his second-best match, Tara.
“I can’t force someone to want to be with me,” a dejected Beth shared with producers after reuniting with Teejay and realising he still couldn’t commit to working on their marriage.
The homestay from hell
Excited about homestays in Brisbane, Belt felt the full weight of introducing a partner to her family for the first time.
While Teejay spoke highly of his wife, Beth’s friend Darcy and her family questioned his repeated use of the word “friendship” and felt like he was not being honest about his feelings.
When her father asked if his daughter’s heart would be broken by the end of the experiment, he said he was unsure, which shocked everyone. At Beth’s pressing, he said he was transparent about his thoughts.
Tensions rose as they met with Teejay’s friends in Brisbane, where he elaborated more about his feelings.
“Is our connection going to flourish into a relationship? There’s obviously something that’s lacking between us for me to say, ‘Yes, I want a relationship with this person’,” he explained to Beth and his friends.
Beth was left devastated by this and said it was hard to hear and confirmed a fear she had: “I’m in the situation that I dreaded the most, that I have feelings for my partner and he possibly doesn’t have them for me,” she told the cameras.
Once she left the table and the room, Teejay told his friends: “If you were to tell me yes or no right now… then it has to be a no, because I’m not completely comfortable.”
Frustrated with her husband’s admission, Beth said she felt embarrassed and wished she knew where Teejay stood before she introduced him to her family.
Embarrassed and reeling after Teejay’s revelation at their homestays, Beth was apprehensive about the subsequent dinner party. Although they entered together, they immediately separated.
When the group asked them what happened at their homestay, Beth reiterated how hurt she was by Teejay’s confession and his inability to speak with certainty about their relationship.
“That was really big for me to see you with my family, and you know what? It hurts that you’re like ‘Nah, I don’t see it’,” she told him. To this, he said he had to be honest about how he felt in that moment, and that he felt pushed in a corner.
“I’m a bit of a see-saw at the moment. There are parts of me that want to try, and parts of me that say I haven’t felt my emotions grow in the past fortnight,” he told producers before Beth walked away.
Determined to speak privately, Teejay followed and told his wife he was still committed and cared for her.
“I can’t stay if you wanna leave,” she told Teejay, to which he replied: “I just don’t want to rush something right now.”
Fast forward to the following Commitment Ceremony, and things took a turn for the worse in their relationship as Beth wrote stay while Teejay wrote leave, leaving the former “embarrassed” and “gutted” after hearing her husband didn’t see a future with her.
According to the groom, it was during the homestays week when he met with Beth’s family that he realised his feelings hadn’t become romantic in nature.
A fairytale first few weeks
Despite trouble in paradise, the couple started the experiment on a strong note.
After a whirlwind first week in the experiment, it was clear the experts got it right when they matched Teejay and Beth together.
“We’re smooth sailing. We’ve connected really well,” Teejay told the experts at their first Commitment Ceremony.
“I wasn’t expecting to click this quick with someone,” a smitten Beth added, both writing ‘stay.’
In the weeks that followed, the pair continued to write stay with no complaints, their connection only growing stronger after Teejay leaped to Beth’s defence at the couple’s retreat when Ryan called her “classless.”
“When I heard that, I kind of saw red,” a visibly upset Teejay shared with producers at the time.
“I really wanted to confront him because it’s going to be a cold day in hell before someone calls my wife classless and doesn’t hear from me,” he added.
While Beth did share her concerns on the couch at the following dinner party that she felt Teejay wasn’t attracted to her after their physical relationship slowed down, he was quick to reassure her that this wasn’t the case.
“I don’t think I would be as touchy-feely with Beth if I wasn’t attracted to her, I just wouldn’t do that,” he told the experts before turning to his wife and telling Beth directly: “I’m definitely attracted to you.”
The following week, the couple admitted to the experts that while things weren’t progressing with the physical side of their relationship, they were still committed to working on deepening their connection, both writing to stay once more.
Preparing to meet at the altar
Coming from a large Greek and Indian family, 28-year-old Teejay is the last of his seven siblings to be single – something he hoped to change by signing up for MAFS.
“I want to be a success story for this experiment. I want a wife forever,” he previously told producers.
The 2025 season of MAFS wasn’t the business development manager’s first time on reality TV – he also appeared on the 15th season of Big Brother Australia.
For Beth, when she signed up for MAFS, it was a decision the 28-year-old from Lancashire in Northwest England didn’t take lightly, having never previously had a boyfriend.
What happened at Teejay and Beth’s wedding?
Upon first seeing one another on their wedding day, there was an instant spark.
Bonding over their vows and shared values, they said they were ready to take the next step with one another.
“I’m ready to love deeply and without reservation,” Teejay said during his vows.
While they shared sweet moments throughout their wedding, Beth said she was nervous to tell her husband that she had not been in a relationship.
Surprised at the revelation, he put her at ease with a kiss. In a piece-to-camera, he later said he was surprised that nobody had appreciated the woman she is.
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