{"id":5089,"date":"2021-09-29T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1375898"},"modified":"2021-09-29T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:38:08","slug":"married-at-first-sight-uk-star-amy-considered-leaving-the-process-many-times","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/married-at-first-sight-uk-star-amy-considered-leaving-the-process-many-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Married at First Sight UK star Amy considered leaving the process many times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Amy almost didn&#8217;t make it to the end of the Married at First Sight experiment. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Grace Henry\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 29 September 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>Amy Christophers is about to make her final decision on <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/married-at-first-sight-uk-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Married at First Sight UK<\/a>, as the final vows commence.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 29th September <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/married-at-first-sight-uk-2021-amy-josh\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Amy and Josh<\/a> will decide if they want to continue in their marriage or go their separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>While the sports journalist managed to make it to this point in the show, she tells <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> she contemplated leaving the series many times before, and it\u2019s not because of her hubby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a few times that I wanted to leave the process, not because of Josh, but because of the high pressure stress of it all,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the experiment, viewers saw Amy and Josh have quite heated discussions and arguments, one of which ended in Josh telling her to shut up during a dinner party. During the homestays, Amy was clearly irritated by Josh, calling him names for joking around in the kitchen and being quite hostile towards him.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing these moments, Amy says: \u201cThere\u2019s just certain situations that I could have handled better I think. You know, you have to you have to take into consideration how stressful it is and emotions run high.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" style=\"padding-bottom:\"> <img class=\"&quot;wp-image-1375941\" align=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/MAFS-Amy-and-Josh-0acc213.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;Married\" title=\"&quot;MAFS-Amy-and-Josh&quot;\" \/><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" \/> Married at First Sight UK 2021 couple Amy and Josh<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>Channel 4<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Although Amy knew the <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/married-at-first-sight-uk-matchmakers-experts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Married at First Sight UK experts<\/a> would be matching her with someone who she\u2019d go on to marry, she thought the show would be different when she initially signed up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very different from what I thought it was going to be. I didn\u2019t even know what the show was when I applied for it,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI literally thought it was going to be like a documentary and you just find a person, that\u2019s it. But then when you have to add in the equation of the dinner party and all those other things, I\u2019m not used to people being in my business 24\/7, and I\u2019m not used to being in other people\u2019s business.\u201d<\/p> <p>Early on in the series, Amy, who is a presenter for Racing TV\u2019s #Raceday, described herself as being very \u201cspiritual\u201d \u2013 something Josh, 26, took some time getting used to.<\/p>\n<p>Due to her \u201cspirituality\u201d, the 34-year-old says she found certain elements of the show particularly difficult.<\/p>\n<p>She continues: \u201cBeing spiritual, it\u2019s actually against everything I believe in to be so nosy and cast judgement on things, so that part of the process I found really distressing, like just constantly having to give my opinions on other people, it just really lowered my vibration. I felt like s**t most times to be honest, apart from when it was just me and Josh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amy says she and Josh \u201ckept to our selves\u201d to avoid tense situations, however, it didn\u2019t necessarily pay off, as she didn\u2019t get to know the other <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/married-at-first-sight-uk-2021-couples\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Married at First Sight UK 2021 couples<\/a>\u00a0as well as she could have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just sort of kept to ourselves really and tried not to interact too much with everybody else, unless we had to at dinner parties, and that probably didn\u2019t do me justice because I didn\u2019t get to know most people, so then there were a few rifts and things like that, which probably could have been ironed out had I got to know people or had they got to know me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of them prejudged me and then when they actually got to know me, they were like, \u2018Oh my God, you\u2019re actually a really nice person, we thought you were stuck up, we thought you were like this.\u2019\u00a0 That\u2019s probably something I would have changed, just getting to know people at the start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amy Christophers is a presenter for <a href=\"\/\/protect-eu.mimecast.com\/s\/IF6CCvjLyt3nG0hQr2A7?domain=racingtv.com&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Racing TV\u2019s #Raceday<\/a>, taking new and existing racing fans behind the scenes on social media to bring the stories and buzz of a raceday to life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Married at First Sight UK airs on Channel 4, Monday to Thursday at 9pm. 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