Hannah Norburn has reflected on her tumultuous experience on Married At First Sight UK (MAFS), sharing that it caused her to lose ‘nearly a stone’. The 33-year-old made headlines on last year’s series of the E4 show after being paired up with Stephen Nolson, also 33.
Their dreamy Caribbean honeymoon started off on a high note. However, things took a turn for the worse when a heated row left Stephen worried that Hannah might share a private family secret on air.
Hannah insisted she never intended to reveal any such information, but their relationship quickly went downhill thereafter. Subsequently, Hannah grew closer to another groom, Orson Nurse, and faced allegations of flirting with other husbands, sparking multiple disputes.
Despite sharing a kiss with Orson in the experiment, the pair chose to remain friends. “I will never be able to describe the emotions and how hard that was,” she said, reflecting on the first few weeks of entering MAFS in a conversation with FUBAR Radio’sAccess All Areas.
“I lost nearly a stone weight because I literally just didn’t eat. I was so stressed. For me, I think because I did come in late, I mixed the show up. I turned it all on its head. I p***** everyone off. I got it really, really hard, and I think the only thing that makes me feel really proud of myself is I genuinely don’t give a s*** what people think about me.”
Discussing the online criticism she faced, Hannah added: “The weird thing for me was people coming for your appearance, and I was like I can understand you coming from my character and my personality, because that’s on telly, but what I look like is kind of irrelevant.
“I was getting like, everyone was like, ‘Your ears are huge.’ And I’m like, ‘No, they are, they actually are.’ But I’m not bothered if the worst thing about me is my ears are massive. I couldn’t give a s***.”
Although online trolls and castmate rows have certainly affected Hannah, she stressed that E4 has looked out for her mental well-being.
She went on: “I do feel like I got bullied and I got attacked and all the rest of it, but I do feel very, very, very looked after by the show, even up until this day, I could ring someone right now and say, I’m in a pickle.
“I need some help, and that’s amazing that they look after you that well.”
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