Married At First Sight UK viewers were fuming when Matt Murray and Whitney Hughes asked to stay in the experiment with each other amid the 'cheating' drama.
Things went south during last night’s dinner party episode when it emerged the 32-year-old barber from Huddersfield had feelings for Whitney, 31, a legal assistant from St Albans.
Couples sitting at the dinner suspected something was going on between Matt and Whitney when they kept looking across the table at each other.
Whitney was paired with Duka, while Matt married Gemma – who was understandably not happy about the situation.
Following a heated argument at the table, with a distraught Gemma telling Matt she felt “used” and that Whitney “should be ashamed of herself”, scenes showed Matt and Whitney sharing a kiss on a bridge and then spending the night together.
In Wednesday's episode, things were awkward between the couples in the aftermath of the scandal.
The couples took part in the Commitment Ceremony where the experts discussed the events that unfolded and whether they wanted to stay.
Experts, including Paul C Brunson, Mel Schilling and Charlene Douglas, asked both couples to discuss their week together.
Whitney immediately admitted that Matt gave her 'butterflies at her 31-year-old age', with Matt basically feeling the same way.
Gemma, on the other hand, felt 'disrespected' about the situation and the fact they shared a bed.
However, Matt and Whitney denied sharing a bed until everything was revealed with the other contestants during the dinner.
"I just want to be happy and that guy over there makes me happy," Whitney told the experts. The other contestants weren't pleased and made faces at their admissions.
Zoe Clifton gave her two cents to Matt and Whitney, telling them they 'disrespected Duka, disrespected Gemma and disrespected the process.'
The experts even asked the two if they thought they 'did anything wrong', to which Whitney said 'no I don't'.
Unsurprisingly, all four people voted to leave but Matt admitted he wanted to pursue Whitney within the experiment.
"We could have the help of the experts to find out whether this is something that we should put our lives and our time and our hearts into," Whitney told the experts.
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Fans were furious at the sneaky duo and took to the comment section to share their thoughts about their shenanigans as well as their request to stay on the programme.
"Gemma’s better than me, I’d swing at Whitney mid-sentence," one user said while another added: "Whitney has spent how many weeks talking about fake people to be the fakest person on here."
One viewer wrote: "What a horrible, arrogant, patronising man Matt is."
"Has Whitney even apologised to Duka," one user pointed out while another wrote: "Whitney is in for a shock when Matt drops her immediately after."
Another tweeted: "Matt and Whitney should not be allowed to stay. They've made a mockery of the process."
Meanwhile, one amuser user said the show would be 'boring' without Matt and Whitney's drama.
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