MAFS star Ollie Skelton has revealed that he originally said no to going on the hit dating show, and shared the surprising reason why.
Ollie – who makes up one-half of this year’s MAFS golden couple with Tahnee Cook – told Fitzy at NOVA’s MAFS dinner party that he’d never watched the show before he started filming.
“I started watching season nine at Skye Suites,” Ollie said, revealing that he and Tahnee watched the last season of MAFS together.
He added, “I actually said no to the show. And my reason was, I’m just not 100% Sure I want to get married. And then I did it. Very happy.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Ollie opened up about he and Tahnee first said I love you to each other.
“It was actually brought up in a really bizarre way. I said I reckon you love me. Gassed, I was a bit,” he laughed, adding: “And then you [Tahnee] nodded. And then I said, ‘do you actually?’ and then I ran around the house a little bit.
Ollie and Tahnee confirmed that they are one of the few couples who are still together, admitting that they’ve been together “eight to nine months”.
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While their journey so far is certainly a success story for MAFS, it started off with an odd twist with Tahnee and Ollie finding out they were actually related.
Tahnee’s sister Ashleigh is engaged to Ollie’s second cousin Jasper, making Tahnee and Ollie distant relatives.
Tahnee told Yahoo Lifestyle Australia that they discovered the connection at their televised wedding.
“At the wedding, obviously the two families were separated,” she said. “Ollie’s mum looked over and she saw my sister’s fiancé Jasper and she said, ‘I know you! Your dad is my cousin!’.
“And then she started freaking out being like, what if the bride is Jasper’s sister? Because then we’d literally be blood-related. She was going up to producers being like, ‘Is that guy blood-related to the bride because we’re going to have an issue if so’.”
The MAFS star told the publication that the connection was particularly random because Ollie had never met his second cousin, Jasper before.
“I think Ollie has met Jasper’s dad like once or twice at funerals or big family things like that, but they were in a family group chat which they didn’t know about. We went back and looked at the group chat and they were literally in the same chat and they didn’t know each other. I was so shocked.”
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