MAFS fan favourites Tahnee and Ollie decided to stick together at final vows, and the PR manager has opened up about where their relationship stands now.
On Sunday night’s episode, viewers were delighted to see that Ollie and Tahnee both said “yes” at their final vows, and decided to enter into a long-distance relationship before Ollie makes the move to Sydney so that they can be together.
Now, months after filming wrapped, Tahnee has opened up about where her and Ollie’s relationship now and said they’ve experienced a lot of pressure to stay together.
“It’s a lot of pressure from people putting us up on a weird pedestal because they see us on TV and they’re like, ‘Oh my god they’re so cute I want them to work out’,” she told Yahoo Lifestyle.
“Seeing that we’re like, we don’t want to live up to this high expectation of people. But it’s nice that people feel that way about us.”
While Tahnee and Ollie are still together and their relationship is going well, having just moved in together in Bondi, Tahnee said they’ve both made a conscious choice to try and block out the outside noise from fans.
“It’s very weird and not many people can say they’re in this position,” she says. “You’re thrown into the public eye as a team and a unit and there are going to be people that want to see you fail and want to see you be broken apart.
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“We just have to ignore it, and I think for us we’re really big on communicating everything. Ollie’s very big on talking about every little thing just to make sure there’s no confusion or no holding back, and I think this is just another part of it.”
Prior to heading into the experiment, Tahnee said that both she and Ollie knew that the chances of finding love were slim, but decided to throw themselves in head first, anyway.
“At the beginning, me and Ollie had a conversation where we were like, let’s give this a shot,” she recalls. “We want to work through both of our negatives and positives and really just give it one hundred percent. The odds are against us, there’s only been however many success stories and it’s not looking good for us, but let’s just not feel the pressure of that and assume it could go to s**t.
“I think we had that positive mindset to be like, let’s just see how we go and not put too much pressure on ourselves and just give it a red hot go. It’s hard because you’re thinking, oh my god there’s such a slim chance, but there was just something where I just knew it was going to work and I just had a feeling.
“I was like, you know what? Maybe this is how you meet someone. Maybe this is something crazy and something wild to do and it could pay off.”
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