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MAFS star Mel Schilling reveals the heartbreaking reality of filming show while battling cancer
The emotional journeys of this year’s Married At First Sight UK’s newlyweds have only just begun, but the show’s relationship expert, Mel Schilling, is already back in her native Australia guiding another group of hopeful romantics as they bravely walk down the aisle to marry complete strangers and then attempt to build successful marriages. For Mel, 52, returning home to film the Aussie version this summer was bittersweet as she, husband Gareth and daughter Maddie now live in the UK, and they couldn’t stay with her in Australia once it was time for Maddie to return to school. “We managed it pretty well,” Mel says.