Yahoo Finance Jessika Powers reveals if Married At First Sight Australia contestants are paid
Married At First Sight Australia left us with lots of questions after the show. Are the marriages actually legally binding? And do contestants get paid to go on the show?
While the answer to the first question is technically no, the people taking part in the experiment do receive a sum of money each day in order to keep them going. This is because they have to relocate to Sydney and are unable to work while participating.
In a new chat with Metro, Jessika Powers revealed the longer the contestants stayed on the show, the larger the financial impact, because they were unable to go back to their jobs. "To be fair, Mick wanted to go for a really long time..." she said of her partner writing 'Leave' for three weeks in a row.
"He wanted to go back to his farm, back to his animals and he wanted to just go back to work. He lost a lot of money being there, we all did actually. We didn’t earn a lot of money doing the show at all.
"And you also can’t work until the show finishes airing, and you’ve done all your publicity and that’s like a month. Probably about a six-seven month process [overall]."
Speaking of how the contestant survived, she added, "You’re living off like 150 bucks a day so I think that was it as well."
Can't put a price on love. Or something.
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