Married At First Sight viewers were blindsided by a mysterious row on Wednesday evening’s episode, as Hannah Norborn threatened to reveal a hidden ‘family confession’ about her husband Stephen Nolson
Married At First Sight UK fans were left on the edge of their seats on Wednesday evening, after an unaired secret threatened to spill over on screen, during a blazing row between show participants Stephen Nolson and Hannah Norburn.
Just hours into their new romance, the newlyweds came to blows during their honeymoon, after Hannah bluntly snubbed a dinner invitation from her husband. Things only appeared to worsen from there, with a tense exchange soon erupting between the pair when Hannah threatened to lift the lid on a secret about Stephen’s family in front of the cameras.
Stephen has previously opened up about his family in confidence off-air, and was left seething when she threatened to expose everything mid-argument in the Dominican Republic.
“Don’t you dare go down that route!” Stephen shouted, as they bitterly argued outside their hotel. He later admitted to the cameras that the secret was about his family, with the groom clearly keen to keep a lid on things. Understandably however, the ominous statement left many viewers at home intrigued about what exactly he had revealed about his family so soon after meeting her, with many also speculating about why it would be such a closely guarded secret from the media.
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Writing on X, one fan said:”What did he tell Hannah after knowing her for a day that would ruin his relationship with his family?”
Another added: “I NEED to know Stephen’s family gossip”, before a third echoed “S*** what did he tell her????”
The argument made a stark shift from their early beginnings on the show, with the couple initially getting off to a promising start on their Caribbean honeymoon by enjoying a relaxing day sunbathing together on the beach. However, as the day progressed things swiftly began to sour, with Hannah even brutally criticising her new partner’s appearance.
Things kicked off when Stephen stripped down to rubber duck patterned swimming trunks, while Hannah was tasked with drawing him in a couple’s bonding exercise. Yet rather than enjoy the playful challenge, Hannah made several digs about him not being muscular enough or her type.
At the time, Stephen held back from commenting, but later comforted her before dinner as he expressed he was tired of everything revolving around her choices.
Stephen said: “It has been small things but tonight, when we were going to dinner, the slightest thing and you decided you weren’t hungry.”
Hannah shot back: “I had an opinion!”
Stephen told her: “You make a decision. It’s your way or no way. All I’ve been doing is try to make you comfortable.”
Annoyed, Hannah then bellowed: “I’m out of my f***ing comfort zone!”
Unwilling to humour her any longer, Stephen then accused his wife of ‘turning it into The Hannah Show’, which appeared to be the catalyst for bringing up the off-air secret.
“You said something off camera and now you’re saying something on camera,” Hannah angrily argued. “You’ve just said want to talk about all the s*** we talked off camera.”
Furious, Stephen warned: “Don’t you dare go down that route!”
Later speaking off camera, he admitted: “I told Hannah something about my family in complete confidence off camera and she was going to use it as ammunition.”
Hannah, meanwhile, was keen to argue her point as she told viewers: “I felt completely and utterly attacked.
“My reaction was to fight back. Imagine someone sitting in front of, ‘You’re this, you’re that’. You’re f***ing rude.”
In the aftermath of the tense exchange, Stephen made the decision to spend a night away from his new bride in the hopes that time and distance would allow them to properly calm down. The following day, with tensions noticeably calmer the couple decided to give things another go.
Stephen told Hannah: “If I’m being brutally honest, I’ve been thinking about whether I want it. This marriage. I think for me, I genuinely mean it. I want it to work.
“I think it’s just understanding each other more. I think it’s just baby steps to be honest.”
Begrudgingly, Hannah agreed, but warned that “her guard was now up” and that he would be “seeing a different side” to her compared to her behaviour so far.