Married At First Sight star Leisha Lightbody has revealed that a reunion show is on the cards and teased that explosive scenes are on the cards after a dramatic series
Married At First Sight star Leisha Lightbody has teased that there are some explosive scenes coming up on the reunion show. The dental practice manager, 34, found fame when she took part in the hit E4 reality series earlier this year, and tied the knot with Reiss Boyce amid the experiment.
At the end of the series, the couple vowed to stay together, but later split, and she has now told fans to expect the unexpected when the reunion airs next year. The star held a Q&A with her Instagram followers as she travelled from Edinburgh to Manchester towards the end of the weekend, and decided to answer one particular fan who had asked her an interesting question.
The fan asked: “Is there a MAFS reunion next year and when will it air on TV?” and Leisha replied: “There is indeed !! And ALOT of drama happened.” It’s thought that the much-anticipated reunion show will air at some point in 2026, following on from a dramatic series that saw various other twists and turns involving standout characters like Grace and Ashley and Abigail and John.
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Speaking about her time on the show, Leisha admitted: “I went into it bit naive and it was quite hard watching it back but it’s actually made me heal a little bit quicker.
“When we left after final vows I genuinely thought that we were in this fairytale and thought we were going to watch it back and it was going to be a magical thing, but actually he didn’t like me as much as I thought. “I honestly thought that he really did like me, and I’m not saying he didn’t, but obviously they picked up things that he said on camera that he didn’t necessarily say too much to me.”
Leisha and Reiss were paired by the show’s experts, Paul C Brunson, Charlene Douglas and Mel Schilling and tied the knot at the altar after meeting for the first time on their wedding day.
However, the cracks in their relationship began to show quite early on in their marriage, but they both continued to stay in the experiment and were one of only five couples who made it to the final vows at the end of the series.
Leisha said: “He knew who I was from the minute he met me. I told him everything about me, and I was a very open book with him, and I told him my deepest, darkest secrets, but I just couldn’t quite figure him out. The whole time we were there, he could have left; he didn’t have to stay.” While some fans were left doubting their romance after what was shown on-screen, Leisha went on to lift the lid on what was really going on between her and Reiss when the cameras stopped rolling.
“We were very intimate every single night,” she said. “I just think when you’re intimate with people every single day and you’re spooning them and very tactile I think that’s kind of giving mixed messages because he was then saying ‘oh, I’m happy to be intimate with you, but when you ask me for reassurance or to hold my hand, you’re too much’.
“I’m not a body, I’m a human being, I’ve got feelings, I’ve got emotions and I feel like there was just a lot of mixed emotions and I think looking back he probably just wasn’t emotionally available. “Obviously, what is put out on TV is a quarter of what actually happened.
“Me and Reece were always in the apartments together when everybody else would go out. We stayed in all cosied up, watching documentaries with our little snacks. We would be cuddled up and honestly we were so smitten, well, I definitely was smitten. I cooked for him every night.”
Married at First Sight UK is available to stream on Channel 4’s website
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