On a cold February weekend in 2024, hundreds of excited families readied themselves for an immersive ‘Willy Wonka experience’ in Glasgow.
At £35 a ticket, parents had been promised an ‘Enchanted Garden’, a ‘Twilight tunnel’ and a ‘place where chocolate dreams become reality’.
But what awaited them was a nightmare – a sparsely decorated warehouse, AI-written scripts and screaming children.
‘That is exactly how I would describe what going on Married At First Sight was like,’ a bride on the Channel 4 reality show, who we shall call Jane, told me in a bombshell interview this week. ‘You were sold a dream that you would be paired with someone you are really compatible with, someone who is great for you. But it felt like they give you the complete opposite just to make television.
‘It’s cruel and, as we’ve come to learn, dangerous.’
