Jo says staying with Sean on MAFS was “excruciating” — but she wants to sign up again next year

MAFS’ Jo says staying on the show another week with her disinterested groom, Sean, was “excruciating” — but she’d do it all again for a second chance at love. Here’s why.

MARRIED at First Sight contestant Jo, who opted to leave the ‘social experiment’ in Sunday night’s episode, admits staying in the show with her disinterested partner Sean was extremely difficult.

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“The last week was excruciating. I just wanted to go home to my kids,” the 39-year-old single mum admitted.

“Knowing the fact that someone doesn’t want you around, you really feel like the third wheel — even though it’s just the two of you!”

Fans of the show rallied around Jo in the week since that first disastrous ‘Commitment Ceremony’, when the mother-of-two discovered her ‘groom’, Sean, 39, had zero interest in staying with her.

Jo breaks down at the first Married at First Sight commitment ceremony.

Due to the show’s rules, she was forced to stay and stick it out for seven more days — and it wasn’t easy.

“People have said, ‘Well, why did you stay when you knew he wasn’t into you?’ But I thought maybe he might have actually seen how awesome my personality really was, to get through the fact I wasn’t ‘what he ordered,’” she said.

Jo with her two children.

“Sometimes you order something off the menu, and you’re like, ‘That doesn’t really taste nice, but you still eat it’.”

Jo said she was disappointed Sean wasn’t able to see past her physical appearance.

“Clearly he was just after a size eight, skinny girl — and I wasn’t it,’ she said.

“So it’s interesting to see how people react when it’s a ‘not what they ordered’ situation.”

Despite missing out on her chance to find love, Jo said she had no regrets about her decision to take part in the reality series, even though it was hard, at times, for her kids.

“It was definitely hard for them to watch me upset at the commitment ceremony — they shed a few tears with that one,” she said.

“But they were really excited to actually come on this journey with me.”

She said she would do it all again, if producers were able to pair her with someone more like-minded the second time around.

“I do not have one regret. Zero — nothing,” she said.

“What you see on telly is what you get. People said, ‘How do you think you’re going to be perceived?’ And I’d say: ‘Exactly how I am.’

Good-natured Jo has “no regrets” about her failed relationship with Sean. Pictures: Supplied

“Because from the second I had my first interview with them, to the second I left — I was me.”

“I would do it all again in a heartbeat. Literally — in the blink of an eye. I would sign my name up for another year — definitely.”

In the meantime, Jo, who is still single, said she has slipped seamlessly back into “mum life”, and holds no ill feelings towards her MAFS groom.

“I have no emotions towards him,” she said.

“Hate is a massive, strong word and I never use it — so I don’t give him a second thought, to be honest with you.

“He hasn’t given me one since the minute he saw me. So why would I give him one in my everyday life?”

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