The changes set to spice up new season of MAFS

MAFS sex therapist Alessandra Rampolla will have her role ramped up next season as part of a suite of changes designed to spice up the show.

Jackson Lonie and Olivia Frazer brought plenty of drama to screens in 2022. Picture: Channel 9

MAFS sex therapist Alessandra Rampolla will reveal a lot more of herself as her role in the reality romance trainwreck is ramped up as part of a suite of changes being made to spice up the show.

“Four or five” new challenges will be thrown into the mix to create tension, or passion, between the ‘newlyweds’.

Not surprisingly MAFS is a show that needs sex and if it is not happening between the sheets then the ‘marriage,’ or TV coupling, is usually not going to last long.

“We will get Alessandra a bit more involved in the sexuality part of it,” Adrian Swift, Nine’s head of content, production and development said.

“What we have always found is a complete bellwether for how a relationship (on MAFS) is going is how sexually they are getting on.

MAFS sex therapist Alessandra Rampolla will have her role beefed up in 2023. Picture: Instagram

“And that getting on might be sexual tension, which is good, it might be sexual resolution, which is good, or it might be, and this often happens, sexual resolution and then nothing.”

Casting is well underway and filming on the new season will start in early August, with Swift noting there had been some surprising people putting their hand up this year, eager for a spot on the show.

“Last year was such a good cast in terms of they were intelligent, they were articulate, even when they were shouting,” Swift said.

“What last season did is it brought up big issues; it brought up slut shaming, male vulnerability, it brought up sex when you are having your period, it brought up racism, so what we found this time is we are getting some very interesting applicants.”

Relationship experts Mel Schilling and John Aiken will return with Rampolla for the new season of MAFS.

Swift said the new challenges would have the couples in situations where they could show more of their true personalities and interest in each other.

“The nub of the show is to always try and replicate what married life would be like, but with the volume turned up to eleven,” Swift said.

“So what we have done is come up with four or five more moments when they (the couples) are together or with family or with friends that ideally reveal more of them to each other, often with a little bit of outside stimuli as well.”