MAFS stars Brent and Ella’s surprise new romance confession

After initially hosing down rumours about their romantic liaison, Brent Vitiello has offered up surprising new details about his relationship with Ella Ding.

Brent Vitiello has provided more fuel to speculation he and Ella Ding are romantically involved, after first meeting on Married At First Sight and being paired with other people.

In a new interview with New Idea, Brent, 34, revealed that he and Ella, 28, had gotten “close” and both believed they should have been matched on the dating show.

“Me and Ella have spoken. We are really, really close,” Brent said.

“We’ve had the conversation that if we had been matched, things would’ve turned out amazingly and we were a lot more suited.”

He added that they were both “open” to taking their relationship to the next level.

“We are just spending time together as really good friends, and if something happens, it does; if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. We’re kind of open to both of it.”

Ella and Brent are “open” to dating.

It comes just one day after both Brent and Ella addressed the persistent rumours surrounding the nature of their relationship, telling Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa that they were just “friends – for now”.

Confirming they hadn’t yet kissed, the pair did however admit they have discussed how they would have been “a better match” on the show.

“We get along, like we’re very similar … we’re both fire signs, we’re both Aries,” Ella told the hosts, before explaining her hesitancy to move forward with Brent.

“I’m gonna be completely honest – I’m still just healing and getting over stuff like with Mitchell and Tamara and just like all the all the crap that’s been going on, you know, in the past few months.

“Like, it still gets to me and I don’t want to rush into anything if I’m not feeling you know, ready for it. And I’m just not ready.”

Mitch Eynaud reportedly ghosted Ella when filming ended.

The rumour mill went into overdrive in February when the pair was spotted together at Maroubra Beach in Sydney on Valentine’s Day, at a time when Brent was still partnered up with Tamara Djordjevic and Ella with Mitch Eynaud on the show.

Brent and Tamara’s bitter split later played out on the show, while the finale ended on Monday night with Ella and Mitch apparently still together.

Ella and her on-screen partner Mitch surprised viewers during this week’s final episodes, when they revealed they’d managed to reconcile after the experiment, despite Mitch refusing to give a firm commitment in the final vows.

During the dinner party and reunion, it appeared they were stronger than ever – but it’s since emerged that the relationship is now over.

When asked about the shock split, Ella confirmed she hadn’t seen Mitch since the reunion aired.

“Did he just go cold turkey and didn’t get in contact with you?” Fitzy asked her.

“No it wasn’t straightaway – he definitely started to drop off though and fizzle out … it was probably about two months ago,” Ella explained.

“Articles hit the media and then yeah, he sort of just cut me off.”