A MARRIED At First Sight UK bride has broken her silence on her new boyfriend, and at the same time took a savage swipe at her ex groom.
Laura Vaughn, 35, was in search of her perfect “Chelsea boy” when she took part in the E4 show but things didn't work out when she was matched with Arthur Poremba, 38.
Viewers watched Laura and Arthur get married on MAFS in 2023.
But the relationship came to a dramatic end in the series finale when she gave her husband his ring back and walked away from their relationship.
The Sun was the first to reveal the former reality TV bride had moved on with a new romance, with a source telling us yesterday: “Laura is in a serious relationship with someone who makes her very happy.
“They’ve kept their relationship a secret for close to a year now, after meeting through the industry.”
Now Laura has spoken about her new love, which actually started a while ago.
"I'm happy to say that I've been in a relationship now for some time that I initially wanted to keep out of the spotlight," she told MailOnline.
"I found sharing my love life on MAFS quite overwhelming at times so I've tried to keep this quite low key."
She continued: "I wasn't expecting to find love so soon after MAFS, I found dating really difficult after the show came out but I met my partner really organically through the industry and wouldn't have met him if I hadn't done MAFS so I ultimately have the show to thank for it!"
Making a dig at her ex, Laura said: "Things were never destined to work between Arthur and I , this relationship is much more suited."
FRIENDS' APPROVAL
Laura has introduced her new man to her friends, and she's even got MAFS coach Paul Brunson's approval.
She revealed: "Having said that, we are starting to be slightly more public now, he's meeting some of my friends from love island at a birthday party next week so we are now just fitting into each others lives like any other couple would.
"We are very happy and we actually attended a Sutton FC game together, which is Paul Brunson's football club so Paul has already met him.
"Paul's opinion is always important to me because he's been a constant relationship coach for me since I left the show.
"Sharing a beaming snap with her new flame she added: '"Honestly, he's the best thing to happen to me, supportive, kind, intelligent and easy on the eye. I feel very lucky!"
TOUGH TIME ON MAFS
Laura's time on the show was far from easy and she previously admitted she struggled to watch back certain episodes.
Back when the series aired in 2023, she told The Sun how she had seen every episode of her series, bar one.
Laura revealed how she refused to watch the dinner party at the couple’s retreat, in which all the husbands, egged on by Georges Berthonneau and Luke Worley, confessed they didn’t like how she “patronised” Arthur, or “tried to change him”.
“That was the hardest day,” she told us. “I didn't know what the boys had said about me at the couple's retreat day because I was with the girls.
“But I’d met up with Arthur at the end of the day.
"It was like half 11 at night, and the last thing you want to be doing is talking about all the nasty things that have been said about you, and I think that was probably one of the episodes where I was at the point of the experiment where I was just really drained and I think you can see it on my face.
“I was feeling very deflated, and I just did feel like I'd lost myself in trying to show people who I was and it was just being thrown back."
GROOM SPEAKS OUT
Laura's MAFS groom previously claimed he was blindsided when she dumped him at the vow renewal ceremony.
He told The Sun after the show: “The night before the vow renewal she messaged me saying, ‘Whatever happens tomorrow I want you to know I’ll always try to look after both of us’.
“I didn’t really make anything of it at the time but looking back, it was like, ‘Oh, I see why you messaged me that the night before now.
“It was a bit of a shame but I wasn’t in love with her. It’s not like there was a massive emotional connection between us.
"But we had put a lot of work into the relationship.”
