BRIT model Cara Delevingne is “obsessed” with Married At First Sight Australia’s standout star Jamie Marinos - and slid into her DMs to tell her.
The reality star, 29, was a huge hit with British fans, with around a million tuning in most nights on E4 to watch her dish out no-nonsense, hard-hitting advice to fellow contestants. Many more viewers caught up on streaming.
Jamie was heralded as a “voice of reason” during explosive dinner party bust ups that left multiple contestants - including Jamie - in floods of tears.
But the reality star is buoyed by the support of the public, and her new A List fans.
Jamie says: “Cara Delevingne actually slid into my DMs and she still follows me.
“I should have this message printed and hung up somewhere, she messaged me: ‘Obsessed with you!’
“I hope she was screaming at the TV - and I hope she was just as pissed off at my ex-husband as I was.”
Jamie was left shocked and heartbroken when she told her husband Dave Hand that she had fallen in love with him, only to be told her feelings were no longer reciprocated.
The couple still confirmed their vows at the end of the series, but their marriage had ended by the time the cast got together for a reunion. She says she endured a traumatic “public humiliation”, and she and Dave no longer speak.
Cara, 32, has endured her own relationship dramas, having previously been linked to Harry Styles, singer St. Vincent, actress Ashley Benson. She told last year how one “really horrible breakup” left her so distraught, she had to move in with pal Taylor Swift, telling Interview magazine: “She looked after me so well."
But Cara has happily been in a relationship with singer Leah Mason, known as Minke, since 2022.
Jamie said she got through her hurt by “trauma dumping into ChatGPT”, as she says she appreciates the AI system’s lack of judgement.
In a shock to viewers, since the show, she has also briefly dated another of the show’s grooms, Eliot Donovan, who was married to two brides during the series.
Jamie now says she could potentially see a future together - though their romance proved tricky as they live in different states in Australia.
Jamie says: “Of course I potentially could see a future with Eliot. We do have a really beautiful friendship - there are a lot of qualities that I would want in a future partner, and I think vice versa.
“We do have a lot of respect for each other but I also think there's probably characteristics that we'd want that we might not have in each other…
“I'm an intense person in a romantic relationship. I love hard and I'm not too sure if that's the kind of intensity that is in Eliot.
“I think this whole experience made me realise that just because they're better than the previous person, doesn't mean they’re the person I am supposed to be with.
“I think that's my problem - I try to fit them in the mould. But this time, I'm so close to settling and being unhappy and not having my needs met, that I want to make sure I'm making the right decision the next time round.”
But she is open to dating again, adding: "The only romantic interest I've had since Dave has been Eliot so it's been a very, very quiet time - I'm trying to break that habit."
Jamie has been approached to appear on other TV shows, and would like to "dip into the cookie jar" of acting, next, too.
While in the UK, she has hung out with Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Taken’s Liam Neeson at the Naked Gun premiere in London and appeared on ITV Daytime's Lorraine.
