Signing up to Married At First Sight is no easy feat. MAFS expert Dr Trisha Stafford chatted to A Current Affair earlier this week and revealed that the contestants are matched on more than just their personality – but scientifically. All contestants, once picked, will undergo pheromone testing.
“They sniff T-shirts,” she said. “They get sent a T-shirt out and they have to put it in a snap lock bag every night and wear it to bed and no deodorants, no spicy foods.”
“They do that for a week and then they send it in and they smell each other’s T-shirts.”
ACA reporter Reid Butler summed it up aptly, “That sounds really, really gross.”
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On the premiere episode, the series was mocked on Twitter after expert Dr Stafford was shown in a laboratory and lab coat.
We’ll pass this one…
This article originally appeared on InStyle Australia.