Married At First Sight’s Chris and Vanessa weren’t allowed on the experts’ couch at the reunion 

Tensions are set to boil over during Married At First Sight’s upcoming reunion episode, as feuds, scandals and rivalries are laid bare.

But there’s one couple you won’t see being interviewed on the experts’ couch.

Vanessa Romito and Chris Nicholls were apparently excused from the customary post-show debrief for a very specific reason. 

Youth worker Chris, 37, told NW magazine that he and Vanessa, 31, were kept away because producers feared she would make defamatory and false claims about him. 

‘I was advised that I was being protected by not giving Vanessa a platform,’ he said.

Vanessa and Chris’s ‘marriage’ abruptly ended on the show, with no real context or explanation given for their exit. 

Their relationship had deteriorated rapidly during an 11-day production break in early October, and they were allowed to leave before the commitment ceremony. 

The events that led to their bitter split were never caught on camera.  

The couple had only been featured intermittently on the show up until their final scenes, but had appeared happy together despite their lack of physical intimacy. 

It comes after a source told Daily Mail Australia Vanessa had threatened to pull out of the girls’ night in late November. 

‘Vanessa made it clear to bosses that she would only stay if they guaranteed she wouldn’t have to see Chris under any circumstances,’ said an insider.

She did not encounter Chris during the shoot, as he was in another part of Sydney filming the corresponding boys’ night.