By Charlene Macaulay
She’s the Hoppers Crossing resident who got Married at First Sight, only for her TV husband to go behind her back with someone else’s “wife”.
Tamara Joy says she’s only now learning of the full extent of the cheating scandal between her “husband” Dan Webb and fellow Married at First Sight contestant Jessika Power as episodes detailing the affair go to air on the high-rating Channel Nine show.
“I’m watching all of this unfold like you guys,” she said. “For me, it’s so confronting and quite shocking to see.
“I did have wind of what was going on … [but] I had no idea to the extent and to the level that it was happening.”
The 30-year-old said she signed on to do the show because she was sick of Tinder hook-up culture and wanted to find a real connection with someone, but admitted that her wedding day was not all it was cracked up to be.
“When it’s your wedding day you kind of want it to be about fun, love, happiness – you want to feel all the feels,” she said.
“I definitely wasn’t feeling anything apart from excited to get the show on the road.”
She said doing the show was “unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before” and that “you forget the cameras are there” during filming.
Ms Joy, who went to Cambridge Primary School and Werribee Secondary College, said she used to hang out along the Werribee River and at skate parks with her twin brother when she was younger.
She now works in administration for Lendlease.
She said she used an Airbnb property during her homestay for the show because the house she shared with her father was being renovated at the time and wasn’t appropriate for filming.
