Despite making it all the way to the end of the experiment, Married At First Sight’s Beth Kelly and Teejay Halkias decided not to go to Final Vows in Sunday night’s episode. Instead, the intruder couple had what appeared to be a very brief conversation in their apartment where they agreed to go their separate ways.

Beth told Teejay that she failed to see any point in dragging out their ‘marriage’ when it was already over, with the episode making it out that it was her decision not to go to Final Vows. However, an insider tells Yahoo Lifestyle that the idea was actually pushed by producers in a bid to cut costs.

“They both already knew it was over and as much as Beth was ready to go home, she also would’ve loved a chance to have an empowering moment where she told Teejay just how much he’d hurt her,” the source shares.

“Producers didn’t think it would be worth the expense of them organising an entire ceremony for this to happen, or make sense to viewers as there would be no suspense to their final decision.”

A second source adds that Teejay, who previously appeared on Big Brother in 2023, “would have loved the chance to remain on the show until the very end” as he feels he received “minimal airtime” compared to the other couples.

Beth reveals unseen moments from her final scene with Teejay

Beth has since opened up to Yahoo Lifestyle about her anti-climactic break-up scene and revealed that producers encouraged her to be more brutal during her final conversation with Teejay.

“Basically, what they wanted was for me to go in that room and be like, ‘F**k you Teejay, you don’t f**king deserve me’. That’s how they wanted me to act, but I was so hurt and so emotional,” she shares.

“But I still went in that room and I was like, ‘Look, we’re not going to Final Vows. You’ve already rejected me enough, I’m not going to give you another opportunity to do it again’. I said, ‘I know my worth, I know how amazing I am, and if you can’t see that, that is your loss’.”

‘It makes no sense’

The UK-born bride went on to share that, like most of their scenes on the show – including their dramatic fight at the final dinner party – a lot of their conversation was edited out.

“The conversation was pretty s**t, to be honest. He sat there and said to me, ‘Beth, you said you wanted to try this week, but have you? If you’d done those things, maybe it would have changed my mind about you’,” she claims.

“I said to him, ‘Why are you saying this to me now? If you wanted to try, why didn’t you say that to me at the beginning of the week? Why are you choosing to say that to me on the very last day when you know in a few minutes we’re gonna leave to go to the f**king airport?’. I just couldn’t believe it, and I’m just so baffled that they’ve cut everything out. It makes no sense.”