MAFS UK fans fuming as most popular star is missing from reunion after being uninvited

Married At First Sight UK star Emma Barnes was nowhere to be seen at the reunion on Monday night and fans were left livid by her absence.

As it turns out, Emma, 32, has revealed that she was uninvited from the 2025 reunion — just the day before filming. Speaking about being uninvited, she revealed: "They didn't need me anymore. I still don't know why I was cut. There were some storylines that they wanted to follow, the producers, and yeah, someone must have taken my seat, right, so someone got called up to get back on there. But yeah, not me."

"There was certainly an uproar from a lot of my friends that I wasn't gonna be there - I don't know whether that's just my friends though. I know I'm a big personality and I definitely could have brought some laughs to the table. It's a shame," she told Yahoo UK.

Despite not being invited to the reunion, Emma was still in the know about the drama that unfolded at the dinner party. "I knew that there were lots of bits of drama bubbling around from the WhatsApp group. Me as I guess 'Auntie Emma', I'm there for the girls, I'm often the first person people call up and be like, 'Barnes help me with this' I tend to look after everyone but also I love the drama, stirring the pot... I think me being there, especially with the mix of the old cast and the new cast, I'd have just been on fire."

Although she may not have stayed with husband Caspar Todd, the TV star's personality won over fans right away. And it turns out she was a bit of a sleuth behind-the-scenes too as Emma revealed how she managed to break one strict rule without producers knowing.

She told OK!: "I broke a few [rules]. We couldn’t really speak to family, and sometimes you just wanted a private conversation. So when we went out for drinks, I’d go up to random people and say, "Excuse me, I’m in a really weird situation. Can I borrow your phone?” and call my sister on strangers’ phones." But the lengths Emma went to in order to keep in touch with her family didn't stop there - she also downloaded a game to send 'secret messages'. The star continued: "I also managed to get production to let me download an app called Hay Day, where you build farms and talk to other farms. I found my sister’s and messaged her on that. I called it Farm At First Sight, so she’d know it was me."

It seems like Emma was a bit of a detective on this year's reality show as she also previously opened up about the moment that she discovered there were new arrivals set to enter the experiment. However, this time, her curiosity over the situation landed her in some rather hot water with those working behind the scenes. During an interview, the TV personality explained how one day she’d noticed that there were six new phone numbers on her production phone. With the phone giving brides and grooms access to other members of the cast as well as the welfare team, Emma had a sneaky suspicion that they were some new couples - so decided to investigate.

After her partner Caspar was unfazed by the new names, Emma headed to Holly and Alex s apartment to tell them the revelation. While there the group attempted to ring each of the phone numbers, though it didn’t go down too well. “I’ve run up to Holly and Alex’s and there’s a couple people around there having a Chinese. I run into the room and I’m like, ‘I’ve got some news’ and we end up drinking loads of rum in their apartment and Polly, I think, says ‘let’s just call them’,” she told Cosmopolitan UK.

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