While couples can seem perfectly matched on paper, Married At First Sight (MAFS) has shown time and time again that physical and sexual chemistry can be a bit of a wildcard. During Bec Zacharia and Danny Hewitt’s honeymoon, the pair had sex on their first night. While the bride was satisfied, the groom soon informed her he didn’t feel a sexual attraction to her.
Bec tells Chattr she was blindsided by Danny’s reaction, because she believed they “had a great time”.
“I came out really positive, and he came out and said [the sexual chemistry] wasn’t there, which was quite shocking for me. It hurt,” she says. “It kind of felt like he just drove a car, being me, and then decided, no, I don’t want to buy it. I feel like he friend-zoned me way too quickly, if I’m honest with you.”
The socialite says she can’t speak for the groom, but acknowledges he may have felt some “pressure” to have sex early on. However, this seems to have been a mistake.
“He might have felt like there was pressure to [have sex]. But I think that maybe if he had sort of expressed to me, about the sexual chemistry before having sex, maybe we could have worked on our souls connecting first,” Bec adds.
Bec feels Danny didn’t ‘give her a chance’
MAFS viewers felt for Bec after seeing her break down in tears during her honeymoon, declaring that Danny made her “feel ugly”. The bride says it was a true reflection of what she was feeling, and admits to being heartbroken.
“I felt like he hadn’t given me a chance. He had decided that we were mates based off my looks rather than my heart. And it broke me. It did,” Bec recalls.
“In that moment, I was devastated… I was blaming myself for him, not having that attraction to me, and friend-zoning me.”
However, she now knows that this whole issue wasn’t about her or her looks at all; it was about Danny and his own hangups. “It’s about him. Because I’m a really, really good, kind human being, who would take the shirt off my back for my partner and my friends,” she adds.
It’s not all doom and gloom, though, because Bec is extremely attracted to her match.
“He’s gorgeous. He’s beautiful,” she gushes. “When I saw him, I thought he was a strapping young lad, tall [and] handsome.”
We’ve seen couples overcome the lack of sexual chemistry at the start — Rhi Disljenkovic and Jeff Gobbels had the same friend zone issue — so fingers crossed Bec and Danny follow in their footsteps.
Married at First Sight (MAFS) 2026 airs Monday – Thursday at 7:30pm this week on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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