MAFS' Jamie spills on the real reason she turned down SAS: UK

There’s been a rumour going around that Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 cast member Jamie Marinos had to turn down a stint on SAS: UK due to her budding romance with Eliot Donovan. 

The news was first reported by New Idea, with television insiders pegging Jamie as a “must-have” for an upcoming season. “She was their top pick,” the source claimed. “They loved her strength, her vulnerability, and the United Kingdom is obsessed with her story post-MAFS. She would’ve been perfect.”

Jamie tells Chattr while she was approached to be on a reality TV show, Eliot had nothing to do with her decision to turn it down. 

“I was contacted about potentially [doing] another [TV] show. I wasn’t told what the show was,” she spills. “But I can’t work on another TV series outside of the network, so any show that approaches me is going to have a no.

“I didn’t say no because [of] Eliot, I didn’t know what the show is. That could be a speculation. They didn’t actually tell me what it was. But also, why the hell would I be doing SAS? I ain’t built for that shit,” she adds.

The reality TV star recalls a moment on her MAFS honeymoon where she was successfully able to paddle a kayak, and jokes that was her “living on the edge”. So no, she wouldn’t be a fit for SAS!

Is MAFS’ Jamie Marinos planning on doing another reality TV show?

Jamie is open to doing more reality TV shows, and reveals she’s interested in doing Big Brother. She could get tips from Big Brother alum and MAFS castmate Teejay Halkias!

“I do think something where it’s more social, so again like Big Brother, I could do Big Brother, not the fear challenges though, like talking to someone,” she muses. “But the whole being trapped in a room, I’d become a massive bitch, I’d be so cranky.”

It doesn’t look like she will be joining I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! or Survivor, even though we’d all love to see Jamie in the jungle somewhere.

“Everyone really wants to see me doing some wild adventure show, which I’m like, I’m useless with all that stuff. I’m like a princess, I need electricity and my skincare and stuff like that, and I’m a pedantic person with food. So I feel like I’d be no fun in the jungle, but I’d make for great ratings,” she admits.

“I always say I don’t [even] eat chicken thigh. Like, I’m so basic. I love my cooking, I would struggle even, I remember [at] the Dinner Parties sometimes, [I’d think] ‘what the fuck is this’?”