Australian dating show Married at First Sight has ignited controversy after dropping a gay Muslim contestant from the show, apparently because producers couldn’t match him to anyone.
Sydney resident Will Karroum met with producers and casting directors over a five-month period in preparation for the show. He learned he’d gotten the boot September 4.
“I understand rejection is a part of life, but I feel like I’ve been played as a fool and had a carrot dangled in front of me,” Karroum said of his discharge. He expressed further bewilderment over the move, claiming that producers had interviewed over 1,000 gay men as potential matches. According to Karroum, his audition process also included a meeting with executive producer Tara McWilliams who asked him invasive questions about his sexual preferences.
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“I foolishly believed the process and I genuinely want to find love. I’m a gay Muslim man and I get no support from my family, I need all the help I can get,” Korroum said.
To date, Married at First Sight has only included one gay couple on the show since it debuted in 2015. The show tries to match potential couples who then attend a commitment ceremony which is not legally binding before embarking on a honeymoon. After living together for a period of time, couples then return to the show to decide if they will stay together. Thus far, the only gay couple featured on the show separated in a later episode.
Brian
Why are you running this story for the second time in a week? Did you delete the other one that made it clear that he was never actually cast on the show on the first place to go with this angle instead?
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bonbon
Who’d have thought! Why would a self respecting gay person want to date a gay member of any homophobic religion? That’s just asking for a whole lot of unnecessary complication or worse in your life. Australia is rapidly losing its religion so there are plenty of much less complicated fishies in the sea.
azjeff17
Homophobic religions like Catholicism, Mormonism, or Christianity?
gymmuscleboy
The more favourable perceptions of Christians towards homosexuality vs. Islam is well documented. Spend some time in any muslim country and then tell us what you think.
karl schroeder
The individual concerned is not homophobic – he is a gay man looking for a partner. Why should he be denied that because some people in his religion are homophobic? We don’t do that with Christinas do we? Far right christians want to lock us up or kill us even – we on;t stop other christians appearing on television shows. Nor do we stop Orthodox Jews or Sikhs or any other religious people – so why suggest we stop a Muslim?
karl schroeder
The individual concerned is not homophobic – he is a gay man looking for a partner. Why should he be denied that because some people in his religion are homophobic? We don’t do that with Christians do we? Far right Christians want to lock us up or kill us even – we on;t stop other Christians appearing on television shows. Nor do we stop Orthodox Jews or Sikhs or any other religious people – so why suggest we stop a Muslim?
karl schroeder
The individual concerned is not homophobic – he is a gay man looking for a partner. Why should he be denied that because some people in his religion are homophobic? We don’t do that with Christians do we? Far-right Christians want to lock us up or kill us even – we on;t stop other Christians appearing on television shows. Nor do we stop Orthodox Jews or Sikhs or any other religious people – so why suggest we stop a Muslim?
Vince
“I’m a gay Muslim man and I get no support from my family, I need all the help I can get,” Korroum said.”
Ha. He receives no support from other Muslims like his own family but is royally pissed that no gay man wants anything to do with that loony tunes death cult.
I was watching Bill Mayer last night and he had a guest that made the claim that 4 in 5 muslims are leaving the faith in the US. I don’t know about that but good if even half of that is true.
Michael007
Man, you said it all perfectly. Australians are not only kicking Muslims off a TV show, but kicking them out of their country. They are fed up with all the demands they make and their cut-throat UNTRUSTWORTHY religion. No matter how peace loving they portend, 99% of them would kill you in a flash if some imam walked up to them and said they would guarantee them a seat at Alah’s table. This is a nut case religion. So nutty, it blows my mind how anyone could think there was something good in it. It’s a 7th century cultish ideology and nothing more. Stone age people looking to stone everyone else to death. This guy needed to drop the Muslim title if he wanted to be involved with modern day man!!!
gregj777
I saw that show and wondered about the claim as well. Good if true.
gymmuscleboy
@Michael007 I’ll say this about Islam – 99% of people here would prefer to live in a Christian country any day of the week. And then we complain that Islam is not more embraced – the hypocrisy!
@Vince If 4/5 muslims are leaving the faith in USA then that is indisputably a good thing for us gay people. Any homo that argues otherwise is living a virtue-signalling fantasy. Islam is growing almost everywhere else in the western world.
jjose712
I don’t have any kind of veneration for the marriage institution but i find the show hideous. Sorry but marry someone should be something important that you meditate first, and not that kind of joke.
Saying that, i find surprising there was only a gay couple, on the spanish show there were gay couples every season
JJinAus
Gay . FFS, religion is poison.
Cam
Is the correct phrase “Booted from” the show, when he was never cast on it? I thought he was still in the process where they were picking people, but I may have missed something.
Rock-N-RollHS
First, same kind of crap you pull with Grindr: a dating show is not a right and if you are relying on dating shows and grindr for your self worth and dating, you should be in therapy not on grindr or on TV.
Second, guy looks hot and should have no problem meeting guys unless he’s a head case.
Finally, the commenters conflating a religion with an individual is idiotic. I doubt anyone here grew up without a religion, and they all suck, especially when it comes to sex. I would date a non-practicing muslim in a minute, same way I would date a non-practicing Christian.
Chrisk
I don’t quite understand that. Yes I grew up in religion but many years later it would be insane to call me a gay Christian.
Larry
I am in the US but never watched the show here either. Why? I am not sure that anyone who identifies as Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or even atheist needs to go in a show called Married at First Site. Sounds like Divorce on Second date to me. Anyone who goes on the show is being exploited to sell cars, soap, pharma, and other crap. Use some part of your brain please!
aussiechef
@Michael007 – to avoid any confusion – even tho I assume you are some form of troll. Australia is doing nothing of the sort. Like the USA – there is currently a minority right wing Christian led government in power with policies that are aimed at reducing the human rights of some. But there is a lot of opposition to these policies and the worst of these has been stopped. If you want to point to Australian policies for good idea – have a look at our gun control policies!
Aj76
Mate you are spot on….
Don’t know where Michael007 is getting his resources from !
Australia embraces, respects & allows people of all colour, religions & backgrounds to practice their ways…..
How about Michael007 migrates to an Islamic/Arab nation?!
Then come talk about racism…..
Do your research buddy !
gymmuscleboy
@aj76 If a country embraces a group of people who are homophobic at the extremes AND in the middle (ie. muslims) then that is indisputably a bad thing for us homos. And Islam is NOT a race. Seeing as you are OK with embracing Islam, how about YOU go and live in a muslim country?
gymmuscleboy
If he was never matched to anyone, as the article points out, was he ever actually on the show? That sounds like he just failed the audition process.
Aj76
First of all at no point did I claim that I’m ok with embracing Islam …..
I only was correcting Michael007…..
Secondly I never said Islam was a race either…..
Hence the reason I wrote “Islam/ Arab” country, because obviously Arab is the race…..
No thanks, I’m grateful for being born & bred in one of the greatest nations on earth called Australia….
I’m not mental enough to even allow the thought of moving to a Muslim country….
I’ll be tortured for being gay & for being a Christian …..
So again gymmuscleboy….thanks for the suggestion but no thanks ……
Please read peoples posts properly before you fire back next time.