19 September 2023 , 21:53
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Married At First Sight UK viewers were left in tears after bride Ella opened up to her new husband on their wedding day.
Ella Morgan Clark appeared on the E4 reality show in the hopes of finding love by trusting experts to match her with a complete stranger. She made history by becoming the very first transgender contestant to ever grace the hit TV programme after struggling to find genuine connections through dating apps and meeting men on nights out. The clinic consultant had found dating as a trans woman incredibly difficult and so turned to the experts for help.
She was full of nerves ahead of her big day, where she was matched with Nathanial Valentino. The pair immediately hit it off as they met at the altar and said their vows. However, Ella was still full of worry about how she would tell Nathanial she was trans. During their reception, Ella and Nathanial found a quiet moment for a chat where she told him she was born a boy. Ella was left visibly shocked by Nathanial's positive reaction, as he also shared he is pansexual.
Bride Ella was so nervous to open up to her new husband (E4)Ella said: "All that worry and all that stress and he doesn’t care. I finally feel that I have been accepted and this is all I have ever wanted.” Viewers took to social media to share their reaction to the sweet moment, as one said: "Love this for them. #MAFSUK." Another added: "Nathaniel must be protected at all costs #mafsuk." Someone else wrote: "I’ve cried twice in 20 minutes Ella and Nathaniel you got me."
"Need more guys like this," gushed a fourth. A viewer commented: "Nathaniel is a King Look at Ella's smile," while someone else wrote: "These 2 have me sobbing I love them." "It’s not all about the outside it’s about the inside ahhh god these pair Nathaniel accepting Ella for who she is that's made her so happy," quipped another.
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Ahead of the show's launch, Ella told The Mirror: "I've really struggled to date people being trans. I'm honest with people when I'm dating - I haven't always been - but now I'm honest and tell them what surgeries I've had done and there's never a right or wrong time I think to tell someone you have transitioned. I don't want to keep going through my whole life having to say that I have transitioned.
"I can be picky and the guys I want never usually want me or I'm always just someone's dirty secret and I didn't want to be a fetish anymore. I've done such a bad job myself with dating and I'm sick of feeling like my confidence goes down every time someone dumps me because they find out that I'm trans or when I tell them that I am."
Ella added: "I could just never find anyone who wanted to accept me for me. I never thought that anyone would ever want to marry me. I just didn't think as a society anyone would accept me and want to spend the rest of their lives with me. So for me, it's always been like a little princess dream in my head. And then I transitioned and I thought, actually, you know what, it may be a possibility now," she explained.