When the Married at First Sight (MAFS) 2025 cast was leaked back in 2024, fans quickly recognised that Sierah Swepstone was on Jimmy Nicholson‘s season of The Bachelor, but did her groom Billy Belcher make the connection?
Turns out he was none the wiser! However, Billy has since been caught up on Sierah’s reality TV past. Read on to find out what he had to say about it.
Billy didn’t recognise Sierah at the MAFS altar
When Billy spotted Sierah at the end of the MAFS aisle, he didn’t recognise her from her time on The Bachelor.
For the uninitiated, Sierah’s time on the show was certainly not a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it night one exit. She made it to the final four and was eliminated just before the final rose ceremony.
Sierah was a hit with viewers, thanks to her quirky antics— in one episode, she dressed up as a phoenix, but said she should have come as a koala because she’d “had chlamydia”.
However, Billy told Daily Mail Australia that he didn’t actually know about his wife’s time on the show until the cast leaked and articles reported on it. The publication leaked Sierah’s identity almost immediately after she began filming her backstory for the show.
“I did know she was on The Bachelor when it got leaked; that was plastered all over her leak,” he told the publication.
Billy said that after the articles emerged, he and Sierah spoke about her time on the show.
“Me and Sierah had a chat, she obviously told me about it,” Billy said.
“So it looks like I was in competition with, I think it was Jimmy, for a little bit,” he joked. “Let’s hope I’m into tall horny bogans.”
Sierah described herself as a tall, horny bogan in one of The Bachelor episodes.
Billy reveals why he wishes Sierah wasn’t on The Bachelor
In the same interview, Billy said that he was determined to judge Sierah on what he saw in person, rather than her past.
“I don’t think you can judge somebody on a previous experience. I’m not someone that does that,” he said.
However, he revealed that Sarah’s time on the popular reality show has attracted a lot of attention to their relationship.
“But I would’ve preferred it if she wasn’t on The Bachelor before because it brings less heat.”
The charming English man said that he hadn’t watched her season, even after finding out that she was on The Bachelor.
“I haven’t watched the show, so I can’t judge her on that at all,” he said.
“It didn’t really matter too much. We’ll just have to see how it all unfolds as our journey goes on.”
Fingers crossed that it’s all love and red roses for Sierah and Billy this time around.
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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