The Bachelor alum Matt Johnson, known as Matty J, has spilled all the juicy details on how he met his wife Laura Byrne before the show started and what happened behind closed doors!
During the Thursday January 30 episode of I’m a Celebrity Australia, Matty spoke with Bondi Rescue’s Harrison Reid about how he first met Laura in a sauna and not on The Bachelor red carpet.
Harrison asked how Matty and Laura’s relationship began, and Matty explained that it was after he secured The Bachelor, and the show was starting the show in four weeks.
“I was already locked in to do the show. I had already signed the contract,” he explained.
“I was having a sauna at Icebergs. She was already in there in a bikini, looking very good. I didn’t want to be that guy in a sauna who’s like, ‘How ya goin’, but I gave her a smile.”
Matty said he cut his foot somehow before entering the sauna, and Laura kindly pointed it out.
“She was like ‘oh you’ve cut your foot’. I panicked and was like, ‘Yeah, I’ve cut my foot’. She was like, ‘Okay’ and walked out.”
That was the only interaction Matty and Laura had before they met again on The Bachelor.
“So when I saw her on the red carpet, she goes, ‘Do you remember me?’ and I go ‘You’re the girl from the sauna!’,” Matty told Harrison.
“That was awkward”: Matty and Laura hanging out post-Bachelor
Matty went on to explain to Harrison what it was like hanging out with Laura after The Bachelor, describing it as “awkward”.
The first time they were alone after The Bachelor was in a hotel room where Matty had to wait for an hour for Laura to arrive in his suite.
“For three months, we’ve only ever been able to speak to each other in front of all the camera crew and production,” he said.
“We’re sitting there in this hotel room, with all this food and are like ‘what do we do?’.”
Despite the awkward first encounter, we know how it all ends!
Matty and Laura’s family
Matty and Laura have been married for more than two years now, after getting married in 2022. They have two daughters together, Marlie-Mae and Lola Ellis.
During I’m A Celebrity, Matty opened up about the complications Laura faced at the six-month mark of her pregnancy.
“When Laura was pregnant with our second baby, maybe at the six-month mark, we started having some complications,” he explained.
“She was having seizures. We were really lucky with Lola because she’s doing really well now, but during that process, I became aware of the Starlight Foundation and the work they were doing with sick kids,” he added.
We love hearing the behind the scenes about their love story!
I’m a Celebrity Australia… Get Me Out Of Here Australia 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Thursdays at 7:30pm on Channel 10 and 10Play.
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