Married at First Sight contestant jailed after abandoning RAF for dating show



Married at First Sight contestant jailed after abandoning RAF for dating show

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/married-at-first-sight-alex-henry-jailed-b2613686.html

by Empty_Sherbet96

14 comments
  1. > Channel 4 told the BBC it would not be cutting Mr Henry’s MAFS scenes as “~~all this free publicity is too good to waste~~ the DBS (criminal record) check carried out on the contributor raised in the allegation was returned clear”

  2. Not a person we need in the forces at this point unfortunately, if his willing to Awol his duty for this crap, he’s gonna been seen as a risk to national security because his only got his own personal gain in mind not the defence of the the country, yes the pay from the show is a nice touch but that opens up questions to how far he’d go for cash, this is just an opinion of course but we have to look at the facts

  3. I’m sorry but sending someone to jail for 24 days is absolutely ridiculous, especially considering all the issues we hear around prison spaces

  4. I’m sorry but sending someone to jail for 24 days is absolutely ridiculous, especially considering all the issues we hear around prison spaces

  5. People were executed for this not much more than 100 years ago (going Awol that is, not appearing on MAFS)

  6. >The 28-year-old had reportedly asked to take extra leave last winter to take part in *Married at First Sight*, but this was denied by his commanding officer at RAF Spadeadam, Cumbria.

    Was his CO in the wrong here?

    To expand: the armed forces have a policy of giving young people leave to participate in sports, or to do things that are “cool”. For example, my mate was part of a group of squaddies that got paid to cycle the entire route of the Tour de France. Basically its supposed to drive recruitment.

    Wouldn’t the standard policy be just to let him participate in the name of good PR?

  7. The producers could have prevented all of this by simply requiring a copy of his leave approval paperwork. No paperwork? Dismissed from the show. Easy as.

  8. Colchester is a breeze. It’s not like civvie prison, he will get beasted for a few weeks but that’s it

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