Married at First Sight’s twelfth season will feature some of the show’s hottest cast members ever when it returns to screens next year.
Eliot Donovan has been identified as the ‘handsome’ groom who married bride Lauren Hall on Thursday.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal that Eliot is no stranger to the world of reality TV and has connections to many stars.
His now private Instagram account features photos of the inked up groom posing at festivals with Beauty and The Geek’s Troy Thompson.
Photos of Eliot shared to social media almost a decade ago, also show interactions with The Bachelor’s Kiki Morris, Influencer Krystal Dawson and Simone Holtznagel.
On set sources have described Eliot as a ‘super fun guy’ and say he is ‘ready to put his party life style behind him’.
While little else is known about Eliot, SoSydney reports that he is Brisbane based and once served in the navy.
He cut a dapper figure in a black tuxedo for the special day, and fixed a red boutonniere into his lapel.
Photos leaked online from the wedding sent former brides Lauren Dunn and Sara Mesa into a frenzy, with Lauren re-posting a photo of the genetically blessed groom.
‘Umm, I was clearly on the wrong season,’ Dunn declared alongside a photo of Donovan.
Eliot will be paired with Lauren, who is the CEO of Mayfair Lane Gifts, a small business which specialises in corporate gifts and merchandise.
Friends have described the bubbly brunette as ‘super fun and entertaining’ and say she is ‘really good at what she does’.
She already has a surprising connection to MAFS, having previously dated Jonathan McCullough, who was paired with Lauren Dunn on last year’s season of the Channel Nine experiment.
They broke up in January 2023 after dating for about three months and are believed to have ended on good terms after partying ways for being ‘too different’.
The pair first met almost a decade earlier and then reconnected after their friendship fizzled.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, a production insider claimed casting producers ‘had knowledge’ about Lauren’s link to Jono and asked her to wipe any traces of him from her social media pages.
‘Production were hoping to quietly sweep it under the rug, but word got around that she was appearing on the show and they knew each other,’ they said.
During his time on MAFS, Jono formed a connection with bride Ellie Dix after his romance with Lauren failed, and the pair are now in a relationship.
A string of other stars have also already been confirmed for the 2025 series of MAFS, including The Bachelor star Sierah Swepstone.
Jeff Gobbels, who has previously starred on Neighbours, is also joining the cast and was seen filming his wedding to Rhi Disljenkovic earlier this week.
However, the wedding got off to an unfortunate start as it was clear the pair already knew each other, going against the show’s famous concept that the couples marry upon ‘first sight’.