Married At First Sight star Laura Vaughan has found love again after keeping her new romance hidden for nearly a year.
The Hampshire-born finance manager, 35, married Polish tennis coach Arthur Poremba, 38 - despite hoping for her dream 'Chelsea boy', during the 2023 series of the show.
Yet it wasn't meant to be and the pair split when Laura dumped Arthur during the vow renewal episode.
However, Laura has now found love again as she gushed he is 'the best thing to happen to me' after struggling to date following her appearance on the Channel 4 reality show.
Speaking MailOnline Laura confirmed: 'I'm happy to say that I've been in a relationship now for some time that I initially wanted to keep out of the spotlight.
'I found sharing my love life on MAFS quite overwhelming at times so I've tried to keep this quite low key.'
She continued: 'I wasn't expecting to find love so soon after MAFS, I found dating really difficult after the show came out but I met my partner really organically through the industry and wouldn't have met him if I hadn't done MAFS so I ultimately have the show to thank for it!
'Things were never destined to work between Arthur and I , this relationship is much more suited.'
The couple are now starting to be more public and are meeting each other's friends, with MAFS coach Paul Brunson even giving the relationship his seal of approval.
She added: 'Having said that, we are starting to be slightly more public now, he's meeting some of my friends from love island at a birthday party next week so we are now just fitting into each others lives like any other couple would.
'We are very happy and we actually attended a Sutton FC game together, which is Paul Brunson's football club so Paul has already met him.
'Paul's opinion is always important to me because he's been a constant relationship coach for me since I left the show.'
Sharing a beaming snap with her new flame she added: 'Honestly, he's the best thing to happen to me, supportive, kind, intelligent and easy on the eye. I feel very lucky!'
During her time on MAFS Laura, who won favour with the public as the show went on, was labelled a 'gold digger' by other cast members on the E4 show, such as Luke Worley.
Her time on the show was far from easy - and back in December 2023 she admitted she struggles to watch back certain episodes.
She told The Sun: 'I feel a bit relieved now the show's finished. Life cannot go back to normal.
She added that things became worse when her pals Cam and Lucia received hate after confronting Arthur as they didn't believe he was good enough for Laura.
'Just as I'd won the majority of the public over, then the episode with my friends came out and it just felt like I was constantly in fight or flight mode.
'I said at the time, this isn't fair, these girls came on to do this for me as a favour. They didn't want to be part of production.'
Laura, who is previously divorced, added that she hasn't been able to watch back the dinner party episode at the couples' retreat, when the other husbands launched an attack on her character.
Since her time on the show she has been spotted partying with other UK celebrities, including the likes of Tommy Fury.
Speaking before their renewals Arthur said: 'I'm holding on to the fact that we are in such a happy place at times.'
He added: 'I feel strong about Laura and I and I want to fight for her.'
