If there were ever two people you’d want to sit down and talk love, sex and MAFS with, it would no doubt be John Aiken and Jo Robertson . The Herald’s Megan Watts sat down to chat with the pair about Married At First Sight New Zealand’s upcoming season and relationship tips that translate both on and off the screen. Married At First Sight New Zealand is returning after a five-year hiatus, and with brand new couples putting their love to the test, we have a fresh new partnership helming the show.
Sex and intimacy therapist Jo Robertson will join John Aiken to guide four Kiwi couples down the aisle and into healthy relationships - all while providing some juicy reality TV to get the heart pumping. Reflecting on the new partnership, Robertson looks at it like any other relationship. It’s based on respect, loyalty and a solid friendship.
“I think we really trust each other and so we lean on each other a lot,” she says. “I think it’s incredibly important to just enjoy the people you work with.” However, the show was new territory for the esteemed therapist, who is used to working solo - and without cameras - when it comes to her day job.
“As a therapist, you never work with someone else so that was an uncertainty,” she admitted. “It was really energising. I enjoyed it a lot.
” Aiken gushed about his new co-expert and how she brought a refreshing energy to the much-loved show. “When we went in with MAFS New Zealand, we wanted to reboot it. And that meant .
