MAFS’ Marilyse Donates Kidney To Save Her Ex Partner’s Life

Married At First Sight UK's Marilyse Corrigan is donating her kidney to save her ex-partner's life. Marilyse announced the news over the weekend, but she will be donating the kidney today. The reality star, 37, is taking part in a kidney donation scheme - which means her kidney will not be going straight to her ex. Instead, hers will go to a woman she has never met. And Shaun - her ex - will receive a kidney which matches his.

Marilyse shares her two children - Josh, 13, and Callum, 15 - with Shaun - and she says her kids are the motivation for her donating the kidney. She told OK! magazine: 'For me, this is my kids needing the kidney because I needed it for their dad, so that's how I look at it. And because my kids are so important and valuable to me then it makes the whole situation right.'

Shaun suffers with polycystic kidney disease, which causes numerous cysts - filled with fluid - to grow in the kidneys, and these cysts can cause damage the kidneys. He was informed in 2019 he needed dialysis and a donor kidney. But Shaun receiving a kidney has been delayed due to the pandemic.

In fact, Marilyse told producers on MAFS that she might have to pull back from filming if she was needed for the op. 'When I went on Married At First Sight I did explain to the producers beforehand, "If I can't come or I have to pull out during filming this is why" because I might get a phone call from the hospital to say: "Operations are running again, we've got Shaun a match". And they were understandable about that,' she told the magazine.

On MAFS, Marilyse was matched with Franky Spencer{ =nofollow}, 46, who moved from his home in Dubai to be with Marilyse after the experiment. They weren't living together after the experiment, but the fitness coach told Grazia after the show she thinks the relationship would have worked out if they had taken it slower, as they were still seeing each other everyday and texting all the time. 'It just came to a dry ending, where we said we're better off as friends,' she says. 'It's a shame and I do believe that if we came out of the experiment and sat down and said "Right, let's do it where we see each other twice a week and we just date" then it probably would have been a lot different.'

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