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MARRIED At First Sight UK tensions boil over between grooms Steven and Keye – with explosive scenes set to air on Wednesday night’s episode.

In a teaser clip for the E4 show Steven is first seen giving his bride Nelly a stern warning.

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He tells her in a prickly moment: “People don’t need to know my business yet, because you’ll see a side of me probably, you won’t like”.

Moments later, the action cuts to fellow groom Keye as he squares up to Steven in a fiery exchange.

“I’m not trying to come to your relationship. I’m not. Couldn’t give a flying f**k. I’m here for my relationship,” Keye snaps.

But Steven is quick to hit back, firing: “You’re basically telling people to ‘f**k off.’”

Turning back to the camera, Steven fumes: “You are not part of his relationship, so see yourself out.”

The feud comes hot on the heels of the first commitment ceremony, where the couples sat down with the experts to talk through their journeys so far.

Despite the drama Steven and his bride Nelly had earlier looked stronger than ever.

However, she broke down when opening up about her insecurities.

Reflecting on her big day and honeymoon in Jamaica, Nelly said: “As soon as I saw Steven, I just felt really calm. I just got a really nice vibe from him. We had such an amazing time. We didn’t bicker and just got on so well.

“We laughed a lot. We have a similar sense of humour. We are really playful with each other. It’s exactly what I wanted.”

But she admitted her fears soon crept in and said: “I always just think, like, well, when is something gonna go wrong. 

“I’m kind of waiting for something to happen, and it freaks me out a little bit, that it hasn’t. Why aren’t we arguing? 

“Why haven’t you irritated me? Why haven’t I irritated you? I end up trying to look for something.

“So, for example, I love how affectionate you are on our honeymoon… And then I’d come back to the apartment, and I would kind of think, he’s not giving me a kiss this morning. 

“And then I get in my head and think, yeah, ‘cause he doesn’t like you. And then he will give me a kiss and I think, ‘Oh, that was nice. He does like me.’ And it’s just constant.

“And I even feel saying this now, I’m thinking, ‘Oh, my God, this is gonna give him the ik, and it’s gonna push him away.’”

Relationship expert Paul C Brunson then revealed Nelly’s three past relationships had all ended because the men cheated.

But Steven wasn’t scared off – instead, he admitted he was already falling for his bride.

Paul asked him directly: “So you’re on the path?”

Steven replied: “Yeah, 100%. I am.”

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REALITY TV stars Jack Fincham and Aaron Chalmers fought each other in a dramatic bare knuckle fight last night.

The pair – who both have a colourful roster of exes – went head to head in a huge reality super fight and it was was Aaron who came out on top, stopping Jack in round two.

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Jack, 34 – who hasn’t fought since a 2022 exhibition bout against Anthony Taylor – found fame in 2019 on ITV2 dating show Love Island.

Chalmers, 38, made his name in MTV‘s Geordie Shore house before turning to MMA in 2017 – winning five of his seven bouts – including a 2023 exhibition against Floyd Mayweather.

The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship event was promoted by Conor McGregor.

So who else have the reality-TV-stars-turned-boxers been up-close-and-personal with?

Here’s a rundown of their eclectic reality TV exes…

TALIA OATWAY

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Aaron and the influencer were together for five years.

They started dating in 2017 and share three children; Romeo, Maddox and Oakley.

The pair split briefly after the birth of their first child, Romeo – but got back together soon after.

They went through a difficult time with son Oakley – who was born with serious health issues. 

MARNIE SIMPSON

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As his fellow co-star on Geordie Shore, Aaron was in a long-running on/off relationship with Marnie since 2014.

However, it appeared to end for good in 2016 when Marnie appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and got cosy with ex Towie star Lewis Bloor.

The duo were last seen snogging In 2017, after Aaron’s first official MMA fight.

LAUREN POPE

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Aaron and former Towie star Lauren revealed they were dating in December 2016.

The pair even jetted off on a romantic holiday together to Dubai during their short time together.

The former glamour model and the Geordie hunk didn’t last however, and broke up at the end of January after it was alleged he spat food at her on a night out.

However, Aaron dismissed the claims, and told The Sun’s Bizarre column: “Apparently I spat food at Lauren. 1. I am not a tramp 2. If I spat food at her she would knock us out and 3. I wouldn’t waste food.”

NICOLE BASS

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Aaron had a short-lived relationship with Nicole Bass, Lewis Bloor’s ex-girlfriend, during the time Lewis was dating his CBB co-star Marnie.

The pair met while filming a series of Ex on the Beach, and went on to date for nearly two months before calling time on the fling.

It was said to be an amicable split and the pair have remained friends.

JENNY THOMPSON

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Aaron romped with Wayne Rooney’s sex worker Jenny Thompson while filming Ex on the Beach in 2016.

The man magnet has allegedly had sex with at least thirteen Premier League footballers thought to include Mario Balotelli.

Frisky pair Jenny and Aaron shot to the bedroom quickly after meeting – mainly to wind up their exes.

He told the camera: “I’ve got the keys to the penthouse. I wanna sh*g Jenny and I couldn’t give a f**k if that hurts Becca. Let’s get some f**king action going.”

Despite Jenny and Aaron’s on-air bonk on EOTB, they are just pals.

CHANTELLE CONNELLY

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Geordie Shore star Chantelle and Aaron immediately struck up a connection when she joined the cast in 2016.

The loved-up pair got their names tattooed onto each other on the first date – but the writing/ ink was on the wall – and they parted ways quickly after.

While their romance wasn’t meant to be, it did make for hilariously awkward scenes as he had to explain his new ink to a newly returning Marnie…

DANI DYER

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Jack and Strictly star Dani won Love Island in 2018 after falling for each other on the ITV2 dating show.

The daughter of EastEnders star Danny Dyer shot to fame on the programme and found love with the former pen pusher.

The couple went onto split less than a year after leaving the Majorca villa, with their break-up playing out in the public eye.

Jack and actor Danny’s feud has exploded once again six years after Jack’s split from the brief Strictly star.

Brave Jack told The Sun in an emotional interview earlier in the year: “I feel like a failure, utterly mortified by the things I have done. 

“I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up. Embarrassed just doesn’t touch it. It is hideous. I cry when I think about how I’ve let people down.

“I have blown more than a million pounds thanks to drugs, booze and gambling.

“Drugs helped my relationship with Dani fail. I was absent, my priorities were wrong, I wasn’t a great boyfriend. I am determined to change my future.”

CHLOE BROCKETT

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Jack and Towie star Chloe Brockett have been on-again-off-again over SEVEN times. 

They first got together in 2019 and moved into their first home together back in May 2024.

The pair have repeatedly split and got back together during the course of their two-year relationship, but this time they were said to be at loggerheads.

The pair were locked in an ongoing feud over Chloe’s decision to continue making money from OnlyFans.

Last November, Chloe told us about her decision to use the adult platform.

In April, The Sun revealed Jack had packed his bags and moved out of the home he shared with Chloe.

CHELSEA BARBER

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Aaron was seen making a move on new cast member Chelsea Barber in series 14 of MTV’s Geordie Shore in early 2017.

The romance drew unwanted attention from Aaron’s ex Marnie Simpson who flew into a rage.

Marnie even went as far as packing her bags and leaving the Geordie Shore house in protest at his apparent fling with Chelsea – but they made up once Aaron revealed he had ‘not slept’ with the fellow Geordie Shore star.

DANIELLE SCOTT

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In March 2017, Aaron was reportedly loved up with brunette beauty Danielle Scott.

The Essex-based beauty caught Aaron’s eye with her sexy Instagram pics and the pair’s relationship blossomed online and they were thought to be Maldives-bound.

However, by May, he was seen getting frisky with old flame Marnie, suggesting their romance was dead in the water/Indian Ocean.

Audiences once adored big adult comedies. Jay Roach’s champagne-fizzy “The Roses” is a seductive attempt to lure them back into theaters.

As bright, mean and ambitious as its lead characters, Theo and Ivy Rose (Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman), this resurrection of the ’80s-style R-rated crowd-pleaser is a remake of — or really, an across-the-room nod to — the 1989 hit “The War of the Roses,” which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as divorcees who fight to the death over their fancy chandelier.

Inspired by the venomous novel by Warren Adler, both films are metaphors for building a home and then tearing it down, although the chandelier this time is merely incidental. This snarky, self-aware couple is the type to build themselves a smart house and name its system HAL.

The Roses meet-cute in a posh London restaurant when Theo asks to borrow Ivy’s knife to slash his wrists. He’s a morose architect who aspires to build risky, revolutionary designs. She’s a kooky chef whose signature seasoning is a mix of powdered anchovy and blueberry. In the cocktail of their marriage, he adds the bitterness and she adds the spice, qualities that can be either overbearing or harmonious. Their version of sweet talk is Ivy chirping, “Never leave me — but when you do, kill me on the way out.”

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Brutal humor and obstinacy bind these malcontents together for almost 15 years. Then her career takes off and his flops, upending their equilibrium. Now, they’re battling over who gets custody of their California dream mansion. Twins Hattie and Roy are secondary. (Delaney Quinn and Ollie Robinson play their kids at 10; Hala Finley and Wells Rappaport at 13.)

The script by Tony McNamara (“Poor Things”) unleashes the hilarious spouses to aim insults at each other like explosive corks. (McNamara is so skilled at putting cruel words in Colman’s mouth that he’s already helped win her an Oscar for “The Favourite.”) Theo and Ivy open the film skewering each other at marriage counseling, only to be aghast when the therapist advises them to split up. For a while, they stick together mostly to stick it to her, in defiance of the fact that contempt is the No. 1 indicator of divorce. “In England, we call that repartee,” Theo insists.

You wonder if their jokes keep them from honest communication and then you wonder if Roach, who came to fame as the director of “Austin Powers” and “Meet the Parents,” has ever been afraid of that himself. (For the record, Roach has been married to the Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs since 1993 and she here sings two cover songs for the soundtrack, “Happy Together” and “Love Hurts.”)

Mostly, you just enjoy the jokes. Colman, who burst into my awareness in the 2003 TV cringe comedy “Peep Show,” is fantastic throwing jabs around in costume designer PC Williams’ nouveau hipster wardrobe of bold, baggy lines. The actor even does an Ian McKellen impression just because. Yet, the surprise here is Cumberbatch, who seizes his rare opportunity to be flat-out funny, while occasionally rolling over to show Theo’s vulnerable belly. Flirtatiously pouting his lips at Colman, he coos, “How about a three-hour circular argument that goes nowhere?” How about three more Cumberbatch comedies for every awards-baity drama he does?

The story originally satirized materialistic baby boomers stymied by shifting gender roles. Both make interesting time capsules of the traditional man and the liberated woman who revert to smashing fusty china figurines like Neanderthals, although my sticking point with the first movie is that both Roses are too despicable. It’s hard to care about either one once you see how they treat each other’s pets.

But Roach has insightfully made this about people, not societal scapegoats. He and McNamara have changed up nearly everything in this disaster except its vibrations of dread. Since we already know that Theo and Ivy are in for a world of hurt, the film spends much of its running time rewinding to the past to prove how wonderful they could be together — and, more painfully, how sincerely they’ve tried to work out their kinks. We like Cumberbatch and Colman’s Theo and Ivy, even after they’ve become tantrum-throwing twits.

The details of their dissolution — career pressures, childcare clashes, petty jealousies — and its credible tit-for-tat dynamic are discomfitingly relatable. If this version has a larger sociological statement, it’s an indictment of how today’s quest for success is so all-consuming and exhausting that even if you can fit two egos in one house, you probably can’t merge their day planners. In the modern, highly visible, online-viralized game of life, earning money is merely Stage 1. Both Roses are driven to leave their permanent mark on the world.

Meanwhile, their two sets of American friends, Amy and Barry (Kate McKinnon and Andy Samberg) and Sally and Rory (Zoë Chao and Jamie Demetriou), are equally miserable and toxic. All four are such shallow snobs that they can’t imagine why Ivy would want to own Julia Child’s old stove when it’s, well, old. McKinnon’s Amy toggles through obnoxious progressive stereotypes: She’s a self-professed empath who pretends to be in an open marriage to wheedle Theo into bed. Barry, a depressive, gives Samberg a chance to show a deeper level of comic maturity, and also eventually doubles as Theo’s personal attorney. Otherwise, the script prunes the couple’s legal battle down to one scene with Ivy’s viperous lawyer, played by Allison Janney, who brings a rottweiler to the showdown and claims it’s her service animal.

The gags can be silly. There are two vomit scenes and a pratfall where Colman lands on her face. Yet, Roach and his team have put serious effort into their lovely symbology: a shot of Theo glumly walking down an airplane aisle from first class to coach, images of the cold Pacific crashing against rocks that recall his confession of feeling “waves of hatred” toward his wife.

When the film finally gets to its Grand Guignol climax, it rushes through the barbarity, taking no delight in it. I wanted to laugh but realized I’d fallen too much in love with Theo and Ivy, who are both so pitifully certain they’re in the moral right. The schadenfreude is just sad. It stings how much we root for them to kiss and make up. Still, despite the hasty ending, this splashy comedy deserves to woo grown-ups back to the multiplex. The Roses are estranged, but they’ve reunited us with our love for a genre — and it feels so good.