Zoe Clifton and Jenna Robinson are still going strong after meeting on Married At First Sight UK. They were the first lesbian couple to take to the explosive E4 series and are the only couple still together after the experiment came to an end.
They say they're friends with the majority of the other contestants and still keep in touch with them, except for Whitney Hughes and Matt Murray - who reentered as a new couple after cheating on their original partners. Zoe, 30, felt strongly about how their relationship would impact the group dynamic - and she still stands by what she said.
Just one episode saw a heated row break out between Zoe and Matt after it was revealed he had formed a new connection with Whitney, leaving Gemma Rose heartbroken.
The barber and personal assistant shared a kiss before going on to spend the night together, and at the following commitment ceremony, Matt claimed he felt his relationship with Gemma was at a 'point of no return', adding: "So when I have felt what I have felt, I have acted upon it."
But his comments saw Zoe mutter on air: "He's a f*cker. He's a d*ckhead."
"I think it was important that I voiced my opinions on certain things," Zoe, speaking before the incident between Thomas Hartley and her girlfriend took place this week, explains to The Mirror.
"There are a lot of situations that happened where I didn't feel like it was my business to get involved in.
"People have said 'you're getting involved in other people's business' but people need to remember that you don't have a phone, you are completely isolated, you're not speaking to your family every day, we're not going to work.
"All we are doing all day is living and breathing our own relationship. And other people's.
"We were all living in the same apartment and so you were very much involved in other people's relationships.
"So from the outside and when you watch it and you're thinking, 'why is that person talking about their relationship?' - because that's all you're doing.
"You're going to form opinions, and you are also going to be very protective over people and situations. So I stand by everything that I said."
Jenna, 32, argues her girlfriend of now six months was vocal about the situation because it cast doubts over the integrity of the experiment.
Zoe adds: "I felt like the situation was wrong. I felt like the opportunity should have been explored on the outside but the problem was that they made it very personal."
Since they've had time to cool off from the show, she says she has no problem with Whitney, and claims they 'just rubbed each other up the wrong way'.
But when it comes to Matt, she hasn't forgotten what happened.
"With Matt, I've definitely not forgiven and I don't agree with his behaviour. I don't agree with a lot of the things that he did," she adds.
Even aside from the drama, the couple says the filming schedules were "draining" at times - with two days out of the week starting early in the morning and not finishing until 11pm at night.
There was one stretch where they filmed for 10 days straight, they remember.
On the day of the dinner parties, they'd have long breaks in between filming, which usually lasted for three hours.
And during these periods on set but off-air, they weren't allowed to discuss any big issues together - which could cause disputes to fester.
The two say certain people and couples had to be split up during the stints away from the cameras, depending on the drama taking place at the time.
"Sometimes they'd be a three-hour gap between the mixer and the dinner party," Zoe explains.
"But in the gaps, you've had a few drinks, and food, and everyone's sluggish and tired."
Laughing, Jenna adds: "It was always about to kick off - everyone's grouchy and just ready for a fight.
"If they knew that everyone was just really chill and getting on, they'd [producers] leave a group of us to just have dinner or have some lunch together and have a chat. You eat before the dinner party."
"You go in there full to the brim," Zoe adds.
The pair say it was easy to forget the cameras were rolling at commitment ceremonies and at dinner parties.
But when it came to their one-on-one dates, it was something they were much more aware of, and they'd be prompted on what they needed to discuss by the production crew.
Now back to their regular lives, they've been going on dates as a 'normal' couple and manage to see each other every week - despite living in different parts of the country.
Unlike others from the series, they've managed to work out how their separate lives can piece together.
Zoe, who works as a quantity surveyor in Stafford, heads up north to Blackpool each weekend to spend time with Jenna on Saturday and Sunday evenings as she works during the daytime in her zero-waste store.
Jenna will then head back down to the Midlands for a couple of days with Zoe as she starts her 9-5 on Monday.
Although they're not looking to move in together just yet, it's definitely something they'd like to do in the future.
As MAFS filming began, Zoe had sold her apartment and is now in the process of moving into a house - a space where Jenna can bring her dogs along with her.
Jenna confirms: "I think it'll be a little bit of time before we ended up moving in together especially now that she's got her own little house that she'll want to stay in for a while."
Zoe jokes that Jenna has her doing jobs around the house when she visits, but Jenna claims they split the chores 50/50.
It's something they feel passionately about as a same-sex couple as statistics show 39 per cent of cohabiting couples say most of their arguments arise from a cleaning or household chore disagreement, and with the majority of women (54 per cent) still doing the lion's share of the housework.
Last week the pair attended an event hosted by cleaning brand Method, where they signed a 'Clean Up Pre-nup' - an initiative launched to bring peace and harmony to the chore wars.
Jenna argues: "Because we're in a lesbian relationship, we're going to have the tiniest, cleanest house ever and it probably will be a 50/50 split with housework.
"But statistics show that it is still the majority of women that do house and that needs to change. So this is this was their [Method's] way of trying to encourage that."
While it's known that Jenna hates the traditional concept of marriage, the couple envisions a 'proper' marriage eventually down the line after they decide to move in together.
"I definitely would like a proper marriage in the future," Zoe states.
"We're now back dating as girlfriend and girlfriend then after moving in, those things would naturally fall into place after," Jenna interjects.
They're really proud of representing the LGBTQ+ community on such a mainstream show, that in the past only ever hosted heterosexual couples.
They've received countless kind messages from people thanking them, including parents of gay children who have said they have learned to accept their child's sexuality after watching Jenna and Zoe on TV.
Jenna says: "The experiment gives you a lot more understanding of you in a relationship and I think we are probably much stronger as a couple than what we would have been if we had just met on the outside.
"Being the only couple that's together is amazing anyway, but the fact that we are the first lesbian couple on the show, I think it just shows really good representation as well."
On taking part in the show, Zoe adds: "I think you face the problems that you would usually face in a relationship years later.
"So you go straight into this really heavy relationship so you know that you can go the distance.
"I felt like we had a platform and so far, hopefully, we've done quite a good job of representing."
Jenna Robinson & Zoe Clifton joined cleaning brand method and Rob Rinder to celebrate the launch of the UK’s first ‘Clean Up Pre-nup’ - an agreement for change designed to bring peace and harmony to the chore wars once and for all. More information can be found here
