MAFS's Davide on 'healing' after split from husband

Star of Channel 4's Married at First Sight UK (MAFS) Davide Anica has gone back to therapy and wishes his now ex-husband "all the best" after they appeared together on the programme.

Anica, who lives in Horsham, West Sussex, met and wed Keye Luke on the show, which sees strangers marry when they are introduced for the first time at the altar.

But the couple began arguing soon after leaving "the bubble of the experiment", and the marriage finally collapsed when Anica caught Luke on the dating app Grindr.

Anica said: "There's no relationship without trust and if I cannot trust him, there's no way we can rekindle things. That chapter is closed. I wish him all the best."

Cabin crew member Anica became a hit with fans - not least for his under-eye skin care patches.

"We're filming at ridiculous times so these became my life-savers," he told BBC Radio Sussex.

"[Keye and I] were really good, during the experiement we both really wanted it to work and you can see that we put in the work, we are there for each other.

"It was a beautiful love story and looking back at it as well, while I was watching it, it was just so beautiful."

But the pair had split before the show went to air, and Anica said he had been using that time "to heal".

"I think that's exactly what I needed to do, heal and prepare for the show airing because as you can imagine, watching it while you're a little bit heartbroken, it was really hard," he said.

"We were having issues after the show, it was a very difficult time for us.

"What happened that broke the camel's back in the end was the dating app, me finding him on a dating app while I was away working."

Anica said he had "a feeling" Luke was on the dating app, and he said his suspicions were confirmed when he went to check.

"I had to save myself from being in the same position that I was before, and not become a paranoid person," he said.

"I knew I would have trust issues for the rest of my life if I would continue that relationship."

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