AFFAIR HEARING

IF you've ever been cheated on, the thought of being trapped in a villa with your ex might sound like an absolute nightmare.

- ELLA WALKER

Unless, maybe, Amanda Holden, relationship guru Paul C Brunson and seven other couples all in the same situation as you, were there too?

That's the premise of new Netflix show Cheat: Unfinished Business, which sees eight not-so-happy couples, whose relationships have been wrecked by infidelity, reunited in a villa in Majorca, Spain, to see if they can revive their romance.

"It's a relationship show. It’s not a dating show,” says Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda, 54. “It's about people who are invested in their relationships and are seeing whether they can hold on to them and make them work.”

During the series, Paul, 50, who has co-hosted Celebs Go Dating and Married at First Sight UK, counsels the couples and sets them exercises that could help them work through and ideally, overcome their problems.

Crucially, the cheaters aren't demonised.

So while there is a certain amount of drama, and the couples do have to face each other down in a fiery ‘reckoning room,’ the show also provides support that can really help people deal with a breach of trust and move on together.

“There are two sides, and we're very quick to judge. We're a society now that wants to see the bad guy, wants to see the good guy. I think it’s very important to listen and to see why people have done what they've done, and then for them to see the reaction of the person that they've betrayed,” says Amanda, who also co-hosts Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston.