MAFS CAST LEFT PENNILESS!

With social media banned this season, cast members are hitting back

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The world is certainly your oyster when you sign up to marry someone who you’ve never met before on national television, especially if that program is Married At First Sight, the number one reality show in the country. Except if you’re a current cast member, that is.

Insiders say the season eight starts have been dudded, with producers denying the wannabe influencers the chance to earn tens of thousands of dollars in sponsorships and endorsements this year by refusing to let them use their social media accounts.

“I feel sorry for them and if I were them, I’d be pretty pissed off,” says Aleks Markovic, 28, who married Ivan Sarakula on last year’s show. “The contestants in my season milked their Instagram accounts, organizing all sorts of deals with magazines, plus free [dental work] and clothing.