Southampton woman to marry on Netflix's Love Is Blind UK

Make-up artist Maria, 30, and her 38-year-old fiancé Tom, an advertising consultant from London, got engaged in front of cameras on Love Is Blind UK.

Hosted by celebrity couple Matt and Emma Willis, the shows premise sees participants sit in pods, unable to see each other and only able to talk.

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If they declare their love, they get to see each other for the first time at a quickfire engagement.

Airing in the penultimate week of the Netflix show, Maria and Tom are featured meeting each other’s families, as well as mingling with their fellow contestants in a West London pub.The encounter sees Tom meet Natasha for the first time, who he left broken hearted in the early stages of the series after she declared her love for him, instead choosing to propose to Maria.

Maria's fiance is having doubts. Picture: Netflix (Image: YouTube) Meeting in person for the first time – in what Tom described as an “uncomfortable” conversation – Natasha said: “I have so much respect for you, I think you’re an incredible person and whatever makes you happy, I want for you.”

She added: “I really cared about you. I told you I’d fallen in love with you, I meant that when I said it.”

Speaking to cameras out of earshot from his bride to be and rejected lover, Tom said: “It’s difficult to hear that, there’s a lot of unresolved connections.

“Me and Maria are really good together, but the wedding is only two weeks away and I think at this stage I’m sat on the fence a little.”

Speaking to each other the following morning, Tom confessed to Maria the conversation he’d had with Natasha the night before, as Maria said: “I don’t like that.

“I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. There’s boundaries and she can’t overstep the mark.”

Overcoming the latest hurdle during their engagement, Maria and Tom are set to marry in the season finale of Love Is Blind UK which airs next week.