Married At First Sight Australia groom Danny Hewitt has revealed how he really felt when Bec Zacharia said 'I love you' during one of the couple's dramatic commitment ceremonies. Before Homestays, the loved-up bride, 35, told her British husband, 34, she had fallen head over heels for him in a shock moment that left him and the rest of the cast completely gobsmacked.
When speaking about her 'deep feelings' with experts, she blurted out those iconic three words to her man, leaving him visibly shaken as he quietly processed her extremely public declaration of love. Now, he has opened up about how the bombshell confession really made him feel – and fans can guess he wasn't reciprocating those warm and fuzzy emotions back to Bec.
Danny's Reaction to the Bombshell
In an interview with Daily Mail Australia, Danny admitted he was caught totally off-guard and had no clue she was about to reveal she was madly in love with him. 'Normally when a girl tells you they love you, they give you like breadcrumbs beforehand,' he explained. 'Bec didn’t give me any breadcrumbs. She didn’t allude to it. She didn’t give me hints. Then it just came out of nowhere.'
He added: 'Bec’s obviously a bit ahead of me with the feelings. You can’t force love. You’re either going to love someone or you’re not. I’m just going with the flow and seeing where it goes.'
Bec's Perspective
Despite wearing her heart on her sleeve, Bec confessed she knew Danny didn't feel the same way – but hoped his lack of love wouldn't last forever as he 'just wasn't there yet'. Explaining that she didn't even mean to say 'I love you' during that pivotal moment on the couch, the starry-eyed bride admitted that ultimately she couldn't hold her feelings in anymore.
She told Chattr: 'I definitely did not plan on telling him at the Commitment Ceremony at all. I did not plan that at all. I definitely would have waited a few weeks.' Despite not hearing it back, Bec insisted she didn't regret telling Danny exactly how she felt.
She added: 'I know people are going to come back and go, “she’s a crazy person” but they haven’t seen an accurate representation of that relationship. I knew that Danny didn’t feel that way, but at the same time, as you’ve seen this whole season, what you see is what you get, the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s how I felt in the moment, and I don’t regret telling him that I love him, because that’s how I feel.'
Behind the Scenes
Bec also revealed that their relationship ran a lot deeper off-screen, and viewers never really got to see just how loved-up the married couple were behind the scenes. She added: 'In mine and Danny’s opinion, the relationship you’ve seen up until this retreat is not really reflective of what we were really like. Our honeymoon was incredible. You guys saw half a day, in comparison to the other six and a half days we were there.'
'Throughout this time, these two and a bit months that we were in this experiment, Danny and I were building such strong foundations with one another. And the retreat was the cherry on top for me, the protection, him taking me out of there, the incredible two days that we had outside of that retreat, when we were sitting there saying, “Are we leaving together?” We’ll just go back to Melbourne, to Danny’s place.'
