Married At First Sight participant Richard Sauerman has disclosed a consistent rule breach among his fellow brides and grooms on set.

The 62-year-old revealed that the cast was instructed not to capture photos on personal devices but to utilise production phones instead. However, he later discovered he was the sole adherent to this directive.

“The producers gave us a production phone and said, ‘Use this phone to take photographs and videos of your relationship. You can’t do it on your own phone’. So I did that,” he shared with Yahoo.

Richard learned afterward that many other cast members were flouting the rule, resulting in numerous spontaneous shots for them, while he possessed only promotional ones. “Afterwards, I see all these posts going up with all the other couples about intimate moments and things clearly taken on another phone,” he lamented. “So everyone else had all these social media posts of them living their lives and stuff behind the scenes which Channel Nine are now happily posting and we were told not to do that.”

Expressing his frustration, Richard confessed that had he known he could use his personal device like others, he would have done so to preserve precious memories. “I stuck by the rules and it just annoyed me. I would’ve done that differently and used my own phone, gone mad and taken lots of photos.”

Richard, who was matched with Andrea Thompson, 51, on the Channel Nine dating experiment, reflected on his journey, acknowledging a comment he wished he hadn’t made.

Recalling a controversial remark during intimacy week, where he disclosed intimate details about his relationship with Andrea, Richard expressed regret: “I wouldn’t have said that ‘we kissed, we licked…’ comment at the commitment ceremony during intimacy week.”

These revelations follow Andrea’s departure from the show in March, where she cited constant fighting with Richard as the reason for her decision to leave.