MARRIED At First Sight Australia's Jessika Power has insisted that show producers set her up and she DIDN'T hit on co-star Nic Jovanovic at a party.

Viewers were stunned when they seemingly saw the 29-year-old star make a move on the hunk despite being married to Mick Gould – and Nic to Cyrell Paule – at the time.

This happened at the very start of the series, and Jessika went on to have a scandalous affair with Tamara's husband Dan Webb shortly afterwards instead.

Speaking in a new interview, the blonde bombshell has insisted that while her and Dan's romance was genuine, producers contrived the flirty scene with Nic – and had previously quizzed her on whether she thought he was attractive.

She explained: "So you remember there was a big fight between Martha, Cyrell, Nic, Mick, and me down in Martha’s hotel room, and Cyrell goes crazy and throws s**t?

"What they made out to you guys was that there were a few days in-between that fight, and then we had the dinner party where I 'hit on Nic'.

"What happened was, the dinner party was the next night, straight away. My producer said to me: 'Well, why don’t you go grab Nic and just see if he’s alright?'

"I was like: 'Why?' because I was too busy talking to Dan."

Jess continued to Metro: "I was out there having a conversation with him and I remember he started laughing, saying: 'I’ve just never been hit on like this'.

"I said: 'I’m not hitting on you, I’m asking you if you’re okay, because along the way, I have developed like some kind of feelings towards you'.

"I’m stuttering there because I know how my wording is coming out, this could come across bad but I already had said prior: 'I’m just checking to make sure you’re okay because Cyrell was like a cyclone last night'."

Jessika even claimed that producers told her they'd leave the footage out of the final edit, insisting: "I never actually properly hit on him. It 100% looks like I did, but I didn’t."

Fans saw Dan explode at Jess on live TV after they watched the footage back on Talking Married – with the pair briefly splitting up before reuniting soon after.

The 2019 series of Married At First Sight Australia, has only just aired in the UK – and British viewers have been shocked by Jess and Dan's antics.

She forced husband Mick to remain in the show so that she could keep seeing Dan, and eventually they were allowed to continue on the series as a couple.

However, things did not work out in the long run, and Jessika went public with new boyfriend Filip last month.

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