A Married At First Sight UK star has hit back after fans branded her mum the ‘mother in law from hell’.

Lacey Martin took to Instagram to have her say after viewers blasted her mum Maxine for how she treated her groom Nathan Campbell on the E4 show. It came after Maxine and Lacey’s twin sister Paige visited the couple for dinner as part of in-laws week.

Things got off to a bad start when Maxine announced she would be making chicken fajitas for dinner – even though Nathan is a vegetarian so didn’t eat the food, which he awkwardly described as “looking like it was from the bottom of a bin”.

Unsurprisingly his ‘banter’ didn’t go down with Maxine who burst into tears at the “rude” comment and claimed she had “never met a vegetarian before”. She then went on to grill her new son-in-law about his relationship with Lacey.

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Fans slammed Lacey’s mum Maxine over her treatment of groom Nathan ( 
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Fans of the Channel 4 show will remember the awkward moment when Nathan mistakenly thought Lacey’s sister Paige was his bride and said ‘wow’ as she walked down the aisle in a pink bridesmaids dress.

Insisting he didn’t fancy Paige and had now “created a bond with Lace”, Nathan confessed he was feeling the heat – and fans didn’t like Maxine blasting him further saying he was “hard to read” when it is known he has ADHD.

But though Nathan made a faux pas during the meeting, fans were quick to leap to his defence. One wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “Lacey’s mum turns up with chicken for a vegetarian, bombards him with insane questions, has no understanding of ADHD & cries when he jokes about the food having sat there basically eating dust for dinner as she wasn’t considerate enough to cater for a veggie.”

A second fan wrote: “Lacey’s mum is the MIL from hell… banging on like she’s whipped up some Michelin star fajitas… never mind the fact Nathan is vegetarian, and she’s offended he won’t cut up raw chicken. Run, don’t walk.”

“#MAFSUK Well done. You’ve just given Nathan a glimpse of how his potential mother in law behaves. Congratulations on jeopardising your daughter’s relationship,” a third chimed in, as a fourth added: “If that was going to be my mother in law I’d leave and never turn back.”

Posting to her Instagram stories, Lacey spoke out in defence of her mum and said: “Hey everyone, wanted to clear a few things up. My mum did NOT know Nathan was vegetarian. Also, she had no say in what we were eating, she was just told ‘you’re making fajitas’. You need to remember it is edited for entertainment and to take it with a pinch of salt!”