Who is MAFS UK's Emma Barnes? Age, job, Instagram and life after the experiment

7 November 2025, 16:56

Emma was paired with Caspar by the experts in MAFS UK 2024. Picture: Channel 4/Instagram: @emmabarnes

By Tiasha Debray

Get to know Married At First Sight UK's Emma Barnes, who married Caspar, from her age, job and Instagram to all her messages of body positivity in and out of the show.

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Married At First Sight UK saw the experts Mel Schilling, Charlene Douglas and Paul C Brunson match Emma Barnes and Casper Todd together, but they split during the penultimate commitment ceremony.

But now, a year later, Emma is back on your TV screens as she participates in a special edition of Come Dine With Me. She'll be competing against Kristina Goodsell (MAFS 2024), Kieran Chapman (MAFS 2024), Paul Liba (MAFS 2023) and Ella Morgan (2023), in hopes to win the much loved dinner party show.

With the final of MAFS UK does Come Dine With Me airing on Friday 7th November, here's everything you need to know about fan-favourite Emma.

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Emma has accidentally become a body positivity icon after her experience on MAFS. Picture: Instagram: @emmabarnes

How old is Emma from MAFS UK?

At the time of writing, Emma is 33 years old.

Her star sign is a Libra and common traits for a Libra include being fair minded, empathetic and charming, all traits we’ve certainly seen from Emma.

Emma turned 30 in 2022. Picture: Instagram: @emmaebarnes

What does Emma from MAFS UK do for work?

Before starring on Married at First Sight, Emma worked as an Investment Sales Manager and admitted that she put her work first for a long which is why she'd been single for so long.

Now Emma is an influencer and TV personality represented by the same talent managers that her co-star Kristina is represented by.

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What’s Emma from MAFS UK said about body positivity?

Emma was thrown straight into the deep end on MAFS when the experts paired her with a man whose preference was not curvy women.

“Liking a more petite woman is generally something that I’ve always fancied more than curves. That’s just my preference,” her husband Caspar said on the show. Ever since then, Emma has proven herself to be an absolute icon with praise-worthy messages of body positivity and acceptance that have made her beloved to viewers.

Emma opened up to Caspar when she revealed: “I’m not completely confident. I am confident for a girl who has never been skinny - never wanted to be, but for a girl who’s never been skinny.”

“I think as long as I am happy, healthy and fit, I can eat crisps and drink wine,” she admitted in complete seriousness and then spoke of the importance of surrounding oneself with positivity.

MAFS' Caspar admitted he was not attracted to curvier women. Picture: Channel 4

“I surround myself with people that bring you up and that’s really important, you saw my friends,” she told Caspar, “we are never scared to compliment each other and that helps.”

When Caspar admitted he wasn’t attracted to curvy women, Emma retaliated by stating: “What we’re here to do is look beyond that and what you need to do is look beyond that because my personality, my confidence, should help A) you feel more confident, and B) you should see qualities bigger than my clothes size”

Outside of MAFS, Emma has been reiterating her message, recently appearing on the official MAFS UK 'behind the scenes' podcast hosted by Love Island’s Chloe Burrows.

"I think everyone has self-confidence issues. I’ve never been skinny and I never will be skinny," she said in the interview.

"Of course, going into this, I’d done a lot of mental preparation and I’d mentally prepared myself for a backlash about 'she’s fat, she’s got a big nose', right? And I think I wasn’t quite expecting that to come from my husband."

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"I was just a bit shocked that I’d done all of this preparation and didn’t know who was going to be at the end of the aisle. I’m broadening my mindset to make sure I didn’t just judge a book by its cover and I was just flabbergasted that he hadn’t done that.

What’s Emma from MAFS UK’s Instagram?

You can find Emma on Instagram under the handle @emmaebarnes where feel-good content of her having fun with her friends and family and travelling the world.