EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Marinos shares details about the off-camera moment.

MAFS’ Jamie Marinos has opened up about the moment she told Dave Thomas Hand she loves him for the first time. Photos: Channel Nine

Married At First Sight’s Jamie Marinos has shared details about the moment she said ‘I love you’ to her partner Dave Thomas Hand for the very first time. The fan-favourite bride broke the exciting news to her co-stars Beth Kelly and Veronica Cloherty on the couples retreat but refused to share any more details at the time.

Speaking with Yahoo Lifestyle about the off-camera moment, Jamie reveals that she dropped the L-bomb one night in bed before Dave was due to fly to Melbourne to see his dad. The groom had previously shared at his wedding that his father was in hospital battling cancer and was undergoing his fourth round of chemotherapy.

“Dave was going through a bit of a hard time during filming. He mentioned in our wedding episode his dad was unfortunately unwell, and so he was actually going back to Melbourne for a couple of days to visit him,” Jamie details.

“It was a very tough go for Dave because he’s in this experiment but also, his mind was at home too. It was just this constant balancing act of being a good husband but also trying to process everything that’s going on in and out of the experiment.”

How did Dave respond?

Jamie says that she quickly took on a caretaker role in the relationship and Dave’s unfortunate situation made her want to “give him as much love as [she] could”.

“So the night before he was leaving, he was catching an early morning flight, we were in bed and I just turned to him and I said, ‘I love you, but don’t say anything. Don’t say anything, go to bed. Goodnight’,” she recalls.

“He gave me a kiss and he had a big stupid smile on his face. At that point, I knew we were in a different place because he wasn’t as 100 per cent there as I was. I had nothing weighing on my mind, I was just completely laser-focused on this man like, this is my job now. But again, Dave having to process what’s going on at home, I knew it was going to take him a little bit longer so I didn’t want to put that pressure on him.”

Jamie says she took on a caretaker role in the relationship and wanted to give Dave as much love as she could. Photo: Channel Nine

Are Jamie and Dave still together?

Yahoo Lifestyle revealed last year that the show’s bosses are on track to deliver what could be one of the social experiment’s happiest endings to date as there was a “record-breaking” number of pairs still together at the Final Vows.

It’s understood that Jamie and Dave are one of those couples that make it to the end of the filming experience, but it’s unclear whether they have stayed together beyond the experiment.

One major clue that hints at their current relationship status is that they were recently spotted together in Melbourne.

A fan shared the photos with So Dramatic! last month and told the publication: “I just saw Jamie and Dave out and together! They’re actually lovely. I think they make it.

“I commented, ‘Oh you’re still together?!’. They said, ‘You’ll have to wait and find out’.”