MAFS; Jake Edwards says he regrets cheating on his ex-fiancée

Married At First Sight groom Jake Edwards has confirmed reports that he cheated on his ex-fiancée Paige McCuskey just weeks before their wedding. 

Speaking to Who magazine on Thursday, the former AFL star, 32, said he feels terrible about his infidelity, calling the affair ‘one of the biggest regrets of his life’. 

Describing his behaviour as ‘poor’, Jake confessed: ‘I was with someone I thought I wanted to spend my life with but there was something missing. Stupidly, I cheated on her with another woman.’    

Jake said he was forced to take a good look at his life choices after cheating on Paige and ending their engagement. 

‘I lost a lot of things because of it: my house, mutual friends and her family. I’m not proud of it,’ he added. 

His admission comes after Paige slammed Jake for acting deceitfully and cheating on her in a series of brutal Instagram posts.    

Paige and Jake dated for about three years before getting engaged during a romantic trip to Fiji in December 2018.

They had planned to wed in December 2019, but broke up weeks before walking down the aisle. 

While Jake’s official bio states he simply ‘fell out of love’ with Paige, she claimed he was actually deceitful and cheated on her during their four-year romance.  

Paige recently edited the captions of several photos of the couple in happier times, adding unflattering remarks about Jake and his alleged behaviour during their relationship.

A post from August 2017 showed Paige and Jake sharing a tender kiss. 

The original caption read ‘LOVE’, but Paige has since updated it to ‘Edit: deceit.’

She also edited the caption beneath a photo of the former couple kissing at a friend’s wedding in November 2017.

It was originally captioned ‘my rock’ but now states ‘Edit: ehhkkkk also other people’s rocks’.

Elsewhere, the blonde recently tweaked the caption beneath a photo of herself and Jake posing in a car.

‘Amazing night with my boy doing footy the fancy way. So good to have you home,’ the original post read.

Paige has since added: ‘Edit: Who knows what you were doing when you were away?’

Perhaps the most brutal comment, however, was left beneath a photo of the pair snorkelling.

‘Should [have] held him under the water,’ she wrote. 

Paige and Jake dated for about three years before getting engaged during a romantic trip to Fiji in December 2018.

They had planned to wed in December 2019, but broke up weeks before walking down the aisle.

Although Jake didn’t specifically acknowledge his-ex’s Instagram captions, speaking on Nova 96.9’s Fitzy & Wippa show on Monday, he said: ‘We split 12 months before the show.’

‘We haven’t been in contact at all and I don’t think they’ll be any need for me to reach out. The reason [I didn’t tell her I was doing MAFS] was because I know the relationship we had at the time.’

‘I was convinced she’d make me feel really terrible for doing something like this. So I probably would have pulled out.’ 

It comes after a friend of Paige’s told the So Dramatic! podcast she was ‘devastated’ to learn her ex-fiancé would be appearing on Married At First Sight just months after he was supposed to marry her.

‘Who could possibly get ready for a wedding when he was supposed to be marrying the love of his life nine months prior? It’s just selfish. Paige is devastated,’ they said.

‘I can’t believe he would go on a show so quickly after what he did to her.’

Jake married business manager and former WAG Beck Zemek on Monday night’s season premiere of Married At First Sight.

Beck, 27, has since been dubbed the ‘bride from hell’ because of her demanding and hostile attitude towards her husband.

Married At First Sight continues Wednesday 7.30pm on Channel Nine