Bride and Prejudice star Dannii Erskine has revealed she almost walked down the aisle on national TV for the second time, months before her bizarre ‘death hoax’.
The 28-year-old told Daily Mail Australia she signed up to appear on Channel Nine’s rival dating show, Married At First Sight, but never heard back from producers.
“I’d actually do another show,” she declared, alluding to a possible return to the small screen.
“I signed up for this year’s season of Married At First Sight last year, but I don’t think my looks and my figure were good enough,” she confessed.
“There was no progress… They just went cold turkey.”
Bride and Prejudice star Dannii Erskine has revealed she almost walked down the aisle on national TV for the second time, months before her bizarre ‘death hoax’
The 28-year-old told Daily Mail Australia she signed up to appear on Channel Nine’s rival dating show, Married At First Sight, but never heard back from producers. Pictured: Ollie Skelton and Tahnee Cook
Erskine added that despite being thrust into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, she’s not shy about being back in the spotlight.
“Like I said, the show (Bride and Prejudice) did nothing wrong to me… They didn’t cause the conflict.
It’s the people behind the keyboard that are causing the problems,” she said, emphasizing that the problems are not caused by the show, but by the viewers at home.
Dannii took part in Seven’s Bride and Prejudice in 2019 with her then fiancé, a man named Denton.
Dannii took part in Seven’s Bride and Prejudice in 2019 with her then fiancé, Denton
It comes after Dannii denied she faked her own death and told Daily Mail Australia that the entire saga was a vicious prank orchestrated by an obsessed fan from the Geelong region who hacked into her social media accounts.
The death hoax started when a person claimed to be Dannii’s ‘sister’. Dee said the TV star died in hospital following a horrific car crash in North Melbourne that left her brain dead.
An obituary also appeared on Dannii’s hacked Instagram account.
“I didn’t fake my own death. There has been too much loss already (among the cast of Bride and Prejudice), and we all know how sad that has been,” she said.
“Not only is it disgusting and cruel, it’s humiliating for everyone – not just myself, but my family as well. If I wanted to disappear I would just shut down everything (social media accounts). It’s really just common sense; I do not understand.’
An irate Dannii said she was especially “disgusted” by her ex-husband Denton Ansley, who she hasn’t spoken to in 18 months, because she spoke out before knowing if she was really dead.
“I am disgusted with my husband – my ex-husband, sorry – for the way he has gone on and talked about me. I would never, in my entire life, if the tables were turned, would do something like that to someone,” she said.
“My poor family was inundated with so many calls. This whole experience has been just awful,” she said
Dannii said she had an “extremely stressful two weeks” in the aftermath of the hoax.
The emotional toll was evident when Dannii spoke about the brutal cyberbullying she faced from trolls who falsely accused her of faking her own death.
“This is why people commit suicide,” she said.
‘They’re filthy. What people write behind (my back) because they are too scared to come and confront me. They write behind a keyboard and they say all those nasty remarks when they can’t look me in the face.’
The death hoax started when a person claimed to be Dannii’s ‘sister’. Dee said the TV star died in hospital following a horrific car crash in North Melbourne that left her brain dead.
This obituary also appeared on Dannii’s hacked Instagram account
When asked why she didn’t immediately stop reports of her passing, Dannii said she was “advised not to comment or post” on social media as she was in hospital recovering from foot surgery at the time.
“They said, ‘You have to focus on your recovery. This is only going to stress you out,” she explained. “Mental health is a huge thing these days, and people don’t understand that things like this are wrong and disgusting.”
Dannii further revealed that she was “incredibly sore” following ankle reconstruction on May 1, which resulted from injuries sustained in a “real car accident” in September 2022.
Dannii said the September collision led to her being hospitalized and requiring three months of rehabilitation.
