- Lauren Bran was dubbed the ‘MAFS runaway bride’ in season four
- She met her new boyfriend a week later, but the relationship soured.
A former reality TV star who dumped her new husband on their wedding night will confront her real estate developer ex-boyfriend who allegedly violated one of four restraining orders she had against him.
Lauren Bran, 40, married firefighter Andrew ‘Jonesy’ Jones on the fourth series of reality series Married at First Sight in February 2017, but the relationship broke down outside a Bondi pub just hours after their wedding. on-screen nuptials.
She was refused entry to the bar and argued with a bouncer, while she decided it wasn’t worth it, left into the night and was dubbed the ‘MAFS runaway bride’.
Weeks later, she debuted her new boyfriend Jake Barnett, 39, a property developer and single dad-of-two from Sutherland Shire, and posted loving photos from their holiday on Hamilton Island.
Daily Mail Australia can now reveal that the relationship quickly soured and ended in a series of arrested violence orders issued by police officers on his behalf.
In April, Barnett was charged with breaching an AVO in the Sydney suburb of Zetland and has been jailed pending trial.
Lauren Bran (pictured) appeared on the reality show Married at First Sight in 2017.
Lauren Bran married Andrew Jones on television in 2017, but left him hours later
According to court documents, Barnett “knowingly” breached an arrest warrant between 10.09am and 7.20pm on April 4, 2024.
He has pleaded not guilty to breaching the AVO.
Barnett was represented by his lawyer on Thursday when his matter was mentioned in Downing Center Local Court.
Magistrate Sharon Freund put the matter before a three-hour hearing on September 27, during which there will be three witnesses.
Court records show Ms Bran was issued four AVOs by police officers on her behalf, dating back to April 2017, just two months after they went to Hamilton Island.
The next three were removed in 2017 and 2023.
Lauren Bran met Jake Burnett (pictured together) a week after dumping Andrew Jones
The couple went to Hamilton Island in February 2017 (pictured) and began working together.
The orders were in place for two years, during which time he was prohibited from approaching her, destroying her property, assaulting or threatening her.
Bran previously revealed he met Barnett a week after leaving Jones, when he was in a pub with his mother in the Sutherland Shire.
He approached her table, asked her on a date and bought her mother some tea.
“We just fell into each other’s laps,” he said at the time.
‘Jake is also a successful Sutherland Shire property developer, and I now work alongside him at a company that has just launched a new $50 million development site.
“He shares the same drive, ambition, values and morals as me.”
In 2021, a concrete company successfully bankrupted Mr. Barnett over an unpaid bill of $7,000.
