A man who threw up on TV before his girlfriend slept with another man has claimed that the true reason behind his chundering episode was ‘cut’.
Channel 4’s reality series Open House: The Great Sex Experiment sees couples try to open up their relationships to include other partners – with mixed results.
The series began in 2022 and recently aired its third season, which ran for eight episodes across May and June and came to a close on last Friday night.
In the third season, Devon couple Tom and Lauren were one of several pairs who tried out the risky but potentially exciting experiment on Channel 4.
However, things didn’t quite go to plan, with Tom and Lauren making headlines when Tom threw up after chatting to the show’s relationship coach Effy Blue.
During the episode broadcast on June 13, the couple agreed to take things to another level in the bedroom after a candid discussion with non-monogamy expert Effy.
She told the couple that they would need to have sexual experiences without each other, before Tom was shown looking disoriented before going off-camera to be sick.
Tom’s retching over the bathroom sink could be heard from the bedroom, where Lauren was waiting, asking her partner if he needed a glass of water to help soothe his throat.
‘This is going to be horrible,’ Tom is then heard saying, before Lauren admitted that she ‘just wanted to cuddle’ him after the pair were given the difficult instructions.
However, the couple have now set the record straight (via MailOnline), saying that the cause for Tom’s unfortunate episode was not what viewers might think.
‘So Tom throwing up, they actually cut the scene,’ Lauren said. ‘So, that was actually because he had to be a life drawing model.’
Tom admitted to the publication that he was ‘really nervous’ and that he ‘got so overwhelmed’ by the prospect of being a naked still life model that it got the better of him.
After getting off to a bad start – with Lauren confessing that she was worried about coming across as an ‘experienced sex pest’ – the couple thanked the show for helping with their relationship struggles.
Tom lives with a condition called bicuspid aortic valve, a congenital heart defect that means the heart valve doesn’t work properly – the couple were concerned at how their management of Tom’s condition in relation to their sex life would be portrayed.
However, Tom now says, ‘We’re both more confident in going out to parties,and we’re much closer as a couple,’ while Lauren says their sessions in conversation with Effy were ‘really helpful’.
Tom concluded: ‘Going on Open House has helped me massively, and it’s also helped out a lot of other people as well. I’ve been getting lots of good feedback from other people.’
Catch up with Open House: The Great Sex Experiment on Channel 4.
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