MAFS' Julia Vogl confirms she's in a new same-sex romance following split with TV groom Grayson McIvor: 'There was just a spark there'

Married At First Sight bride Julia Vogl has confirmed she is in a new same-sex relationship following her split from groom Grayson McIvor.

The 35-year-old confirmed the news to Daily Mail on Tuesday, revealing that she has 'never been happier' after leaving the experiment.

Speaking candidly, Julia explained she had met her new partner just a couple of months after filming wrapped, describing it as an unexpected spark, that caught her off guard.

'I have met someone a couple of months after the experiment,' she said, before explaining how the romance began in the most unlikely of ways.

In a twist worthy of the Channel Nine series itself, Julia said it started when her housemate began taking singing and guitar lessons with a woman and she decided to tag along for a lesson of her own.

'I went to have a singing lesson with this woman and I realised pretty quickly that there was just a spark there,' Julia said.

The connection grew slowly as Julia worked through the emotional aftermath of the show.

'I stopped getting singing lessons from her because I didn't want her to be my teacher,' she added.

'We started just hanging out. It was a slow process… it took me quite a while to come out of the whole experiment and that experience… we're still together now.'

Julia's revelation comes after a bruising on-screen journey that left her feeling 'misunderstood' and overwhelmed as her short-lived marriage played out to viewers.

While viewers saw snippets of tension, Julia insists the full context behind their break-up never made it to air, including a major fight that she believes would have changed public perception.

She said the conflict stemmed from severe exhaustion and insomnia during filming, revealing she went three nights without sleep while Grayson snored beside her.

'I didn't sleep for three nights in a row,' Julia said.

'We had a little tiff and it escalated… it escalated into, to be honest, a pretty big argument in my eyes.'

She described Grayson as 'abrasive' during the clash and said she 'shut down' afterwards, adding the incident made her question whether their relationship could survive real-world conflict.

'I was kind of worried because I was like, this is definitely not how I want to be in a marriage,' she said.

Julia also addressed the show's portrayal of her reluctance to rush into physical intimacy, insisting she needed emotional connection first and felt her efforts were misrepresented.

'I need the emotional connection before physical connection,' she said.

She claimed the couple actually had a positive moment during intimacy week that viewers never saw.

'I remember us being in the kitchen and me saying like, I feel really close to you. And he said, I feel really close to you too,' Julia said.

'And so then to see him saying… we're on different planets… I was like, whoa, I didn't know that he felt that way.'

For Julia, the messy end to her MAFS marriage is now firmly in the rear-view mirror, with the bride determined to move forward on her own terms.

As she put it simply: 'I've never been happier.'