Ben and Stephanie have decided to get divorced (Picture: Channel 4)

Married At First Sight couple Ben and Stephanie have gone their separate ways after they initially decided to try and make their marriage work at the end of the third series.

Ben and Stephanie are now the tenth couple from the show to get a divorce.

Ben confirmed he had decided to divorce Stephanie because he didn’t want to ‘waste her time’.

Speaking on Fubar Radio, he told Lizzie Cundy and Stephen Leng: ‘Stephanie and I are still friends but I couldn’t give her what she wanted and what she needed, and time is of the essence. And why waste someone’s time if it’s not there?’

He added that deciding to split ‘killed’ him.

‘After the end of the show we were giving it a go,’ he said, ‘but as my mum said, you don’t know someone until you’ve lived with them.

‘She’s a lovely girl and I’m still friends with her but I couldn’t give her what she needed, or what she wanted.

‘She’s a beautiful girl and a phenomenal person’.

The couple appeared on the third series of Married At First Sight (Picture: Channel 4)

Millionaire Ben and policewoman Stephanie seemed crazy in love on the show, which sees total strangers get married after meeting for the first time, and even came close to sleeping together on their honeymoon.

Stephanie said on the show: ‘He’s lovely, he’s sweet, he’s funny and he’s gorgeous – have you seen those flipping eyelashes?

‘If we carry on like this, eventually I will fall in love with him.’

The former couple have decided to stay friends (Picture: Channel 4)

However cracks began to show in their relationship after Stephanie woke up one morning to find Ben had left the house without his wedding ring on.

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Ultimately in the finale, they declared they were going to give it a go.

Their fellow series three couple Richard, 28, and Harriet, 32, decided to get a divorce in the last episode, but can’t start divorce proceedings until 12 months after the marriage took place.

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