Mel Schilling (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Bafta/Getty Images for Bafta) Mel Schilling is having to cope with being apart from her Northern Irish husband and their daughter while working on Married at First Sight Australia. The relationship expert, who also appears on the UK version of the show, is married to Whitehead man Gareth Brisbane, with whom she has nine-year-old daughter Maddie..