Married at First Sight’s Ryan de Nino Dead at 40: ‘Life as I Know it Will Never Be the Same’

“Oh my gosh, my heart breaks hearing this. I am so incredibly sorry, he was so funny and witty and the world was lucky to have him,” wrote one person.

Another added, “Melissa everything you said about your brother is true. Incredible potential with a great heart. I miss him so much. I smile when I think of him.”

Ryan participated in season 2 of Married at First Sight, which was filmed in 2014 and aired on Lifetime in 2015.

The business owner was matched with law firm receptionist Jessica Castro and the pair endured a tumultuous relationship throughout the reality show.

Despite their rocky relationship, Ryan and Jessica chose to stay together at the end of the season.

“I come from a family of long successful marriages,” Jessica said on the show at the time. “The word ‘divorce’ just doesn’t fall into my lifestyle.”

However, their relationship turned even more volatile after cameras stopped rolling, with Jessica calling it off after Ryan was reportedly unfaithful. She also filed a protection order against Ryan after he made threats against her, including while filming a Married At First Sight reunion show six months after their wedding.

“She’s f**king dead. When I get back to Brooklyn, she’s f**king dead, this girl,” Ryan said, while wearing a live mic. (Following the cast member’s threat, the show’s producers provided Castro with a security team.)

Kinetic Content, the production company behind Married at First Sight, could not comment on the specifics of the couple’s dispute at the time, but told Us that after-care is provided to all contestants.

“The experts on our show have the best of intentions and highest hopes for success for each couple. After undergoing extensive background and psychological checks by third parties, couples agree to be legally married on our show,” their statement in 2015 read. “We document their journey for six weeks after their wedding, but we can’t control how they behave, or govern their actions after production.”