Married At First Sight‘s controversial bride Stacey Hampton was engaged to a Rebels bikie boss who was convicted of bashing two nightclub bouncers.
The blonde bombshell dated the Rebels’ Adelaide president Shane Michael Smith, 37, until she split with him in July 2017, a month before the brutal assaults.
Stacey, 25, was branded the ‘bride from hell’ after she snubbed ‘husband’ Michael Goonan on Monday night’s episode, saying he was ‘not what I usually go for’.
Married At First Sight’s controversial bride Stacey Hampton (right) was engaged to Rebels bikie boss Shane Michael Smith, 37, (left) with whom she shares two sons (one pictured)
Smith, a heavily tattooed ‘fitness trainer’, fits Stacey’s type perfectly, as she admits to being attracted to ‘masculine’ men with tattoos.
She is equally as inked-up as Smith, with a huge intricate design stretching across her stomach and right thigh, and several smaller pieces around her body.
The former couple share sons Kruz, two, and Kosta, four, who appeared on Monday’s episode of MAFS.
Stacey, who is 11 years younger than Smith, said they met when she was ‘very young’ and in her early twenties.
‘We met when I was very young, fell in love quickly and then tried to make it work for the kids,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
‘It was a civil break-up. He’s an amazing dad and I have no regrets.’
The former couple share sons Kruz, two, and Kosta, four, who appeared on Monday’s episode of MAFS. Pictured with one of their sons
Stacey, 25, was branded the ‘bride from hell’ after she snubbed ‘husband’ Michael Goonan (right) on MAFS, saying he was ‘not what I usually go for’- before discovering he is a millionaire
Stacey (left, with two friends) is equally as tattooed as her ex-partner, and has a huge intricate design stretching across her stomach and right thigh
One of many family photos on Smith’s social media shows the bikie leader in his Rebels colours as Stacey cradles Kosta during their time together.
‘That’s Stacie Hampton my wife,’ he wrote alongside two heart emojis when friends complimented his glamorous partner.
In February 2019, Smith was convicted and fined $3,500 for assaulting two bouncers outside a nightclub in Bendigo on August 6, 2017.
He narrowly avoided jail after a magistrate dismissed an affray charge because the savage beatings weren’t deemed to be evoking of terror in bystanders.
Pictured: Stacey in a recent photo with Kruz and Kosta posted to her Instagram
Bendigo Magistrates’ Court heard Smith was at the Universal club in the northern Victorian town with several other Rebels.
Festivities to commemorate the 2008 car crash death of member Bruno Carlo spilled out of the gang’s clubhouse about 11.30pm.
A fight began between the bikies and other revellers on the dance floor after an altercation in the smokers area and security tried to intervene.
Stacey, who is 11 years younger than Smith, said they met when she was ‘very young’ and in her early twenties, and only stayed together so long for their kids
The court heard Smith threw punches at patrons and security, then ‘king hit’ a bouncer in the face, punched his head and torso and kicked him as he lay on the ground.
The melee left a patron unconscious in the local hospital’s intensive care unit for nine hours, and another combatant with a broken jaw.
The court heard Smith, who was one of two bikies charged over the brawl, had committed previous violent crimes.
He was originally slapped with 10 charges but police dropped seven of them.
In February 2019, heavily-tattooed Smith was convicted and fined $3,500 for assaulting two bouncers outside a nightclub in Bendigo on August 6, 2017
Magistrate Michael King then dismissed the affray charge because the attacks ‘would not have terrified a reasonable onlooker’.
He also said there was ‘no community interest’ in jailing Smith before he received treatment for his anger issues.
Stacey was less impressed with millionaire businessman Michael Goonan, 28, whom she ‘married’ on Monday night’s episode of MAFS.
She told producers he ‘wasn’t her type or someone I would want to date’, adding: ‘He’s not ugly. I don’t think he’s ugly. But he’s not what I normally go for.’
Smith posted this collage of Stacey, their two sons, and his daughter from an earlier relationship to his Facebook
Pictured: Stacey with Kosta and Smith’s older daughter in a snap posted to Facebook in 2017
However, she later learned from her bridesmaid Carla that he had a successful business, and decided to give him a second chance.
‘I’m not actually this rude. I was so tired, I had no energy. I want to get to know you,’ she said to him outside, before planting a kiss on his lips.
Following their reception, Stacey kicked Michael out of bed in their hotel suite and told him to sleep on the sofa, saying ‘we’re done now’ for the night.
The mother-of-two has previously said she went on Married At First Sight because men are too intimidated by her, particularly as she has two young children.
‘I’m quite intimidating to men, so I haven’t had the time nor the opportunity to be taken seriously by someone,’ she said in recent trailer.
‘He’s not what I normally go for’: Stacey wasn’t impressed with millionaire businessman Michael Goonan, 28, whom she ‘married’ on Monday night’s episode of MAFS
‘I want to get to know you’: However, she later learned from her bridesmaid Carla that Michael had a successful business, and decided to give him a second chance
Taking it slow: Following their reception, Stacey kicked Michael out of bed in their hotel suite and told him to sleep on the sofa , saying ‘we’re done now’ for the night