MAFS stars Tony Mojanovski and Ryan Donnelly give fans update from hospital following groom's emergency heart surgery (2025)

Married At First Sight groom Tony Mojanovski has been rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after he suffered a heart attack.

The 53-year-old, who was married to Morena Farina on Season 12 of MAFS, was admitted to Wollongong hospital on Thursday morning after experiencing chest pains.

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Thankfully Tony is in a stable condition and even gave fans an update from his hospital bed as co-star and friend Ryan Donnelly visited him.

"Last week I had a bit of a scare and I just wanted to say a big thank you to the people of Wollongong Hospital, the people in the cardiac division they've been absolutely amazing," Tony said.

In a video filmed alongside Ryan, Tony continued: "I am wired up as you can see, just checking things on my heart I'm going to be here until Monday.

"But just a big big thank you to all the people in the Wollongong Hospital, they're amazing especially the doctor who operated on me."

It was clear that Tony had the support of his MAFS co-stars in his recovery with Ryan penning a message to Instagram.

"Tony Time had a brief intermission 🏥 dropped by to see my best mate and he was literally on the phone with Adrian [Araouzou]. Can't keep a good Macedonian man down, he'll be back to his best in no time!" Ryan wrote.

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Fans took to the comment section of Ryan's post to wish Tony a speedy recovery.

"Sending healing prayers Tony! One of my best grooms of all time. You're like a breath of fresh air and you lit our screens up," one wrote. 

While another said: "Speedy recovery Tony. It's good you have good friends around you."

At 53, Tony was Season 12's oldest groom. The charter captain married 57-year-old fitness instructor and DJ Morena.

Despite getting off to a strong start, the couple faced a number of challenges with Tony being accused of disappearing like "Houdini" on a number of occasions instead of trying to make their relationship work. 

While they had a number of warm moments, the arguments started coming in thick and fast and eventually both decided to leave at a Commitment Ceremony.

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For Morena, her last straw in the relationship was finding out that Tony, at 53, had hopes of having a child. At 57, that's something that just wasn't on Morena's radar.

During his final interview, he said: "I always believe that when you meet a woman it's there instantly, in the first 30 seconds, it wasn't there.

"I wanted to at least feel the experience, to learn off her, learn from the experts, get some information about where we're going wrong in life.

"But it got to a stage where I just couldn't be around her and I was ducking and weaving and I was going to see my dog."

It was a bitter goodbye from Morena who wrote "good riddance" on her card while Tony also opted to leave.

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