SBS presenter Karla Grant has opened up about her surprising romance with Married At First Sight star Nasser Sultan.

The journalist told The Daily Telegraph on Sunday, even though the couple are very different, they still have a lot in common.

‘I was taken by surprise myself,’ Karla admitted.

‘We love travelling, we love going to the movies, we love theatre. There’s a lot of things that we have in common that probably people on the outside don’t really appreciate.’

Karla revealed she is a MAFS viewer and instantly knew who Nasser was when he approached her at an event in 2018.

SBS presenter Karla Grant has opened up about her surprising romance with Married At First Sight star Nasser Sultan

‘He kept on asking me out, but I was always so busy with work and travel. Finally, I said “yes”,’ she explained.

Nasser and Karla have been quietly dating for several months after reconnecting at a party last year.

Speaking to Daily Mail Australia last month, Nasser said: ‘We’ve known each other for four years, to be honest. Then we just reconnected at a party and fell in love.

‘That was it. It was like love at first sight – just not Married At First Sight!’

Gushing about his girlfriend, Nasser added: ‘She’s gentle, smart, elegant, very well-educated, respected in the industry. And she’s not fake. And she’s not on Instagram.’

Indeed, while Nasser has often courted publicity since starring on MAFS back in 2018, Karla is renowned for her serious work as a presenter and producer for SBS’s Indigenous current affairs program, Living Black, and largely shuns the spotlight.

The romance between the Walkley Award-winning journalist and the self-confessed reality TV ‘troublemaker’ may seem unexpected, but Karla herself said it best in a rare public statement.

‘Nasser is one of a kind. He’s attentive, caring and thoughtful and I see how he is with those who are closest to him. He’s always helping his friends,’ she said.

The journalist told The Daily Telegraph on Sunday even though the couple are very different, they still have a lot in common

She continued: ‘Our union was very unexpected, but it is growing into something very special.’

The relationship marks a fresh chapter for Karla, who was previously married to journalist and broadcaster Stan Grant for 16 years before they split in 2000.

Stan famously left Karla for his Seven Network colleague Tracey Holmes, leading to one of the biggest media scandals of the decade.

Meanwhile, Nasser has continued to make headlines in his own right over the years – from pulling cheeky publicity stunts to faking romances for tabloid attention.

But insiders say his romance with Karla is ‘100 per cent genuine’ and not just another ploy for the cameras.

The fact that Nasser, a man who once said, ‘write whatever you want about me so long as you write about me,’ has kept their relationship low-key until now, speaks volumes.

‘I credit her for making me calm. I’m still a troublemaker – don’t worry about that’ he said.

‘And yeah, it’s just blown me away, seriously, how this whole thing’s happened’.