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“Adrian was going around telling everyone that he was the star of the show and that he should be the one heading to NZ,” a source claimed. 

“Jacqui Burfoot was convinced she was going to be the one sent to New Zealand because she is a Kiwi [and Awhina] held onto hope that she would be chosen.”

Chattr decided to ask Teejay Halkias and Beth Kelly to see if they had any inside information, and Teejay dropped a big bomb about a secret group chat. 

“There may have been a name or a couple [of] names thrown across the group chat [who were annoyed],” he teased.

He said he wasn’t upset that Jamie was picked for the trip, but confirmed there were *some* unhappy people.

“I think there are certain people within the experiment that may think they deserve it. I’m not going to drop any names or anything like that. I think people can make up their mind for themselves, but it certainly wasn’t me,” he said. 

Teejay said he “wasn’t offended” that he wasn’t flown across the ditch, and added that “Jamie deserves it”.

Beth is close friends with both Jamie and Awhina, and she claimed the trio were all really excited for the bride.

“I’ve not spoken to anybody about it other than Jamie and Awhina. Me and Awhina are stoked for Jamie, so I didn’t know if anybody else knew that she was going to New Zealand, but I’m so happy for her,” she said.

“She fucking deserved it.”

Was Jamie a ‘producer’s pet’ on MAFS?

Yahoo! Lifestyle previously reported that Jamie had ruffled some feathers with the cast by being a “producer’s pet” who would snitch on others who broke the rules.

Beth said while Jamie was definitely a “good girl” during filming, she didn’t think Jamie went out of her way to dob anybody in.

“Me and Awhina went out when we weren’t supposed to… and got busted, so we were probably in the bad books, but Jamie was just wanting to play by the rules,” Beth explained.

“I wouldn’t call her a [producer’s] pet, and I definitely don’t think she snitched on anyone.”

Teejay dismissed the idea that he went on MAFS for fame, saying that Big Brother was a completely different show.

“I think that during my audition process, if [fame] was my intention, that I would have been weeded out straight away,” he declares. “There’s no reason that just because I was on Big Brother doesn’t mean I don’t deserve the opportunity to find love. I think that there are many other people that have been on shows prior to them going on other shows.”

He adds that he’s from a big family, and all of his siblings have significant others, so he wanted a chance to find one as well.

“I’ve obviously not been great at picking them in the past. So why not put my faith in the experts?” he asks.

Beth doesn’t know if Teejay was on MAFS for the right reasons

However, Beth says she isn’t sure whether or not Teejay signed up purely for fame.

“It’s hard to say. I don’t know [what] his true intentions were, but I just know that I don’t feel like he treated me the way that he should,” she begins.

“I don’t really know if he did come on for genuine reasons, or if he did come on [for] fame, I’m  not sure, but just the way he’s gone about it, I just feel extremely disrespected.”

She adds that it’s possible he wanted to “use” her for a while before expressing a need to “get out.”

“I do feel a bit played and strung along, whether that was for his own fame or not, I don’t know.”

She did say that she was in the experiment for love, not fame, and didn’t have a pact with Teejay to stay until the end.

“I was truly there for the right reasons,” she says. “Why would I stay in the hopes of getting a little bit of fame and get my feelings hurt? To me, that is absolutely not worth it. I went in there because I never had a relationship. And I thought, why would I not get some professional help and see how it goes?”

“I really came in with genuine intentions of leaving with a partner. And so yeah, there were a lot of tears shed,” she says. “I was so blindsided, because the days leading up to Homestays were great. We spent some quality time together,  we went on a date, he slept with me again.

“And then, bang, we’re in Brisbane and he’s telling me in front of his friends… that he doesn’t see this progressing or going anywhere. And so to me, I was just so hurt.”

Beth adds that she was “embarrassed” that she’d misread the situation and feels “a bit led on.” 

She believes that Teejay was never really into her, and she missed some red flags along the way, because she liked him so much.

“I do feel a bit stupid… there were a few kind of gut feelings that [meant he] wasn’t into me. But I think sometimes when we’re dating someone we really like, you kind of want to sweep it under the rug and kind of ignore that,” she says.

“Yeah, I just feel like he completely fucked me over.”

Did Teejay call Beth ‘darling’ at the MAFS Dinner Party in a demeaning way?

Beth tells Chattr that it wasn’t uncommon for Teejay to call her “darling”, but the sheer amount of times he did it during the Dinner Party was excessive. While usually he would call her “darling” a couple of times a day, he said it so much during the meal that the cast even made a drinking game out of it.

“I guess looking at it last night, maybe it was a bit patronising. I mean, Jamie picked up on it straight away, and that’s why they did the drinking game, you know,” Beth says.

“The ‘darling’ came out when he was in the hot seat, and it kind of felt like he wanted to call me ‘darling’ to maybe pull me down a little bit and maybe control the situation a little bit.”

However, Teejay tells Chattr that he uses “darling” and “sweetheart” a lot as part of his everyday vocabulary and it isn’t meant to demean anyone. 

“I didn’t realise how many times I actually said it, I know that there’s probably a few more edited in there, but I definitely said it a few times. I thought it was quite funny, the drinking game that everyone made from it, even the experts getting on it as well,” Teejay says.

“I definitely [equate] the word darling with someone that I care about, even sweetheart, like I wouldn’t say that in a patronising way. That’s just a word I use.”

The groom tells Chattr it was a poor decision, and at least he’s being honest! He’d previously said that he needed an emotional connection to pursue sex, so you can see how Beth was led on. 

“Watching it back now, I think it was definitely the wrong decision [to have sex with Beth],” Teejay admits. “I definitely don’t think that I should have even put forward the idea.”

He explains that during their confessions letter task, Beth claimed she didn’t need an “emotional connection” to have a “sexual interaction”, so he saw this as a “green light”. 

“But, you know, I’m on the experiment to learn. I’m a human. I’m not perfect, and that’s all I can do, is learn from these things,” he adds.

It seemed like a switch had been flipped — similar to how Dave Hand suddenly didn’t have feelings for Jamie Marinos last week — so fans have been wondering what changed. 

Teejay says that nothing happened to make him realise he didn’t feel deeply towards Beth, but he just wasn’t on the same wavelength.

“I just wasn’t growing those deeper feelings. I wasn’t sure why, Beth is a fantastic person, absolutely incredible,” he says.

However, he didn’t just fake it for the cameras and chose to be honest with her instead.

“I had three options there. I could have been honest, which I was, or I could have lied, or I could have been diplomatic the entire time. I stayed true to myself and I was honest with how I felt to Beth,” he spills.

“Unfortunately, you know, no one wins in that situation. That was so shit for me. I’d never wanted to hurt Beth or hurt her feelings or anything like that. So having to tell Beth that [I wasn’t sure about our future] was uncomfortable for me.”

Will Teejay and Beth write ‘leave’ at the next MAFS Commitment Ceremony?

The cast is careful to not give away any spoilers, but we already know that Teejay and Beth take part in Final Test Week — so at least one of them is writing ‘stay’!

Teejay tells us that he has to consider Beth’s feelings carefully, and whether it’s better to rip the band-aid off now, or continue in the experiment with her.

“It’s definitely a thought of mine to write leave, but there’s also, I am in the experiment to try — so there’s also reason to write stay as well. It’s quite a hard decision for me,” Teejay says.

“Beth’s feelings are at the forefront of my mind and I’ve already evidently hurt Beth’s feelings, and it’s not what I’m here for,” he adds. “I’m just trying to navigate through that as best as possible, and it’s difficult. It’s really difficult.”