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Tonight’s Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 episode was a real shitshow — one that moved quicker than a late-thirties relationship and one that hurt my head more than a raging hangover.

Jamie is out for blood tonight and is seeking one thing, and one thing only: an apology from Carina and Rhi.

Clint and Lauren? Well, they won’t even be attending the dinner party, and for that, I am wildly jealous. I’m going to have to top up my painkillers tomorrow while their supply likely remains untouched.

Carina and Rhi do not run over to Jamie and beg for her forgiveness the minute she walks into the dinner party and for that, they must pay.

In fact, Jamie is so off Carina that she would prefer it if she were a pot plant rather than a hooded woman sitting across from her.

Carina dares to use the term “mean girl” in reference to the argument at the couples retreat, and that sends Jamie right off, waving her finger and all. It’s very dramatic.

Jamie calls Carina idiotic and demands she shut her mouth. Jamie is dismissing any opinion or emotion that’s not hers as the wrong and stupid one. I don’t love it even though I’ve loved her this season.

Side note: Jamie’s argument style is one I physically/personally struggle to respond to, so my opinion of tonight’s events keeps that in mind.

Carina tries to stand up for herself and is feeling very isolated. Veronica has also chimed in to try to take on Jamie, telling her that she’s being “aggressive” with her communication. Sadly Jamie will not tolerate any open mouths at this point so promptly tells Veronica to shut hers.

Jamie thinks Veronica is defending the Golf Wife because she has information that could hurt her relationship with Eliot.

She confirms she’s spoken to Lauren but that she didn’t have all bad things to say about Eliot (LIES). He doesn’t love or believe the story.

”Only your feelings are valid,” Veronica tells Jamie. “No one else’s. The rest of us can go fuck themselves.”

I know Jamie has been a well-liked character on this show, but I’m really struggling to understand her right now. Is it shit when your friends don’t have your back? Sure. Does it suck when they don’t apologise for something you feel deserves an apology? Absolutely.

Did Lauren say really mean things? YES. But there’s a lot of emphasis on Jamie’s own feelings and not a lot of consideration for anyone else’s right now, from what I can see, at least. She’s also being rude, which is a trait that started this mess in the first place.

Rhi bows down to the pressure and apologises to Jamie while looking like she could shit her pants at any second.

Rhi hopes Jamie can put this whole thing “to bed,” but she hopes wrong because Jamie decides her feelings’ bedtime, no one else, even though she has shut down a lot of other feelings tonight.

Carina sees the mini make up happening between Rhi and Jamie and feels like she wasn’t afforded the same grace. She walks out and cries to a producer about not feeling like she’s smart enough and that everyone thinks she’s stupid.

I guess when someone calls your feelings “stupidity” over dinner, over and over again, that might be the result.

Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.

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Her outfits were posted on a popular MAFS Facebook group, with someone pointing out that you can buy both of these tops from SHEIN from $6.76. 

Now, it’s possible that the SHEIN versions are knock-offs, but if she really did shop from SHEIN, perhaps she’s not as snobby as she tries to seem. Maybe that’s why she needs her ideal match to earn over a million dollars a year?

“Wow, Lauren the baller, wannabe posh bitch is a SHEIN shopper. Interesting that her retreat wardrobe has alcohol insignia, and is cheap as fuck. Yet, the other girls are the drunk bogans?” one viewer wrote.

“No mate, they are passionate [women] who will defend the truth and what is right, honour and loyalty.”

Other fans commented on the post, taking glee in this small detail. 

“I thought I recognised them… I find it curious that she puts all these girls down for everything, treats them like they’re beneath her yet she is so immature for her age and she’s the oldest of them all,” one person commented.

“For someone who is calling out people as ‘bogans’ it’s pretty hypocritical of her to be wearing what she would ordinarily conclude were ‘bogan’ brands. And there’s nothing wrong with calling that out,” another added.

“I nearly bought the pink shirt a few weeks back. Now I’m so glad I didn’t,” a third said.

Where can you buy the Margarita Social Club sweatshirt from?

You can buy the pink Margarita Social Club sweatshirt from SHEIN for $17.05. It’s sold in two colours, white and pink, and has over 100 positive reviews. 

The Golf Wives Cocktail Club shirt can also be purchased from SHEIN and it’s even cheaper, at just $6.76. You can choose from black, white or apricot.

Can’t wait to see what Lauren wears to tonight’s Dinner Party!

“Ryan texted Sierah for about a week, it was the week before Sierah left,” Jacqui tells Chattr. “Sierah had been basically trying to gather allies, and told Ryan not to tell me that I was texting him. So he agreed, and he kept the secret from me for a week.”

At first, Ryan claimed that it was only a few messages sent between the pair, but when Jacqui asked to see them, she discovered that there were “more than a few”.

“He had been lying to me basically,” Jacqui adds. “He was doing it behind my back and I felt like it was an issue about him being a hypocrite and having double standards.”

Just like there was no romantic relationship between Jacqui and Jeff, she confirms that Sierah and Ryan didn’t have a secret romantic dalliance either.

“There was nothing going on between him and Sierah, so I didn’t really care [about that]. Everyone’s texting everyone [during the experiment],” she explains. 

“But I was just pissed off that he was doing it in secret.”

Jacqui admits she’s ‘not okay’ 

This comes after Jacqui shared on her Instagram Story that she’s struggling with MAFS while it’s playing out on air.

“I’m gonna be honest, I’m not okay. I’m struggling watching [MAFS],” she said.

“It’s particularly hard because it’s just so edited out of context and I feel like… originally I was going along with Channel 9’s media plan, but then when they want you to speak about the show, you have to follow the storyline.”

Jacqui said she decided to go rogue to give viewers context as her storylines were heavily edited.

“I think I have to do that because I need to stand up for myself… I don’t want the whole of Australia thinking I’m absolutely nuts,” she continued.

“[He thinks] the more sex he has, it means he’s more successful as a man. And then I asked him, ‘Well, how would you feel if I’d had sex with that many people?’. And he said, ‘Well, we wouldn’t be having this conversation’.”

Jacqui’s body count was “important” to Ryan, and the double standard is wild. 

“He said it was like a skeleton key. You know, ‘A man who can unlock any door is really powerful. But the same can’t be said of a woman’,” she recalled. 

She claimed that Ryan believes if a woman’s body count is high, it makes her less valuable. It’s giving Harrison Boon, and not in a good way.

Viewers won’t get to see this play out on screen, even though the bride did bring it up with producers on camera.

“To me, it was definitely a red flag… he had different standards for men and women,” Jacqui added. “It made me feel really gross, particularly because he was being really shady about it.

“I also felt like his beliefs were unreasonable.”

MAFS’ Jacqui reveals when she realised she didn’t like Ryan

Jacqui also spilled on Instagram that she realised she didn’t like Ryan after a joke he made during their honeymoon. 

“He made a joke about getting women pregnant,” she said. “He goes, ‘These biceps get women pregnant’, and I never let it go for the entire experiment.”

“He called Katie [Johnson] tragic and was making rude comments about Sierah [Swepstone’s] breasts, he was actually horrible,” she claimed. “His jokes continued, so I was really just trying to educate him about how to speak about women correctly the whole time.”

As a result, Indigenous not-for-profit organisation What Were You Wearing — who aim to end sexual violence in Australia — has started a petition on Change.org to hold producers and Channel 9 accountable. 

At the time of writing, the petition has been signed by 8,710 people, and has been shared by past contestants such as Olivia Frazer.

“One of Australia’s most-watched reality TV programmes, Married At First Sight (MAFS) has a responsibility to uphold the highest ethical standards regarding domestic, family, and sexual violence. Reality television can shape public perceptions of relationships, making it critical that production prioritises participant safety, ethical storytelling and responsible media representation,” the petition reads.

What Were You Wearing has outlined 11 points of action for producers and the network to consider, saying these reforms are “necessary” and urging immediate action. 

These include:

1. Zero-Tolerance Policy for Abuse
2. Real-Time Intervention and Producer Accountability
3. Content Warning for Viewers
4. Education on Healthy Relationships
5. Responsible Editing and Storytelling
6. Access to Individual Therapy for Participants
7. Comprehensive Background Checks
8. Onboarding an Expert Consultant
9. Duty of Care
10. Clear Post-Show Support and Safeguards
11. Accountability and Transparency

You can read the full petition here.

MAFS viewers share their reason for signing petition

Along with signing the petition, many viewers have shared their point of view on the MAFS intimate partner violence storyline and shared why it impacted them.

“Too many women have died in this country from violence,” one person wrote.

“The people that go on MAFS deserve to be protected,” another added.

“Physical violence, intimidation and coercion is not okay and should never be normalised, and playing into this continues to put people’s lives (including children) at risk. Participants should have a right to leave if they don’t feel safe. This is so unethical,” a third remarked.

“Enabling abusive behaviour on one of the country’s biggest shows is unacceptable,” another said. 

Jacqui claims that his behaviour was “GROSS ASF” during the group conversation, and says it was highly edited.

“Ryan and I’s conversation tonight was shocking. In reality, he went on and on and on again for 10 minutes,” she wrote on Instagram.

“I think they added my words from [my] voxy into our conversation because my voice DOES NOT match my lips at all. I just said okay for about 10 minutes… then Dave started telling Ryan to stop shutting me down and let me speak. Ryan literally put his arms in front of me to shut me up. It was GROSS ASF. Everyone saw it at [the] reunion.”

Clint was the one who wanted to leave the MAFS Couples Retreat

According to Jacqui — who is rumoured to be dating Clint Rice now — it wasn’t just Lauren Hall who wanted to leave the MAFS Couples Retreat. While she may have thought everyone was a “loser” and “boganic”, her husband Clint also wanted to escape.

“Clint’s conversation was highly edited. HE WAS THE ONE WHO WANTED TO LEAVE. Promise,” Jacqui spilled.

“The group just went off on their own narrative to start drama.”

The explosive Couples’ Retreat fight cut from the episode

An inside source recently told Chattr that there were two massive fights that happened at the Couples Retreat. The first took place at Girls Night, between Lauren and Jamie Marinos. 

While the storyline that played out on TV finished after Lauren left Girls Night, the insider said she actually came back which is when the “massive argument” took place. 

“Jamie, at one point, launches up out of her seat to yell at Lauren. It was getting out of hand and almost became a physical fight. One cast member even thought Jamie might throw a punch at Lauren, but it didn’t get that far,” the insider said.

Jacqui confirmed this in her Instagram Story, saying: “They cut out the second half of Girls Night — the part where a fight erupted… it’s WILD.”

We’ll still get to see an epic showdown happen between Lauren and Jamie, as the second Couples Retreat fight was in the promo for tonight’s episode. 

Our insider told Chattr that “the boys get involved” and we see Dave Hand and Jamie “yelling at Lauren and Clint”. 

“Plus, Jamie then calls out Carina [Mirable] and Rhi [Disljenkovic], because they were standing up for Lauren.”

The Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 dinner parties are the ultimate battleground for drama and chaos. Tensions simmer, secrets are spilled, and the MAFS experts watch it all unfold.

MAFS groom Clint Rice even recently revealed the dinner party drama isn’t always as real as it seems. In fact, he claims a lot of it is staged for the cameras.

“There were people who would hold onto an argument all day and wait until the cameras were rolling before they’d bring it up. That’s what made the dinner parties unbearable,” he said, adding that it was “all just fake fights for attention.”

But where does it all go down? Here’s what we know about where the MAFS dinner parties are filmed and the TV magic that goes into it.

Where are the MAFS dinner parties filmed?

Despite the glitzy on-screen aesthetic, the MAFS dinner parties are actually filmed inside a pretty bland looking warehouse in Lilyfield, in Sydney’s Inner West.

According to one Reddit thread, filming takes place at a site called the old Parachute Regiment Building on 91 Canal Road.

Yup, behind all that soft lighting and chic decor, it’s just a regular, old industrial space. One that also doubles as the set for the show’s infamous Commitment Ceremonies.

Per Real Commercial, the warehouse is rented by production company Endemol Shine from October through January for approximately $7,000 a week.

The site, a former Army parachute regiment store from the 1940s, has since been transformed into an arts precinct. It consists of three main buildings (1, 5, and 19), plus a physical theatre rehearsal facility called The Red Box, which has a sprung floor, sound system, lighting grid, and rigging points.

It’s all smoke and mirrors, apparently

The reality of being on-set for the MAFS dinner parties is apparently far from as glam as it seems.

The space itself? Let’s say it’s more industrial than chic.

According to Real Commercial there’s reportedly only one toilet for all the contestants, most of the walls are fake, and there’s no air-conditioning, so it gets uncomfortably hot when filming takes place during the warmer months.

To transform the 1,200sqm warehouse into the romantic, candlelit setting we see on screen, the show’s production team brings in hired furniture, strategic lighting, and carefully chosen camera angles to disguise its true nature.

So basically, what looks like a lavish dinner party is actually a cleverly dressed-up storage space.

The magic of show business, baby!

Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.

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Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.

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