2024 MAFS star Lucinda Light has unwittingly found herself under fire from Clint Rice after she posted a comment supporting Ryan on his motivational Instagram post.
The Instagram post came a day before Ryan was filmed exiting Campbelltown Courthouse after his AVO application hearing against Jacqui, with the mention being adjourned until June 24.
“You can remember the person you were before today. The person that made where you are possible. Made it real. Who you were might not have been capable. Emotions ran wild as you faced every strange challenge. But they were always deserving of love. Loving yourself, flaws and all, makes tomorrow possible,” Ryans Instagram post read, teamed with a mirror selfie.
Lucinda then left a comment saying, “Good on you Ryan. Stand strong. Share your love and your lessons xxx”.
Lucinda’s comment under Ryan’s inspirational quote. Image: Instagram
MAFS’ Clint claps back at Lucinda Light
While there’s probably a very fair chance Lucinda didn’t know the ins and outs of Jacqui and Ryan’s legal drama when she posted the comment, Clint Rice took to his Instagram Stories to call her out, saying, “Ignorance and wilful blindness is no excuse.”
“Your ‘loving’ deed on social media is perpetuating abuse and harm,” Clint’s story read. “Ignoring an issue makes you a tacit supporter of it.”
AVOs generally prohibit certain behaviour with the aim of protecting the person who lodges it. Ryan’s claims are unproven as the case is still before the courts.
Lucinda Light speaks out amid Ryan and Jacqui drama
Lucinda broke her silence in an exclusive statement to Chattr, saying, “I’d like to wish them all peace, love and resolve.”
Lucinda is currently on a book tour in the UK, promoting her book Shine Your Light: A Guided Journal for Deepening Your Emotional Intelligence.
Poh competed in the first season of MasterChef Australia in 2009, where she placed runner-up. She returned again for the first season of Back To Win, which aired in 2020, and came sixth.
MasterChef Back To Win Australia 2025 is made up of returning contestants, who’ve scored their second (or third) chance to snag the winning title. Among those competitors are Andre Ursini, who Poh competed against on Season 1, and Callum Hann, Laura Sharrard and Sarah Todd, who she went up against on the last returnee season.
Poh joined MasterChef Australia as a judge alongside Andy Allen, Jean-Christophe Novelli and Sofia Levin, and the quartet has returned for the 2025 season. The new judging panel received a warm reception from viewers for their first season, but Poh said judging her former MasterChef peers in the 2025 season was a whole different kettle of fish.
Andy Allen, Sofia Levin, Poh Ling Yeow and Jean-Christophe Novelli. Image: Ten.
Poh’s grateful for how the MasterChef Australia Back to Win 2025 cast received her as a judge
Despite building a successful culinary career through cookbooks, TV shows, and her own food ventures, Poh told Chattr in an exclusive interview that it was “really intimidating” judging cooks that she’s competed against in the past.
“A lot of the people are people that I know quite well and that I’ve competed with in the first Back to Win season,” she said. “So I felt very much like [I was] judging a peer. It feels very, very awkward.”
“It felt really awkward at the beginning of the season. I felt very scared to say what I wanted to say.”
However, Poh said that while she personally felt uncomfortable dishing out advice to seasoned professionals, she was pleasantly surprised by how well she was received by the contestants.
“The reason why I feel really comfortable about it now is that they’ve all been so gracious.”
“I think the fact that they’ve just been so kind to me and made me feel very comfortable in the role as well. So it’s very much to do with their grace as well.”
Laura Sharrard, Callum Hann and Poh Ling Yeow on MasterChef Back to Win 2020. Image: Ten.
Poh said she felt less awkward judging contestants who weren’t on her season
MasterChef Australia judge’s job is to give feedback to the contestants — both negative and positive — and decide who’s eliminated from the competition.
Poh said that she felt more comfortable giving constructive criticism to the contestants who she hadn’t gone up against in previous seasons.
“Sarah came second in the last sort of fans, in the fans versus favourites, and then there’s Callum and Laura, who are all from South Australia as well. And I competed against them in Back to Win. A lot of the other contestants, I don’t know that well, because they’re from other seasons, so it didn’t feel quite as awkward.”
MasterChef Australia premieres Monday, April 28 at 7.30pm on Channel 10 and 10Play.
Prior to applying for the show, the FWAW Ladies watched videos about eight potential Farmers who could be starring on the show. They picked their favourite Farmer and applied themselves.
After that, the four Farmers were cast, as well as eight potential matches for them. Those ladies were whittled down to five on the first night, when each Farmer chose to send three of his potential matches home.
The remaining five Ladies then moved in on their Farmers’ farm, where they will have time to get to know each other better. As the Farmer’s journey continues, they’ll eliminate FWAW Ladies until they’re left with their final pick, who will hopefully be their forever love!
Meet the FWAW Ladies who the Farmers chose to bring back to their farms.
Farmer Corey
Farmer Wants a Wife 2025’s Farmer Corey. Image: Seven.
Farmer Corey is 24 years old and a mixed cropping Farmer from Biloela, Queensland. He’s an up-and-coming fourth-generation farmer who wants to start brewing a fifth generation with the right woman.
Chelsea
Chelsea. Image: Seven.
Chelsea is a 26-year-old registered nurse who lives in Victoria. She says she’s a happy and positive person who tries to see the best in everyone.
Hunter
Hunter. Image: Seven.
Hunter is a 23-year-old admin officer from Queensland. She says she wants a partner “ASAP”.
Jadee-Lee
Jadee. Image: Seven.
Jadee-Lee is 26 years old and is a primary school teacher from Queensland. She thinks she and Farmer Corey were “made for each other”.
Keeley
Keeley. Image: Seven.
Keeley is a 22-year-old Optometrist from Victoria. She describes herself as “outdoorsy” and loves camping.
Rosie
Rosie. Image: Seven.
Rosie describes herself as kind, gentle, strong, resilient, caring, assertive, hardworking, honest, loyal, mature and motivated. She’s a 22-year-old dental assistant from Tasmania.
Famer Jarrad
Farmer Wants a Wife 2025’s Farmer Jarrad. Image: Seven.
Farmer Jarrad, 21, is a sheep and hemp farmer from Stanthorpe, Queensland. In his downtime, he sings, watches movies, and cooks.
Ashlee
Ash. Image: Seven.
Ashlee, who goes by Ash, is a 22-year-old education support worker from Victoria. She thinks Farmer Jarrod sounds like he has a great sense of humour.
Briana
Briana. Image: Seven.
Briana describes herself as someone with a “zest for life that lights up any room”.
Chloe
Chloe. Image: Seven.
Chloe is a 21-year-old bartender from Queensland, who describes herself as honest, kind, generous, determined and family-oriented.
Lucy
Lucy. Image: Seven.
23-year-old Lucy from Victoria is a Jillaroo. She says she has “a special connection to and understanding of the natural world”.
Maneesha
Maneesha. Image: Seven.
25-year-old Maneesha from New South Wales is a jewellery business owner who says she’s “open-minded and able to connect with any human being, no matter the context.”
Farmer Thomas
Farmer Wants a Wife 2025’s Farmer Thomas. Image: Seven.
Farmer Thomas is 35 years old and a wheat, barley and lentil farmer from Kimba, South Australia. When he’s not farming or volunteering for his community as a firefighter.
Claire
Claire. Image: Seven.
Claire is 31 years old, from Western Australia, and works as a FIFO mine site admin. She believes that she and Farmer Thomas have the same values and want the same things in life.
Clarette
Clarette. Image: Seven.
Clarette is a 35-year-old teacher from New South Wales who describes herself as having an optimistic outlook on life and getting pleasure from making other people happy.
Ellen
Ellen. Image: Seven.
Ellen says she is caring and empathetic. She’s a 32-year-old public servant from Western Australia.
Nathania
Nathania. Image: Seven.
Nathania is a 33-year-old blasting specialist from Queensland who’s “ready to find someone who appreciates the simple things in life”.
Rachael
Rachael. Image: Seven.
Rachael is a 34-year-old construction coordinator from Victoria with a positive outlook on life and a warm, empathetic, and resilient nature.
Farmer Tom
Farmer Wants a Wife 2025’s Farmer Tom. Image: Seven.
Farmer Tom is a 31-year-old sheep farmer from Borambola, New South Wales. He loves farm life and is looking for a wife to build a future and family with.
Bridget
Bridget: Image: Seven.
Bridget is a 34-year-old lawyer from Victoria. She said Tom’s application video stood out to her because they both love animals.
Eliza
Eliza. Image: Seven.
Eliza is a 28-year-old primary school teacher from Victoria. She loves to try new things, “like moving to a farm for love.”
Emma
Emma. Image: Seven.
Emma is a 27-year-old registered nurse from Western Australia who is driven, goal-oriented, and a big believer in “what will be will be.”
Emmie-Rose
Emmie-Rose. Image: Seven.
29-year-old Emmie-Rose says she’s ready for marriage and kids. She’s a fitness coach from NSW.
Georgie
Georgie. Image: Seven.
Georgia is a 28-year-old registered nurse from Victoria. Like Farmer Tom, she’s a fan of Taylor Swift and has a puppy named Trevor.
Farmer Wants a Wife 2025 airs Mondays and Tuesdays on Channel 7 and 7Plus.
If you need a refresher, here we go: Mike and Melinda struggled to hit it off from the start and things took a turn when they moved in together, after Mike came home one night to find a male member of the crew in Melissa’s room, sitting on her bed, with the door closed.
Things went from bad to worse when the two went to the couples’ Dinner Party and filled the rest of the cast in on everything that transpired between them. When Mike mentioned Melissa called him a “50-year-old washed up reality TV star”, she clapped back at him telling the group that she said that because Mike said he “has a lot of fans”.
“I do have fans,” Mike said in response on the show. “That’s a fact. I don’t recall saying that I have fans, but I certainly do.”
Love Triangle’s Mike explains more about the ‘fans’ comment
Speaking with Chattr, Mike shed some more context on the situation. “When Melinda said ‘Mike thinks he’s got fans’, even I cringed at that,” he said.
“I was in an Uber on the way to that first dinner party and the [Uber driver] recognised me. So we chatted about MAFS, and he was telling me about his own relationships and failed marriage. And men don’t open up very much like this, [so] I listened to him and gave a little advice as well.”
Mike Gunner appeared on the 2019 season of MAFS. Image: Nine
Mike went on to explain the two became buddies during the Uber trip and Mike realised upon walking to the Dinner Party that he had left his jacket in the car, with a producer saying, “We’ll contact him and we’ll get it back off him. He’s not going to keep it, he was a fan,” which led to Mike then joking, “Oh yeah, he was a fan, wasn’t he?”
“Melinda’s heard that and gone, ‘Oh my god, he thinks he has fans,'” Mike continued. “That was a stitch-up. I could see everybody’s faces, you know, scoffing in the group, which irritated me, because I’m looking around, going, hang on a second. You’ve given no context here.”
The rest of the cast were left shocked by Mike and Melinda’s argument. Image: Stan
Mike explains his side of what happened off-camera with production
One of the biggest points of contention between Mike and Melinda was an off-camera argument that took place after Mike kicked out the crew member sitting in Melinda’s room with her, with the door closed.
Mike explained it was a member of security who was employed to act like a chaperone for the cast, but said the person in question “hung around a lot” with Mike going to bed the first night they met, leaving Melinda and the crew member chatting further.
“The following night, the crew left, and he hadn’t turned up yet,” Mike said, saying he then invited Melinda to come out and explore Newtown with him, with Melinda saying she’d rather have an early night.
“So I left her to it. I went out, probably for about two hours. I came back and he was in her room, this is around 9:30 at night, and I knocked on the door to say goodnight and I heard him in the room.
“I felt a sense of, this feels a bit too much. And I said in the nicest way possible, ‘Is there any way you couldn’t be having this chat outside, it doesn’t look good,’ and he pushed back pretty hard and said I was overreacting.”
Love Triangle’s Mike and Melinda failed to see eye-to-eye. Image: Stan
Mike said he tried to explain his side of things. “I’m trying to form a relationship with this lady and I said, ‘You hung around last night for most of the night and you’re on her bed now, so I feel like I can’t have any alone time with this person’.”
Mike said he asked the crew member to leave, and called the show’s executive producer to explain the situation, with Melinda also opting to leave the house not long after the crew member left.
“She gave me a spray on the way out and I said, ‘OK, I guess this thing is dead in the water.'”
Love Triangle’s Melinda addresses off-camera fight with Mike: ‘It just blew up’
Melinda previously spoke to Chattr, saying, “I was chatting with a member of production behind a closed door, and Mike came in and didn’t like what he saw. And, you know, things escalated, and he asked the staff member to leave.”
However, she did say that although she and Mike haven’t chatted since the show ended, she’d be open to making amends.
“I’ll probably reach out once this is all over and offer another apology for my behaviour because I’m not overly proud of the things that I’ve said,” she added. “But whether that’s accepted or not is another thing.”
New episodes of Love Triangle drop every Sunday on Stan.
Robert was confirmed as a contestant at the Hulu Get Real event in Los Angeles.
“All I can say is crikey!” Robert told the cheering crowd at the event.
“Mate, I cannot tell you what an honour, what a privilege it is to be joining this season,” he continued.
“I remember being a little 11-year-old, about this big, with a little bowl cut, and watching you and Bindi just having the most incredible time lighting up the dance floor, and I just thought one day that’s going to be me. I had these little dreams going, one day, and now that dream is a reality.
How to watch Robert Irwin on Dancing With The Stars
Robert will be appearing on Season 37 of Dancing With The Stars, which is expected to air in September 2025. The series regularly airs on ABC and Disney+ in America.
However, there isn’t any information yet about whether the upcoming season will be available to stream in Australia.
When was Bindi Irwin on Dancing With The Stars?
Robert’s sister Bindi Irwin competed on Dancing With The Stars US back on the 21st season back in 2015.
She was paired with Derek Hough, and the pair won the show and took home the Mirrorball Trophy.
Bindi Irwin on Dancing With The Stars. Image: ABC.
“I am speechless. I can’t tell you how much love I have for all of your support throughout this beautiful journey,” Bindi tweeted shortly after her win.
Will Robert follow in his sister’s footsteps this season? We sure hope so!
With a fresh season of MasterChef Australia: Back to Win on the horizon in 2025, judge Andy Allen has revealed to Chattr that fans can expect fiercer competition and more elevated dishes than ever before, setting it apart from a typical MasterChef season.
MasterChef Australia 2025 will see 24 contestants who’ve competed on past seasons return to the kitchen for their second — or third — chance at winning the title.
Among them is Andre Ursini from Season 1, Sarah Todd from Season 6 and 14 and Snezana Calic from Season 16. During an interview ahead of the new season, Andy told Chattr that the calibre of contestants is much higher than a regular season made up of new faces.
“The first Back to Win we did in 2020, and I feel like a lot of these contestants watched that show, and they know how fierce the competition is.
“The standard is the highest I’ve ever seen it. I think it’s the want to win, and also the camaraderie that all of the contestants have on a daily basis.”
MasterChef Australia 2025 cast. Image: Ten.
The dynamic between the older and newer returning contestants
Some of the returning contestants, like viral cookbook author Steph de Sousa have established successful careers in the food industry post-MasterChef, and Andy said that he found that the level of experience in the kitchen from the veterans pushed the newer contestants to reach their full potential.
“I think it’s one thing to go really well in the competition, but to rub shoulders with some of these guys who have been there, done that, gone out into the industry, kicked massive goals — even just having lunch and sitting next to them and picking their brain and and getting better at cooking, but also getting a few life lessons as well. It’s such a priceless process.”
“I think as soon as you get that chance to come back in the MasterChef kitchen — and I think for a lot of these contestants, they probably thought that would never happen again.
“As soon as you get that ticket, it’s up to you what you do with it. So I know how much this means to each and every individual that walks through those doors, and they don’t take that lightly, and they don’t take it for granted.
“I think that it’s just a natural thing for people to go, this could be my last shot, and I’m going to give it my bloody all,” he said.
Bring it on!
MasterChef Australia premieres Monday, April 28 at 7.30pm on Channel 10 and 10Play.
Katie now seems to be one of the few 2025 MAFS cast who managed to get their social media back, and she’s now created an online course to help women recognise toxic traits in potential partners. On her website, Katie says it’s her “mission to inspire and educate people about the psychological tactics that can cause harm in our lives”.
The course is currently being offered for free, with Katie seemingly looking to branch out into a merch line, advertising an $89.95 ‘Peace, Love & Boundaries’ hoodie online for pre-order, calling the invention a “self-love uniform”.
Why are Redditors unhappy with MAFS’ Katie Johnston?
On Reddit, however, MAFS fans have called out the one-time bride for trying too hard to be a ‘Lucinda Light‘-style personality and accused her of ‘setting fans’ on people who have questioned her and her old business in the comments.
“She clearly believes she’s this season’s Lucinda, all the while having failed businesses, owing a load of people money and failing to abide by her obligations to pay supers,” one person said, referencing Katie’s previous business controversy (more on that below).
“She basically set her ‘new TikTok friends’ on someone who has dared to question her in the comments. I liked her at the start of the series, but she’s showing her true colours now,” they continued.
“You can’t message her about supers or paying her staff: you get blocked,” another person said, with someone else saying, “Oh, I got a lot of hate when I commented on her TikTok asking if she was going to be paying her staff now.’
MAFS’ Katie speaks out: “I don’t have space for those kinds of people in my life”
It should also be noted that Katie has uploaded a few videos about being attacked by online trolls who have targeted her looks and weight.
In a statement to Chattr, Katie said: “The tiny minority are people who just spew venom and can’t be bothered to read the facts. I don’t have space for those kinds of people in my life.
“I also don’t have tolerance for body shaming, and I don’t want young women like my niece seeing it’s OK to do that. I want my platforms to be a space for positivity and power.”
Katie has also hit back on TikTok, uploading videos with captions like, “When people whinge about being blocked after their toxic projections and comments” and giving a tongue-in-cheek public apology about some of the drama on her page.
Katie describes herself as the CEO of a social enterprise group of restaurants that provides emergency food aid, education, housing, and employment opportunities to youth in Peru. However, after Katie’s journey on MAFS, it was reported that the company that owned the restaurants – Wild The Lifestyle Co PTY – went into liquidation in 2023, owing more than $400,000, which included $150,000 of unpaid superannuation.
Katie told The Sunshine Coast Daily that a payment plan was in place to repay the debt, citing Covid as a big factor. “Covid ruined a lot of businesses and continues to ruin people’s lives as we struggle with the cost of living and mass business closures,” she said.
With Married At First Sight (MAFS) done and dusted for another year, fans have already started speculating how the creators and producers of the show could make the next season even better.
In fact, the current season was plagued with so many scandals that NSW police and Safework NSW opened an official investigation into the show.
Naturally, the drama on and off screen was quite overwhelming for fans, and now people have taken to Reddit to discuss what MAFS could do differently in 2026.
This year’s MAFS hit unprecedented levels of drama. Image: Nine
MAFS fans debate how to make the show better going forward
On Reddit, one fan said there was “so much to improve” when it came to future seasons of the show.
“It may be fun to have a little discussion on how to improve the show? I understand they will keep it the same because it’s so popular,” they said. “My takes are: the experts should see more of the hotel [living situation] stuff. Morena, Veronica and Adrian behaved awfully and it didn’t really come out to the experts. [And they should] compress all the weddings to two episodes. Boring!”
MAFS fans think the experts should be more across the storylines playing out. Image: Nine
Another person agreed when it came to the footage the experts were seeing. “Totally agree that the experts should see all the footage we do! So much bullshit behaviour goes unchallenged because it doesn’t come out at the dinner parties or commitment ceremonies,” they said.
Other fans weighed in with their opinions, with a lot of people agreeing that the wedding episodes went on for a bit too long.
“I would like to see fewer cast members who are influencers, actors, or other media personalities,” someone else said, before throwing out a very rogue idea. “When one says ‘Stay’ and the other says ‘Leave’, the group get to vote. We’d then also see cast members forming alliances and strategising = extra drama!”
Another fan said the show needs to stop pairing up people with very different lifestyles, particularly regarding families and kids.
“Stop pairing people together where one has kids and the other said no to being paired up with kids,” they said. “I know they do this to create drama, but this one crosses the line.”
MAFS fan throws out wild backup matches storyline
One person theorised that instead of introducing intruders, the show could shake things up more by bringing in the backup matches earlier.
One MAFS fan thinks it’s time to cut the intruders, and bring in the backup matches earlier. Image: Nine
“Dump the ‘intruders’ round and instead allow the OGs to meet their ‘backup partners’ early in the season, and decide whether to stay or swap. If an OG wants to stay but their OG partner wants to swap, the one who wanted to stay gets booted. If they both want to swap, they both get to stay with new partners.”
It wasn’t love, and it didn’t even end up as a triangle either for former MAFS star Mike Gunnerafter he bid farewell to his first Love Trianglematch, Melinda, in Sunday’s episode.
If you need a refresher, Mike and Melinda didn’t get off to the easiest start from the moment they met. On their first date, Mike asked Melinda numerous times if she recognised him from anywhere, trying to suss out if his new match recognised him from his controversial MAFS days.
Things then got worse after they moved in together, with Melinda googling Mike and finding out about his MAFS antics. The couple then had an off-camera fight after Mike came home to find a production team member sitting on Melinda’s bed, with her bedroom door closed, which led to him saying things like production members should be “seen and not heard”.
Melinda previously addressed that moment with Chattr, explaining, “I was chatting with a member of production behind a closed door, and Mike came in and didn’t like what he saw. And, you know, things escalated, and he asked the staff member to leave.”
There’s no love lost between Love Triangle’s Mike and Melinda. Image: Stan
The two couldn’t see eye-to-eye on the situation with Melinda slamming Mike as a “washed-up reality star”.
Melinda took accountability for her actions and words at the Dinner Party, but it wasn’t meant to be for the pair, with Mike unable to see things from her perspective or offer an apology for his behaviour. Eventually, Mike asked Melinda to pack her backs and go, and look we don’t think she needed telling twice.
Love Triangle’s Melinda on whether she’s spoken to Mike Gunner since their bitter falling out
Melinda told Chattr she hasn’t spoken to Mike since she left the show. “I’ll probably reach out once this is all over and offer another apology for my behaviour because I’m not overly proud of the things that I’ve said,” she added. “But whether that’s accepted or not is another thing.”
She also said it was probably for the best that she didn’t meet Mike’s other side of the triangle, Melissa.
When Chattr askedwhat she would’ve said to Melissa if they had all been under the same roof, Melinda was diplomatic.
“Look, that was part of the reason why I left as well, because I didn’t want my opinions skewing her views on Mike, or anything like that,” Melinda said. “That wouldn’t have been fair. And I think anyone who had walked into that house with Mike and me would have felt the tension. So yeah, I think it was best that I just left and let her come up with her own opinions on him.”
New episodes of Love Triangle drop every Sunday on Stan.
It’s already been revealed that Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025’s Dave Hand is set for an appearance on The Block this year, but there’s another contestant who also wants a spot on the renovation TV show.
Adrian Araouzou tells Chattr he’d like to make a return to reality TV, though he wants to steer clear of most romance shows. TBH, after how Awhina Rutene and Adrian ended up, that’s probably a good idea.
“Knowing what I know now, I really enjoyed my experience on the show and loved every minute of it,” Adrian says. “Meeting the producers, like the whole set, Channel Nine, like no matter [how] the edit turned out, I was super grateful and had a super great time.”
He said he would “100 per cent” go back on reality TV, and it would be fun to do something with his twin brother James Araouzou or his social media buddy Eliot Donovan.
“I would love to do something like The Block with my twin brother or Eliot, if that was [the] direction they wanted us to do, like The Block would be cool,” he says.
“My twin brother, especially because he’s exactly like me, he would make great TV. And you know, design being one of my main points, considering that’s what I do for a living, designing products would be cool, to be able to design our house.”
Imagine these two thrown into the Big Brother house! Image: Nine
What other TV shows would MAFS’ Adrian consider being on?
“I would love to do The Amazing Race, whether it be with my twin brother or Eliot… from what people have seen from the show, I think people would love to see [my] brother, me [or] Eliot do something together, because we are very similar,” he explains.
“I think people can see [I’ll] be honest and [tell the] truth, that’d be interesting to watch.”
With Gogglebox Australia, he says Australia can count on him to be honest, as he isn’t bothered by how he comes across on TV.
Would you watch Adrian and Eliot on The Amazing Race? Image: Instagram
He’s not super keen on any dating shows, but Love Island UK is a possible exception.
“Unless I got offered Love Island UK — I would consider that — and even then, I probably wouldn’t… but that’s a pretty big show… but I don’t think I’d ever do another dating show,” he admits.
“But if the offer came, you know, I’d think about it. I would never say never, right?”
Seeing as we’ve seen former MAFS contestants pop up on a bunch of different shows, including Made In Chelsea and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, it’s possible Adrian will follow in their footsteps. We’ll just have to wait and see!
He tells Chattr he wouldn’t be surprised if a couple of the grooms join OnlyFans, but it’s not for him.
“In my mind, when you’ve got nothing else to offer but all you have is your looks and you don’t believe in yourself and your brains, and you got to do something like [OnlyFans]… depending what you want to do, people do anything for a dollar,” he says.
“It’s definitely not my style. I’ve got my business and I plan on growing that and expanding it.”
However, he adds that he doesn’t see OnlyFans as a bad thing — it’s just not for him.
“If [anyone wants] to do OnlyFans, and that’s something they want to do, then again, hats off. Like they live their life and they’re allowed to do whatever. But for me, it’s like — everyone has their personal brand and if that’s what you want your personal brand to be, then you’re allowed to do that. But for me, that’s just not my personal brand,” he explains.
He says he can see “two people maybe” joining the platform, but he’s not sure if anyone will “actually go through with it”.
Adrian wants to concentrate on his business rather than OnlyFans. Image: Nine
“A lot of other people say that as well. Billy is jumping on everything you can to make a dollar, and hats off, you know, you’re there, you deserve to make some money as well,” he says.
“You went on, put yourself out there to the world. Everyone deserves to make a dollar because the show made millions off us.”
Beth said there wasn’t a “fucking chance” she’d be “getting [her] bits out” on OnlyFans, and added that she didn’t actually think anybody from the MAFS 2025 cast would end up on there.
“I’d be very surprised if any of this cast [signed up for] an OnlyFans account. I doubt it. I can’t think of anybody that would do it, not a chance.”
We won’t be seeing these two on OnlyFans either. Image: Nine
Teejay said he didn’t think anybody would subscribe to his account, so he has no reason to join.
“OnlyFans is nothing I would ever consider. I don’t know if anyone would ever consider subscribing to me if I had one to be honest with you, so I don’t think I’m OnlyFans material,” Teejay said.
“No disrespect to those doing it, but yeah, I don’t know if I’m up to scratch.”
Hmm. We might not get any MAFS 2025 stars joining OnlyFans at all this year!
For newly engaged Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 couple Jacqui Burfoot and Clint Rice, this should be one of the happiest times of their life. Instead, they’ve been dodging accusations that their engagement was “faked” — with MAFS co-star Awhina Rutene saying it was a “PR stunt”.
During an AMA, Jacqui addressed Awhina’s comments and called the MAFS bride out.
“I feel like this is really mean,” Jacqui said. “If she wants to make bets on our relationship, she can put her money where her mouth is, otherwise, she should just keep her mouth shut, really.
“If you’ve got nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.”
Jacqui also spilled some other details about her relationship with Clint, and said she was a “very insecure person” when she first met him, but he “reassures [her] in all ways”.
“You know when you feel like you’re having an ugly day? He always reassured me that I was beautiful, and made me feel good about myself, and gave me that confidence that I really needed,” she said.
What did Awhina say about Clint and Jacqui’s relationship?
Awhina made some bold claims on the Stav, Abby & MattB105 radio show, saying she thought Clint and Jacqui’s engagement was a “PR stunt or a joke”.
“I will be 100 per cent honest with you guys, it’s not real on Jacqui’s end. We’ve seen Jacqui’s behaviour during the experiment, especially post-show, for someone who’s deeply, madly in love, she’s got time to post 22 TikToks. She’s using her online platform to sell a narrative, but she contradicts herself consistently,” Awhina claimed.
“I feel bad for Clint because I think Clint is so desperate for love or just wanting a connection, he’ll settle for anyone. And Jacqui [has] definitely taken advantage of that situation and in the process, he’s become the biggest enabler.”
Awhina doesn’t buy it. Image: Nine
Carina weighs in on Jacqui and Clint’s relationship
“I think they have amazing chemistry, absolutely, it’s very evident,” Carina told us. “She wanted the love story. I think everyone does… we all want love at the end of the day. We want to figure out who’s best suitable for us and how we can build a family in a life time with someone.”
When you know, you know. Image: Nine.
“Clint, obviously, it’s very evident that he brings the best out in her and then she made the move to Tasmania. To me, it’s pretty serious, and you can’t put a time frame on love.”
Time will tell if Jacqui and Clint are the real deal!
TheAustralian Survivorwinners group consists of a handful of castaways who have managed to outwit, outlast, and outplay their fellow campmates.
Australian Survivor first aired for a single season in 2002 on Channel 9, and it was followed by a celebrity edition in 2006. However, neither season attracted many viewers, so the franchise was put on hold until it was revived by Channel 10 in 2016 — the network where the series still airs.
So, on that note, we decided to have a look at where the past winners of Australian Survivor are now.
Australian Survivor 2016
Kristie Bennett
Kristie Bennett. Image: Ten.
Kirstie Bennett took out the first season of the revived Australian Survivor format in 2016.
Almost a decade on from her win, Kristie’s still reaping the benefits of being crowned Sole Survivor. She sells Reality TV Casting and Audition Mentoring packages, and fans can buy a short video from her on Cameo.
Australian Survivor 2017
Jericho Malabonga
Jericho Malabonga. Image: Ten.
Jericho Malabonga wasLuke Toki‘s right-hand man on Australian Survivor 2017. However, according to his Instagram, he now lives a somewhat normal life as an F45 Ambassador.
Champions v Contenders 2018
Shane Gould
Shane Gould. Image: Ten.
Shane Gould owns the title of being the oldest winner ever—she was 61 when she won Australian Survivor: Champions v Contenders.
Shane, who is an Olympic Gold Medalist, is currently writing a book for athletes preparing to retire from sport and in the process of transitioning to a new life. She posted about the project on her Facebook page, and asked for advice between two possible titles.
Champions v Contenders II 2019
Pia Miranda
Pia Miranda. Image: Ten.
Pia Miranda was initially known as the star of the 2000 film Looking For Alibrandi, but she added a new accomplishment to her resume when she took down some of the best Australian athletes players during the Champion v Contenders II season.
Since then, Pia has released a memoir titled Finding My Bella Vita, which detailed how her role in Looking for Alibrandi changed her life.
All Stars 2020
David Genat
David Genat. Image: Ten.
David Genat wasn’t afraid to ruffle some feathers during his appearance on Champions V Contenders. However, it was his stint on All Stars that earned him the title of Sole Survivor.
After winning Australian Survivor 2020, David competed on Australian Celebrity Apprentice in 2021. In 2022, he launched a podcast alongside his Survivor costar Luke, titled Who Authorised This?
David returned to his reality TV roots in 2022, hosting Rush Australia.
In 2025, David joined Deal or No Deal IslandSeason 2, and walked away the winner, scoring a record-breaking $5.8 million deal in the finale (approximately $9.2 million AUD) — the biggest prize in network TV history.
But, despite his huge prize win, David hasn’t retired from reality TV just yet. He’s scheduled to appear on Survivor: Australia v The World alongside his Deal or No Deal Island co-star Parvati Shallow. The new Survivor season is rumoured to be premiering on June 22, 2025.
Brains v Brawn 2021
Hayley Leake
Hayley Leake. Image: Ten.
Hayley Leake triumphed against George Mladenovin the Australia Survivor 2021 season. She returned for Australian Survivor: Heroes v Villains, where she made it to the Jury.
Since her time on Australian Survivor, Hayley has given birth to a baby girl named Chloe.
Blood v Water 2022
Mark Wales
Mark Wales. Image: Ten.
Mark Wales originally competed on Australian Survivor 2017, and returned for Blood v Water.
Mark met his now-wife Samantha Gash on his first season, and he returned to Australian Survivor in 2022 and competed alongside her. The couple now share a son named Harry.
Before competing on Survivor, Mark was an officer in the Australian Army. In 2021, he released an autobiography titled Survivor: Life in the SAS, detailing his time in Afghanistan.
While the other two members were eliminated in the final stages of the game, Liz went on to be crowned the winner.
Since competing on the show, Liz has given birth to her baby, Texas. She also maintains a strong friendship with Shonee, with the Survivor alums documenting their babies’ first meeting on Instagram.
Titans v Rebels 2024
Feras Basal
Feras Basal. Image: Ten.
Feras Basal engaged in a rivals-become-allies alliance with Kirby Bentley during Australian Survivor 2024. However, he eventually turned against her, which led to his elimination and paved the way for his win.
Since winning the show, Feras has spent his time travelling around Europe and focusing on his TikTok account @laughwithferas, as well as his new podcast Yaz and Feras. He also works as a teacher.
In a post-win interview with Chattr, Myles said being the Sole Survivor felt like a dream.
“It still feels surreal the next day, like today, honestly, like I still can’t believe it,” he said.
“For me, to get that far — when I was almost voted out on day four, and then almost voted out 1000 other times after that — was just incredible,” he laughed. “It was incredible to win, and not only win but win in the way that I did — playing the game that I did — is just unbelievable.”
Up next is Survivor: Australia v The World, and All Stars winner David is among the cast.
Stream Australian Survivor 2025 Sundays – Mondays on Channel 10 and 10Play.
The couple made their first MAFS appearance together at the MAFS reunion. In a twist, the couple were at a MAFS reunion watch party on April 6 when Clint popped the question.
During one of Jacqui and Clint’s many AMAs, a fan asked the engaged couple if they had any baby names picked out. It turns out they each have a unique name they want to use for their future kids.
“I really want to have a baby called Livily if she’s a girl,” Jacqui told fans.
“And I’ve got Rio. Rio Rice,” Clint added.
“So it will be Livily Rice and Rio Rice,” Jacqui said.
Jacqui and Clint answered this question on social media. Image: Instagram
The pair then made rice jokes, saying they could also call their kids Jasmine, Sushi and Brown. It’s giving North West!
Some of Jacqui and Clint’s followers were obsessed with the rice-themed names, with one suggesting: “You need a tribe of kids, there are so many names just waiting to be chosen. Fried, Brown, White, Arborio, Creamed, Saffron, Coconut, Boiled, Steamed.”
Clint and Jacqui are engaged
Publicity stunt or hopeless romantics? Clint popped the question at a MAFS reunion party, asking Jacqui to marry him after a little speech.
“You’re amazing and I know we’ve talked about a lot, a lot about our future and our future plans,” Clint said.
“We signed up for Married at First Sight to get married, to find a life partner. So I’ve got one question for you.”
Jacqui nodded yes and let out a bunch of screams.
Looks like these two are the real deal. If it works, it works!
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Jacqui and Clint’s debut during the MAFS reunion
The couple finally made their long-awaited debut during the MAFS reunion, where Jacqui gleefully declared that Ryan was “jealous”. The pair apparently got together two weeks after Final Vows, after Clint paid for a plane ticket for Jacqui to visit him in Tassie.
The most outrageous part? They were already making plans to move in together after just weeks of dating!
“Clint lives in a really nice place and there is space for Jacqui. He’s cleared out half of the walk-in wardrobe for me,” Jacqui said.
“I’ve got my own shower, like we’ve got his and her showers, his and her vanity, I’ve got a house key, a tennis court and [a] bike. We’re starting a business together, which is actually the best part.”
She gushed about her relationship with Clint and told the hosts that their meet-cute story “does come out at the Reunion.”
“If you speak to Clint, he will explain that out of the group, I was the most normal girl who had a life and was down to earth, [that] doesn’t take herself too seriously and loves having a laugh,” she continued.
Jacqui then clarified that they only started hanging out romantically after Final Vows were filmed.
“He reached out to me and wanted to get to know me and after Final Vows, he did invite me down to Tassie to spend some time with him.”
Jacqui added that she was initially nervous about their 14-year age gap but said after meeting him, “it doesn’t really affect us at all.”
MAFS stars found out about Jacqui and Clint’s relationship at the Reunion
As per The Daily Mail, the romance left Ryan “blindsided” at the reunion, with the groom having “no idea’ that Jacqui and Clint had started dating.
“Ryan had no idea. He heard rumours, but seeing it unfold like this left him feeling betrayed,” an insider told Daily Mail. “He considered Clint a mate—now he feels like they both lied to his face.”
Ryan was left “blindsided” by Jacqui’s new romance. Image: Nine
However Clint hit back at those rumours in an interview with Chattr, saying he never had a friendship with Ryan and said that he broke the news to him personally.
“We didn’t want to be smug about it or throw it in anyone’s face. We wanted to handle things respectfully,” Clint said. “Ryan tried to spin it as though we were mates – but we weren’t. We didn’t know each other before the show, and we won’t know each other after.”
Are Jacqui Burfoot and Clint Rice still together?
The news of the romance was first teased when Jacqui uploaded a cryptic Instagram update in early December 2024, alluding to a “new chapter”. Days later, she was spotted in Tasmania looking cosy with Clint at a wildlife park.
The Daily Mail reported that Jacqui has quit her job, packed up her Sydney life, and moved to Clint’s luxury estate in Tasmania, with another insider saying the two have a “natural chemistry”.
Jacqui has also been liking photos and videos of Clint’s dogs on his dogs’ Instagram page and in a video on the page, her gold bracelet is seen in the shot with the pups.
Jacqui with Clint’s dogs. Photo: Instagram.com
Towards the end of the season, Jacqui consistently included Clint in her Instagram stories and spoke favourablely of him and their relationship. So, it appears that Jacqui and Clint are absolutely still together.
Jacqui confirms there’s no bad blood with Lauren Hall: “I love her”
Clint was originally married to Lauren Hall in the experiment, and the pair decided to leave the show as friends. However, many of the cast (and the experts) speculated Clint had feelings for Lauren but didn’t act on them, something he has since denied.
“We were done. We wanted out. But then we got a call from Nine, warning us that if we left early, they would make us the most hated couple on Australian TV,” Clint said. “Looking back, we should have just walked. They stitched us up anyway.”
Meanwhile, Jacqui has been going continuously rogue on her business Instagram page answering fan questions about the show and spilling all sorts of the tea.
In one Instagram AMA, Jacqui confirmed there’s no bad blood between her and Lauren, but didn’t mention her relationship with Clint. She said she still speaks to Lauren, saying the two have “lots in common” and that she had just gotten off the phone with her.
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
On Survivor, contestants who are voted out towards the end of the season are sent to the Jury Villa. The Jury members return for each Tribal Council, and at the finale they place votes for who they belive should win.
In previous seasons of Australian Survivor, there were nine Jury members, which meant there was no chance of a tie between the final two. Australian Survivor Brain v Brawn II was on track to have nine Jury members until Morgan Mitchelldecided to skip the jury portion and head home.
“You may have noticed that Morgan is not on the Jury. She’s decided to leave the game and go home, but the game continues,” host Jonathan LaPaglia told the tribe members after she left.
Without Morgan, there were eight Jury members casting votes, which meant a possibility of a tie vote between Myles and Kaelan. So, what would have happened if that were the case?
The Australian Survivor 2025 jury. Image: Ten.
There was a backup plan if the Australian Survivor 2025 finale ended in a tie
Speaking to Chattr the day after his triumphant win, Myles revealed that the cast was actually told about a plan that was in place if the end result was a tie, but his memory was a little hazy about the exact details.
“I remember we were told,” he said. “I can’t quite remember. I think it was some sort of Rock draw — like a Rocks draw.“
“I might be wrong, that’s what I remember, but I was also in a crazy, 47-day fatigue state at that stage,” he added.
Rocks is a concept that happens at Tribal Council when the contestants can’t decide who they want to vote out, so the players without votes take part in a game of chance, and one of those people is eliminated. Myles explained that Rocks would be slightly altered to fit a finale, in the case of a tie.
“[The jury would] go to a revote, and then if no one flips their vote over, then the Jurors draw a rock. Whoever draws the rocks on the Jury, their vote gets removed from the next revote, with the idea being that it is similar to a real Rocks draw; it incentivizes people to flip over because no one wants to risk losing their jury vote.
“Is it the cleanest thing that could happen? No, but thankfully, we didn’t have to worry about that.”
Love Triangle is starting to get spicy, with episode three seeing all the singles and their first suitors mingle at a cocktail party, where one suitor was caught saying some pretty controversial things off camera.
Payton Ellicott‘s chosen suitor, Jordan, decided to tell everyone but Payton that the two were in the “friend zone” while seeming flirtatious with Marissa.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Jordan was then sprung in an off-camera moment saying some very distasteful things about Payton, seemingly unaware that he was still mic’d up.
Admitting he’s not attracted to his match, Jordan then says, he wants someone “small, tanned, and ethnic”.
“Fuck you man, you know I’m not attracted to that,” Jordan said to someone, about Payton. “I asked for small, tanned, ethnic… She is the complete opposite in every single thing.
“Literally any other girl here I would be into,” he continued. “If I fucked her or whatever then I’m like even more of a fuckwit. Like, there’s just no way I’m not looking like an arsehole after this, dude.”
Jordan apparently forgot he was mic’d up. Image: Stan
Is it possible to forget you’re mic’d up on camera? Love Triangle stars weigh in
With Jordan seemingly forgetting in that moment that he was on a TV show, we decided to ask other people who have been part of the show how easy it is to forget you’re mic’d up.
Love Triangle Season 2 star Alan Wallacesaid it was “virtually impossible” not to know your mic was still on. “You usually ask your sound guy to mute your mic,” he said. “If you’re still wearing a mic, just don’t say anything dumb, surely it’s common sense.”
Alan from Season 2 of Love Triangle. Image: Stan
Melinda, from Season 3, told Chattr it was possible to forget but she personally couldn’t, revealing that they were mic’d up even to go to the toilet.
“I think at times you probably do forget that. For me personally, I couldn’t even pee in peace,” she laughed. “But other people might become comfortable and forget.”
New episodes of Love Triangle drop every Sunday on Stan.
Kaelan Lockhart officially took the top spot in the Survivor Hall of Fame after bagging seven Immunity Challenge wins, surpassing the previous record of five.
Kaelan not only has the most wins in the Australian Survivorfranchise, but he also holds the world record for the most triumphs in a single season worldwide.
However, despite his remarkable results, Kaelan told Chattr that he was actually throwing challenges at the start of the season so that he could fly under the radar and avoid getting a target put on his back.
“The one that Logan [Johannisen] won with the balls — the balance part is pretty much stand-up paddleboarding. I probably could have just told the balls what to do there,” the pro-stand-up paddleboarder explained.
Logan, Paaulie, Jesse and Kaelan in the Immunity Challenge. Image: Ten.
“I just wanted to not do so well in any challenges that resembled the final challenge,” he explained.
“So if I could make Logan see me as I can’t balance, I can’t stand on poles. I would try to try to get off those pretty soon. Anything with balance, I was trying to try to throw off.”
Of course, Kaelan was gracious about his fellow castmates’ victories, acknowledging that even though he held back in some challenges, it didn’t guarantee he would win more.
“They would probably beat me anyway, but there’s some I definitely could have gone a bit harder in.”
Kaelan played down his puzzle skills in Immunity Challenges
Kaelan was dubbed a Challenge Beast on Australian Survivor 2025, and he aptly adjuted his nickname to Challenge Enthusiast to lower his threat level. Every Survivor challenge involves mental or physical skills, and some require applying both.
While Kaelan’s physical strength was plain to see, the PhD student told Chattr that he also tried to play down his intellect.
In episode 18, contestants participated in a three-stage Immunity Challenge that involved balancing on a barrel, crossing a beam, and solving a puzzle. Kaelan had a clear lead by the puzzle leg but appeared to be taking his time on the challenge.
As host Jonathan LaPaglia was narrating to the group what each contestant was doing, Kaelan told the host: “Hey, don’t tell them where I’m at; don’t tell them I’m doing well. I don’t want them to know I’m good at puzzles,” suggesting that he was purposely trying to slow down the challenge.
Kaelan asking Jonathan to keep his secret. Image: Ten.
“Even when I was winning challenges, I was trying to show weaknesses in different aspects,” he explained of the moment.
“So on that challenge itself, when there was the balance beam, I jumped off it like three times or something. And then when I got ahead, I thought, nobody can see me behind this wall. I’ll get the puzzle done and disassemble it, and then I’ll finish it when people come over.
“Even Myles[Kuah] said to me that he thought I absolutely sucked at puzzles, and he couldn’t wait to go up against me in the puzzle. So it worked. Every challenge, I was trying to make it appear that I wasn’t so good at some part of it.”
Kaelan added that he wishes he had mentioned his actions at that particular challenge at the final Tribal Council.
“I didn’t think of it!” He said. “Maybe I could have gotten JLP on it and brought him into the final pitch. It would have been fun.”
Jonathan LaPaglia gives Kaelan another Immunity necklace. Image: Ten.
The strategy behind Kaelan’s attempt to lower his threat level
Any Survivor fan will know that it’s seriously impressive for a Challenge Beast of Kaelan’s calibre to make it to the final Tribal Council and not be picked off by the other contestants as a threat.
Kaelan said that his constant awareness of his threat level and his ability to manage it were strategies in themselves.
“Everything I was doing, it was quite measured,” he explained. “Even fishing — early on, people told me that in previous seasons, no one had gone out fishing or snorkelling because they were scared they’d be talked about.
“And I thought, that’s perfect. If I go out there, how innocent do I look? In every conversation I’d have people trying to explain the game of Survivor to me, and I’d be trying to act like I needed help to understand that.
“So, there were just little things, even though they were not strategic, as in making big moves. I was always trying to influence people in different ways.”
Kaelan is currently skiing the entire length of Norway to raise money for the charity Cottage by the Sea, which helps underprivileged kids. You can donate to his cause here.
Mike and Melinda didn’t get off to the easiest start after an awkward beach date that saw Mike ask Melinda numerous times if she recognised him from anywhere, trying to suss out if his new match recognised him from his controversial MAFS days.
Melinda told Chattr that the whole beach date had her out of her comfort zone for many reasons. “The beach date just had just an awkward vibe about it. I can’t put my finger on what it was,” she said.
“I mean, he did ask so many times if I recognised him, that was throwing me off, and I think, you know, it wasn’t Mike’s first rodeo,” Melinda explained.
TFW he asks you about seven times if you recognise him. Image: Stan
“He’s used to being on TV and everything like that. But for me, I was the fish out of water, like, ‘What’s a voxie? What do you mean? I was mic’d up [even] to go the toilet, all of those kind of things. So I felt very out of my comfort zone.
“But for him, you know, it was just a walk in the park, so that was kind of throwing me off a little bit as well. Then, I guess the icing on the cake was the off-camera incident that happened and that, although we tried to sort of make amends, it was just it was we were never going to come back from that.”
Love Triangle’s Melinda addresses off-camera fight with Mike: ‘It just blew up’
One of the more dramatic moments of Love Triangle so far sadly wasn’t filmed for us to see, with things turning sour not long after Melinda and Mike moved in together.
The couple had a fight off-camera after Mike went for a walk and came home to find a member of the production team sitting on Melinda’s bed.
Melinda addressed that moment with Chattr, explaining, “I was chatting with a member of production behind a closed door, and Mike came in and didn’t like what he saw. And, you know, things escalated, and he asked the staff member to leave.”
There wasn’t much love lost between Melinda and Mike on Love Triangle. Image: Stan
Melinda left and opted to stay in a hotel for the night, before coming back the next day to chat things out with Mike, telling the cameras that she’d rather “shit in my hands and clap than get to know him better”. They were unable to resolve things, with Mike telling Melinda mid-argument, “The people that are going to be watching this, they don’t all like me, but you know what? They trust me because I never tell bullshit,” to which Melinda retorted, “So, I really hate to say this but you’re nowhere near as relevant as you think you are. You are a 50-year-old washed-up reality TV star.”
Maybe most surprisingly after that mic drop, Melinda has been able to take a step back and see things from Mike’s perspective.
“I can see his side of it now that I’ve sort of stepped back from it, and my emotion’s gone, and I understand what he was trying to say,” she told us. “It was just, I think the execution in which we were both trying to explain the situation. It just blew up.”
Will Melinda and Mike be able to come back from this? We’ll have to wait until Sunday to find out!
New episodes of Love Triangle drop every Sunday on Stan.
If you’ve been missing Dave Hand on our TV screens since Married At First Sight (MAFS) wrapped up, rumour has it we won’t have long to wait, with the MAFS groom sharing a photo with some recognisable faces from The Block on his business Instagram account page.
Dave shared a happy snap with The Block’s Foreman Dan [Reilly] and tiler Adrian Cursio, captioning the pic “The Block heads” with many fans wondering if this means we’ll see Dave on our screens for the upcoming season.
But Dave won’t be appearing as a contestant, telling Chattr, “I’m just doing some caulking on The Block to help some friends out”.
Dave is a tradie and owns his own caulking company, with MAFS fans discovering his business TikTok and Instagram page during the season and, well, suddenly a lot of women were interested in caulking. So we can see The Block being a great fit for him!
Dave is making caulking hot in 2025. Image: TikTok
Are MAFS’ Rhi and Jeff also set for The Block?
Given they’re the only couple still together from this season, Rhi Disljenkovic and Jeff Gobbels have now been plagued with rumours that they’re engaged, expecting, or more realistically perhaps, going to participate in The Block, something the pair hasn’t ruled out.
“We saw the same rumour, we’re hoping it’s true!” Jeff said in an interview with Chattr. “We haven’t had any discussions yet, but it’ll be amazing if that happened.”
Could MAFS’ Jeff and Rhi be on The Block next? Image: Nine
“I’m sure I could paint a room,” Rhi joked. “Look, I’m not very handy, Jeff is. I think it would be quite funny me going on The Block, but I’ve learned a lot of resilience being on MAFS, so I’d have enough resilience to make The Block work.”
The Jury Villa is a special holding area for the Australian Survivor contestants who have been eliminated from the game post Episode 15, who will continue to attend and observe Tribal Councils, and ultimately be responsible for deciding the winner of the game.
With every new arrival, the drama gets juicier, the dinners more awkward, and the tea piping hot.
The final member entering the Jury Villa was AJ Antonios, much to the shock of the other Jury members. Taking it on the chin, AJ said he couldn’t be happier forMyles and Kaelan to be in the final two, wondering how long it’d be until he could “gorge” himself again after seeing how much weight he’d lost after 46 days.
There was underlying tension in the Villa as AJ faced his ex-campmates, particularly Zara who he betrayed in the last elimination. He apologised to Zara for voting her out and explained his reasoning.
“When Myles won immunity, I had to decide between Kaelan and Zara, but because Myles wanted to take out Zara, it would’ve been fire between Zara and Kaelan, and I don’t think Zara can win that. And then because I put Kaelan in fire, he’d never take me to the end. So I had no choice but to vote Zara,” he explained.
Spilling the tea further, AJ told the Jury Villa that Kaelan had been “playing dumb” the whole time. “I’ve been his closest ally, and he intentionally played dumb the entire game. The real Kaelan is a lot smarter than you think he is.”
AJ fessed up to throwing challenges, saying he could’ve come second or third in many challenges instead of eighth. “I thought if I was also a physical threat, it’d just be too much,” he said.
AJ also said he didn’t think eventual winner Myles’ resume would have beaten him in the end. I guess we’ll never know!
Zara Callianiotis headed over to the Jury Villa after receiving a unanimous vote against her from Myles, Kaelan, and AJ. On her way to the villa, she said that she thought the remaining players voted her out because they didn’t want to face off against her in the final endurance challenge.
Zara’s first dinner was relatively calm — until she revealed the remaining players believed they could predict each Juror’s vote. Logan was stunned to hear AJ thought he wouldn’t vote for her, revealing that he was her ‘top vote.’
Meanwhile, Karin and Paulie found themselves fighting at the dinner table… again.
As Zara was leaving the dinner, she dropped a bombshell on the other contestants.
“I’m looking forward to the next jury dinner when whoever else — a boy — joins us,” she announced.
Fans have been speculating the finale could see a final three, since Morgan’s absence would leave an even-numbered jury for a final two, potentially causing a tie.
We can’t wait to see how this plays out!
Kate
KateGloufchis was the first juror in a while to receive a warm welcome from the other Jury members.
After Kate explained her strategy at the last Tribal, Logan told Kate about how cold both Kristin’s and Logan’s entry to the Jury was.
“You’re actually quite blessed because the last two, so mine and Kristin’s, I came in, and everyone was very mad at me, and I was very sad, and I nearly cried, and everyone was really mad at Kristin,” she said.
“I got attacked by Kaz and Paulie,” Kristin added.
The next day, Morgan and Kristin headed off for a spa day together. However, Kate noticeably didn’t mention anything about why her Survivor bestie Morgan decided not to join the Jury.
Morgan
Morgan Mitchell getting her torch snuffed on Australian Survivor. Image: Ten.
Morgan Mitchell was the fifth castaway sent to Jury Villa after she was voted out by Myles, AJ, Kaelan and Zara. However, she didn’t join the Jury.
During the Tribal Council, which took place the night after Morgan was voted out, Jonathan LaPaglia told the remaining castaways that she’d decided to leave the show.
“You may have noticed that Morgan is not on the Jury, she’s decided to leave the game and go home, but the game continues,” he said.
Kristin
Kristin Alston joined the jury in Episode 19, walking into the Villa with high hopes: “Bring on the food, bring on the bed, bring on anything,” she said.
But her welcome was a lot less than warm. Paulie confronted her immediately: “Everybody’s got their significant liar in the game, and it turns out you were mine.” Awkward.
Things escalated as Paulie accused her of throwing him under the bus, but Kristin fired back about his gameplay and lies.
“You’re saying what everyone wants to hear [but] I feel the information is different. It was always to save yourself,” she said.
“I thought, what happened was, it would go to the split vote, we’d go back and do it again, and then I thought that you and Zara get up and do a fire together, and then I was like ‘you’re going to kick her arse on the fire,’” she explained to Logan.
Yeah, dinner was… uncomfortable, to say the least.
“Well this was a different entrance than I was expecting,” Kristin summed up.
Logan
Logan Johannisen joined the jury in Episode 18, fresh from a near rock-draw elimination. “Love the drama for me,” she quipped.
She broke the ice at a very tense dinner: “Okay, what’s the vibe here? Are we all angry at me?”
“I think we have questions,” said Karin, before Laura jumped in: “Apparently there’s a big yellow bus and I’m completely under it.”
Logan defended herself, saying:“I needed to play it up and make you look like the bad guy because I was still in the game.”
Paulie didn’t hold back either. “It was pretty nasty,” he added.
Logan called it an early night. Wise choice.
Karin
Karin Gunatilake joined the jury in Episode 17, and was welcomed by Laura and Paulie, who were genuinely thrilled to see her. Karin was just as excited, and maybe even more thrilled to spot a box of Cheezels.
When she was eliminated, though, she got right to venting.
“Once again, surrounded by idiots,” she said. Oof.
After her elimination, Karin opened up about her frustration with failed alliance-building: “I said, we don’t have an alliance, I’m gonna give you one… and then we just pick them off one by one… No one took the bait,” she recounted.
“It wasn’t even bait, it was just like an opportunity. And you floundered it. Idiots.”
At least with the thought of the Jury Villa, her mood lifted: “We can just gossip about everyone else.”
Paulie
Paulie Michael was the second jury member, landing in Episode 16. “I need the tea and then I need the food,” he said as he stepped into the Villa and reunited with Laura.
He quickly opened up about how blindsided he felt:“I wish I could tell you what happened because nobody was telling me anything.”
“I wasn’t privy to any conversations because obviously people don’t trust me.” Ouch.
He threw shade at AJ and Myles for leaving him out of the loop. And given how quickly Paulie’s been confronting people he feels betrayed by, those two should hope they don’t land in the Villa anytime soon.
Laura
Laura Darras was the veryfirst Australian Survivor Jury member, arriving into the villa in Episode 15, where she got some solo time before the chaos began.
“I got got, that’s for sure,” she said after being voted out.
ICYMI, the original plan during Episode 15’s Tribal Council was to vote out Logan to break her tight alliance with Laura and dismantle the infamous “Buddy System.” But Logan trusted her gut and played her Hidden Immunity Idol. Laura was sent packing, in a move she didn’t see coming.
“They absolutely got one over on me. They completely fooled me. And you know what? Power to them.”
Hey, that’s the spirit. Right?
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