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Jamie tells Chattr there are “obviously divides in the cast”, and we will see how the relationships play out on screen. 

“Carina is someone who doesn’t have access to me as a friend. I’ll be friendly with her but you know, you learn a really good lesson,” she spills.

Jamie no longer speaks to Sierah Swepstone, Tim Gromie, Clint Rice or Lauren, and hints that she’s also done with Veronica Cloherty — who she had a fight with during the Dinner Party.

“There’s a few people [I don’t speak to], and honestly, I didn’t really speak to [them] whilst I was filming. It’s not like I don’t like them… I’m close to Tony [Mojanovski], so I don’t really speak to Morena [Farina]. I never spoke to Tim. I never had Paul [Antoine] or Ryan [Donnelly’s] number,” she adds.

“But when it comes to falling out [with cast members], I’d say you know, Carina, Veronica, they’re just people I just didn’t click with.”

Jamie adds that Lauren is “irrelevant” to her life, saying she has “nothing to say to” her. 

“I don’t care to speak to her at all. I think now people can kind of see the type of person she is. I wouldn’t want to welcome that into my very peaceful life,” she says. 

“I know Clint has tried to reach out a few times, but at the same time, I don’t really have much to talk to Clint about… a grown man cussing out a woman, probably not my type of guy to have a friendship with.”

However, Jamie is really good friends with Awhina Rutene and also gets along well with Jacqueline Burfoot.

“Awhina, she’s honestly such a genuine person, such a good friend and support system… she was scolding everyone for not sticking up for me, like she was just amazing,” Jamie says.

“Jacqui is someone I actually don’t really have any issues with at all… I think Jacqui was dealing with a tough situation. It’s a high-pressure environment, so maybe she didn’t act her higher self, but her support during the [Couples Retreat] altercation meant everything [to] me.”

Who else is feuding on MAFS?

It’s safe to say that Lauren is feuding with almost all of the cast, after declaring they were all “losers”. The only people she still keeps in touch with are Jacqui and Clint.

We also know that Jacqui and Rhi no longer speak, after the pair have been publicly fighting through interviews and social media. 

It seems like Veronica is dragged into this mess and also starts feuding with Rhi, after her husband Eliot Donovan shares a bed with the bride. 

“I don’t appreciate my husband lying to me about sharing a bed with another wife,” Veronica is believed to have told Rhi.

Plus, Awhina told Chattr her friendship with Sierah will “never recover” after she had dinner with Awhina’s husband Adrian Araouzou behind her back.

After Jamie and her husband Dave Hand called out Clint and Lauren, there didn’t seem to be any remorse. 

However, Clint tells Chattr that Lauren tried to patch things up with Jamie on the night of the Couples Retreat, we just didn’t see it.

“It was hard to watch last night,” Clint says. “Lauren apologised to Jamie like four times but they didn’t show that. Lauren has actually got a compassionate side to her. I even apologised to Jamie a few times and they didn’t show that.”

He adds that Lauren has a “softness” which didn’t come across, and this could partly be blamed on her rocky start to MAFS.

“She was not feeling comfortable about the whole experiment. She’d had a bad start with Eliot [Donovan] and got promised a lot of things from production coming back in that they failed to deliver on so she’d built up some resentment towards production,” he claims.

While Jamie still has resentment towards both Lauren and Clint, her husband Dave doesn’t harbour the same feelings.

In fact, Dave and Clint were texting during the Couples Retreat episode. Is this another clue that Jamie and Dave have split?!

“I still talk to Dave like we were texting last night while it was going to air, and we get along fine… there’s a few of the crew that we still talk to, so everyone’s fine,” Clint says.

“[It’s just] if I’m out with my wife and I’m around a group setting… I’m not going to turn on her in front of 20 people.”

Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025’s Lauren Hall and Clint Rice are unlike any couple we’ve seen on this hellfire of a show, joining an elite list of a few couples to ever dodge a dinner party while still being part of the experiment.

Speaking to Chattr in an exclusive interview, Clint revealed that he and Lauren “boycotted” the dinner party to have their own version in the comfort of their MAFS apartment.

This decision follows the argument that took place at the MAFS 2025 Couples Retreat, whereby Clint and Lauren took on an upset Jamie Marinos at the Byron Bay holiday rental.

Lauren and Clint refuse to attend dinner party

Clint revealed that getting out of the MAFS dinner party was no easy task, with multiple people from production getting involved to try and twist their arms “all day”.

“We had probably four different producers come in, and then we had Alex call from the head of the production, and then we had John from Channel Nine calls to try and convince us. And we’re just like, ‘Not happening. We’re done’.”

The production had to get creative.

MAFS production’s last-ditch attempt

“They even offered for us to turn up in activewear with popcorn, and just go and sit at the end,” Clint laughed, noting he and Lauren declined the offer as it would be like “rubbing it more in their face”.

While Clint made reservations for a dinner with Lauren in Circular Quay on the right, he said that they weren’t allowed to do that, so instead dined in their apartment while the crew filmed it.

“Well, funny thing is, we got dressed up. I got the suit on, Loz put a dress on, we made margaritas. We had fresh seafood. It was actually pretty funny. Sort of a piss-take of the actual dinner party.”

Amazing. If Lauren doesn’t get a margarita brand sponsorship by the end of the season, I’ll be very confused.

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

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“I can see why [there are couples who don’t speak],” Clint explained to Chattr. “They are on this show, and they throw their partner under the bus.”

While Clint expressed that he understands the “nature of the show” is to discuss your relationship and its issues, he said that he and Lauren Hall are stronger for having avoided that and are good friends to this day.

“I think we can pride ourselves in that, that we supported each other,” Clint explained. “We have got a good friendship, Lauren and myself, whereas you look at the other cast members and no one barely talks.”

“You see all the other couples when they’re at a dinner party or in a group environment, they drag out and air their dirty laundry of their partner.

“I find that embarrassing. I really do.”

The MAFS 2025 groom, who has been spotted with co-star Jacqueline Burfoot since the show wrapped filming, revealed that “Jacqui and Ryan [Donnelly] hate each other and Adrian [Araouzou] and Awhina [Rutene], Sierah [Swepstone] and Billy [Belcher] — they’ve all turned on each other”.

While Sierah and Billy left the experiment at a previous Commitment Ceremony after an exaggerated “cheating scandal”, Jacqui and Ryan and Awhina and Adrian are still on MAFS 2025.

Jacqui and Ryan appear chummy on screen (well, depending what day of the week it is), however, it has been widely reported that Jacqui and Clint are now together. Jacqui and Ryan have also been using their burner social media accounts to tear each other apart.

Adrian and Awhina is an interesting one — while the pair have been on rocky ground since the show started, they were spotted together on Valentine’s Day last month, making people think they made it past Final Vows. Was it just a publicity stunt, or have things only gone south recently?

I guess we’ll have to wait and find out.

The fiery blonde was so upset after being “extremely betrayed” by her friends that she ended up crying for days and neither Rhi or Carina checked up on her.

“After days of crying and not having communication, I would have assumed I would be getting calls or messages from Rhi and Carina at that point, because they knew how devastated I was,” Jamie tells Chattr.

“I couldn’t leave my room on the final morning of [the] retreat, I was very isolated… I just wasn’t expecting to be met with the response I was met with.”

While Rhi eventually did try to apologise to Jamie once on camera, but she didn’t call Jamie or visit her that night.  

However, Carina ignored Jamie and was busy being friendly with Lauren for the rest of the Couples Retreat. 

“Carina was just taking selfies with Lauren. Carina couldn’t give a fuck, honestly, about me being upset, she just continued her day,” Jamie says. “The self proclaimed Switzerland and peacemaker who enabled all these awful behaviours now, essentially, she’s playing footsies with Lauren out in the yard and did not even once just speak to me or sort it out with me.”

Jamie reveals Clint tried to reach out after the MAFS Couples Retreat

One of the most shocking moments from the episode was seeing Clint swear at Jamie multiple times. The bride tells Chattr after all the drama went down, he did try to reach out but she refused to give him the time of day.

“I don’t have a relationship with either Lauren or Clint. I know Clint has tried to reach out a few times, but at the same time, I don’t really have much to talk to Clint about. A grown man cussing out a woman, probably not my type of guy to have a friendship with,” she explains.

“I don’t have anything to say to Lauren. She’s irrelevant to my life. I don’t care to speak to her at all.”

It’s unclear at this point if Clint and Lauren will leave the experiment soon — neither of them seem comfortable around the group or participating — so was Jamie hoping they would leave?

“I was hoping that they leave Australia after this, after this retreat, just as far away from me as possible,” she jokes. 

Are Carina and Jamie still friends?

While it seemed like Carina and Jamie were close friends, Jamie says that’s now over. 

“Carina [is] someone who doesn’t have access to me as a friend [anymore],” she tells us. “I’ll be friendly with her, but [I learned] a really good lesson… what I cared about was the fact that I had two friends that I had been friends with since the beginning that chose to enable behaviour and be silent when I needed someone to support me.”

She adds that it was hard to see Lauren call her names like “buffoon” behind her back to Rhi and Carina, who didn’t defend her. 

“That’s not how I would approach it. If someone was saying awful things about my friends, especially Lauren, who I know has been in for a hot minute… I found that a bit hard to watch. But then again, I think maybe our definition of friendships are different,” Jamie explains.

Yikes! It looks like Jamie and Carina are going to continue feuding during the Dinner Party, with Jamie teasing she turns “the worst pain” into “anger”. It’s going to be epic!