Traitor Kirby Bentley has had suspicion firmly placed on her by multiple cast members since The Traitors Australia 2026 premiere, but she’s managed to scrape through and evade banishment week after week.
While Kirby looked like she was a goner since the start, the eliminated Faithfuls, Cosima and Henry have revealed that there are a number of reasons why the cast are keeping the two-time Survivor player around, despite being suspicious of her Traitor status.
Henry told Chattr in an exclusive interview that he believes some of the Faithfuls think that Kirby can protect them from being eliminated.
“There are a lot of smart players in that mansion, and some people want to keep Kirby close because that does act as a shield,” he said.
Henry said that he believes Kirby knew that he knew she was a Traitor, which is why he had to actively advocate for her elimination.
“I think the moment that shield strategy left for me was in the car ride when she asked me if I’d heard. That’s when I clocked that she knew that I knew that she was a Traitor, so I had to act. You can’t just have whispers in this game. If you have whispers, it can just get you murdered. You’ve got to make sure everyone in that mansion knows. And there’s probably two opportunities to do that: probably breakfast and probably the round table,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Cosima told Chattr in an exclusive interview that Kirby’s social game — something that’s been widely discussed both this season of The Traitors and during her time on Survivor — is unbelievably strong in person.
“She’s got incredible people skills, and it’s almost like she knows how to relate to every person. So when she’s talking to me she’ll relate at my level, and then she’ll talk to someone else. She’s very, very personable,” she explained.
The former Australian Idol contestant added that Kirby’s composure helps to make her a great Traitor.
“She’s got an incredible poker face and she knows how to stay really calm. Her being on Survivor, she’s got an amazing history, and she’s technically played this kind of game before. She knows how to build alliances, and she’s just really smart, but she also stands back and watches.”
Traitors Alvin, Kirby and Alex in the turret. Image: Ten.
Eliminated contestants Kween and Shane have Kirby picked to win The Traitors
The winner of The Traitors could be one Faithful or more, or one Traitor or more — depending on who’s left when the contestants decide to stop playing the game. The format of who wins is slightly complicated, so you can find out exactly how The Traitors works here.
However, if Kirby makes it all the way to the end, she could win The Traitors and take home the prize money, something that eliminated contestants Kween Kong and Shane Gould think is likely.
“Kirby’s the biggest competition, and I definitely feel like Kirby’s got what it takes,” she told New Idea. “I watched both her seasons, and she was the one that I was really looking forward to playing with when I saw that she was there.”
Australian Survivor winner Shane Gould told the publication that she was impressed with Kirby, too.
“I was totally convinced by Kirby’s loyalty and her gentleness and her going along with things and making friends with people,” Shane said.
“I just totally got her totally wrong! After I left and found out that she was a Traitor, I thought, ‘Oh okay, she’s good’.”
We can’t wait to see how far Kirby makes it — and if she takes out the win.
The Traitors Australia 2026 airs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30pm on Network 10 and 10Play.
With the antics of the 2026 season in the rear-view (well, at least onscreen), a bunch of casting leaks in recent weeks have identified some of the brides and grooms set to undergo the MAFS experiment next year. The leaks come courtesy of some sneaky paparazzi pics capturing the 2027 weddings, with social media gossip pages also revealing who’ll be walking down the aisle when MAFS’ 14th season arrives.
Speaking of which, Channel 9 has not yet locked in a premiere date for the new season, though we do know that filming is underway and expected to continue until November of this year. In anticipation of that, we’re sorting through all the leaked casting clues about MAFS’ 2027 season. If they’re anything like this year’s batch of romantic hopefuls, we’re in for one hell of a rollercoaster ride.
Read on for everything we know about MAFS’ 2027 leaked cast.
Who makes up the MAFS 2027 leaked cast so far?
The MAFS 2027 brides
Lily Holics
Lily Holics. Image: Instagram
Though she has yet to be photographed like her other rumoured MAFS brides, reports are swirling that Lily Holics has landed a spot on the 2027 cast. The Daily Mail reports that Lily works for the Australian Government’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, which isn’t exactly the line of work you’d imagine for a reality star.
Other details about the bride are scarce, but it’s reported that she’s been matched with James Smith for the 2027 season (more on him below).
Sophie Vidal
Sophie Vidal. Image: Instagram
Sophie Vidal is a tattooed bride matched with football player Rob Harb. Daily Mailreports she’s sweet and relaxed, but can stand up for herself when need be. “She can definitely be feisty when she needs to be,” a friend of the bride said.
Kathryn ‘Kat’ Lennon
Kathryn ‘Kat’ Lennon is an ICU nurse who found herself on the frontline COVID response while living in the UK. She worked 12-hour day shifts while wearing PPE.
In an interview with ABC, she said: “I’ve seen some pretty awful sh*t. So I can handle it… I’m still in good spirits, I feel healthy and happy.” She will likely be resilient when it comes to the trials and tribulations on MAFS.
Kat is matched with James Alexander.
Bella Kajewski
Bella Kajewski. Image: Instagram
Bella Kajewski is a model and actress. She already has over 10,000 followers on Instagram, so the micro-influencer is used to the spotlight.
Leanne Antoinette
Leanne Antoinette. Image: Instagram
Leanne Antoinette is a former Australian makeup artist who has been paired with Connor Rogers. She’s also a reformer Pilates instructor and owner of Soflo Studios in Melbourne.
Sarah Jane Comben
Sarah Jane Comben. Image: Instagram
Not much is known about Sarah Jane Comben, but she’s matched with Steven Hiles. Her Instagram is set to private, but she is currently followed by MAFS 2026 groom Grayson McIvor. Interesting!
Sarina Monastirli
Sarina. Image: Instagram
One bride heavily rumoured to have joined the 2027 cast of MAFS is Sarina Monastirli, a Victorian woman who reportedly has a background in theatre. New Idea reports that Sarina was cast because she has a very minimal social media presence, with an insider telling the outlet that the bride “isn’t an influencer” and is “normal compared to what people expect.”
Another rumoured bride is Kristen Goedecke, an Adelaide real estate agent who was papped crying just minutes after arriving during her Sydney wedding ceremony by the Daily Mail last month. Additional details about this 2027 MAFS participant — including who she is matched with — are scarce at the time of writing, so watch this space!
Victoria Sellar, a personal trainer from Melbourne, is reportedly one-half of a bisexual match set to appear on MAFS’ 2027 season. The Daily Mail reports that Victoria is a “confident and energetic” participant who is comfortable with the rest of the castmates.
Also joining next year’s batch of brides is Kodie Wyatt, who is reportedly an aesthetic nurse from Perth. She was pictured shielding her face with her bouquet while filming her MAFS wedding in North Sydney last week.
Flight attendant Shona Marino is said to be the bride matched with Victoria for the new season. It’s reported that both Sona and Victoria told producers they didn’t have a preference around matching with either a man or a woman, and that they discovered the same-sex pairing when filming their wedding episode.
“They were definitely the wildcard couple,” a source told the Daily Mail of Shona and Victoria. “It was the biggest gamble the experts made this season.” Here’s hoping producers don’t now cast a homophobic groom to rain on their parade!
The MAFS 2027 grooms
James Smith
One of the more recent names floating around the2027 MAFS cast is James Smith, a Bondi local whom the Daily Mail describes as “friendly, larger than life and likely to become the life of any Dinner Party.” The outlet also shared an anecdote about the MAFS groom once completing a triathlon despite never having attempted one before. So there’s that! James is reportedly matched with Lily Holics.
Rob Harb
Rob Harb is a football player who is matched with Sophie Vidal. Close friends told Daily Mail he’s “calm, measured and grounded”, plus he has a strong work ethic.
James Alexander
James Alexander is a marketing professional from Sydney, and he’s matched with Kathryn ‘Kat’ Lennon. According to Daily Mail, he is passionate about music and fashion.
Chris Colombo
Tattooed groom Chris Colombo has been matched with Bella Kajewski. Daily Mail reports he is “fiercely loyal and protective” of those who he loves. He’s also not afraid to stand up for what he believes in, so the claws might come out at the Dinner Parties.
Tim Bates
Tim Bates. Image: Seven
Tim Bates owns a cafe in Brisbane and has been matched with Sarina Monastirli. He also previously competed on Seven’s Million Dollar Island, so could he be looking for fame?
Connor Rogers
Connor Rogers. Image: Instagram
Connor Rogers is a footballer who has a wild backstory. In 2025, he suffered from a knee injury during a match, meaning he had to undergo months of recovery. He’s also previously appeared on Dating Naked: UK.
Steven Hiles
Steven Hiles. Image: Linkedin
Steven Hiles has been paired with Sarah Jane Comben. He works in the Sydney Hospitality industry and has been connected to venues such as the White Horse Hotel and the Hunter Wine Bar.
Kristen has reportedly been matched with 2027 MAFS groom, Kayne Buik, who was seen at the same filmed ceremony in Sydney last month. You might remember Kayne from his previous appearance during Sam Frost’s season of The Bachelorette, or his popular TikTok page where he shares dating advice. His best advice? Find love on reality TV, I guess!
Kayne’s Bachelorette stint saw him gain the title of the ‘gimmick guy’ given his outlandish attempts to win Sam over, and insiders reckon his MAFS casting will be just as splashy. “He knows how to make people feel comfortable, but he also knows how to get attention when he wants it,” a source told the Daily Mail.
According to the social media page MAFSGossip, Kodie is matched with Wintah Cunnington. We know few details about this groom, except for him being a coal miner from Byron Bay whom people describe as a “nice guy”.
Those are all the leaked names of the 2027 MAFS cast so far, but we’ll be sure to keep you updated whenever new brides or grooms drop. Buckle up, folks!
Married at First Sight (MAFS) will air in 2027 on Channel 9 and 9Now.
While that drama has taken up most of the off-site antics so far, the pair’s rival team, Courtney and Sev, said in an exclusive interview with Chattr that the negative attention might soon turn to them as the season progresses.
The Block’s Courtney and Sev share their villain edit predictions
When asked by Chattr about this season’s villains ahead of the premiere, Courtney and Sev immediately nominated themselves. “It turns out it’s me [who’s the villain,]” Coutney told us. “G’day, Courtney’s the name!” she laughed.
Sev agreed with her teammates’ response about the villains, joking that “you’re looking at them” before pointing to Courtney and saying she was “50 per cent” of this season’s villainy.
Courtney and Sev on The Block. Image: Nine
Courtney and Sev might have been warned of their edit on The Block
As for why they made that prediction, Courtney and Sev hinted they may have been forewarned about their villain edit by someone behind the scenes on The Block, since Sev name-dropped a person called Adrian in her interview with Chattr.
“[Our villain edit grows] up until episode 23, which is on the record. Thanks Adrian,” Sev told us.
We don’t know for sure who exactly Sev was referring to, but Adrian Swift is the Head of Content, Production & Development at Nine, and he was present at The Block’s media day with Courtney and Sev.
“F**k you, Adrian,” Courtney said jokingly while answering Chattr’s villain question. “We love you, Adrian,” she added.
While all that certainly hints at some upcoming spiciness for The Block duo, the nail in the coffin came when Sev sarcastically joked, “Yeah, we’re definitely coming back next season, for sure.” Make of that what you will!
While we’ll have to wait and see how it all shakes out as the season unfolds, Courtney and Sev had the loosest lips of all the castmates when discussing this season’s villains. In other exclusive interviews with Chattr, castmates Rick and Tayla said “there’s no villains” while Adam and Jolene said “everyone was pretty chill” despite some teams “having their days.”
It comes as the once-friendly dynamic amongst the teams continues to fade, with Tayla recently describing some of the castmates as “snakes” and Chantel and Wyatt exclusively telling Chattr that Lisa and Tayla were “jealous” of their early progress in the build.
It seems like everyone’s got their knives out in the first half of the season, but if Coutney and Sev’s predictions are correct, they’ll be next on the chopping block.
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Married at First Sight (MAFS)star Gia Fleur has revealed that she was uninvited to an event hosted by her former cast-mate Julia Vogl‘s after another contestant said she wouldn’t feel comfortable with her attending.
In a TikTok video, Gia explained that she initially received an invitation to a launch party in Melbourne that Julia was holding for her card game Mindgasm, and said she and her boyfriend Alan Wallace had agreed to attend. However, two days before the event, Julia messaged her, saying she’d made the decision to “withdraw” Gia’s invitation over some “concerns” raised by “attendees”.
Gia told Chattr in an exclusive interview that she believes “Rachel, Bec or Rebecca would be the ones going”, hinting that she believes one of the three MAFS contestants asked Julia to cut her from the list.
Chattr reached out to Rachel, Bec and Rebecca for comment on Gia’s claims. Rebecca told us that she had been unwell and wouldn’t be attending the event, while Bec confirmed she couldn’t make it either. Rachel hadn’t responded by the time of publication.
“I’m currently in Sydney and I’m not attending the event in Melbourne tonight, so it wasn’t me who asked for Gia not to attend,” Bec said.
“I don’t know who has requested that Gia not attend the event, so I wouldn’t want to speculate or point the finger at anyone.”
Julia told Chattr that her choice to uninvite Gia wasn’t personal, saying it was a difficult decision she felt she had to make.
“It wasn’t an easy or enjoyable message to send, and it wasn’t personal between Gia and I. The circumstances meant I needed to do what was best for the Mindgasm launch party,” she said. “I have no personal problems or issues with Gia.”
Gia revealed that she didn’t blame Julia, and shared the screenshot of the message she sent her, as well as her own reply in the TikTok.
Julia’s message to Gia. Image: TikTok.Gia’s message to Julia. Image: TikTok.
Bec weighs in on Julia’s decision to withdraw Gia’s invite
In an exclusive interview, Bec told Chattr that she believes Julia had every right to change her mind about inviting Gia.
“What I do think is important to acknowledge, however, is that if people are uncomfortable with Gia attending certain events or being around them, that is ultimately a consequence of the behaviours and interactions that have taken place, both during the show and since filming wrapped,” she said.
“Everyone is entitled to make their own decisions about who they feel comfortable having at their events or in their spaces. I can’t speak for whoever made this particular request, but I think it’s important that the wider context is considered rather than assuming that one particular person is responsible.”
Gia says her co-stars need to ‘move on’ from MAFS drama
Gia — who’s about 16 weeks pregnant — said she was recently at an event with all of the MAFS cast and there wasn’t any drama, so she doesn’t know why she’s been targeted all of a sudden.
“I think people need to let go of the petty bulls**t. It’s been over a year. Who cares? No one is going pregnant and going to start some stuff,” she said in her TikTok.
“To be honest, it says more about that person or those people [who didn’t want me there] than it does about me, because I have no problem being anywhere with anybody at any event because I just know my aura and my vibe is just like no bulls**t, no drama. I will walk in and be polite, and then go to the other side of the room, so that I don’t make somebody uncomfortable.”
Gia said she doesn’t hold it against Julia for choosing to uninvite her to the event, but instead whoever was against her attending.
“As much as these people say that I was a bully or whatnot, this is also bullying to purposely exclude somebody from something and make the person hosting the event feel so uncomfortable that she’d had to uninvite my partner and me because other people were saying that they don’t want me there. I just think like that’s just petty. It’s just stupid. Grow up.
“People can move on and grow from and learn from experiences and just be normal human beings. And I just think segregating people and excluding them purposely from events because you don’t want to see them, like, stop, like, come on. I just think that is really petty, and you need to grow up.”
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Well folks, we’ve officially reached the point in The Block 2026 where the knives are out, and this time they’re being wielded by castmates Rick and Tayla Peroomal against another team.
The father-daughter duo, who form the Green Team on the current season of the reno show, discussed their castmates in a recent interview on the Fifi, Fev & Nick radio show, saying that while everyone “got along” on the surface, there was still a fair amount a smack-talk.
The Block’s Rick and Tayla call out the “snakes” in their cast
“We all got along, but watching it, I see that there are snakes, and then poor Dad thinks that everyone’s amazing and loves everyone, and they’re behind his back talking smack,” Tayla said. For his part, Rick agreed that “there’s a few [castmates] talking smack,” and said this season’s sharehouse twist “was a big challenge.”
As for who exactly was talking smack, Tayla had a few choice words for Red Team Adam and Jolene, saying she felt “upset” watching them on the show “because Dad loved them” during filming.
The Block’s Rick and Tayla. Image: Nine
It marks a stark change of tune for the couple, who told Chattr before the season aired that the cast was “one big happy family.”
“There’s no villains, we’re all good,” Rick and Tayla told us — though they did mention a small gripe with the messiness of the share house. “We were living with really dirty people,” Rick said. “F**king pigs.”
Meanwhile, Adam and Jolene also downplayed this season’s drama in an exclusive interview with Chattr. “Everyone was pretty chill,” Jolene told us. “I mean, people have their days… We live in a share house, so things are going to happen.”
The Block’s Rick and Tayla are already under scrutinty
The comments come as Tayla, formerly an early fan-favourite castmate, comes under increased scrutiny by both her castmates and The Block’s fans. On the viewers’ side, social media users this week expressed frustration over Tayla needing an “attitude adjustment” and “fluffing about” instead of locking in on the renovation.
“This constant fluffing about and not just knuckling down and working while her dad carries all the load – mental and physical – is really starting to piss me off,” one Redditor wrote.
Also pointing a target at Tayla was fellow castmates Chantel and Wyatt, who described their co-star in an exclusive interview with Chattr as “a little bit spicy.”
“I think from that moment I knew Tayla was going to be a little bit spicy,” Chantel told us of Tayla and Lisa’s reaction to their painting cheating scandal. “They were probably a bit jealous of the progress we were making.”
The Block’s Chantel and Wyatt. Image: Nine
All the cast in-fighting comes as The Block is still reeling from the budget mix-up that almost sent Chantel and Wyatt packing… and we’re only in the first half of the season! There’s still plenty of rooms and potential feuds to come, so buckle up!
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Despite being one of the biggest names on The Traitors, Married at First Sight (MAFS)‘s Cam Merchant didn’t even get a chance to play and was eliminated on day one after Shane Gould was asked to pick one contestant to send home.
Cam had a second chance to join The Traitors cast during a challenge in Episode 3, during which Lawson Mahoney, Henry Nicholson, Kirby Bentley, AJ Antonios, Keira Maguire, and Josh and Luke Packham had the power to decide if they’d let him back in the game — If they did, they’d add an extra $10,000 to the prize pot.
While some of the contestants were initially open to it, Henry was the first contestant to vote against it, quickly joined by Kirby, with both cast members saying they didn’t want someone else in the game to have to compete with for the final prize. The rest of the cast members followed suit and Cam was sent home once again.
In a post-elimination interview with Pedestrian, Cam suggested the cast’s decision was selfish, questioning whether they would have stopped him from rejoining if the prize money were going to charity rather than lining their own pockets.
“My question at the time was like, if the money was for charity like it is in the UK, how does that differ the decision? Obviously money changes people, or it brings their values and their moral compass to the surface, and it did in that moment,” he told the publication.
“It wasn’t about the fact I didn’t get to play; that was never a part of it. It was just that my values and my moral compass differed from those guys that made that decision to not bring me in. The fact that they saw me as one more person that had an opportunity to take the money away from them, that’s the sort of character that I wasn’t really impressed with. In that moment, I was like, ‘They’re not my people’.”
Cam sent home the first time. Image: Ten.
How Cam felt about The Traitor’s contestant’s choice to eliminate him
Cam said he was blown away when the contestant’s chose not to accept him back into the game.
“I’m sure there would have been so many shots of me shaking my head with the hood over, just going, ‘I can’t believe what I’m hearing right now’. That was what was going through my head because myself, the producers, everyone just thought this is such a no-brainer,” he remarked.
“It was at that point I just realised that everyone was delusional already. This is how hard and punishing and how much of a mind twist this game is, because everyone was second-guessing everything.”
He added that he hoped watching the show back would prompt some of the contestants to reflect on their actions and make different choices in the future.
“I hope they get to see themselves and maybe learn a little bit about themselves. Then they can come back, and when they find themselves in a different situation that’s somewhat similar, they make better decisions — or ones that they can improve on,” he said.
The Traitors Australia 2026 airs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30pm on Network 10 and 10Play.
Farmer Alex Thompson-Welch and Eddy Fry found an instant connection on Farmer Wants A Wife 2026, but the couple was over soon after the cameras stopped rolling.
Despite Alex and Eddy leaving FWAW together weeks before the finale, it was revealed on the Reunion that this wasn’t quite the fairytale ending fans expected. In fact, the couple split just a few weeks after leaving the show, as Eddy ended their relationship after realising their initial spark had not translated to the outside world.
Of course, this didn’t come as much of a shock to those who are chronically online. Within days of Alex and Eddy leaving the show, New Idea broke the news that not only had the couple called it quits, but Eddy had a new man — and they had the paparazzi pics to prove it.
And now, almost two weeks since the FWAW Reunion aired, Eddy is ready to hard-launch this mystery man, a Frenchie named Matthis. Posting a carousel of cute couple pics, she joked that her new boyfriend had to watch “me date another bloke on TV, my guy has well and truly been through it.”
In the comments, Eddy joked that she didn’t mind her couple pics being leaked in the tabloids. “I bet being papped by New Idea wasn’t on your couples bingo card,” commented her co-star, Gabbie Farnham.
“Hahaha low-key loved it,” Eddy replied.
In another telling reply, a follower congratulated Eddy on her relationship but referred to Alex as a ‘walking red flag’, to which Eddy replied: “Thank you so much, so sweet of you.” Oop!
Why did Farmer Alex and Eddy split after Farmer Wants A Wife?
Farmer Alex Thompson-Welch and Eddy Fry looked like one of Farmer Wants A Wife 2026’s strongest matches, but their relationship unravelled just weeks after filming ended.
At the reunion, Alex revealed Eddy had suddenly “recoiled” and “pulled back” once the cameras stopped rolling.
He said she ended things during a brief video call while travelling in regional Victoria. “It was a 10-minute video chat… and I haven’t really spoken to her since,” he said, admitting the split “took me by surprise”.
Alex coming for Eddy at the FWAW Reunion. Image: Seven.
In an awkward exchange, Eddy explained that spending more time together away from the show made her realise they had “different relationship styles”, plus their differing religious beliefs, which had already caused tension during the season, also became a major stumbling block.
Eddy admitted she had been “caught up in the spark” during filming, but later realised her faith wasn’t something she was prepared to compromise on. Eddy also said their views on politics differed and that Alex was more “intense” than she had initially realised.
Alex felt Eddy hadn’t given the relationship enough of a chance, telling her, “I felt like you didn’t want to give it a go.” However, Eddy concluded they simply weren’t compatible.
Dan was left reeling over Tayla’s lack of effort as her dad Rick struggled to keep their family bathroom on track.
With Rick handling most of the building workload himself, the pressure was beginning to show. Meanwhile, Tayla was far less concerned about their looming deadline, spending time at the beach and leaning into her self-described role as the pair’s comic relief rather than getting stuck into the actual renovation. Yikes.
Tayla and Rick on The Block 2026. Image: Nine.
Dan certainly wasn’t laughing. After watching Rick become increasingly stressed, he suggested House Five was essentially operating as a one-man team. “House Five’s team consists of only one person. I’ll let the audience decide who that is,” Dan said.
Despite Rick racing against the clock and trying to complete the work in time, Tayla’s relaxed attitude was starting to attract attention for all the wrong reasons in an already chaotic bathroom week.
The bubbly PT was initially embraced by The Block viewers, but off the back of her dwindling work ethic, some fans are turning on her.
The Block viewers react to Tayla
On a Reddit thread about Wednesday night’s episode, viewers largely agreed that Tayla wasn’t pulling her weight on her team.
“I actually didn’t mind Taylor at all at the start. But this constant fluffing about and not just knuckling down and working while her dad carries all the load – mental and physical – is really starting to piss me off. She needs a serious attitude adjustment,” said one viewer.
Another said Rick was having to do rush jobs on site because of Tayla’s refusal to help. “No wonder why Rick is cutting corners, Tayla is pretty useless,” a commenter claimed.
Overall, viewers aren’t thrilled with this father-daughter dynamic. “Surprised Rick doesn’t lose his temper and rein Tayla in to help him. He’s looking stressed and tired,” read a comment.
“If he hasn’t disciplined her in thirty-two years, I doubt he’s about to start. He’ll cave at the first sign of waterworks,” added another.
Wyatt and Chantel spill on ‘spicy’ Tayla on The Block
In an exclusive interview with Chattr, Wyatt and Chantel shared their unfiltered thoughts on Tayla, who called them out last week when they were caught using a tradie to help paint.
“I think from that moment I knew Tayla was going to be a little bit spicy,” Chantel told Chattr.
The teams went as far as to accuse Tayla of “conspiring behind our backs” when she and Lisa organised not one but two Body Corps. “I was taken aback because they kind of barked at us, they went hard at us, and we kind of just lost it,” Chantel said.
Wyatt believes Lisa and Tayla had ulterior motives. “I think because they were so far from finished,” Wyatt said. “They were probably a bit jealous of the progress we were making.”
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Cosima DeVito was the latest Faithful to be eliminated from The Traitors Australia, continuing a perfect run for Traitors Alvin, Kirby and Alex, who have all managed to evade elimination three episodes into the season. And, Cosima’s elimination came somewhat out of the blue, after Luke Packham started campaigning against her at the round table.
In an exclusive interview with Chattr, Cosima said that she was shocked to find out that it wasn’t a strategy implemented by the Traitors, but the twins, Luke and Josh, genuinely wanted her gone.
“I honestly thought that it was the Traitors that had instigated my removal, and that the Faithfuls were just playing into their hands the entire night from not picking Cam to booting me out. I was blindsided by the twins,” she said.
What started as the Packham twins’ idea to gun for Cosima quickly turned into a group thing, and she received 14 of the 18 available elimination votes. The former Australian Idol contestant said it was an awful experience having everyone come for her at once.
“Basically, they’re ganging up and bullying. That’s what they’re doing,” she told Chattr. “It was absolutely horrible, and I know you’re watching TV [and you think], ‘Oh, it’s just television’. But when you when you’re in that situation, it’s hard.”
She added that people may assume it was producers who encouraged the contestants to be so harsh towards her, but stressed that wasn’t the case.
“There was no prompting. They were just cameras and producers were just standing back and watching, and they’re literally just watching the game unfold. And the Faithfuls are booting out their own without any help from anyone?” she said.
Cosima said that she’s worried for Henry now — who openly campaigned against Kirby during the Episode 3 round table — because she believes the reason her fellow contestants voted against her was because she had started talking strategy that morning.
“I know that I spoke at breakfast, and it was the first time I was actually quite vocal, and it clearly it freaked out some of the players because I was all of a sudden I’ve gone from being really quiet [to being targeted],” she explained.
“But I just knew that Manaaki, he picked all three of them, he had picked the Traitors, and I was just trying to get everyone in the game and to rally. And I was really hoping they would do that, but instead they they cast a shadow on me.”
Gamble, Cosima and Dicko at The Traitors breakfast. Image: Ten.
Where does Cosima stand with her fellow The Traitors contestants now?
Cosima said that while she knows that The Traitors is a game, she can’t help but still feel a little hurt by how much she was targeted during her last round table, and said it has affected her friendship with most of the people who voted her out.
“When it happened at the time, I was really angry, and they were messaging me after going. ‘Oh, I’m so sorry,’ but I’m just like, ‘I hate you,'” She laughed.
She added that she’s on amicable terms with Luke and Josh, but she hasn’t forgetten about what happened.
“Look, we talk. So much time has passed that we’ve kind of buried the hatchet, but I’m still annoyed,” she said.
Cosima shared that she was grateful for Dicko, who was the only contestant to stand up for her at the round table. Dicko and Cosima first met way back in 2003 when he was a judge on her season of Australian Idol.
“We have a history. I’ve got someone here that’s got my back, and again, he had my back last night. 23 years later, on national TV, on Channel 10, he tried to save me again. Because, I came into Australian Idol as the 12th contestant, but I was the judges’ choice. So it was uncanny that the same thing happened again and he stood up for me again. It was brilliant. I would have always had his back, even if I thought he was a Traitor.”
She added that while she and Dicko haven’t caught up since filming The Traitors, she’ll always have a bond with him.
“It’s one of those things… even if I don’t see him for another five or ten years, there will always be that respect there, and that friendship there, and that loyalty there.”
The Traitors airs Tuesdays and Wednesdays on Channel 10 and 10Play.
There’s a new show coming to Netflix which is basically a crossover between Big Brother and Married At First Sight (MAFS). What could go wrong with a live-streamed version of MAFS?
Called Netflix, Will You Marry Me, the British show focuses on an eligible bachelor looking for his Mrs Right. The Netflix groom will live inside a house with a select group of brides hoping to find their happily ever after.
However, instead of shows like The Bachelor where the man makes the choice to eliminate women from the mansion, the audience holds the power, like in Big Brother.
Cameras will stream live for 12 episodes, while viewers decide what happens next. They’ll be able to vote on who stays, who leaves, and who the groom marries in the live finale.
The official synopsis is as follows: “Across four weeks and 12 live episodes, one man will hand over total control to the Netflix viewers to find his true love and ask the audience, ‘Netflix, Will You Marry Me?’ Every big decision and every dramatic exit will be voted for by Netflix members. Get ready for a whirlwind of dates, drama and fairytale romance all leading to one genuine, live televised proposal — the question is who do you choose? It’s his life and your choice.”
Big Brother Australia. Image: 10
When will Netflix, Will You Marry Me premiere?
Netflix, Will You Marry Me is set to hit our screens in 2027. There will be 12 episodes aired over four weeks.
What else do we know about Netflix, Will You Marry Me?
The show will be executive produced by Katy Manley (Big Brother) and Tamsin Dodgson, along with Workerbee’s Michelle Chappell and Rick Murray.
Tudum says it’s an epic game of Cupid. “The thrill of swiping on friends’ dating apps just got amplified. The stakes are high, but the reward is playing a hand in connecting soulmates,” Netflix’s publication wrote.
“Every big decision and every dramatic exit is your choice. Because this isn’t just his dating journey; it’s yours, too.”
Fans can’t wait for the MAFS and Big Brother crossover
Comments on the new show are mixed, but there are many die-hard reality TV fans desperate to watch it.
“This sounds so painfully cheesy… count me in,” one person wrote.
“Hoping for it to be a car crash… definitely worth the watch if it is,” another said.
“I’ll be warching it,” a third declared.
“This will be interesting,” another remarked.
Netflix, Will You Marry Me will come to the streamer in 2027.
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While golden couple Filip Gregov and Stella Mickunaite seemed like the obvious choice to attend the star-studded celebration, their messy split put an end to that. “Stella and Filip were once considered the season’s fairytale success story, but after their split there was little reason to invite them as a couple,” a TV insider spilled.
“Individually, neither has maintained the same profile they enjoyed immediately after the experiment. With seats limited, organisers were always more likely to give those places to the show’s experts.”
Fan favourites Scott McCristal, Joel Moses, Luke Fourniotis and Rachel Gilmore are also said to have been snubbed. The more controversial ‘villains’ of MAFS 2026 — Bec Zacharia, Gia Fleur and Danny Hewitt — will also not be in attendance.
“The Logies is not a MAFS reunion,” the source declared.
It’s assumed that MAFS experts Alessandra Rampolla and John Aiken will attend the ceremony instead of the cast.
Who else was snubbed from The Logies?
The Golden Bachelor couple Sunny Long and Barry ‘Bear’ Myrden told Daily Mail they had not received an invitation. Their show has been nominated for the Best Structured Reality Program award.
“Bear and Sunny thought an invitation might arrive because The Golden Bachelor is nominated. As the ceremony drew closer, it became clear that it probably wasn’t coming,” an insider spilled.
“The official line is that seats are limited, but there are cast members who feel more controversial personalities have made organisers wary of inviting anyone from the season.”
The Block cast have also apparently been snubbed.
Sunny and Bear on The Golden Bachelor. Image: Nine
Did Lynne McGranger also get snubbed by The Logies?
This follows news that Home and Away star Lynne McGranger, who won the Gold Logie last year, wasn’t invited to this year’s award ceremony.
“I was talking to Larry [Emdur] the other day and he said, ‘What?’ And I went ‘look, I think it was an oversight’ but, honestly, I’m not crying myself to sleep,” Lynne told the Sunday Telegraph.
“Maybe this time next year if I do get an invitation, which I expect I will, maybe I’ll go, maybe I’ll present or whatever.”
Lynne McGranger as Irene on Home and Away. Image: Seven
In a statement to TV Tonight, representatives for the TV WEEK Logies dismissed this.
“The TV WEEK Logie Awards sent an invitation back in June to Lynne’s agent and a reminder was later confirmed as received,” they said. “Lynne’s manager subsequently confirmed Lynne will be away and formally declined via the invitation portal.”
Watch The TV WEEK Logies from 7pm on Sunday, 16 August on Channel 7.
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After a string of lucrative reality TV gigs, including Too Hot To Handle and Perfect Match, Harry Jowsey landed his very own dating show, Marry Harry, which saw the notorious playboy embark on a search for a wife.
Spoiler alert: If you don’t want to know who Harry picked in the finale, stop reading now.
Harry dated 20 women, who were considered his “fiancées” from day one, as he attempted to find the woman he wanted to marry. However, there was a twist: Harry wasn’t the one deciding who stayed and who went. Instead, the eliminations were left in the hands of his three confidants: bestie Amanda Kloots, ex-girlfriend Georgia Hassarati and “honorary brother” Sonny Henty.
According to Harry, the trio are the people in the world who know him best, and they made their choices about who they thought he was most compatible with. However, when there were just five women left standing, Harry started making the decisions for himself.
He whittled his finalists down to Amber Mozo and Danelle Davidson, the latter of whom he told he was in love with in the episode before the finale, but, according to Reality Steve, who’s notorious for correctly spoiling the end of American reality shows, ultimately chose Amber to Marry.
While the Marry Harry finale airs on August 12, the series was actually filmed in the middle of 2025. So, are Harry and Amber still together now? Read on to find out everything we know.
Harry Jowsey with his 20 fiancées on Marry Harry. Image: Netflix.
Are Marry Harry’s Harry and Amber still together after the show?
Harry chose Amber as his final pick, and the happy new couple tied the knot on TV. However, Reality Steve reported that their marriage wasn’t legal.
“Let’s just say they got ‘TV married’ because they never actually got a marriage certificate after filming ended,” Reality Steve wrote on Instagram.
He went on to reveal that the couple dated for a few months after filming ended, then they broke up and went their separate ways.
“C’mon now. It’s Harry Jowsey,” he wrote. “No, Harry and Amber are no longer together; they broke up earlier this year. True love is dead, I tell ya.”
Amber also hinted at what may have led to their split, admitting that Harry could be “stressful to date”.
“We actually just roasted each other and laughed our a**es off. Ugh, unfortunately I have to admit Harry is the funniest person on the planet, when he’s not being stupid and stressful to date,” Amber wrote on social media.
On top of that, Amber and Harry don’t follow each other on social media. So, it’s pretty safe to say their marriage didn’t last!
And the new season has brought one big twist: coaches Ronan Keating, Melanie C, Kate Miller-Heidke and Richard Marx have been joined by a secret mentor, Tones and I, who will be able to give hopeful singers a second chance.
But with the good comes the bad, as this season has experienced mounting criticism against The Voice Australia and its crew of celebrity coaches. Some viewers have questioned a rule change that means failed auditioners don’t receive constructive feedback, as others claim the coaches care more about advancing their own careers than fostering others. “Sad to think this show has become more about the judges than the artists,” one fan claimed on social media.
Irish singing superstar, Ronan Keating, has spoken about what it’s like to be a coach on The Voice Australia — and he’s taking his haters to task. “We’ve been doing it for a long time, all of us. We’re not coming here to take it lying down; we’re going for it properly,” he told WHO earlier this year.
“I enjoy the whole journey and watching artists grow and being part of the team.”
Ronan said he feels “ten feet tall when the artists choose you in front of the other coaches”, as he praised his fellow coaches. “To be part of a show like this with the coaches that I have massive admiration for and there are great friendships there, it’s very special.”
Ronan rejoined The Voice Australia in 2025 after a few years away, with the ‘Life Is a Rollercoaster’ singer first debuting on the reality singing show back in 2016.
The big changes being brought in for The Voice Australia 2026
The Voice Australia has introduced one of its biggest format shake-ups for 2026, with a new secret coach twist and a controversial change to the Blind Auditions.
Tones And I joined returning coaches Kate Miller-Heidke, Richard Marx, Melanie C and Ronan Keating, but she isn’t sitting alongside them during the auditions. Instead, the Australian hitmaker secretly watches from backstage and can save selected contestants who fail to turn any of the four coaches’ chairs.
Those singers can join Team Tones, receive one-on-one mentoring and then return for another Blind Audition, giving them a second chance to make it into the competition. Tones described her role as a “fairy godmother” who can rescue promising Australian artists who are overlooked.
The ‘Dance Monkey’ singer’s covert new role has been embraced as a ‘breath of fresh air’ by viewers.
Tones and I joins The Voice Australia as a secret coach. Image: Seven.
However, another format change has proved far less popular. Contestants who receive no chair turns now leave the stage without meeting the four coaches or receiving any feedback. In previous seasons, unsuccessful singers would still hear constructive criticism and career advice before departing.
Some viewers have criticised the change as unnecessarily harsh, arguing contestants deserve acknowledgement after putting themselves out there on national television.
“I don’t like that the contestants do not get any feedback and have to just walk off the stage,” wrote one viewer in the show’s Facebook group. “It’s like a slap in the face. It is traumatic to watch. I feel sad for them.”
Now, in an exclusive interview with Chattr, Vinnie has shut down the speculation, insisting there were no romances among this year’s cast and opened up about whether the persistent rumours affected Bridget.
“It’s all fake, there’s no romance, we’re all good friends,” Vinnie told Chattr.
Vinnie said that by the time the headlines about a potential romance between himself and Annabel started popping up while the show was airing, his girlfriend Bridget and Annabel had already struck up a strong friendship, so she wasn’t fazed by them.
“Honestly, Annabel, me, and Bridge are all really good friends,” he said. “Annabel came down last night to watch the finale with us. So did Casper. So did Lucy and Aaron. We all watched it together, and the rumours were just funny because Bridge has gone out with Annabel more than I have, and they’re just such good friends that it’s just funny.”
Vinnie cooking during the finale with Bridget watching on. Image: Ten.
During the MasterChef episode that aired on June 29, which featured former contestants Declan and Sarah with their newborn twins, Annabel made a comment in a producer-led interview that kicked off the rumours.
“This is wild that they both were on Back to Win and met and fell in love and have twins. Like that is the cutest thing; that’s the most beautiful story I’ve ever heard in my life. Is there anyone in our comp that could be future Sarah and Declan? I’m not allowed to say,” she said in an interview at the time.
Viewers took the comment and ran with it, convinced that there was a secret romance, and they came to the conclusion that it was between Annabel and Vinnie because of matching chilli necklaces that eagle-eyed viewers had spotted.
However, Annabel quashed that theory in a previous interview with Chattr, revealing that her and Vinnie’s charms are different.
“When it was like, it’s Annabel and Vinnie, he wears a chilli, they both have chillis around their necks, I was like damn it, mine’s not even a chilli, but I was like wow, you guys are really good at this [sleuthing],” she laughed.
Annabel and Vinnie’s almost matching necklaces. Image: Ten.
MasterChef’s Petro also shut down speculation of a romance with Alyona
Fans were convinced that the secret MasterChef romance was either between Vinnie and Annabel or Petro and Alyona. However, Petro has also rubbished the claims, saying that no one in the cast was romantically involved.
“It’s kind of funny to see all the stories. There was a lot of speculation with a few of us actually, but yeah, no, [Alyona and I are] just really good friends.”
In fact, Alyona and Petro are so close that she was just one of the three fellow contestants he watched the grand finale with, along with Dot and Jackie.
“I just watched it with some of the contestants,” he told Chattr, adding that he found out that he’d lost while watching the episode with the rest of Australia, but said he wasn’t surprised.
“I did have a feeling. I thought it would be a long shot if I won, given how far behind I was after the first round. But yeah, it was still disappointing,” he said.
Stream the MasterChef Australia 2026 grand finale on Channel 10 and 10Play.
Their relationship developed into one of the experiment’s stronger romances, with the pair choosing to continue their relationship at Final Vows.
However, their romance lasted only around three weeks after filming ended. Shortly before the MAFS Reunion was filmed, Steven ended things, telling Rachel he didn’t think he could be the man she needed. Rachel later said his demanding work schedule and living in different states made continuing their relationship too difficult.
But according to a bunch of random Facebook pages — Rach and Stevo are not just back together, they’re getting married… for real, this time. Bizarre images of the two contestants clearly made with AI have been circulating widely online in the past fortnight, and some MAFS fans have been led to believe that this couple are back on.
Rachel and Steven hoax on Facebook. Image: Facebook.
Anyone with basic knowledge of AI could see this is fake news, but some MAFS fans have been left confused over these deceiving posts. It’s part of a growing wave of AI-generated misinformation spreading across social media, including convincing fake photographs, videos and fabricated news posts.
Chattr spoke to Rachel and Steven to clear up all these baffling claims.
Married at First Sight’s Rachel and Steven exclusively tell Chattr whether the hoax is true
Both Rachel and Steven have confirmed to Chattr that none of these posts are factually correct. “These pop up all the time. No, not true,” Rachel told Chattr. “My friends send it to me and I laugh.”
“This is all fake,” Steven confirmed to Chattr, revealing that “a lot of people” had sent him the posts.
As for why this particular hoax has exploded online, Steven doesn’t know. “No idea, to be honest. I’ve seen these posts and articles from so many random media entertainment pages,” he said, suggesting it was AI or clickbait.
“It’s everywhere — I’m kind of surprised how viral it’s gone. I’ve seen them heaps before but not like this.” Steven is considering addressing the hoax on his Instagram to “set the record straight” once and for all.
The MAFS groom went on to detail that not only are he and Rachel not back together, but the exes are still not speaking. “Me and Rachel have not talked about it,” Steven told Chattr.
“To be honest, I have no idea what Rachel thinks of me — we don’t talk.”
Rachel echoed Steven’s sentiment, telling Chattr, “Steven and I haven’t spoken about the posts. We haven’t spoken for a while now.”
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Farmer Wants a Wife (FWAW) may be one of the most wholesome dating shows on Australian reality TV, but do the romances ever heat up behind the scenes? And do contestants actually have sex with their chosen Farmers while filming?
“I’ve gotten this question so many times, so I’m just going to put an end to this all,” she said in a TikTok clip. “Did anyone sleep with each other during the show? I can tell you right now, no one did. There are a bunch of protocols if you want to do that.”
Scarlett added that she thinks the women on her farm weren’t interested in getting intimate with Farmer Dylan before he’d made his final choice.
“I think it’s just a bit of a weird situation where, like, a guy is dating five other girls. You don’t really want to sleep with them until you know you are the one that they want at the end. So yeah, nothing happened there.”
In an interview with Chattr at the beginning of the season, Farmer Dylan confirmed that there was no hanky-panky on his farm.
“No one did it,” Farmer Dylan says. “It makes it hard… in my eyes, if I were to [have sex], I think that’s a pretty clear indication of who you’re deciding to pick, and it’s not fair on anyone else.”
He added that the whole point of FWAW was to build a connection with your future wife rather than playing the field. “If you’re on there to sleep around, then you shouldn’t be on it. You’re not looking for a wife — you’re looking for a fling.”
Meanwhile, Farmer Zac also told us that he didn’t get intimate behind closed doors during filming.
“Personally, I didn’t [have sex with anyone on the show]. I struggle enough trying to date all the Ladies at once, let alone if anything got too romantic,” he explained. “I wouldn’t want to hurt other Ladies’ feelings or anything like that.”
Scarlett and Dylan on Farmer Wants A Wife (FWAW). Image: Seven.
FWAW Farmers have slept with their contestants during filming before
While Farmer Dylan’s Ladies may have kept their interactions on the farm G-Rated, the same can’t be said for a previous season.
In an interview with Yahoo! Lifestyle, runner-up Krissy Smith revealed that she and Tom had sex on the overnight date, which took place during episode two.
“When I met Farmer Tom, we had a connection straight away,” Krissy told the publication. “It was obvious to me that I was his first pick and I am embarrassed to reveal we slept together on the first night at his farm.”
She added that she and Tom continued to sleep together right up until the final day, when he dumped her for Georgia.
“We had a sexual relationship right up until the day I was told he was not going to choose me in that finale. You could imagine how shocked I was to be sidelined at that point,” she said. “We had lay in bed talking at night and I couldn’t have imagined he would pick anyone else.”
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The Block’s Wyatt and Chantel claim members of the show’s production team repeatedly dismissed their concerns about an incorrect $20,700 room cost before discovering that the couple’s builder invoice had been counted twice.
In an exclusive interview with Chattr, the Gold Coast couple said they questioned the figure immediately after judging because their own records showed they had spent approximately $12,500.
According to Wyatt, the show’s head of finance told them the matter would be discussed the following day, while executive producer Julian Cress initially said he had checked the invoices and also calculated a total exceeding $20,000.
“After that, we approached the head of finance to ask why that number was there and not the number we had. And she said, no, we’ll talk about it tomorrow and shut us down,” Wyatt told Chattr.
Wyatt said the couple then approached executive producer Julian Cress about the discrepancy.
“So then on the way out, we saw executive producer Jules, and he said he had actually seen the invoices. He calculated it, and he got over $20,000 as well.”
During Monday night’s episode, Julian accepted responsibility for the production error and explained that the show’s accounting system had counted the couple’s builder invoice twice. Julian and host Scott Cam apologised to Wyatt and Chantel.
“We were just super confused, and then we got in our car and drove home, and we were looking at our CommBank app, and we could see exactly how much we’d spent, because we paid our invoices that morning.
“We were re-adding it up, and we were getting like 12 and a half thousand, in that ballpark. So we were very confused as to why no one was listening to us.”
The personal trainer pointed out that there weren’t many invoices to add up, which is why it was even more confusing that such a huge error was made multiple times.
“We were getting shut down and wondering how they could get $20,000 just from adding three invoices up that were not even close to 20 grand. So we were very confused as to why we weren’t getting the time of day.”
Chantel added that being repeatedly dismissed when she knew something didn’t add up made the situation even more upsetting.
“They could see that we were visibly upset, and I think that’s what was making it more upsetting and more of just a really uncomfortable situation. Production was not giving us the time of day and dismissing us when we were in such a heightened state.”
The couple were so shaken by the accusations that they seriously considered quitting the show. However, after sitting down with Scott and Julian and clearing the air, they ultimately decided to stay.
Chantel and Wyatt on The Block. Image: Nine.
Why the incorrect The Block budget figure concerned Chantel and Wyatt’s businesses
Viewers saw Scott and EP Julian meet with Chantel and Wyatt during Monday’s episode and admit that they’d made a mistake and apologised for it.
Wyatt was visibly fired up and made it clear he didn’t want to be made to look like a fool, particularly when the mistake could have real consequences for his and Chantel’s small businesses. He explained to Chattr why he thought the accusations could be so damaging professionally.
“We run small businesses, and if you make us look super incompetent, like we can’t calculate three numbers together, and we’re so far off a budget — it’s not a good look,” he said.
“Obviously it’s the first week, you’re trying to work out how much your trades are going to charge, and you’re trying to work out if you’ll be able to get close to your budgets and things like that. But to be spending over double the estimated or recommended budget just makes us look silly.
“If we’re running our own business and it looks like we can’t even manage a basic budget, then it makes us look pretty silly… It made me feel like the pressure was just all on us, and that we were very incompetent at budgeting and those sorts of things.”
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The drama boiled over after the Gold Coast team were wrongly accused of blowing their budget. Scotty had told the couple on Sunday night’s room reveal they had blown out their budget with a total spend of $20,700 — putting them almost $12,000 over budget.
The pair were instantly confused, asking Scott how he had determined that sum, and were left worried the mistake made them look financially irresponsible on national television.
Then Chantel and Wyatt refused to return to the work site and stopped answering calls, with Wyatt particularly angry about the potential damage to his professional reputation. They insisted they wouldn’t continue unless production acknowledged what had happened.
It was eventually revealed the overspend wasn’t their fault at all: their builder’s invoice had accidentally been entered twice by production. Scotty announced this to all the teams on Monday’s episode that Chantel and Wyatt had been right.
Scott and executive producer, Julian Cress, apologised profusely for the blunder to the team.
The couple wouldn’t accept their apology, as Chantel noted that they had raised concerns as soon as it happened — but their pleas were ignored. Wyatt went as far as to suggest that Sunday’s budget reveal should have been recorded again to erase the incorrect sum from ever airing. “The whole thing could have been reshot,” Wyatt told Scott.
After cooling off, Chantel and Wyatt eventually agreed to stay — but the drama left them behind schedule and their relationship with the show and Scotty left seriously strained. In a separate exclusive interview, the couple described how production allegedly responded when they questioned the $20,700 figure.
The Block viewers react to the Chantel and Wyatt budget controversy
Plenty of The Block viewers had sympathy for the fitness couple, who were put on blast on Sunday night despite not doing anything wrong. “I believe Chantell and Wyatt,” read a Reddit post.
“I truly think that Chantel and Wyatt’s crashout was valid. I think that there is something 100 per cent off with what happened. I don’t think it was a mistake, I feel the show was recording them to be gym junkie jerks and the villain of the show to spark up drama. Accusing them of spending more than 20k feels like a producer stunt to further make them out to be low people.”
Another comment said that while they didn’t believe the whole saga was fabricated to vilify the couple, they still had sympathy for them. “Now I’ve seen it, I don’t believe it was a stitch-up, but I understand why the contestants are upset, and why they want to go.”
Wyatt was furious on The Block over the budget blunder. Image: Nine.
However, not everyone agreed that Chantel and Wyatt’s refusal to move on was warranted.
“Scotty says sorry we stuffed up… and [Wyatt] continues on with his well-rehearsed outrage speech,” wrote a Reddit user. “Such a dumb unnecessary fake issue. His whole, I have a business, I can’t believe the whole of Australia just saw that… newsflash, the whole of Australia weren’t gonna see it for another six or so months and it easily could’ve been edited if it wasn’t so contrived.”
As another said the ‘mistake’ didn’t justify Wyatt’s dramatic response. “The reaction wasn’t justified. House 5 got told they weren’t worthy of The Block and turned up. People go on about edits, well whatever is shown, happened… From what I saw, it was an aggressive person, who is that worried about the way he looked on TV that he would happily intimidate people to look better.”
Exclusive: Chantel and Wyatt tell Chattr whether they planned to leave The Block
So did the team actually plan on quitting The Block before they got an apology? Chantel exclusively told Chattr they were already out the door.
“We had our bags packed. We were ready to go,” Chantel revealed.
“The reason we didn’t go in on Monday morning was because we had decided to leave. We had spoken with production about organising our flights home and things like that, and they really, really wanted us to stay. That’s why it got to the point of having a conversation and doing an apology and things like that — but we were completely set on leaving.”
In particular, Wyatt wanted to quit, telling Chattr that the team only stayed because Chantel decided to give the show another chance. “I left it up to Chantel. I said, if you want to stay, I’ll stay. But I was set on leaving,” Wyatt told Chattr.
“Chantel convinced me to stay.”
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Almost a year after it was put on the market, Han and Can‘s The Block house sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars less than the original asking price.
The house that Han and Can renovated on The Block last year was originally listed with a reserve of $2.99 million. The silence was deafening at their auction, with not a single bidder raising their paddle, and their home was passed in after a vendor bid of $ 3.10 million was put in.
In June, Han and Can‘s house’s listing price was slashed to $2.59 million, and it’s now been updated to ‘under offer’. While information about the accepted offer isn’t publicly available yet, there’s every chance that it could have been lower than $2.59 million, especially considering its lengthy time on the market.
As The Block fans will know, contestants only receive the amount of money that their house sells for over the reserve, and Han, unsurprisingly, confirmed in an exclusive interview with Chattr, that she and Can didn’t make any money.
The open plan living area of Han and Can’s The Block house. Image: Nine.
Han and Can told Chattr they didn’t know their house had sold
After the house was sold, Han told Chattr that the couple had nothing to do with the sale.
“We only learnt of the sale through our Facebook Feed and don’t have enough information or involvement in the process to comment meaningfully on the final price,” Han told Chattr.
In fact, it was a Chattr article about the sale that caught Han’s eye. “Candice and I only found out the house had sold this morning after seeing the Chattr article pop up in our feed,” she said.
“We hadn’t been contacted or updated by the agent or The Block, so we genuinely had no idea it had sold or what was happening with the house.”
Han wasn’t surprised the potential sale price was far lower than The Block’s reserve. “We knew we wouldn’t make a cent contractually after auction unless it sold above the ridiculously high reserve. We had to accept the outcome we were given on auction day and move forward,” she said.
Han and Can understood the risk of their house not selling at auction
The Block 2025’s auction day was disastrous for most, with only Britt and Taz’s house selling at a substantial profit of $420,000 over reserve.
Chattr spoke with Han and Can’s realtor a week after the auction, and she said the couple were in a good place, despite the disappointing result.
“They’re amazing. They are genuinely amazing women. They have been really positive. They’ve been really upbeat,” Belle Property’s Natalie Fagan told Chattr in an exclusive interview at the time.
“They understand that [the house not selling at auction is] a risk you take with the competition, which is what The Block is. But I think that they’ve been extremely gracious, and I think that they’ve handled the whole situation very, very well, and we are still in contact almost daily with them, and all of our interactions have been really lovely.”
At the time, Natalie warned that Han and Can’s house may take a while to sell, and she wasn’t wrong.
However, while Natalie has been inundated with interest in Han and Can’s house, she did warn that the process of selling a house after The Block auction isn’t usually instantaneous.
“Typically, The Block houses, when they are passed in at auction, do take a little while to sell,” she advised.
“And, Daylesford does have a three to four months average days on market. That’s quite normal for here. I’d love to get them a speedy sale, but just because the days on market may be longer, that’s not unusual for the area.”
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As it stands, Farmer Zac and Maya are the only FWAW 2026 couple still standing. Lucky them!
As for the rest of the ex-couples, they’ve just got their Instagrams back – and they’ve all got a lot to say.
Farmer Alex and Eddy’s fairytale romance became a nightmare at the FWAW reunion. Despite leaving the show together long before the finale, they both confirmed their romance was short-lived, although they didn’t agree on the episode on exactly how long it took until Eddy broke up with Alex.
But now, Eddy is having her say about her tumultuous time on Farmer Wants A Wife, posting a sweet dedication to the women she met on the show while sharing some choice words about her split from Alex.
“Thank you to all of the women who shared this experience with me,” she wrote. “I came into this to find a life partner and I came out with something far better. It doesn’t take long to know something isn’t right for you. Trust that instinct and never apologise for it.” Amen!
Then there’s Poppy, who split with Farmer Jason soon after the FWAW reunion. She posted on Instagram and did not mince her words when it came to her edit.
“What an experience! From the beautiful girls met along the way to the manipulation of editing… who can see past the smoke and mirrors,” she wrote.
Poppy then turned her attention to some of her critics, writing there was “no love to the middle-aged women who hated on me every chance they got.” Ooft.
The post was praised by her Jason’s farm co-star, Jessica, who also copped an unflattering edit after quitting his farm soon after her first date. “You and I forever bonded by the online hate from middle-aged women!” Jessica wrote. “You stuck to your guns and showed women you don’t need to have biological children to have a wholistic [sic] life! So proud, we love you!!”
Ally is yet to return to her Instagram, but Brodie has shared some reflections about her journey with Farmer Jarrad, who she recently announced she had split from.
Brodie expressed disappointment over how their love story was showcased on FWAW.
“One thing I’ve been reminded of is that television can only ever show a small part of a much larger story. While I’m so grateful for the opportunity, it has been hard at times because the story Jarrad and I shared wasn’t always the one that made it to screen,” she posted.
“From the beginning, what we had grew so naturally. It wasn’t loud or dramatic — it was quiet, genuine and something we both chose to protect. Some of my favourite moments with Jarrad were the ones no one will ever see. Those are the memories I’ll treasure most because they belonged entirely to us.
She ended her post by making it clear that her and Jarrad ended amicably. “Through it all, one thing remained unwavering: the respect and support Jarrad and I continued to show one another. Regardless of how our story was told or the fact that I ultimately am not his person, I’m deeply grateful for the grace with which we’ve navigated this chapter together,” she wrote.
What happened to the Farmer Wants A Wife 2026 couples?
Farmer Wants A Wife 2026 may have ended with five loved-up couples, but just one romance appears to have survived outside the show.
Farmer Zac and Maya are still going strong. At the reunion, Maya declared they were “stronger than ever”, while Zac sweetly said their initial “spark has ignited into a flame”. They’re now discussing Maya eventually moving to Adelaide and posted on Instagram a sweet glimpse of their lives together since FWAW wrapped.
Farmer Jarrad and Brodie confirmed their split after appearing happily together at the reunion. In an August statement, they announced: “While we’re not together at this time, we remain an important part of each other’s lives and have a great deal of respect and care for one another.”
Farmer Dylan and Ally have also called it quits. Dylan explained to Chattrthat he broke up with Ally a few weeks after the reunion because their futures were heading in different directions, with Ally wanting to settle down while he remains focused on his rodeo ambitions.
Farmer Jason and Poppy are no longer together either. They have given Chattr differing accounts of the breakup timeline: Jason said their relationship unravelled shortly after the reunion, claiming that Poppy dumped him over the phone, but Poppy maintained they continued seeing each other for months afterwards.
Farmer Alex and Eddy split around a month after filming, with Eddy blaming their differing personalities, religion and politics.
