There’s one Farmer Wants A Wife 2025 contestant who has polarised viewers, and that’s Farmer Thomas’ front-runner Clarette. She’s upfront, isn’t afraid to speak her mind, and she is head-over-heels for Thomas.
Former FWAW star Daisy Lamb believes Clarette is getting a “villain edit” and tells Chattr what she’s like in real life. Spoiler alert: she’s not like what producers are portraying on screen!
“I’ve spoken to Clarette, I’ve spoken to a couple of the girls from Thomas’ farm as well, who’ve said that she’s lovely,” Daisy reveals. “She’s a literature teacher, you know, so she’s a really lovely person.”
The former reality TV contestant believes that production takes advantage of women who know what they want out of Farmer Wants A Wife.
“If they’ve got someone that goes in there [who] knows what they want, they’re there for the right reasons. They’re here to find love, they want to spend time with the farmer. Then [production can] grab that person and they’ll go, yeah, right. We can make her look jealous, we can make her look needy, we can make her look clingy,” Daisy explains.
“They just run with the strongest personality, and then they’ll make that into the villain.”
It’s a reality TV playbook as old as time, and viewers are starting to smarten up and understand they’re being manipulated. With MAFS contestants like Olivia Frazer warning about how harmful a “villain edit” can be, it’s time for something to change.
How has FWAW’s Clarette reacted to the backlash?
Daisy says Clarette is finding it tough to watch Farmer Wants A Wife 2025 — as it’s similar to what she went through last year.
“She’s watching all of these [episodes] as Australia watches them. We don’t get to preview the episodes. We don’t get to see how our faces look or how our reactions are,” she says.
“I’ve spoken to her. She’s quite distraught with the edit that she’s getting, and I can understand that, you know, like I remember it myself and it was awful,” Daisy adds. “It took a little while — you’ve got to remember who you are, and you’ve got to be so strong in your values, and remember that you are a good person.”
In the end, it’s an entertainment show, and more drama equals more ratings. It would be great if it weren’t at the expense of women trying to find love, but for now, let’s just keep in mind there are real people behind the screen.
Farmer Wants a Wife airs on Monday and Tuesday nights at 7:30pm on Channel 7 and 7Plus.
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