MAFS' Alissa slams Juliette's Dinner Party behaviour: 'Really disrespectful'

Well well well… another week, another drama-filled Married At First Sight (MAFS) Dinner Party, this time with intruder bride Juliette going scorched earth on her husband, Joel.

From twisting Joel’s words about not seeing the “star” in him, to making fun of him for sleeping with a teddy bear, Juliette came to her second dinner party guns blazing.

And while Joel found an unexpected ally in Danny, who said that it was unfair to call Joel’s masculinity into question over a teddy bear, Alissa reckons she was also pretty thrown by Juliette’s antics.

“She definitely treated Joel really poorly,” Alissa tells Chattr. “I understand that she was feeling embarrassed, and she wanted to come [on MAFS] for something serious,” she began, “but I don’t agree with how she treated him or spoke down to him or swore at him.”

Alissa vouches for Joel

While Alissa tells Chattr she doesn’t like to take sides, she says that the way Juliette spoke to Joel at the Dinner Party was “really disrespectful.”

“I love Joel, he’s just hilarious,” she says. “I do have moments where I sit down and talk to him and just say, ‘Look, you’re just such a light’.” She adds that the night really took a toll on Joel, who by the end of the evening seemed pretty worn out.

“You do see his personality get really deflated after the Dinner Party, and it’s because it was so heavy and it was hurtful.”

She also rejected the idea that Joel is on the show for the wrong reasons. “I don’t believe that,” the 33-year-old says. “We’re all there to find love. You wouldn’t put yourself through the whole audition process and write down the specifics of what you want in a person if you didn’t want to find a new person.”

“The interview process and the process to get on the show was very long and the questions were a lot… it took a long time to fill everything out. I feel like, if you weren’t serious about finding someone, then [you’d be] actually crazy to apply.”