An unlikely TikTok feud has erupted between Married at First Sight (MAFS) 2026’s Stella Mickunaite and Gia Fleur over advice for the 2027 cast, after Gia encouraged future contestants to come to her for advice and Stella urged them not to.
It all started when Gia posted a reel captioned “Dear MAFS 2027 Cast”, telling any contestant who feels they’re being portrayed as the season’s villain to slide into her DMs. As fans of the show will know, Gia was one of the most polarising contestants on MAFS 2026, and proudly wore the villain title for most of the season, while Stella was a fan favourite and got engaged to her partner Filip Gregov at Final Vows.
Stella responded to Gia’s TikTok with a short clip of her own, encouraging next year’s cast not to go to Gia for advice. You can watch both clips combined below.
Gia posted a follow-up video to Stella’s clip, making it “f**king crystal” clear that she isn’t telling all of the MAFS participants to come to her, just the ones who feel like they will be portrayed badly on the upcoming season.
“Come to me if you are a villain, a villain only,” she began. “I’ve seen the video where that person said don’t go to her for advice, you know? Don’t come to me for advice if you’re a good girl or you’re looking good on the show, you’re getting along with your partner, and everything’s peachy, rosy, rainbow, sunshine. Don’t come to me. What the f**k advice can I give you? How to change it and get hated?”
Gia told Chattr she believes Stella misunderstood her original message.
“I was surprised to see Stella chiming in. I don’t think she realised the point was I want to help support people who find themselves in a villain role, because I know it can be traumatic, anxiety-inducing and can give you severe depression,” Gia explained.
“People who find themselves being a villain wouldn’t reach out to Stella because she wouldn’t know what advice to give not being in that situation herself. It was merely me offering support to those who are mentally going to go through it. Too many people have mental health issues and contemplate suicide. I’ve lost people close to me to suicide and if I can help be a part of the solution, I’d like to do that,” she added.
Stella says MAFS contestants shouldn’t need advice if they’re on the show for genuine reasons
Stella disagreed with what Gia said about her making the video without realising that Gia was referring to future villains only, and told Chattr that she believes that participants who are genuinely looking for love on MAFS don’t need to seek out advice from past contestants.
“When I went on the show, and the reasons why I applied, I just wanted to find a match for myself, and what’s there to advise when you’re going for love? You act as you would act in your day-to-day life, and you see if you are a match for the person; everything else that happens out there is out of your hands,” she explained.
Stella added that when they had an introduction with the MAFS production team, they were told to be themselves during filming and to not fake anything.
“That’s the best advice that they gave us, and I actually would give, and have been giving this same advice to people who would approach me and ask for advice, just be authentic, stay true to yourself, and that’s it. And enjoy the ride and enjoy the experience.”
Stella said that in her first video, Gia told MAFS villains to come to her if they’re getting hate, but pointed out that no one gets hate during filming because it happens a long time before the show starts airing to the public.
“It’s just obvious to me that when I was listening to the initial Gia video, and now that she responded, Gia’s changing her narrative yet again,” Stella said pointing out that in Gia’s first video she asked for people who’d received a bad edit to come forward to her.
“You’re filming that in secret. No one knows that you’re filming, and no one should be knowing that you’re filming. Only your closest people should know that you’re filming, correct?”
“But then in the second video, she comes and says she doesn’t know what it means to have hate and all of that. So, when you’re filming, and when the show is aired, it’s months apart, so she’s just changing her narrative yet again and again. It just shows how you know she’s able to quickly adjust her story to fit her narrative,” she added.
Gia disagreed, telling Chattr she knew she was being set up as the season’s villain long before the show aired.
“You do know while filming before airing and the public perception if you’re going to be a villain. I knew because producers would ask me questions they wouldn’t ask others, or try and hype me up about a situation when intoxicated to make me explode they didn’t do that to others. I knew based on how filming was going,” Gia told Chattr.
But Stella doubled down, telling Chattr that she never sought advice out from past contestants before filming.
“I hadn’t reached out to a single person from the past cast when I was filming. When we finished filming, we reached out to Rhi and Jeff just to kind of check in with them, and even then it was on behalf of Dilip reaching out to Jeff because we each live our own beautiful lives through our own beautiful experiences.”
Stella would advise future participants how quickly the attention from MAFS fans disappears
MAFS airs over a three-month period, and when the show is on, the cast are constantly booked and busy, attending interviews, media events and even getting stopped in the street by fans. However, Stella told Chattr that once the reunion airs, the attention dies off quickly, and fans turn their attention to the next big reality show.
For that reason, Stella said she’d only encourage people to apply if they’re genuinely looking for love, as any fame that comes from the show can be short-lived.
“What I can advise people, if you don’t look for love and if you think this is gonna bring you anything of “success or fame”, you’re going to be very humbled, realising that as fast as it comes and as fast as it goes — this wave of surge of attention — it goes away.
“So, staying true to yourself is the biggest and the most divine advice that I could give to people, because you will go, the wave’s gonna come crashing, and you’re gonna leave people that stood by you from the beginning till the end, these are your people, that’s all.”
Stream Married at First Sight (MAFS) 2026 on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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