There was drama on My Kitchen Rules (MKR) 2025 during Lol and Lil’s Instant Restaurant, with Mark storming outside after Rielli made a lighthearted dig at his height. While Mark told Chattr he thinks Michael and Rielli are “rude and disrespectful people”, the couple claim there was a big chunk of the night that was cut from the episode, which doesn’t paint Mark in such a good light.
According to Michael, Mark took some personal jabs at him, saying that he was a “loser” who looked like he “grew up with no friends”. Plus, Mark wanted to fight Michael outside — which he confirmed on his Instagram Story.
“What you didn’t see… is that [Mark] told Michael to come outside, insinuating he wanted to fight and handle the conversation with violence. So I just think, I don’t know. That’s more of a personal attack than what I said,” Rielli tells Chattr.
“Mark likes to play innocent. But one, he’s not. And two, at least I was the bigger person who apologised and knew I was in the wrong. Mark is just childish and couldn’t even be bothered to talk to me or look me in the eye when I tried to apologise.”
While Rielli said she regretted her joke at the time, she no longer does. Mark has been fuelling the fire online and sharing messages from his friends, including one that says, “Bro, I’ll help you bash this Michael. Genuine flop”.
The MKR contestant says she usually likes to approach interviews in a “light-hearted” way, because she knows how much pressure contestants are under during the Instant Restaurant rounds, but believes Mark has taken it a step too far.
“Mark is really showing [his] true colours outside of filming… there’s really no reason to be posting hate comments and bashing about Michael on your public Instagram Story,” Rielli explains. “I don’t think there’s any right time to be saying it’s okay to ‘bash’ somebody. But you know, if they want to make me out to be the bad guy about calling somebody short, then I think people really need to get their priorities in order.”
Rielli calls out MKR contestants for adding to Michael’s hate train
Michael has emerged as one of the most divisive contestants on MKR this year, with some labelling him as a ‘villain’. However, his partner Rielli isn’t pleased with how gatecrashers Mark, Lara and Amy have been piling on outside of the show.
“We’ve had a lot of beef with Mel and Jacinta. Do you see Mel and Jacinta going online and promoting violence against Michael, or creating pages to hate Michael? Amy and Lara have created a page on TikTok which primarily just posts videos of Michael talking and it’s promoting hate against Michael,” Rielli claims.
“Do you see Michael and I posting about other contestants? Or trying to egg on hate comments? No, because we’re genuine people who have better things to do than to worry about what other people are doing. It’s just sad. It honestly infuriates me so much.”
Michael and Rielli are next to cook in the Instant Restaurant round, so will their beef with the gatecrashers affect their place on the MKR leaderboard? We’ll have to wait and see.
My Kitchen Rules (MKR) airs on Monday and Tuesday nights at 7:30pm on Channel 7 and 7Plus.
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