April 7, 2025 • 33 mins
I've only just recovered from my 48 hours with this year's Married At First Sight cast, and here's everything that went down: Including the Jamie and Eliot rumours, an Awhina and Adrian update, a few fresh feuds, the drama I'm now in and a surprising new romance.
Thanks to Daily Mail Australia for inviting me to their dinner party event, check out all their videos and articles from the night here.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to the Mass Funny podcast with
me Joshua Fox, and welcome to part two of my
Unhinged forty eight hours with this year's cast as they
all descended into Sydney over the weekend for various viewing parties,
press days, and of course Daily Mail Australia's big reunion
dinner party, which I was lucky enough to be invited to.
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So much stuff happened in such a short space of
time that this has been a monster to pull together.
But don't worry, guys, I got you and you know what.
The show may be over on TV, but as long
as this drama, Mass Funny is going nowhere. The first
question I want to answer here is are Jamie and
Elliott now a thing? Because that's the current rumor doing
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the rounds, given how close they've appeared in pictures and
videos over the last couple of days. And this speculation
wasn't helped by the fact that during Daily Mail Australia's
Confession Box challenge at their reunion dinner party, Elliott was
asked this.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Did you ever hook up or kiss another maps cast
member who wasn't your match.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
This morning? Elliot?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Not yet, Not yet the night is young.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
But despite Jamie and Athena jumping in there and hinting
something may happened, I can let you know that I
don't think we'll be seeing any more than a flirty
friendship between these two. And that's because after watching the
reunion and her split from Dave again, Jamie said this
to Al Perkins as I later had him do some
interviews for me.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
If you were asked to go on next to his maths,
would you do it?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
But as an expert, because I think I'd be more
effective as one.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And what is your type? What is your ideal type?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I feel like after this season, probably women? Yeah, I've
seen enough of the men. Probably the women.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, enough, men have like ruined your life. You're just like, no,
fuck this, I want to go for women now.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm just gonna switch teams.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now, have you ever kissed a woman?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I've kissed Faife on the lips.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, this is my wife.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And if you're now wondering, well, is Elliott going to
be upset by Jamie shutting down any potential romance between them, No,
And that's because I can reveal that he is already.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
In a new relationship with his TikTok account.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
How many how many followers on TikTok do you have?
I don't know, it doesn't hey follows on it? Hey
not as many as may followers? Aren't everything? Guys like,
don't put your self worth in your followers? But it's
one hundred and twenty thousand, and how many do you
want to have? A million?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He spent the entire weekend filming content, editing content, coming
up with ideas involving the rest of the cast, and
he's like a man obsessed. But please, just don't ever
compare his content to Billion Daves?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Do you think your tiktoks are more funny than billion Daves? No,
theos are hilarious. Everyone go and watch Billion Dave Like
I could not stop laughing at where they were doing
the airplane. I was like, oh my god, why didn't
I think about.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Moving on to Adrian and Athena nowt It gives me
great pleasure to let you guys know that there is
finally now no chance of these two ever getting back
together ever again, which Athena made very clear as I
asked her what she would do if he happened to
arrive uninvited to the Daily Mail event.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
If Adrian walks in right now, I wouldn't even acknowledge him.
But I refused to be in a room with that
man ever again, and I would walk my answer Jackie
and Clinton engagement party. That's how badly I will never
be in a room with Adrian again. The only reason
Adrian's not here tonight is because I said I wouldn't
come if he did, and they chose me not him.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And for anyone wondering, has a Fena now moved on
with somebody new No, but there have been rumors circulating
about her connection with a certain somebody, with comments constantly
flying around every day from people urging her and this
person to get together and give things a go.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
And that person is me.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I've seen the comments when people were riding that and
I was like, how did these men not realize that
John which is gay? Like they were like a feet
I mean, Josh ask her on a date and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh my gosh, if I were straight, I'll take you
on the best day wedding. I'll just treat you like
the queen you should be. Now for the drama, as
we are watched on TV. One of the nicest moments
from the reunion episodes was that scene after Jamie got
upset over Dave, where all of the brides came together
and realized these men do not deserve these women.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
The girls have been completely let down.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I feel like we've put with a lot of bullshit.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
We didn't get what we wanted.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
These men have taken us for a ride and they
haven't seen the amazing women that they've got in front
of them.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That big moment of female empowerment resonated with so many
women across the country and has now been dubbed this
by Jamie.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Power of the Pussy?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
How of the Pussy? That was my favorite part for sure,
And what's your what's your least favorite part of tonight?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Seeing me cry because no one deserves my tears.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But that episode we watched was filmed five months ago
and a lot has happened since then. So if you're
now wondering, are all those brides still as close as
they were then? No, And especially after rewatching that episode
and one feud that I was surprised to see pop
up over the weekend out of nowhere was Athena and
Ash as I spotted them leaving the group and having
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a very tense looking talk, which I later asked Ash about. Well, Ash,
I've noticed drama between you and Afena, Oh, drama.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Between me and a Fena.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Not really, I show you clear the air over something earlier.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Yeah, we did over the Sierra drama, because I will
admit I was friends with everyone. However, watching the season back,
I'm a little bit shocked at a few things that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I saw now.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Obviously the issue for Ashes she left the show very
early before all of the big drama happened, so by
the time she returned for the reunion, she didn't quite
have the full story regarding certain things and certain people,
which is what led her to briefly siding with Sierra
during that drama with Athena, a decision that Ask very
much regrets now and something that Athena wanted to address
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with Ash privately, as I suppose it brought back memories
watching that, and I mean it would have been private
if I didn't spot them doing and then asked about
it later.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Sorry, Athena, you chose the wrong sides.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I trusted the wrong people.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
That happens in life.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
You live and you learn, right, It's very confronting to
watch it back.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Ash and Athena did clear the air and all was
them well between them too. But from my observations from
the weekend, this is where I now see all of
the female friendships being at this point in time. You've
got Jamie, Beth and Athena, who appeared to be like
the closest little trio. They did a lot together, were
constantly kind of side by side. Then there was Ree
and Karina who also appeared very close, and then there
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was Katie and Ash who appear very tight. And all
of those girls are kind of friends with each other,
but obviously some of them are closer than others. But
I don't think there's any kind of relationship between Athena
and Karna after all that drama that involved Karina's comments
about Athena's twin Cleo, And it's not like an obvious
feud where they're calling each other out and making it
public and making everyone two sides. I just noticed over
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the weekend them two particularly kind of avoiding each other,
never sitting next to each other. Maybe if one comes over,
the other walks away. That type of thing, which I
mean is fair. You can't like everyone in life. Not
everyone's going to get along and then away from that group,
we've obviously got Marena, Jackie, Lauren, and Veronica, who are
all basically their own islands and didn't appear to leave with.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Any real female friendships.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Now, on the subject of Jackie, I found myself in
a scandal and it all stems from my encounter with
her and Clint at the airport, which has now gone
very viral, where I asked about the slut shaming video
she recently did on TikTok Live.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
And this was then her response to me.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
He was so apologized that we think woman I made
comments towards my ex.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
No, you said something about your called women's sluts. No,
I didn't on a TikTok Live. Yeah she did. I've
got the video.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Now, before I get into the big update on that,
let's just remind ourselves of that TikTok Live.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Where is Ryan.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
He's probably in Campraga.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
He's very fucking some slight.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So after the airport encounter and before I posted it online,
Jackie did reach out to me privately and again claimed
that no, she never shammed women, and she said this
was my and I quote internalized misogyny that made me
automatically assume she was talking about women, because when she
said Ryan is probably fucking some slut, she's saying she
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could have been talking about a man or a woman
or anyone. And again it's my internalized misogyny which made
me assume it was a woman, which is completely baffling
because Firstly, Ryan isn't gay or bisexual, so why would
he be having sex with a man. Secondly, if he
was gay or bisexual, that means Jackie, you would have
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essentially just outed him to me a journalist podcast, a
member of the media, which would be an even bigger
issue than the slut sham in. And Thirdly, regardless if
she was referencing men or women as sluts, the essence
of what she said in that TikTok Live, he's still
shaming anyone who's having casual sex. Like the negative connotation
in that remark on TikTok was against whoever Ryan may
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be sleeping with, not really against him. And I wasn't
going to reference what Jackie said to me privately and
about my own apparent internalized misogynic because afore, even though
I took offense to that and don't agree with it,
I just felt, what's the point, What's the point in
dragging this out. But overnight I've noticed comments from empty
burner accounts across TikTok on my TikTok popping up in
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my notifications pretty much saying the exact same thing, but publicly.
One comment reads, Jackie never said women as sluts. She
didn't say women. You're only hearing her say something sexist
because you dislike her. Removed the had language, and what
she said is Ryan's off fornicating with someone willingly, which
is absolutely ridiculous. And I don't dislike Jackie, just to
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put that on record. As I've said so many times
on this podcast, she has been massively entertaining to watch,
and when we think back to this season, she's going
to be one of the names we will always remember,
and her scenes especially, But it's things like this and
that airport encounter that make it hard to get behind
her now. Anyway, After someone posted that comment on my TikTok,
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people then started replying, accusing Jackie of writing it from
a burner account, which I can't say is true or not.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Who knows, but whoever wrote.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That comment implying Jackie meant Ryan's off fornicating with someone
willingly is just bullshit because Jackie said the word slut,
and the word slut is a derogatory word which is
quite literally defined in the Oxford Dictionary as a woman
who has many casual sexual partners. A second comment then
on my TikTok from a second Burner account, then read
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whether you like or dislike Jackie? This interviewer is a
straight loser for twisting her words like that, laughing like
a child as if he's busted her doing something wrong. Now,
firstly rude, and secondly, I wasn't laughing like a child.
I was laughing like someone who felt hugely awkward at
how quickly this encounter fell apart. I honestly thought I
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would bring that TikTok live up and how she's upset
and offended a lot of women, which look out there
she has, there, the comments, there, the messages I'm getting,
And I thought, once I brought that up, Jackie would
say something like, yeah, I'm sorry about that. I shouldn't
have said that, or she'd say, you know, that wasn't
my best moment. I'm sorry if he offended anyone. And
then I thought we'd just move on and I could
go back to asking silly questions again and get some
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fun content. You know, once we'd tick that newsworthy box,
but instead she said she never said it, which has
led to all of this. Now, that second commenter who
called me a loser, then continued saying Jackie said nothing
about women as a whole. She made a comment about
what her ex might be doing, which said nothing about
anyone in particular a group as a whole. And then
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that first Burner account responded to the second Burner accoun
comment saying, exactly, it's such a misrepresentation of what Jackie said.
He may even played the clip of her literally not
saying what she said. He said he was saying, I'm sorry,
I get confused there. Now, I'm just gonna end this
part by saying, there's a famous quote out there from
someone I don't know who's probably dead, and it goes
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you can't argue with stupid. So on that subject, let's
move on from Burner accounts, because I have a lot
more to get through, including awkward reunions between x's, which
Bride may be returning next season and which Bride is
everyone now convinced is pregnant. Okay, so you may recall
towards the start of the season that I was so
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outraged by how this show did Katie so dirty that
I spent one five hundred dollars of my own money
on a mobile billboard which I drove to Channel nine's
offices to demand they bring her back next season as
like a one man protest. And then as Channel nine
told me to go away or they'll call the police,
I then drove that billboard to the Prime's house.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
My I just have a.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Message to the Prime Minister.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I'm you should tell him, I reckon if he wants
to win the election, Katie is the ticket. You don't
where Peter Dutton lives? Dear no, all right, I'm off
the Queensland. Even though Albo didn't want to get behind
this issue that was clearly, you know, impacting so many Australians.
The campaign to bring Katie back has gone on to
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get a lot of traction both in Australia and the
UK as the season now where is there?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
And I realized that.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Amongst all the chaos and everyone demanding she returns, I
actually never asked Katie does she want to come back?
So I got al Perkins, who I said was helping
me with interviews once I got a bit too drunk
to do them myself to ask her for me.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Maths is just about to wrap up. Yeah, so I
heard Maths is casting for next season. Would you be
up for it next season?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's conditional.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Upon actually like getting somebody who's open to a fabulous
human beings.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Such as myself and what I'm sure. I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
I'm a little like gun shy to get back out there.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And what's your ideal type? Right now? So look down
the camera, tell us what is your type?
Speaker 8 (14:22):
My ideal type is somebody who's open and honest and
can make me laugh.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
The issue is that by the time Al did these
chats to me, he was arguably just as drunk as me,
so they didn't all go very smooth.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
All right, that's fine to a girl. That's fine to
a guy. Sorry, that's fine to a guy out there,
a guy who's honestly gonna make her laugh. Yes, we're
gonna do that. Simple, simple, simple.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
We could do that, you would think so, But I'm
ten years single, so it's not that simple.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Over the weekend, I also got to meet Tony for
the very first time, and you know what, he was
lovely and he was like the epitome of a dad
with dad jokes, which was made very clear as amongst
the entire group live reacting to the news of Jackie
and Clint's engagement once it popped up on Socials. He
walked out holding a bar of Tony's chocolate, trying to
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do like a rehearsed bit about Hey everyone, look, I'm
Tony Tony's chocolate. I've got merch like merchants.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
What time is it?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
It's Tony time. I'm also facing my new someone's engaged.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And another cute Tony moment was after the viewing party
and the reunion stuff, half the cast went onto a
night club, including Tony, and I sat with him on
like the edge of it all because.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I hate clubs and didn't particularly want to be there.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And he went to me, Josh, I just tried buying
like a few bottles for the table, as I want to,
you know, treat everyone to say well done on a season,
but the club just gave them us for free. And
I was like, yeah, make the most of it, Tony,
and he was just adamant how he personally wanted to
like spend his money on the cast to say, you know,
thank you. For a great season, and you know, to
cement these friendships he's made, which I thought was quite cute.
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At the after party, I also got chatting with TJ
for the very first time. Beth was there too, and
they've both very much cleared the air and moved on
from their drama, with Beth telling me this earlier in
the night.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
He has been texting me a lot since we finished
filming the week from that dinner party where everything blew
up after Harmstays, he texted me a couple of times
and I just didn't reply because it brought back so
many emotions and so much anger, because yeah, watching it back,
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it was just it was really difficult. So I ignored him.
And then he reached out to me again the week
after and we had a conversation because I just felt
like I needed to get things off my chest to
close that chapter, because being angry at someone it's a
heavy emotion to carry.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And you know what, at the after party, TJ said
something to me which I thought was very funny. He
said how he's never felt more embarrassed and cringey as
he had as he arrived at that club where the
reunion after party was being held. And he had to
walk up to the door staff with like some of
the cast behind him and be like, hey, yeah, we're
from Married at First Sight, just so they could like
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jump the line and get in for free, because the
guest list just said Married at First Site cast on it,
not like people's names one by one, so they had
to say.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Hey, we're the Married at First sitecast, which, yes, that
is embarrassing, but what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
TJ and Beth were not the only couple to reunite
and clear the air, though, with Carina and Paul also
coming face to face again over the weekend, and despite
how badly that ended on the show, they do seem
to have formed like a genuine friendship and are supporting
each other through this whole process. Two people who I
really did enjoy hanging out with this weekend they were
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Ree and Jeff, and this season I haven't really had
much contact with them, as I'm usually so consumed by
whoever is in the middle of all the drama, and
They've just been like this cute, wholesome distraction on the side,
so I haven't really had much need to like reach
out and get their side of things. But you know what,
was funny and something that the three of us kind
of laughed about together. Is how prominent my presence was
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in them two coming back together on maths. Because if
you remember back to their wedding day, which was filmed
on July twenty fifth last year, the second re arrived
on set and stepped out of her limo ready for this,
you know, huge chapter of her life.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I was the first face that she saw.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Married at first sight is back and filming the twenty
twenty five season, which of course means I'm back crashing
it and just being annoying. God good smart. The bride's
called Ree by the way, and she was really chatty.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
You're excited.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Obviously back then the cast had told about producers they
can't respond to me, which is why they often look rude,
which is the case there. You know, really was just
trying to get to our wedding and there's me being annoying,
and she's like, well, I want to speak to them,
but I can't speak to him. But as she then
walked down the aisle and realized she used to date
her groom who stood there, Jeff, I was just meet
us to the side, getting content, and I was just
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as shocked as her with the rest of the paparazzi. Okay,
so Married at First Sight has accidentally matched two x's
on the twenty twenty five season, and no one realized
until they were down the aisle. I know he knows,
and before either Re or Jeff could really process the
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fact that, you know, they'd just been matched with someone
they used to date. As we were being dragged around
by producers to film scene after scene and voxes and
all that, I quickly posted my videos revealing that big
storyline that two x's had been accidentally matched, and my
clips from that day went everywhere. They were picked up
by all the media, not just in Australia but around
the world, as this has never happened before in any
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of the international versions of Married at First Sight And
I just look now, and ignoring all the media who
re shared and reposted my content, just on my pages alone,
my videos from that morning Avry and Jeff and that
storyline which I spoiled have had fourteen point two million views, which,
to put into context, only like an average of two
million people watch Married at First Site in Australia. So
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imagine being Ree and Jeff. Right, you've just signed up
for married at first site, expecting to marry a stranger.
You arrive and you're full of nerves and all this,
and then you're like, oh shit, that's my ex And
you then have to spend the day filming so you
can't really process it. And then once you finally make
it to the hotel after fourteen hours on set, and
it's finally just you two alone and you can breathe,
and you pick your phone up for the first time,
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and then you see the entire world is talking about you,
with me my voice and my commentary in the middle
of all that and setting this narrative on your life.
And as dumb as this may sound, but like for
the rest of their lives now as they recall the
day they you know, got back together. I'm such a
core memory there and attached to that forever. And it
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was weird for the three of us to think now
that here we are eight months later, sat reminiscing of
that day with them two now very much in love,
with me telling them I'm Loki jealous because I want
what they have, which I did let a chat to
read about whilst we set the record straight. And the
rumors that started circulating about her and Jeff. Firstly, everyone
was convinced they were now engaged, and then after they
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kind of like no 'or not. People then started speculating
at this dinner that she may be pregnant, as she
was the only bride not drinking.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Are you engaged?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
This rumor was really traveling. No, definitely not engaged.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's because tonight's reunion ends with a bomb shell teasing
you're engaged.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Yeah, yeah, what's that?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I actually have no idea.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Fantastic because they're really selling you're engaged.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, no, we definitely still we're not engaged.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Still not engaged, and we can confirm even though you've
not been drinking alcohol tonight. Not pregnant.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Definitely not pregnant. But think you for asking?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
So you're just happy and in love?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, happy in love.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
We need an elevation in this storyline.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Sorry, I've got nothing to give you.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
No, it's nice that we had one love story.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Yeah, I'm definitely grateful for I think the season definitely
needed a love story.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
What do you think when because I see comments in
the nicest way, they say Rie and Jeff are boring,
But I think that's rude because in real life don't
we all want what you have, just a nice, drama free,
lovely relationship.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
I think because there is so many people like so
much to film, you really do miss out on the
little things that Jeff and I do.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Like, we are very silly, we are very quirky. We've
got a lot of personal jokes, and.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
I did think that watching the season back you would
see some of those things.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
But there were a lot of things left out. But
obviously the drama is the most important thing. It's what
makes the season.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Like, I enjoy watching the drama back, and I understand why.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, we were called boring, I guess to a point.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
But yeah, it is a little bit upsetting because the
show is called Married at First Sight, so you would
think a love story is the most interesting part.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now, I would like to also point out, having hung
out with Rihan Jeff, I can confirm not. And I
also think that everyone out there who is single and
unsuccessful in their own searches for love should take inspiration
from Rihe and Jeff quef only that this season and
the whole premise of the show is married at first
Sight and it's let's reconnect to old people.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
That second time.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, I know, what you mean.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
But in saying that, Jeff and I would have never
have got back together if it wasn't for the show.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
But I said this to you last night. You've inspired
me to reach out to other people i've ghosted.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Got to start messaging all your exes.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
There's a long list to get through, but for one
of them that's going to be the one.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, good luck.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I know that I used myself as an example there.
But amongst the endless chaos of the weekend, there was
one budding love story that became the talk of the
entire group at that Daily Mail reunion dinner party on
the Sunday night. An unexpected romance which came from nowhere,
played out like a fairy tale, and everyone is now
rooting for while desperate for the next update. And that
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blossoming relationship involves me. Now, I wouldn't usually go into
something like this so publicly on our podcast, but bear
with me while I tell this story because it's kind
of relevant, especially to the whole marriage at First Sight
World and that bubble. So on Saturday, I was meant
to meet a man of Hinde who have been talking
to on and off for a while now, and we
were meant to go for a lunchtime date, but I
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had to cancel that as obviously. On the Saturday morning,
I had that awkward encounter with Jackie and Clint, and
when that went, you know, as badly as it did,
I then had to get home to script record and
edit a podcast about it and edit the video. So
I said to the guy, I am so sorry, but
I've had some work stuff come up that's taken a
lot more time than I thought. I don't have time
to meet you anymore. Again, I'm so sorry. That evening,
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there was also a smaller dinner happening with a handful
of the cast members who had already flown in ahead
of the big Delamel event on the Sunday, and I
was down to a ten that which of course meant
I couldn't have just seen the Hinge guy later on
that day because I already had plans. And I tried
to explain this to the Hinge guy that, you know,
I had a work fing in the morning and after
in and kind of like a work dinner, which is
why I couldn't just catch up that night instead. He said,
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all good, but I feared that he just think I
was saying, mate, I'm not interested anymore. Read between the
lines that dinner on the Saturday wasn't for content or
anything like that. It was more like a non media
event just to celebrate getting to the end of the
series with like the nicer cast members, the friendlier ones,
and I was keen to go, not necessarily for work,
but more just to get to know some of them
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a little bit and celebrate too, because you know, I've
been on a fucking journey as well with these people.
And I suppose I also knew that, you know, some
stuff could happen that I could report on the podcast.
So like it wasn't work, but it was kind of
worre networking, like one of those type of things. And
that was the night that I really got chatting with
Ree and Jeff for the first time, and I had
fun getting to know Jamie properly too, and also Beth
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and Ash and we all met at seven pm that
night for that dinner, and by nine pm, as people
started talking about going to a club afterwards and ordering
shots and all that, that man from Hinge messaged me again, Josh,
how's your work dinner going? I said, yeah, oh good, mate,
I think I might leave soon though. He then said, hey,
do you want to kind of stop my mind on
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the way back and hang out. Maybe we could grab
a beer on the beach or something, as a place
he lives in backs onto the beach from his backyard.
And as he suggested this to me, I kind of
looked around, and I thought I could stay here and
I could kick on with these people, who, let's be honest,
aren't my friends. I'm friendly with some of them, yeah,
and like we have a good time. We just had
a fun dinner, but they're not my friends and they
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probably never will be, which.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
I'm fine with.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Like I like to keep a barrier between like the
real Josh and my real life.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
And this math's world.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
And again looking around and thought, well, this is kind
of a good opportunity to get to know the more
you know, carry on with them, keep documenting their relationships
and the movements, just like I have for the last
eight months since the day I first met them as
they filmed their weddings. Like I've been on this journey
with them. So here they are in front of me.
I should carry on with this journey while they're still
out and I'm still invited. But then I thought, actually, no,
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I should just leave. I should put myself first, for one,
and I should focus on my own love life. So
after a little pep talk from Karna, Ree and Ash
about this hinge guy, after showing them his page and
pictures and they were all like, oh, you need to go,
he's hot, I replied to him being like, yeah, my
beer on the beach sounds lovely, And off I went,
with all of the girls waving at me as I
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jumped in an uber. And what happened next none of
us expected. And again despite me just having made a
point to like put masks behind me, put myself forward
and establish better boundaries, it of course involved married at
first sight. So as my uber arrived, this guy was
waiting on the street to greet me, and we said hey,
and then he kind of led me around the side
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of his building to the courtyard at the back, which
backs onto the sand and Sydney Haber. And as we're
walking down this dark passage on like an unusually silent night,
towards the sound of the water gently lapping on the sand,
I'm thinking to myself, this is so familiar, Like I
recognize this courtyard, I have sat at this table before,
and I've been here before, but I couldn't quite put
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my finger on it. And as we then had a
drink and we got chatting, things were going well, and
he then suggested to me, even though it's now midnight, hey,
should we take the kayaks out onto the harbor? And
I just went, you know what, why not?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Fuck it?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
And as I'm changing into my shots, I'm thinking, this
is how all dates should feel, right, spontaneous, fun and
like anything is possible, and like it's the start of
an adventure that you could end up embarking on together
for the rest of your lives. We then rode like
a kilometer out. The water was still, the harbor was silent,
and like the lights of the city were just a
blurt in a distance, and we were illuminated solely by
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the full moon which was reflecting on the water, and
it felt like a movie, and it also felt like
we were the only two people.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
And it was then that he kissed me, and it
was like a fairy tale first kissed that not even
the producers are married at first sight could script up themselves.
And then afterwards, once we got back to his and
we went inside to dry and change, I was once
again hit by this huge sense of ja vou. How
long have you lived here? I then asked him suspiciously, Oh,
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not long there. I just moved in and I'm renting
from this odor chick who owns the place. He then
responded explaining that it came fully furnished, which was appealing
to him as he's just moved back to Australia after
a few years overseas and like he's slowly getting his
life set up again. And as he then went to
the bathroom, I had this like mini light bulb moment
and I thought, surely not. I then took a sneaky
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picture of his living room while I was still there alone,
and I sent it to the one person in the
world I knew could solve this mystery for me, someone
who of course is a former married at first Sye
cast member. Before I then got a reply, my date
returned from the bathroom and we ended up going to
his bedroom where we were kissing and we kind of
fell asleep spooning in his bed and it was lovely
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and romantic, and he didn't object when I said, yeah,
I'm happy to stay over, but I just want to
make clear that we're not having sex, explaining how I'm
trying to find something more meaningful in my life, and
escaped the hookup scene, which he said is something he's
trying to do as well, and I know how cringey
this is, but again bear with me as we're then
kissing and kuddling, and we drifted off into the loveliest
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sleep together. I forgot all about the message I just
hastily sent while he was in the bathroom until I
woke up and I picked up my phone and I
saw that while we were asleep, I reply had come through.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah, what the hell? The message read, that's my old place.
Why are you in there?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I then reply, going, hey, was this place fully furnished
when you were renting it too? And he replied yeah, haha,
I got with so many chicks there.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
In that bed.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The message was from Al Perkins from season nine aka
pretty much one of the only former cast members I've
become actual friends with in the real world. And I
recognized the place because I've hung out with it out
there before a good while ago, and the bed I
just slept in his one. He's previously had sex with
many people in What are the chances of that like
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the one night I think goodbye married at first sight,
this is my time to focus on myself, and I
end up sleeping in Al's old bed thankfully. Then as
my date woke up, I said, hey, when you moved in,
like obviously the bed came in the place, where did
you bring your own mattress by any chance? And he went, yeah,
I'm not sleeping in somebody else's mattress. And I thought,
thank God for that, because can you imagine, Yeah, it's
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one thing to sleep in the bed frame that Al
has fucking done who knows what, but imagine it was
the same stainy mattress. But overall, I then took that
as a sign as maybe, just maybe, like things could
progress with this guy, and that was like a nod
to the other part of my life. And I don't know,
like I always look for coincidences or little moments in things,
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and maybe this was one. The next day, as I
then arrived at that dely Mel dinner and I'll chat
quickly turned to the cast, asking me how my date went.
As I replayed the fairytale to them. Midway through telling
the story, I walked into the room. I had no
idea that he'd been invited to help Dali mel host things,
and as he walks in, he's like, oh, hey, Josh,
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how was my bed last night? And everyone else seemed
a bit confused, as I obviously hadn't got to that
part the story yet, and it sounded like we just
slept together. Now, regardless of how things may pan out
with that guy I met off hints that's almost irrelevant here,
because as this season now wraps on our screens, I've
had this epiphany that hey, it's time to focus on
my own love life for once, not the fake ones
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of those on television. That being said, though, don't worry, guys,
because this podcast is going nowhere. As long as the
cast keep being dramatic in real life, I'm going to
keep bringing you the drama. Plus, I've still got more
episodes of the investigation and other fun stuff planned, and
lots of interviews I recorded with the cast over the weekend,
So stay tuned, have a lovely day. Congratulations are making
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it through another season. I've married at first sight, And lastly,
thank you to everyone who has got behind this podcast
this year. It was like a new thing. I was
just trialing. I didn't actually expect it to take off.
I didn't think I would enjoy it as much.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
As I have.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And now here we are, me telling you about guys
I'm getting with on Sydney Harbor on a kayak.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
So yeah,
Hello, and welcome back to the Mass Funny podcast with
me Joshua Fox, and welcome to part two of my
Unhinged forty eight hours with this year's cast as they
all descended into Sydney over the weekend for various viewing parties,
press days, and of course Daily Mail Australia's big reunion
dinner party, which I was lucky enough to be invited to.
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So much stuff happened in such a short space of
time that this has been a monster to pull together.
But don't worry, guys, I got you and you know what.
The show may be over on TV, but as long
as this drama, Mass Funny is going nowhere. The first
question I want to answer here is are Jamie and
Elliott now a thing? Because that's the current rumor doing
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the rounds, given how close they've appeared in pictures and
videos over the last couple of days. And this speculation
wasn't helped by the fact that during Daily Mail Australia's
Confession Box challenge at their reunion dinner party, Elliott was
asked this.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Did you ever hook up or kiss another maps cast
member who wasn't your match.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
This morning? Elliot?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Not yet, Not yet the night is young.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
But despite Jamie and Athena jumping in there and hinting
something may happened, I can let you know that I
don't think we'll be seeing any more than a flirty
friendship between these two. And that's because after watching the
reunion and her split from Dave again, Jamie said this
to Al Perkins as I later had him do some
interviews for me.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
If you were asked to go on next to his maths,
would you do it?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
But as an expert, because I think I'd be more
effective as one.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And what is your type? What is your ideal type?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I feel like after this season, probably women? Yeah, I've
seen enough of the men. Probably the women.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, enough, men have like ruined your life. You're just like, no,
fuck this, I want to go for women now.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm just gonna switch teams.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now, have you ever kissed a woman?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I've kissed Faife on the lips.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, this is my wife.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And if you're now wondering, well, is Elliott going to
be upset by Jamie shutting down any potential romance between them, No,
And that's because I can reveal that he is already.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
In a new relationship with his TikTok account.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
How many how many followers on TikTok do you have?
I don't know, it doesn't hey follows on it? Hey
not as many as may followers? Aren't everything? Guys like,
don't put your self worth in your followers? But it's
one hundred and twenty thousand, and how many do you
want to have? A million?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He spent the entire weekend filming content, editing content, coming
up with ideas involving the rest of the cast, and
he's like a man obsessed. But please, just don't ever
compare his content to Billion Daves?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Do you think your tiktoks are more funny than billion Daves? No,
theos are hilarious. Everyone go and watch Billion Dave Like
I could not stop laughing at where they were doing
the airplane. I was like, oh my god, why didn't
I think about.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Moving on to Adrian and Athena nowt It gives me
great pleasure to let you guys know that there is
finally now no chance of these two ever getting back
together ever again, which Athena made very clear as I
asked her what she would do if he happened to
arrive uninvited to the Daily Mail event.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
If Adrian walks in right now, I wouldn't even acknowledge him.
But I refused to be in a room with that
man ever again, and I would walk my answer Jackie
and Clinton engagement party. That's how badly I will never
be in a room with Adrian again. The only reason
Adrian's not here tonight is because I said I wouldn't
come if he did, and they chose me not him.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And for anyone wondering, has a Fena now moved on
with somebody new No, but there have been rumors circulating
about her connection with a certain somebody, with comments constantly
flying around every day from people urging her and this
person to get together and give things a go.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
And that person is me.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I've seen the comments when people were riding that and
I was like, how did these men not realize that
John which is gay? Like they were like a feet
I mean, Josh ask her on a date and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh my gosh, if I were straight, I'll take you
on the best day wedding. I'll just treat you like
the queen you should be. Now for the drama, as
we are watched on TV. One of the nicest moments
from the reunion episodes was that scene after Jamie got
upset over Dave, where all of the brides came together
and realized these men do not deserve these women.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
The girls have been completely let down.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I feel like we've put with a lot of bullshit.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
We didn't get what we wanted.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
These men have taken us for a ride and they
haven't seen the amazing women that they've got in front
of them.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That big moment of female empowerment resonated with so many
women across the country and has now been dubbed this
by Jamie.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Power of the Pussy?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
How of the Pussy? That was my favorite part for sure,
And what's your what's your least favorite part of tonight?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Seeing me cry because no one deserves my tears.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But that episode we watched was filmed five months ago
and a lot has happened since then. So if you're
now wondering, are all those brides still as close as
they were then? No, And especially after rewatching that episode
and one feud that I was surprised to see pop
up over the weekend out of nowhere was Athena and
Ash as I spotted them leaving the group and having
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a very tense looking talk, which I later asked Ash about. Well, Ash,
I've noticed drama between you and Afena, Oh, drama.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Between me and a Fena.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Not really, I show you clear the air over something earlier.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Yeah, we did over the Sierra drama, because I will
admit I was friends with everyone. However, watching the season back,
I'm a little bit shocked at a few things that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I saw now.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Obviously the issue for Ashes she left the show very
early before all of the big drama happened, so by
the time she returned for the reunion, she didn't quite
have the full story regarding certain things and certain people,
which is what led her to briefly siding with Sierra
during that drama with Athena, a decision that Ask very
much regrets now and something that Athena wanted to address
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with Ash privately, as I suppose it brought back memories
watching that, and I mean it would have been private
if I didn't spot them doing and then asked about
it later.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Sorry, Athena, you chose the wrong sides.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I trusted the wrong people.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
That happens in life.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
You live and you learn, right, It's very confronting to
watch it back.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Ash and Athena did clear the air and all was
them well between them too. But from my observations from
the weekend, this is where I now see all of
the female friendships being at this point in time. You've
got Jamie, Beth and Athena, who appeared to be like
the closest little trio. They did a lot together, were
constantly kind of side by side. Then there was Ree
and Karina who also appeared very close, and then there
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was Katie and Ash who appear very tight. And all
of those girls are kind of friends with each other,
but obviously some of them are closer than others. But
I don't think there's any kind of relationship between Athena
and Karna after all that drama that involved Karina's comments
about Athena's twin Cleo, And it's not like an obvious
feud where they're calling each other out and making it
public and making everyone two sides. I just noticed over
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the weekend them two particularly kind of avoiding each other,
never sitting next to each other. Maybe if one comes over,
the other walks away. That type of thing, which I
mean is fair. You can't like everyone in life. Not
everyone's going to get along and then away from that group,
we've obviously got Marena, Jackie, Lauren, and Veronica, who are
all basically their own islands and didn't appear to leave with.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Any real female friendships.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Now, on the subject of Jackie, I found myself in
a scandal and it all stems from my encounter with
her and Clint at the airport, which has now gone
very viral, where I asked about the slut shaming video
she recently did on TikTok Live.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
And this was then her response to me.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
He was so apologized that we think woman I made
comments towards my ex.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
No, you said something about your called women's sluts. No,
I didn't on a TikTok Live. Yeah she did. I've
got the video.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Now, before I get into the big update on that,
let's just remind ourselves of that TikTok Live.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Where is Ryan.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
He's probably in Campraga.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
He's very fucking some slight.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So after the airport encounter and before I posted it online,
Jackie did reach out to me privately and again claimed
that no, she never shammed women, and she said this
was my and I quote internalized misogyny that made me
automatically assume she was talking about women, because when she
said Ryan is probably fucking some slut, she's saying she
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could have been talking about a man or a woman
or anyone. And again it's my internalized misogyny which made
me assume it was a woman, which is completely baffling
because Firstly, Ryan isn't gay or bisexual, so why would
he be having sex with a man. Secondly, if he
was gay or bisexual, that means Jackie, you would have
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essentially just outed him to me a journalist podcast, a
member of the media, which would be an even bigger
issue than the slut sham in. And Thirdly, regardless if
she was referencing men or women as sluts, the essence
of what she said in that TikTok Live, he's still
shaming anyone who's having casual sex. Like the negative connotation
in that remark on TikTok was against whoever Ryan may
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be sleeping with, not really against him. And I wasn't
going to reference what Jackie said to me privately and
about my own apparent internalized misogynic because afore, even though
I took offense to that and don't agree with it,
I just felt, what's the point, What's the point in
dragging this out. But overnight I've noticed comments from empty
burner accounts across TikTok on my TikTok popping up in
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my notifications pretty much saying the exact same thing, but publicly.
One comment reads, Jackie never said women as sluts. She
didn't say women. You're only hearing her say something sexist
because you dislike her. Removed the had language, and what
she said is Ryan's off fornicating with someone willingly, which
is absolutely ridiculous. And I don't dislike Jackie, just to
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put that on record. As I've said so many times
on this podcast, she has been massively entertaining to watch,
and when we think back to this season, she's going
to be one of the names we will always remember,
and her scenes especially, But it's things like this and
that airport encounter that make it hard to get behind
her now. Anyway, After someone posted that comment on my TikTok,
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people then started replying, accusing Jackie of writing it from
a burner account, which I can't say is true or not.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Who knows, but whoever wrote.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That comment implying Jackie meant Ryan's off fornicating with someone
willingly is just bullshit because Jackie said the word slut,
and the word slut is a derogatory word which is
quite literally defined in the Oxford Dictionary as a woman
who has many casual sexual partners. A second comment then
on my TikTok from a second Burner account, then read
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whether you like or dislike Jackie? This interviewer is a
straight loser for twisting her words like that, laughing like
a child as if he's busted her doing something wrong. Now,
firstly rude, and secondly, I wasn't laughing like a child.
I was laughing like someone who felt hugely awkward at
how quickly this encounter fell apart. I honestly thought I
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would bring that TikTok live up and how she's upset
and offended a lot of women, which look out there
she has, there, the comments, there, the messages I'm getting,
And I thought, once I brought that up, Jackie would
say something like, yeah, I'm sorry about that. I shouldn't
have said that, or she'd say, you know, that wasn't
my best moment. I'm sorry if he offended anyone. And
then I thought we'd just move on and I could
go back to asking silly questions again and get some
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fun content. You know, once we'd tick that newsworthy box,
but instead she said she never said it, which has
led to all of this. Now, that second commenter who
called me a loser, then continued saying Jackie said nothing
about women as a whole. She made a comment about
what her ex might be doing, which said nothing about
anyone in particular a group as a whole. And then
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that first Burner account responded to the second Burner accoun
comment saying, exactly, it's such a misrepresentation of what Jackie said.
He may even played the clip of her literally not
saying what she said. He said he was saying, I'm sorry,
I get confused there. Now, I'm just gonna end this
part by saying, there's a famous quote out there from
someone I don't know who's probably dead, and it goes
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you can't argue with stupid. So on that subject, let's
move on from Burner accounts, because I have a lot
more to get through, including awkward reunions between x's, which
Bride may be returning next season and which Bride is
everyone now convinced is pregnant. Okay, so you may recall
towards the start of the season that I was so
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outraged by how this show did Katie so dirty that
I spent one five hundred dollars of my own money
on a mobile billboard which I drove to Channel nine's
offices to demand they bring her back next season as
like a one man protest. And then as Channel nine
told me to go away or they'll call the police,
I then drove that billboard to the Prime's house.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
My I just have a.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Message to the Prime Minister.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I'm you should tell him, I reckon if he wants
to win the election, Katie is the ticket. You don't
where Peter Dutton lives? Dear no, all right, I'm off
the Queensland. Even though Albo didn't want to get behind
this issue that was clearly, you know, impacting so many Australians.
The campaign to bring Katie back has gone on to
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get a lot of traction both in Australia and the
UK as the season now where is there?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
And I realized that.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Amongst all the chaos and everyone demanding she returns, I
actually never asked Katie does she want to come back?
So I got al Perkins, who I said was helping
me with interviews once I got a bit too drunk
to do them myself to ask her for me.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Maths is just about to wrap up. Yeah, so I
heard Maths is casting for next season. Would you be
up for it next season?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's conditional.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Upon actually like getting somebody who's open to a fabulous
human beings.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Such as myself and what I'm sure. I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
I'm a little like gun shy to get back out there.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And what's your ideal type? Right now? So look down
the camera, tell us what is your type?
Speaker 8 (14:22):
My ideal type is somebody who's open and honest and
can make me laugh.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
The issue is that by the time Al did these
chats to me, he was arguably just as drunk as me,
so they didn't all go very smooth.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
All right, that's fine to a girl. That's fine to
a guy. Sorry, that's fine to a guy out there,
a guy who's honestly gonna make her laugh. Yes, we're
gonna do that. Simple, simple, simple.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
We could do that, you would think so, But I'm
ten years single, so it's not that simple.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Over the weekend, I also got to meet Tony for
the very first time, and you know what, he was
lovely and he was like the epitome of a dad
with dad jokes, which was made very clear as amongst
the entire group live reacting to the news of Jackie
and Clint's engagement once it popped up on Socials. He
walked out holding a bar of Tony's chocolate, trying to
(15:09):
do like a rehearsed bit about Hey everyone, look, I'm
Tony Tony's chocolate. I've got merch like merchants.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
What time is it?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
It's Tony time. I'm also facing my new someone's engaged.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And another cute Tony moment was after the viewing party
and the reunion stuff, half the cast went onto a
night club, including Tony, and I sat with him on
like the edge of it all because.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I hate clubs and didn't particularly want to be there.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And he went to me, Josh, I just tried buying
like a few bottles for the table, as I want to,
you know, treat everyone to say well done on a season,
but the club just gave them us for free. And
I was like, yeah, make the most of it, Tony,
and he was just adamant how he personally wanted to
like spend his money on the cast to say, you know,
thank you. For a great season, and you know, to
cement these friendships he's made, which I thought was quite cute.
(16:09):
At the after party, I also got chatting with TJ
for the very first time. Beth was there too, and
they've both very much cleared the air and moved on
from their drama, with Beth telling me this earlier in
the night.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
He has been texting me a lot since we finished
filming the week from that dinner party where everything blew
up after Harmstays, he texted me a couple of times
and I just didn't reply because it brought back so
many emotions and so much anger, because yeah, watching it back,
(16:39):
it was just it was really difficult. So I ignored him.
And then he reached out to me again the week
after and we had a conversation because I just felt
like I needed to get things off my chest to
close that chapter, because being angry at someone it's a
heavy emotion to carry.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And you know what, at the after party, TJ said
something to me which I thought was very funny. He
said how he's never felt more embarrassed and cringey as
he had as he arrived at that club where the
reunion after party was being held. And he had to
walk up to the door staff with like some of
the cast behind him and be like, hey, yeah, we're
from Married at First Sight, just so they could like
(17:13):
jump the line and get in for free, because the
guest list just said Married at First Site cast on it,
not like people's names one by one, so they had
to say.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Hey, we're the Married at First sitecast, which, yes, that
is embarrassing, but what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
TJ and Beth were not the only couple to reunite
and clear the air, though, with Carina and Paul also
coming face to face again over the weekend, and despite
how badly that ended on the show, they do seem
to have formed like a genuine friendship and are supporting
each other through this whole process. Two people who I
really did enjoy hanging out with this weekend they were
(17:48):
Ree and Jeff, and this season I haven't really had
much contact with them, as I'm usually so consumed by
whoever is in the middle of all the drama, and
They've just been like this cute, wholesome distraction on the side,
so I haven't really had much need to like reach
out and get their side of things. But you know what,
was funny and something that the three of us kind
of laughed about together. Is how prominent my presence was
(18:09):
in them two coming back together on maths. Because if
you remember back to their wedding day, which was filmed
on July twenty fifth last year, the second re arrived
on set and stepped out of her limo ready for this,
you know, huge chapter of her life.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I was the first face that she saw.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Married at first sight is back and filming the twenty
twenty five season, which of course means I'm back crashing
it and just being annoying. God good smart. The bride's
called Ree by the way, and she was really chatty.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
You're excited.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Obviously back then the cast had told about producers they
can't respond to me, which is why they often look rude,
which is the case there. You know, really was just
trying to get to our wedding and there's me being annoying,
and she's like, well, I want to speak to them,
but I can't speak to him. But as she then
walked down the aisle and realized she used to date
her groom who stood there, Jeff, I was just meet
us to the side, getting content, and I was just
(19:00):
as shocked as her with the rest of the paparazzi. Okay,
so Married at First Sight has accidentally matched two x's
on the twenty twenty five season, and no one realized
until they were down the aisle. I know he knows,
and before either Re or Jeff could really process the
(19:21):
fact that, you know, they'd just been matched with someone
they used to date. As we were being dragged around
by producers to film scene after scene and voxes and
all that, I quickly posted my videos revealing that big
storyline that two x's had been accidentally matched, and my
clips from that day went everywhere. They were picked up
by all the media, not just in Australia but around
the world, as this has never happened before in any
(19:44):
of the international versions of Married at First Sight And
I just look now, and ignoring all the media who
re shared and reposted my content, just on my pages alone,
my videos from that morning Avry and Jeff and that
storyline which I spoiled have had fourteen point two million views, which,
to put into context, only like an average of two
million people watch Married at First Site in Australia. So
(20:06):
imagine being Ree and Jeff. Right, you've just signed up
for married at first site, expecting to marry a stranger.
You arrive and you're full of nerves and all this,
and then you're like, oh shit, that's my ex And
you then have to spend the day filming so you
can't really process it. And then once you finally make
it to the hotel after fourteen hours on set, and
it's finally just you two alone and you can breathe,
and you pick your phone up for the first time,
(20:28):
and then you see the entire world is talking about you,
with me my voice and my commentary in the middle
of all that and setting this narrative on your life.
And as dumb as this may sound, but like for
the rest of their lives now as they recall the
day they you know, got back together. I'm such a
core memory there and attached to that forever. And it
(20:50):
was weird for the three of us to think now
that here we are eight months later, sat reminiscing of
that day with them two now very much in love,
with me telling them I'm Loki jealous because I want
what they have, which I did let a chat to
read about whilst we set the record straight. And the
rumors that started circulating about her and Jeff. Firstly, everyone
was convinced they were now engaged, and then after they
(21:12):
kind of like no 'or not. People then started speculating
at this dinner that she may be pregnant, as she
was the only bride not drinking.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Are you engaged?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
This rumor was really traveling. No, definitely not engaged.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's because tonight's reunion ends with a bomb shell teasing
you're engaged.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Yeah, yeah, what's that?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I actually have no idea.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Fantastic because they're really selling you're engaged.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, no, we definitely still we're not engaged.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Still not engaged, and we can confirm even though you've
not been drinking alcohol tonight. Not pregnant.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Definitely not pregnant. But think you for asking?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
So you're just happy and in love?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, happy in love.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
We need an elevation in this storyline.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Sorry, I've got nothing to give you.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
No, it's nice that we had one love story.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Yeah, I'm definitely grateful for I think the season definitely
needed a love story.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
What do you think when because I see comments in
the nicest way, they say Rie and Jeff are boring,
But I think that's rude because in real life don't
we all want what you have, just a nice, drama free,
lovely relationship.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
I think because there is so many people like so
much to film, you really do miss out on the
little things that Jeff and I do.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Like, we are very silly, we are very quirky. We've
got a lot of personal jokes, and.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
I did think that watching the season back you would
see some of those things.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
But there were a lot of things left out. But
obviously the drama is the most important thing. It's what
makes the season.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Like, I enjoy watching the drama back, and I understand why.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, we were called boring, I guess to a point.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
But yeah, it is a little bit upsetting because the
show is called Married at First Sight, so you would
think a love story is the most interesting part.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now, I would like to also point out, having hung
out with Rihan Jeff, I can confirm not. And I
also think that everyone out there who is single and
unsuccessful in their own searches for love should take inspiration
from Rihe and Jeff quef only that this season and
the whole premise of the show is married at first
Sight and it's let's reconnect to old people.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
That second time.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, I know, what you mean.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
But in saying that, Jeff and I would have never
have got back together if it wasn't for the show.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
But I said this to you last night. You've inspired
me to reach out to other people i've ghosted.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Got to start messaging all your exes.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
There's a long list to get through, but for one
of them that's going to be the one.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, good luck.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I know that I used myself as an example there.
But amongst the endless chaos of the weekend, there was
one budding love story that became the talk of the
entire group at that Daily Mail reunion dinner party on
the Sunday night. An unexpected romance which came from nowhere,
played out like a fairy tale, and everyone is now
rooting for while desperate for the next update. And that
(23:55):
blossoming relationship involves me. Now, I wouldn't usually go into
something like this so publicly on our podcast, but bear
with me while I tell this story because it's kind
of relevant, especially to the whole marriage at First Sight
World and that bubble. So on Saturday, I was meant
to meet a man of Hinde who have been talking
to on and off for a while now, and we
were meant to go for a lunchtime date, but I
(24:17):
had to cancel that as obviously. On the Saturday morning,
I had that awkward encounter with Jackie and Clint, and
when that went, you know, as badly as it did,
I then had to get home to script record and
edit a podcast about it and edit the video. So
I said to the guy, I am so sorry, but
I've had some work stuff come up that's taken a
lot more time than I thought. I don't have time
to meet you anymore. Again, I'm so sorry. That evening,
(24:39):
there was also a smaller dinner happening with a handful
of the cast members who had already flown in ahead
of the big Delamel event on the Sunday, and I
was down to a ten that which of course meant
I couldn't have just seen the Hinge guy later on
that day because I already had plans. And I tried
to explain this to the Hinge guy that, you know,
I had a work fing in the morning and after
in and kind of like a work dinner, which is
why I couldn't just catch up that night instead. He said,
(25:00):
all good, but I feared that he just think I
was saying, mate, I'm not interested anymore. Read between the
lines that dinner on the Saturday wasn't for content or
anything like that. It was more like a non media
event just to celebrate getting to the end of the
series with like the nicer cast members, the friendlier ones,
and I was keen to go, not necessarily for work,
but more just to get to know some of them
(25:22):
a little bit and celebrate too, because you know, I've
been on a fucking journey as well with these people.
And I suppose I also knew that, you know, some
stuff could happen that I could report on the podcast.
So like it wasn't work, but it was kind of
worre networking, like one of those type of things. And
that was the night that I really got chatting with
Ree and Jeff for the first time, and I had
fun getting to know Jamie properly too, and also Beth
(25:42):
and Ash and we all met at seven pm that
night for that dinner, and by nine pm, as people
started talking about going to a club afterwards and ordering
shots and all that, that man from Hinge messaged me again, Josh,
how's your work dinner going? I said, yeah, oh good, mate,
I think I might leave soon though. He then said, hey,
do you want to kind of stop my mind on
(26:02):
the way back and hang out. Maybe we could grab
a beer on the beach or something, as a place
he lives in backs onto the beach from his backyard.
And as he suggested this to me, I kind of
looked around, and I thought I could stay here and
I could kick on with these people, who, let's be honest,
aren't my friends. I'm friendly with some of them, yeah,
and like we have a good time. We just had
a fun dinner, but they're not my friends and they
(26:24):
probably never will be, which.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
I'm fine with.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Like I like to keep a barrier between like the
real Josh and my real life.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
And this math's world.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
And again looking around and thought, well, this is kind
of a good opportunity to get to know the more
you know, carry on with them, keep documenting their relationships
and the movements, just like I have for the last
eight months since the day I first met them as
they filmed their weddings. Like I've been on this journey
with them. So here they are in front of me.
I should carry on with this journey while they're still
out and I'm still invited. But then I thought, actually, no,
(26:57):
I should just leave. I should put myself first, for one,
and I should focus on my own love life. So
after a little pep talk from Karna, Ree and Ash
about this hinge guy, after showing them his page and
pictures and they were all like, oh, you need to go,
he's hot, I replied to him being like, yeah, my
beer on the beach sounds lovely, And off I went,
with all of the girls waving at me as I
(27:18):
jumped in an uber. And what happened next none of
us expected. And again despite me just having made a
point to like put masks behind me, put myself forward
and establish better boundaries, it of course involved married at
first sight. So as my uber arrived, this guy was
waiting on the street to greet me, and we said hey,
and then he kind of led me around the side
(27:39):
of his building to the courtyard at the back, which
backs onto the sand and Sydney Haber. And as we're
walking down this dark passage on like an unusually silent night,
towards the sound of the water gently lapping on the sand,
I'm thinking to myself, this is so familiar, Like I
recognize this courtyard, I have sat at this table before,
and I've been here before, but I couldn't quite put
(28:02):
my finger on it. And as we then had a
drink and we got chatting, things were going well, and
he then suggested to me, even though it's now midnight, hey,
should we take the kayaks out onto the harbor? And
I just went, you know what, why not?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Fuck it?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
And as I'm changing into my shots, I'm thinking, this
is how all dates should feel, right, spontaneous, fun and
like anything is possible, and like it's the start of
an adventure that you could end up embarking on together
for the rest of your lives. We then rode like
a kilometer out. The water was still, the harbor was silent,
and like the lights of the city were just a
blurt in a distance, and we were illuminated solely by
(28:38):
the full moon which was reflecting on the water, and
it felt like a movie, and it also felt like
we were the only two people.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
And it was then that he kissed me, and it
was like a fairy tale first kissed that not even
the producers are married at first sight could script up themselves.
And then afterwards, once we got back to his and
we went inside to dry and change, I was once
again hit by this huge sense of ja vou. How
long have you lived here? I then asked him suspiciously, Oh,
(29:06):
not long there. I just moved in and I'm renting
from this odor chick who owns the place. He then
responded explaining that it came fully furnished, which was appealing
to him as he's just moved back to Australia after
a few years overseas and like he's slowly getting his
life set up again. And as he then went to
the bathroom, I had this like mini light bulb moment
and I thought, surely not. I then took a sneaky
(29:28):
picture of his living room while I was still there alone,
and I sent it to the one person in the
world I knew could solve this mystery for me, someone
who of course is a former married at first Sye
cast member. Before I then got a reply, my date
returned from the bathroom and we ended up going to
his bedroom where we were kissing and we kind of
fell asleep spooning in his bed and it was lovely
(29:49):
and romantic, and he didn't object when I said, yeah,
I'm happy to stay over, but I just want to
make clear that we're not having sex, explaining how I'm
trying to find something more meaningful in my life, and
escaped the hookup scene, which he said is something he's
trying to do as well, and I know how cringey
this is, but again bear with me as we're then
kissing and kuddling, and we drifted off into the loveliest
(30:10):
sleep together. I forgot all about the message I just
hastily sent while he was in the bathroom until I
woke up and I picked up my phone and I
saw that while we were asleep, I reply had come through.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah, what the hell? The message read, that's my old place.
Why are you in there?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I then reply, going, hey, was this place fully furnished
when you were renting it too? And he replied yeah, haha,
I got with so many chicks there.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
In that bed.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The message was from Al Perkins from season nine aka
pretty much one of the only former cast members I've
become actual friends with in the real world. And I
recognized the place because I've hung out with it out
there before a good while ago, and the bed I
just slept in his one. He's previously had sex with
many people in What are the chances of that like
(31:00):
the one night I think goodbye married at first sight,
this is my time to focus on myself, and I
end up sleeping in Al's old bed thankfully. Then as
my date woke up, I said, hey, when you moved in,
like obviously the bed came in the place, where did
you bring your own mattress by any chance? And he went, yeah,
I'm not sleeping in somebody else's mattress. And I thought,
thank God for that, because can you imagine, Yeah, it's
(31:21):
one thing to sleep in the bed frame that Al
has fucking done who knows what, but imagine it was
the same stainy mattress. But overall, I then took that
as a sign as maybe, just maybe, like things could
progress with this guy, and that was like a nod
to the other part of my life. And I don't know,
like I always look for coincidences or little moments in things,
(31:42):
and maybe this was one. The next day, as I
then arrived at that dely Mel dinner and I'll chat
quickly turned to the cast, asking me how my date went.
As I replayed the fairytale to them. Midway through telling
the story, I walked into the room. I had no
idea that he'd been invited to help Dali mel host things,
and as he walks in, he's like, oh, hey, Josh,
(32:02):
how was my bed last night? And everyone else seemed
a bit confused, as I obviously hadn't got to that
part the story yet, and it sounded like we just
slept together. Now, regardless of how things may pan out
with that guy I met off hints that's almost irrelevant here,
because as this season now wraps on our screens, I've
had this epiphany that hey, it's time to focus on
my own love life for once, not the fake ones
(32:24):
of those on television. That being said, though, don't worry, guys,
because this podcast is going nowhere. As long as the
cast keep being dramatic in real life, I'm going to
keep bringing you the drama. Plus, I've still got more
episodes of the investigation and other fun stuff planned, and
lots of interviews I recorded with the cast over the weekend,
So stay tuned, have a lovely day. Congratulations are making
(32:46):
it through another season. I've married at first sight, And lastly,
thank you to everyone who has got behind this podcast
this year. It was like a new thing. I was
just trialing. I didn't actually expect it to take off.
I didn't think I would enjoy it as much.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
As I have.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And now here we are, me telling you about guys
I'm getting with on Sydney Harbor on a kayak.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
So yeah,
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