A BRIDE from Married At First Sight Australia has slammed the experts from the hit show.
Bride Jacqui Burfoot, who was paired up with Ryan Donnelly in last year’s series of Married At First Sight Australia, but later found love with Clint Rice, has taken aim at the show’s experts.
Jacqui and Clint from MAFSCredit: Instagram
Gia and Brook were slammed for their behaviour on the showCredit: Channel Nine
Brook was accused of bullying at a recent dinner partyCredit: Channel Nine
Alissa a fellow bride on the current MAFS Australia series was subjected to Brook’s attacksCredit: Nine/Seven.One Studios
Fans of the Aussie version of the hit reality show, will be familiar with the three relationship experts: John Aiken, sexologist Alessandra Rampolla and and the late Mel Schilling, who sadly passed away last month.
In an episode which recently aired in the UK, but one month after its initial airing in Australia, a new “bullying row” was sparked on the show.
In the scenes, Brook and Gia were quite mean to at a dinner party, turning on Stella and Alissa.
At one point, Brook launched into a rant, telling Alissa to “shut up” and called her a “ratchet idiot”.
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Though the experts were left disgusted by the behaviour, watching on in shock, former contestant Jacqui feels they could do more in these situations.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun in mid March, Jacqui opened up on the “sickening” scenes and how she feels the experts should step in.
“The experts have kind of set up this experiment for couples to meet,” she told us.
“I feel like they should take a more active role in addressing a lot of the behaviour.”
She added: “In particular, I noticed this year, the bullying got to a point where it was actually really concerning for one participant in particular.
“It was really hard to watch as the audience.
“This was when Brook was going mean girl, like a thousand times on Alissa, and there was this gang attack. It went on for 7 hours.”
Jacqui went on: “Meanwhile, the experts are sitting, literally 20 metres away, watching the dinner party live, and commenting on the behaviour, and not one of them thought to get up and go and step in and intervene in the dinner party.”
She added: “I feel like there needs to be a little bit more of an active role in protecting the participants among the group environment.
“Because swearing at people, calling people names and stuff is not something you should just stand by and watch and be a bystander on.”
Jacqui slammed the three Aussie experts on the showCredit: Nine
Jacqui added how she feels the experts “just sit back, watch, and eat their popcorn,” with her husband-to-be Clint agreeing with her.
The Sun reached out to the Australian show for comment.
New episodes of MAFS Australia are still airing in the UK, but bride Brook has since left the show.
At the commitment ceremony following the explosive dinner party, the late Mel Schilling told Brook: “I have never before seen a woman be so vicious to other women.”
A shocked Brook replied that she needed to go to the toilet, leaving the set, but then never returned.
The move ruled her and TV groom Chris out of the experiment.
As for Jacqui and Clint, the couple will get married next month, with the details of their lavish ceremony kept firmly under wraps until they say “I do”.
The pair announced their engagement almost one year ago in April 2025.
Speaking in an interview with us last year, Jacqui and Clint hinted at what their wedding might be like.
“If I was to have a wedding, or a wedding celebration, or a wedding party of some kind, I want sparklers there, because I think it’d be really cool, and I want to pop some champagne.
“And I want to have fireworks,” Jacqui told us at the time.
She later added: “If we have a party, we want to have Morena DJ, but we also want to have a jazz band.
“So I’ve kind of said like we could have a jazz band first, and then have Morena [Farina] at a party.
“And we still haven’t decided whether we want to have like a 3 day event where you’ve got a welcome party, and then you’ve got the wedding day, and then you’ve got a barbecue post the next day.
“So we’re deciding where the entertainment would be.”
Clint and Jacqui will soon say ‘I do’Credit: TikTok/@jacqui.burfoot
The couple are excited about their upcoming nuptialsCredit: Instagram/@jacqui.burfoot
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