MAFSUK7 I closed my eyes. Drew back the curtains. To see for certain … Adrian’s coupon. Far far away - someone was gobbing off.

[SheldonesqueTheBstard]

New one for when the old one has filled up or when Thomas stops gobbing off.

whatever is quicker.

This feels like the first group where they could all break up well before the end!

Jordan seems kind of wet and a bit dim bless him. He was practically ‘crying and shaking’ when they left the room. Chanita’s got the ick fast approaching.

'Fully intimate' made me cringe.

TMI 🤢

His kids must be dying of embarrassment.

Place marking as I lost you when the first thread went ping!

I cannot bear the term "being intimate", it really turns my stomach. And it started in the Aus version and is creeping over here with Mel

It's along the lines of "making love ". I bet Lionel cries as he climaxes at the end of love making.

Then gets his guitar out.

And I bet Paul CB smoothly talks his way through it

Its horrible, just asking if they’ve had sex is much less creepy

Agree. Thomas has a real and serious problem regulating his emotions. The Captain should not be his emotional punchbag. Everything Thomas says and does whilst in an uber flounce actually causes pain to his partner. Unfortunately even a prompt and heartfelt apology cannot just undo all the pain caused. Little by little, Captain Curtains will lose the will to be Thomas' healer- and he should never have been cast in that role- because it will come at too high a cost to his own happiness.
I hope Thomas can sort himself out because, in top psychological condition, I think he'd be fabulous and they'd make a great couple.

She asked if he's considered ADHD. I don't think she's done anything wrong. It's not like she was nasty about it. He said as much.

I thought Richie would stay but maybe him and lara sat down and discussed it. What 50 year old man can't handle his wife having had other partners ?!?!?

Firstly I have to say that I see right through April. She's very manipulative and not nice at all. I truly believe if Thomas didn't like Chanita, he'd say it to her face. Aprils fake crying and fake sick day will not be winning her an Oscar anytime soon

Richie really gives me the creeps. I fully understand that Lara wanted a fun relationship at this point in her life, not a teenage emotion filled love fest.

I am really sad about Jess and Pjay, think they could have been a really good couple but think she wrote him off early on due to the stripper thing and then couldn't find him attractive afterwards. He won't be single for long, he seemed lovely!

Checking in for when I catch up later...always a day behind!

Am really not liking Lionel, he is the textbook manchild and Lara clearly can't be arsed with his shit.

@FettleOfKish off topic but had to say I'm impressed with the Margret Thompson connection. Glad to hear she's spending her housewives cheque on the best treatments it can buy.

Lara really had the ick with Richie. It was written all over her face. He's like a teenage boy who finally gets his hands in a girl at the school disco. A bit sweaty, sucky mouth and clamping arms holding his prey tight. Ugh.

Lara needs someone to sweep her off her feet but also give her space and keep her on her toes. She's got adult kids and she's probably not long had her life back to herself after raising them. The last thing she wants is a clingy manchild (with a haircut only Jack Duckworth could love).

I agree that if Thomas didn’t like you I think he’d just come out and say it, I don’t think he has enough control of his emotion to keep it to himself.

April bitching and trying to egg Chanita on just made her worse in my opinion - when she said ‘are you happy that he’s calling you a liar’ - she’s very keen with the wooden spoon!

Adrian needs to have Thomas’s back a bit more to the group but also Thomas needs to stop taking his emotions out on Adrian. They could be happy if Thomas focused more on Adrian and their relationship than the drama in the group!

Tonight’s new couples look interesting - especially the posh princess, I mean what’s wrong with Haribos?? 🤣

Maybe ‘fully intimate’ is ‘taking her up the OXO tower’?

Its so obvious April has the ick but is tolerating it for the fame

Kasia is a nutjob. She's been throwing herself at kwame and now says it's her decision too that they haven't had sex? Sweetheart, you're dumb as fuck not us, if he'd dropped his pants you'd have climbed him like a tree.

I'm glad pjay and Jess split. He deserves better, why did he think she was so amazing? She liked him until she found out about his job. Then her stupidity got in the way and she's missed out on a great guy. Her loss.

Glad for lara too, Ritchie is a twat. Getting upset that she's had other partners, really?! She has kids, what did you think brought them mate, a stork? He needs to grow up.

April is a bitch, chanita likely is too. Their true colours starting to show. Chanita reminds me actually of Olivia..

With the Thomas and April conversation: I'd bet they were both having a little jealousy-fueled bitch about Chanita in the loo - then Thomas took it upon himself to raise it and try to look like the better person.

He probably wasn't even thinking about it, he seems extremely emotionally dysregulated.

I said to my husband that Thomas would write “Leave” owing to being pissed off about the April situation, and it was only the fact the chat with the ixperts ended on a high for him that he changed his mind.

I feel so bad for Adrian that he just has to suck up the fact that Thomas’ petulance over the drama trumped their relationship. That’s a lot to deal with after the cumulative build-up of all Thomas’ prior antics.

I thinks it an unreasonable ask for Adrian to "have Thomas's back" against the group, when he having to take so much emotional crap from Thomas.
He's having to be Thomas's emotional punch bag and no one gives a shit about him, including Thomas. Sitting with his back to Adrian and shrieking "dont touch me" is plain nasty. Adrian is not responsible for healing him.
I found the change in T as he lapped up the attention and affirmation from the group really uncomfortable.
The refusal of the ixperts to address the "issue" is just a production decision to create drama.
Thomas, like Whitney needs therapy not a reality programme.

Richie is a bit of a tit. He really needs to grow up.
Jordan strikes me as being quite immature and a bit dim. He got all upset with Chanita because she corrected him when he was reading from the card to the group. She didn’t even do it in a nasty way. If he can’t handle a simple thing like that , not sure there’s much hope.

I can’t see April staying with George. He’s a bit older, that’s fine, but has four kids. I don’t know many 30 years olds that would take that on. He’s an emotional nightmare too.
Plus I think she lied, and her only defence is to lie about it. She can just deny it behind Thomas’ back.

Thomas would surely be a nightmare for anybody? Way to over the top and just so full on.

FFS Thomas. I think id struggle to trust him again knowing how easily he can cut and run

Completely agree with all of this.

I like Thomas- he's genuine underneath all the drama: a fecking nightmare to be partnered with, but i think he wants to love and be loved.

April is a BITCH, and she's not even good-looking, she's so fake in every way.

Not so big a place, you can't help but trip over them from time to time. A good friend of mine is pally with Tessa Hartmann & that one whose fella liked a good jacket.

Some of them look a little 'odd' around the face but whatever Maggie is having done it's working very well for her. Even DH agreed that she looks great and he's usually enthusiastically disinterested in all of them.

@MrsWhites We had Haribos as favours at our wedding, such is my love for them. Shame I didn't apply for MAFS instead he might have been my perfect match.