MAFS OZ (spoilers thread)

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Starts here in Oz 30th January so thought I'd give everyone a heads up if you're watching in real time with us.

In case anyone needs a reminder this will be the spoiler/up to date thread. Someone else can start the UK pace one.

Gahhhh! This happened last week too didn't it when we were expecting an episode on Thursday. Stuck with just Love Island tonight rather than MAFS which (imo) is far more interesting!

Ooh trailer for commitment ceremony looks juicy!!

Watching right now in Australia. It's quite confronting.

Good, it should be. I doubt it'll go far enough for me though!

Melissa needs to get down to her local GP and get a referral for 10 free sessions with a psychologist cause that woman needs therapy fast.

Next episode is up!!!

Yay! Watching now

Gosh. Feel rather wrung out now.

At last the experts seem to be calling out bad behaviour but it's still not enough. I think they should just come out and say to Bronte, we know you've put stay for the 'gram and just chuck them out. Harrison is not a good looking guy, I do not believe women go up to him and say "you're hot here's my number'. He's not Chris Hemsworth.

I do not find him attractive at all. And the "Brontë is now making an effort"!!! She clearly just wants exposure and a blue tick. He's awful! Duncan is fabulous. The experts were good this week though always think they could go further. At least they didn't let Melissa and Shannon off the hook

After watching that I think Bronte is just as vile as Harrison, she reeks of desperation! Mellissa is mental and its no wonder she is single! As for Shannon, the man is a walking red flag! He seriously gives me the creeps, dangerous man vibes!

Brontë is driving me mad because she looks like a former contestant on the show and I can't for the life of me remember her name...
Was involved in a cheating scandal...told her husband to take his eyebrow ring out or something?

Ines Basic.

Yes!!

Jesus they're identical!

Bronte is in it for the fame. But that doesn’t change the fact that Harrison is a cunt of the highest order. I actually think he has some sort of an evil streak.

My heart broke for Josh. The revelations about Melissa being controlling 😱 I believe him. And the way she spoke about his lack of manliness (how amazing is Duncan stepping in to call her out) and how shit he was in bed. - I actually felt sick for him. She needs therapy, and he needs a nice woman who appreciates him for who he is. Kudos to the ixperts for stepping in.

Same with Shannon. What an absolute fruit cake. Even though I don’t know her 😆, I feel super proud of Caitlyn for ending it. She looked absolutely stunning at the commitment ceremony. Shannon looked like an overdone pitta bread, hideous man, who the hell does he think he is rejecting Caitlyn!

I think they made the big deal about letting Josh leave because it's not like they really could force him to stay. He sure is a buttoned-up type. Strikes me as one of those really quiet and controlled people who one day cracks it and burns the house down. Melissa is trying to say bad edit and that he was 2-faced, cried for the cameras. Yada yada. If you don't say awful things they can't film them. She is clearly a very odd woman - they couldn't have made a worse match if they tried.

I suppose I’m quite buttoned up when it comes to sex - I have it and enjoy it immensely, but I don’t like to about about it and I’ve never done the whole sex chat with friends. The Alessandra school of sex looks like my worst nightmare! And it’s not because I’m repressed, I just think some things should be a bit sacred.

Shannon is grotesque- inside and out. Should go back to his ex and be miserable together. It's not fair to drag other people into their toxic relationship. Really hope they re-match Caitlin or she comes back next year for another chance.

Poor Josh - he looked broken. Melissa really has issues, so glad all the guys got behind Josh, they all seemed really supportive. The rest of the couples couldn't believe what she'd said! I love how one said that her view of masculinity is one from 60 years ago. It's true. She doesn't want a man for a relationship she just wants some big guy to have sex with. She has issues & needs some help realising what a relationship actually is.

Brontë is weak, trying to be the 'cool girl' letting Harrison walk all over her. Sandy smashed it - showed Brontë what it's like to have some self-respect. I can see Harrison having an affair with one of the new brides.

Harrison gives me Bryce vibes.

I think the inclusion of Melissa shows just how inixpert the ixperts are. They should never have permitted her to be on. She has very serious problems which emerged very quickly. Also, if half the things that Josh said were true, production should have removed her, even to a separate apartment. Given their failures, they really had no choice but to let him go.

And Shannon is just in a different realm. I wonder what his problem is? Obviously I don't know him, but his up and down behaviour suggests substance abuse.

Woof! There really was a new villain in the room eh, super control freak dick hungry Melissa! Really unpleasant, and if she is that controlling then he's hardly going to bring stuff up with her. So true that there would be outrage if a guy was doing what she was doing (and said that about the sex being a 'transaction'). I don't know that Josh is that buttoned up, I just think Melissa has cause him to put extra buttons and a zipper on for security! Is Melissa next up for an only fans account 😂

Harrison and Bronte totally expected from them - she's so in it for the instafame else why would you let someone sit there and say you need to do x and y etc. Nope. No.

Really REALLY pleased Caitlin found the strength to say no. She's not there to sort his shit out, again feel angry that someone as damaged as Shannon (and I am not using damaged as an excuse, I'm saying damaged because he is a fuck up probably of his own making) was allowed anywhere near this programme. They'd better have given her some therapy after this.

So 'next time' looks like we're getting some truth from Clare. And I'm already not sure about the new bride!

i So true that there would be outrage if a guy was doing what she was doing

That implies that there hasn't been outrage about Melissa doing it, but there has been?

Oh dear Clare....we pretty much all knew....

I'm shocked at all the things Josh said about Melissa, wanting to control the tv, his reading.. etc etc, never mind the 'functional' sex whilst drunk.

I would love to know how these ixperts analyse these people when they are looking for matches. Melissa was very open all the way from the start about her ideal man and her sexuality being a primal need. Although I do think that’s the warped way she assesses love. Poor Josh, who came across as a fairly decent guy, has left the process in worse mental health than he had at the start.

Shannon needs therapy and lots of it. To say all of that to her and then write stay, even after describing himself as a monster, is just beyond belief. So glad she straightened up and left.

Will Jesse forgive Clare? I’d be very surprised.