MAFSUK - thread 9 This matchmaking lark is quite tricky. When some are decidedly picky. They’ll meet for a blether, and then get together, but only because they’re so sticky.

[SheldonesqueTheBstard]

The show might have lost its appeal
For some that won’t be a big deal
It may just be snark
But they have jumped the shark
With the return of one I and P Beale.

And nip flashing peg? Brace yersel.

I read that he wasn't at the dinner party because he was at hospital with high blood pressure (stroke territory) apparently.
Wasn't he at the dinner and then went home? Do they regularly test their blood pressure? All seems a bit odd.
Anyway, I'm not going to be able to watch MAFS this week but will catch up on the thread when I can. Keep me updated ladies!

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So many pages to catch up on!

Well, far to much pleather by Tu in that episode, what are they all on?

Peggy really does think she's all that. Why didn't anyone chip in that they don't dislike Georges? He's not that offensive really, and actually he's a shadow of his former self now, she really has zapped the life out of him. If I were him I'd vote leave next week and get the feck out of there.

I'm glad they didn't let Luke stay. I wonder how Jay feels now having see what we have seen and what he actually did say.

And a big erm..thanks(?) to @ballsdeep for sending me over to Ella's insta to check out the halloween outfit...definitely out to prove there's no veg n meat been left behind there! I have to say I would think very badly of a woman going out dressed like that, it's not really a halloween outfit either so, fail!

Turtlerussell It was on the other thread but I totally agree...

"If a guy had done what ros did - would he have gotten away with it?

slept with Thomas then aired him
blew hot and cold
made it all about sex
pushed his boundaries
and how it’s all about her being gratified and him having to adapt - the insinuation is he’s boring in bed

if a guy did that to push a woman into being more kinky, mumsnet would be dispensing it’s usual advice

ltb"

Jj has become so much more vocal and seems to genuinely like Ella. Ella looks a whole lot better. More conservately dressed, and it suits her. She has opened up a lot more too.

Amazing that Mark has grown on me, Sean and Tasha have gone down in my opinion - because of their behaviour.

Peggy thinks being willing to have an emotional and violent outburst against a door, and attack another person on a TV game show and risk being thrown off the show somehow shows how much he loves Jay! The values on this programme are so fucked up!

Sunbird24 "I’m watching Gogglebox - there’s currently a pair of blind sea creatures trying to stab each other with their double penises. Still a better love story than most of the MAFS couples"

I laughed out load when I read that!

PaddingtonsHat

"I’m a bit confused. The message from the ixperts is that physical abuse is worse than emotional ( I’m looking at you Ella and JJ)."

What hvae Ella and Jj done that is emotional abuse. They didn't get fancied by/fancy their assigned partner, they texted each other. That is not emotional abuse.

43ontherocksporfavor

"Love how Arthur is softening Laura."

I think Arthur is a naturally nice guy, I think he is the best looking guy (I know I like the look of Thomas but he doesn't have overall appeal, which I think Arthur does) and Laura is the best looking woman. They look like a couple and they seem to genuinely communicate about more than surface issues. I think she is the only one this time who has been married before and she does seem genuinely invested.

Think Peggy is being b unfair to Georges. When he said he was upset that people don’t think he is mei g himself doesn’t he mean Peggy thinks that? As pp said I think he is being himself.

I like Jordan even if he has no filter!

I can't decide if production are all over social media stirring or if there really are that many people with shit values who think Luke should have stayed and that he is just very passionate about Jay 🙄 rather than seeing him for the lying, gaslighting, sexist, abusive git he is. Too many Andrew Tate fans in the world.

For the first time ever, and I've watched some rubbish on MAFS over the years - I wondered if MAFS can be reported to Ofcom for broadcasting Peggy's abuse apology - violence is love - bullshit. Hopefully Women's Aid will be all over it too. As they were with the Brad situation.

Peggy coming from an abusive relationship or household makes a lot of sense. She can't relate to TwoGeorges silliness; she panders to people who blow up at her (eg Ella - after she said Ella should leave); she condones people blowing up at others (Luke). She is cowed by aggressive energy. She could see Brad for what he was because his manipulation wasn't couched in overt aggressive energy.

Yeah my question about where producers were was not meant to be literal or rhetorical. Like, what the hell were they thinking??

I do think the police should have been involved. Luke assaulted Jordan. It was scary and violent.

Instead of dealing with the incident responsibly, the producers rubbed their hands with glee. Drama!

No wonder Jordan looked so sad at the commitment ceremony. He was assaulted and then the entire cast and crew gaslighted him about it.

I thought that fight was a bit tragic tbh. The team just happened to be there filming.I bet they added to riling it all up. I don’t like Luke but I cannot warm to Erica or Jordan. Tbh I don’t like or care about any of them.
Jordan seems a fairly emotionally intelligent man but I still find him irritating, perhaps it’s because he is dull. Erica I think has a very high opinion of herself. Not one person there seems to really like them really, including the newer couples.
I was really hoping Georges would have written leave. She’s done that as a prove yourself move. She likes the look of him but doesn’t seem to like anything about him. She wants a handsome car dealer who will play golf with her dad.
I don’t think Paul will be back next year. It’s a shitshow. Respect the forum.

ramalana I’m team Jerica too! Think the way the others all worship Ella and JJ and crowded round Luke was really awful behaviour. Especially as the men knew what he really said and not the version of it he’s spinning to Jay.

Luke did make out it was an argument that got out of hand , when he made that apology to Jordan.
Bullocks. He banged on his door and assaulted Jordan. Jordan wasn’t the aggressor.
I said this earlier- the police could get involved in this.

Jays family really need to end her relationship for her. Please don’t let her move down to Essex.

Placing

I wanted someone to say 'I like you Georges' when Peggy was spouting her BS. Could have started an I am Spartacus moment.

I haven't liked Luke from the start when he was awful to Laura for essentially being a bit posh anyone would be compared to him and Jay.

I disagree Jordan is emotionally intelligent. He lacks emotional intelligence imo ( or maybe it’s maturity) as he can’t understand the impact what he says has on others. He is all about his own opinions and telling the truth but he cannot read the room at all.

Apologies, I haven't caught up with the thread yet, only just caught up with last night's episode, and I'm so cross with what Peggy said that I have to get it off my chest.

No. It does not show how much Luke cares about Jay. It shows that Luke will turn anger about words into physical violence. It shows that he is dangerous. I fervently hope that Jay has run a country mile from Luke.

I call shenanigans.

If they were there for that then anyone in their right mind would have downed tools and diffused the situation.

Regardless of the ‘catch the drama’.

The rest of it has been fabricated, gussied up, poked and prodded for the drama. Why not this? Fine to not film the ladies having a bit of frottage though. What else did they miss? They’ve certainly missed interaction with the cast. What else have they frothed the pot with?

I’m not buying the pish frankly.

Violence is never acceptable of course but the whole series has been so pitiful it would not be so unbelievable that they are bunging eggs at the pudding.

I bet they thought the story would be Ella finding love, the viewers going full Mills and Boon on their arse and the celebrations and backslapping would begin.

Instead it got ridiculed for the manufactured pish it is.

There are two weeks to go. They had to do something…

Apologies, I haven't caught up with the thread yet, only just caught up with last night's episode, and I'm so cross with what Peggy said that I have to get it off my chest.
I love how when we're watching on catch up we have to stop and come on here to get our rage out before we can continue

There are two weeks to go
Two weeks?? 😭

As for Peggy?

She is a nasty, manipulative, attention seeking shell of a woman who wouldn’t no emotion if it rimmed her.

Put simply?

Peggy be a fud. There I said the word.

Or she is pretending to be one. I’m which case she is doing a marvellous job. Brava.

mercifully glad my autocarrot will not let me type rimmed without wanting to change it to something benign. 🤣. Hence ma edit.