From cheating scandals to smashed wine glasses, over the past nine seasons of MAFS Australia, countless drama has emerged. However, in recent years the drama that’s taken place off-show is even spicier.
Ever since Jessika Power and Martha Kalifatidis starred in season six and racked up hundreds of thousands of followers on social media after the show finished airing, more and more participants entered the show with the interest of having a large following afterwards.
Because of this, the drama continues to play out to their followers, even after the show is well and truly over. This is largely through Instagram stories, however, recent contestants have been sharing content on OnlyFans. Of course, insiders share post-show drama via podcasts and media articles, too.
We’ve compiled some of the wildest post-show drama that has taken place over the last three seasons.
1. Season Six: Jessika Power and Dan break up live on air
Jessika Power is perhaps one of the most famous people to come out of MAFS Australia, and this can initially be contributed to her turbulent ride on the show. She was originally paired with Mick Gould but ditched him to pursue a relationship with her co-star Dan Webb.
While Jessika and Dan went on to date after the show, their relationship hit a speed bump when a clip aired showing Jessika saying she found her fellow contestant Nic attractive. Jessika and Dan worked through their problems and got back together.
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However, during an interview for Talking Married, that took place a few months later, the Nic fight was bought up again and, this time, it snowballed. During the interview, Jessika was asked outright if she hit on Nic, and she confirmed she did. Dan looked angry at the answer, and the couple broke up as soon as the cameras stopped filming.
2. Series Six: Cyrell drops the N-word on an Instagram story
Shortly after Cyrell’s season finished airing, she was embroiled in a racism scandal. The fiery bride was caught on camera making a racist slur.
A video was uploaded by co-star Dino Hira. As the camera panned to Cyrell, she can be heard saying ‘Oh, you’re recording! Hey n*****!’
3. Series Six: Nic embroiled in a leaked sex tape scandal
Cyrell’s on-screen partner Nic was also caught up in an off-screen scandal. Nic has a video of him and an unidentified woman engaging in a sex act circulate on social media. He was dating his former on-screen wife at the time of the leak, but claimed that the video was taken before he filmed MAFS.
Interestingly, he can be heard saying, “It’s tough being married.” However, he later claimed that the sentence was in reference to the woman in the video being married.
4. Season Seven: MAFS grandma Karen becomes a hardcore porn star
MAFS participant Mishel Karen was relatively well behaved during her season of MAFS, and avoided any main scandals. However, the now 48-year-old has gone on to have a full-fledged porn career post fimling.
The grandma joined OnlyFans in 2021, and now regularly posts hardcore porn videos to the content-sharing platform. In June this year, she shared a video of her performing sex acts with 12 other people.
Taking to her social media to promote the saucy video, Mishe wrote: “I have been so so naughty.”
5. Season Eight: Bec Zemek accidentally records herself cheating on Jake
Beck Zemek was largely considered the villain of MAFS season eight, mainly because of her ice queen attitude towards her partner Jake. However, the pair managed to stay together and left the show as a couple.
At the reunion, the clip was shared showing Beck visiting her family home in Perth. During the trip, producers asked the reality star to take daily videos of her trip home. She handed all of the videos over to producers, without realising that she’d left the camera recording on one of the videos and she’d captured herself kissing a former flame.
“I do consider it to an extent cheating,” she later said of the incident. “But do I think cheating like that is a hard boundary that should end a relationship? No, I don’t. It’s the same with the Booka kiss, that’s not actually what ended our relationship. It’s up to anyone to create those boundaries though, if that’s a hard boundary for you and you don’t want your partner to cross that, you need to make that very clear and assess the situation as it comes.”
6. Season Eight: Jason Engler caught on camera making homophobic comments about co-star
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Perhaps the most shocking of any MAFS Australia scandal, was the highly offensive leaked video that showed Jason Engler calling his former co-star a “full-blown homosexual” and ridiculing him for “not going to the gym”.
Jason made the comments about his co-star Liam Cooper when he was unknowingly filmed talking to Liam’s former on-screen wife Georgia Fairweather and their co-star Johnny Balbuziente.
Jason later apologised and said he was drunk at the time the video was taken. ‘I had a few drinks – I had too many drinks and I ran my mouth like a d**khead and obviously I wish I didn’t.’
7. Season Nine: Jackson photographed cheating on Olivia
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On Saturday, 28th May, MAFS fans woke up to some unexpected and highly scandalous news. A photo had been leaked of Jackson, who was dating his co-star Olivia at the time, making out with a mystery woman at a Melbourne nightclub called Lava Lounge.
“Is it all over for Married At First Sight’s Olivia and Jackson?” gossip Instagram account The Wash captioned the video.
“In the past 30 minutes, multiple people have sent us this picture of him kissing a brunette – which was allegedly taken in Melbourne last night. We’ve messaged both Olivia and Jackson to see if they can confirm this or find out what the go is. The picture is currently going viral on Facebook, with some claiming Olivia was with Jackson earlier in the night before leaving him and the boys.”
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Multiple women have since come out of the woodwork to claim that they, too, hooked up with Jackson while he was dating Olivia. Jackson and Olivia split last month, however, they have claimed that the break up had nothing to do with Jackson’s infidelities.
8. Season Nine: Carolina leaks scandalous voice recordings between herself and a producer
Carolina Schmidt has gone ahead and done a figurative mic drop, by releasing receipts in the form of voice recordings that show producers practically admitting that the reality show is fake.
Carolina posted the conversations to her Instagram story, and in one of the videos, she can be heard asking a producer when she can come clean about her new romance with co-star Daniel. She was currently dating her on-screen husband Dino at the time.
Fans of the show will remember that Carolina and Daniel began to hook up after Daniel’s partner Jessica left the show. Carolina was still partnered with Dion at the time, and he didn’t find out about the tryst until the show’s “commitment ceremony” episode – well and truly after the new couple had become romantically involved.
“I would also like to not blindside Dion completely. I would like to invite him over or go over to his place and just say, ‘look I’m really sorry but I know from the get-go that you weren’t really for me and this kind of happened and I see a chance of finding love and that’s why I came here for it so I’m going to go for it,’” she told a producer in the recording.
Carolina continued, “So I would like to tell him one on one. I would actually love it if that happened today. The more honest way.”
The producer said that he agreed with Carolina. “Yeah. Oh, I could see that. I see that definitely see your point, but it’s not up to me.”
“So who is it up to then?” She asked in response. “Are they going to make a decision because I’ve literally been bringing this up for over a week now? I wanted to do that last week as well. How long are we going to drag this along for?”
The producer can then be heard telling the mum of one that she isn’t “allowed” to take about her new romance. “So you know you’re not obviously allowed to say anything?” He says.
9. Season Nine: A video is uncovered of Dom talking with a fake Chinese accent
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Though it’s been months since this year’s season of MAFS wrapped, the drama has been peaking recently. Just last week, an old video of Dom appearing to make a racist imitation resurfaced.
Gossip publication So Dramatic! reported that a video that showed Domenica imitating a Chinese accent was uploaded to her YouTube account years ago. In the damning video, Domenica discusses the Christmas decorations at her grandma’s house before making the offensive reference.
“So this is what Christmas decorations are in my Italian grandmother’s house… alongside The Last Supper,” Domenica allegedly said, before adding; “and, that cute Santa from the Asian store… five dollaaaaaaar.”
Many social media users have voiced that they found the “five dollaaaaaaar” comment offensive, and labelled it as racist as it appears that Dom is mocking an Asian accent.
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