A post has resurfaced that was published by MAFS intruder Tayla’s father, that called for a punishment of slapping teenage girls “across the face” to be bought “back in”.

Tayla’s father is Darren Winter, who is a well-known Tasmanian footballer and ran for the United Australia Party in Tasmania back in 2019. At the time of his candidacy, a 2010 post that was shared by Darren circulated.

The post read: “Yes its a bit with teenage girls are just shitheads. I have lots of theories on what should happen to teenage girls or how they should be handled. I’m pretty sure these things went out 50 years ago but would like to start a movement to bring them back in. Something like any back chat a slap across the face.”

Darren Winter

At the time, UAP’s Tasmanian campaign manager John Harris brushed Winter’s post off as a “joke”, as The New Daily.

“I’ve seen that one. I’ve just actually asked the Facebook administrator. why … they have trawled back 10 years on one of our candidates to find one post about child discipline,” he said.

He added, “Ten years, to find one child discipline thing. I think it was Darren’s first post and he was joking. It was a conversation between him and two of his sisters about what the hell do we do with our of daughters these days.”

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Tayla entered the experiment last night as an intruder and ‘married’ IT executive Hugo on last night’s episode. The episode all saw intruders Evelyn and Rupert also shared vows in an exchange that could only be described as extremely awkward.

Both audience members and viewers experienced secondhand embarrassment as Rupert clammed up after seeing this bride and struggled to get any words out. While their initial meeting didn’t appear to go too smoothly, in last night’s episode it seemed as though Rupert was beginning to relax in front of his new bride, and told her that he finds her extremely attractive.

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