MAFS producers are reportedly “furious” over paparazzi photos that have led to five brides being identified from the upcoming season.
“A series of early leaks revealing the brides online before the majority of the weddings have been shot has ruined the surprise element of the show,” a source told Yahoo! Lifestyle.
“The grooms have all been looking up the pictures and trying to guess which bride is theirs. Producers are furious.”
Daily Mail Australia published paparazzi shots of the women’s hens night being filmed for the upcoming season, shortly after the photos were published fans began identifying the women.
So far, five women have been identified from the photos; influencer Melinda Willis, podcaster Tahnee Cook, influencer Bronte Schofield, childcare worker Claire Nomarhas and baker Alyssa Barmondem.
Melinda has a huge social media following of 150,000 followers and is followed by past MAFS cast members KC Osborne (season six), Jules Robinson (season six), Joshua Pihlak (season seven) and Jason Engler (season seven).
Bronte’s Instagram is littered with photos of her wearing bikinis in beautiful places, and she already boasts 11,000 followers on the platform.
Love Film & TV?
Get the latest Film & TV news, features, updates and giveaways straight to your inbox Learn more
Tahnee is also very active on social media and has over 45,000 followers across her social media channels and runs The Like Us Girls podcast.
While Alyssa’s job of baking is rather humble in comparison to the glamorous lives of influencers, she does have a baking Instagram account that boasts 18,900 followers.
A friend of the fifth bride, Childcare worker Claire Nomarhas, the Daily Mail that the bride-to be is a “firecracker” and claimed that she “caused a lot of trouble in high school”.
Filming of season ten of MAFS reportedly began in June this year and is slated to premiere in early 2023. MAFS dominated ratings throughout season nine and was picked up in the US and the UK.
Adrian Swift, Nine’s Head of Content Production & Development, spoke with the Herald Sun earlier this year about the upcoming season and teased that the show’s Logie-nominated sexologist Alessandra Rampolla will have a much larger role in 2023.
“We will get Alessandra a bit more involved in the sexuality part of it,” he said. “What we have always found is a complete bellwether for how a relationship [on MAFS] is going is how sexually they are getting on.
“And that getting on might be sexual tension, which is good, it might be sexual resolution, which is good, or it might be, and this often happens, sexual resolution and then nothing.”
For more on this topic, follow the Film and TV Observer.
