Controversial bride Jacqui Burfoot shares harsh reality of MAFS dinner parties

Controversial Married At First Sight bride Jacqui has lifted the lid on the show’s explosive dinner parties, revealing what the environment is really like backstage.

Married At First Sight bride Jacqui Burfoot has lifted the lid on the show’s explosive dinner parties, revealing what the environment is really like backstage for the participants on the popular dating show.

Taking to TikTok, the controversial bride – who is paired with Ryan Donnelly on the show – posted sneaky behind-the-scenes footage of the cast from last night’s dinner party, sitting apart after cameras stopped rolling.

MAFS producers would have viewers believe that once each couple arrives at a Sydney warehouse in Sydney’s Lilyfield for the dinner party, they enter the cocktail party straight away. And after the cameras stop rolling, they are immediately chauffeured back home.

Not so, according to Jacqui’s footage of the cast backstage as she claims that certain rules were in place while they waited to be dismissed.

In the clip, most of the participants are sitting apart with Carina Mirabile looking cold while wrapped in the satin shawl of her billowing blue gown as her husband Paul Antoine sits metres away, joking with fellow groom Adrian Araouzou.

Jacqui said the cast were not allowed to speak backstage with Carina seen sitting apart from her husband Paul.

However, Paul and Adrian could be seen defying the rules as they chat to a producer as Dave looks distraught in the background.

Meanwhile, further in the background, another groom, believed to be Dave Hand, appears distressed as he sits with his head in his hands looking at the concrete floor.

“What it was like backstage of a MAFS dinner party,” Jacqui captioned her video.

“Separated, not allowed to speak and babysat for hours without a phone. Usually in tents, this was around 3am after a [dinner party].”

The room featured in Jacqui’s video appears to be the same one viewers see when a participant storms out of the dining room after a fiery confrontation of sorts.

It remains to be seen how Jacqui managed to sneak a phone backstage to film the video when a producer was nearby chatting with Paul and Adrian.

On Wednesday night’s dinner party, Carina (right) and Awhina have a tense conversation.

Previous MAFS stars have also come forward in the last few weeks to share their own experience at the infamous dinner parties.

Sara Mesa, who was matched with Tim Calwell on last year’s season, told Yahoo Lifestyle that the cast were holed up inside tents outside the warehouse for hours before they were given access to the building.

Inside the makeshift waiting rooms, none of the brides or grooms were allowed to use their phones, and were left to read magazines or take naps to pass the time.

Jacqui has been matched with Ryan in the experiment.

The MAFS bride has gone rogue many times on Instagram.

“You’re sitting in a tent with a couple of magazines, like motorcycle magazines or home decor magazines, a couple of colouring books, an orange, an apple and a chocolate bar or something,” Sara told the outlet. “And if you didn’t like your partner, you’re just sitting there like, ‘Oh my god.’”

“It could be hours, because a couple goes in probably [every] half an hour. They’re trying to get what they want out of each couple so until they get that, then they bring in the next couple. So it could be hours.”

Eden Harper, who also appeared on last year’s season, also shed some surprising details about the dinner parties, such as how “terrible” the food was.

“I wouldn’t recommend it to my worst enemy. It was cold and there wasn’t enough of it,” she told Yahoo Lifestyle. “Always eat before the dinner parties. I’d tell that to anyone, any season.”

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