James Weir recaps Married At First Sight episode 8: Drunken act after groom’s cruel insults

An unsuspecting MAFS husband expresses shocking remarks about the women in the experiment — leading to a drunken midnight escapade. James Weir recaps.

A Married At First Sight husband slags off the show’s wives behind their backs with a series of shocking insults, prompting his own bride to get drunk on a cheap bottle of Squealing Pig before, well, squealing on him to everyone.

Of course, all this drama is caused by the program’s annual Hot Or Not list. Who could have ever predicted that ranking your peers by sexual appeal would lead to such turmoil?

Adding insult to injury: the guy slinging the jibes looks like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.

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Wednesday night’s episode opens with former beauty queen Jacqui taking yet another opportunity to recite the CV that’s listed on her LinkedIn profile.

“I am a very curious and highly intelligent human,” she informs her husband during what’s supposed to be an intimacy task.

“Unfortunately, people judge a book by its cover and are incapable of believing that there’s no inverse correlation between looks and brains. Yes, you can be a model, blonde, beauty queen and also have a brain.”

We’re reminded of the fact that Jacqui was bullied in school. And we really can’t understand why. She’s so self-aware and not at all insufferable.

“I’ve been reading nonfiction and self-development since I was 10,” she brags. “I’ve read over a thousand nonfiction books!”

Wow! The State Library of NSW should erect a bronze statue of you in the lobby!

“I received first-class honours in law AND finance,” she continues. “I know how to do accounting, drafting contracts, negotiating, presenting, pitching, marketing, social media and business and projects.”

She then offers one final declaration: “I won’t rest until I’ve made at least $500 million!”

Her husband Ryan’s jaw is on the floor. They were meant to be sharing meaningful details about their childhoods with each other. Not practising their job interview techniques.

“You just gave me a resume,” he eventually says.

Jacqui is distraught that Ryan doesn’t celebrate her LinkedIn post with an applause emoji.

Congrats on your achievements at Jacqui Pty Ltd!

Across the hall, Ashleigh and Jake are doing the Hot Or Not list – a task that requires them to rank photos of the other contestants from hottest to nottest. Up until now, they’ve been the nice but boring couple. That all changes when Jake decides to offer feedback on the other wives.

One by one, he sorts through the photos and lets rip.

Jacqui? “Crazy eyes.”

Rhi? “Lazy eye.”

Sierah? “Her face screams: ‘I could stab you in your sleep.’ Like, I’d wake up in the middle of the night and she’d be standing at the end of the bed.”

Awhina? “I’m not racist or nothing but I do like caucasian people mostly.”

Um ... WHAT?

Then it’s time for him to rank his wife.

“I’d probably chuck you in the middle,” he says, with a shrug.

Ashleigh has some thoughts and observations about what she has just witnessed.

(L): Apparent style icon Jake. (R): Disgusted wife Ashleigh.

“Saying, ‘I’m not racist but I usually date caucasian girls’? To think it’s OK to verbalise that? How dare you say these unhinged things about these gorgeous women!” she fumes.

Jake shrugs. “It was a joke!”

“That was appalling,” she fires back. “Do you think Jacqui’s going to find it funny that you think she has crazy eyes?”

Yeah! And she doesn’t have crazy eyes. They only look that way because they’re strained from all that time she spent reading 1000 nonfiction books.

Jake better sleep with one eye open.

Ashleigh doesn’t know what to do. The idea of sleeping in the same bed as Jake makes her sick. So she stays awake and bonds with the most reliable friend a gal can have: a bottle of Squealing Pig wine.

Glug, glug, glug …

She gulps it down while replaying her husband’s awful words in her mind. She can’t believe she’s married to someone who’d say such things.

Her glass is empty and she stumbles into the kitchen for a top up.

Glug, glug, glug …

The wine runs out. She shakes the bottle vigorously to extract the final drops and clonks it back down on the marble bench.

Then she has an idea. She picks up her glass and sways out the front door of her suite, staggering down the hallway to Sierah’s apartment.

Suddenly, everything fades to black.

We’ve all been there.

The next time we see Ashleigh, she’s hungover and recording a regretful video diary.

“Last night, I had a few too many drinks … ughhh so stupid,” she groans while rubbing her bleary eyes. “And I feel really bad. But I just … I did something that I shouldn’t have done. And I’m feeling the repercussions of my silly actions. I just wish I didn’t knock on that door.”

She told Sierah everything – how Jake reckons Jacqui has crazy eyes and Rhy has a lazy eye and that Sierah herself looks like a serial killer.

How will they all get payback?

It only seems fair that Jake is tied to a stake at Sunday’s vow renewal ceremony while all the brides yell out their own constructive criticism.

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Originally published as James Weir recaps Married At First Sight episode 8: Drunken act after groom’s cruel insults