Does MAFS' Lauren know what show she's on?
After a heated argument with Jamie in last night's episode of MAFS, viewers are beginning to question how real Lauren's 'classy', trad wife persona can really be.
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Since the first teasers for this season of MAFS were aired, we knew that Lauren would be a main character.
The 37-year-old was shown cooking and cleaning, raving about her impossible-to-meet standards, and talking about how all she wants in life is to ‘serve her partner’.
Given what we know about MAFS - a show where people regularly get into arguments to the point where they’re deliberately breaking glasses and chasing one another around a table - it doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for Lauren. And, after last night’s episode, this is even more apparent.
Now, viewers are beginning to question whether her ‘classy’, trad wife persona is real at all.
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Introducing Lauren
When we first saw Lauren enter the MAFS experiment in the first episode of this season, I think people anticipated that her heightened, stereotypically ‘classy’ persona would dull down as the episodes progressed.
She was easy to hate based on what we knew about her. But, thanks to Eliot’s questionable behaviour early on, many people even began to feel sorry for her, and even like her.
However, all of that changed when she re-entered the experiment with her new husband, Clint.
Whilst Eliot has since received an extremely kind edit, Lauren has received the opposite... But is this all part of her plan?
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"Boganic"? Okay...
Last night’s episode of MAFS began just as you’d expect - with Lauren calling the rest of the girls ‘losers’, ‘buffoons’ and ‘trolls’.
“The bogans just keep boganing with their boganic ways, they can’t help it,” she said.
“They’re just not my people.”
Which begs the question - are these the words of someone who genuinely has ended up in a situation she didn't anticipate, or of a reality TV star angling to get more airtime?
Things went south at girls night when Lauren claimed she felt ambushed by questions regarding her relationship with Clint (how would he ever know doing the dishes could go this wrong?) despite her admitting she just wasn't that into him.
Now, if she thought that little tidbit was going to stay within the confines of the girl group she has spent so much time throwing under the 'boganic' bus, she was sorely mistaken.
Jamie and husband Dave wasted no time exposing Lauren’s lack of feelings for Clint (though she denied this to his face) both to the group, and back to Clint himself, which, if you ask me, is textbook MAFS.
Yet Lauren claims to be blindsided by the girls she thought she trusted? Does she even know what show she is on?
Maybe try The Bachelor next?
MAFS is notoriously not a ‘classy’ show by definition.
If you were to make a bingo card for any given season, ‘Someone throws a drink’, ‘Someone threatens a physical fight’, ‘Man makes a derogatory comment about someone else’s wife’ and ‘Couple overshares about their sex life’ would absolutely be on there - and probably crossed off within the first week.
But, that's what people love about it!
So if Lauren is so against all of the above... what show does she think she's on, exactly?
Or is she the one trolling us all in a bid to receive more airtime?
As one of the few contestants who hasn't been updating their socials during the season airing, we don't know for sure yet.
But I'm sure glad seeing what dirty laundry she has to air (and what small business venture to plug) once the final dinner party is over.
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Originally published as Does MAFS' Lauren know what show she's on?