James Weir recaps Married At First Sight episode 15: Husband quits, makes wild diva demand

A MAFS groom has thrown a Mariah Carey-level fit on the set of a photoshoot. Now, he issues an ultimatum. James Weir recaps.

A Married At First Sight husband throws a diva tantrum after being snubbed from a publicity photoshoot and quits the experiment because — apparently! — some people sign up to this show for fame rather than love.

It’s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl. Girl marries boy. Boy dumps girl because he’s not featured on the cover of TV Week magazine.

Recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows most marriages now end this way.

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Tuesday’s episode is supposed to be about the reintroduction of Lauren and Smelliot. Sorry … Eliot (sic).

The toxic couple was expelled from the MAFS ecosystem three weeks ago after Eliot decided his wife was too old and unfit, while Lauren was almost hospitalised with oxygen deprivation because of her husband’s B.O.

Producers have now brought them back to be matched with new victims. But we don’t have any time to focus on their respective weddings tonight because one of the original MAFS freaks is being a diva.

… And no. It’s not Jacqui.

Apparently that bloke who mumbles thinks he’s Mariah Carey.

Awhina returns home to Trash Towers and finds the suite has been ransacked. All the drawers have been yanked out, possessions strewn across the floor.

Adrian’s missing. So are his clothes.

Awhina looks around for a clue. Her eyes land on Adrian’s wedding ring that has been pointedly placed on the kitchen bench by producers.

So much loose change and yet these freaks are still a few cents short of a dollar. Picture: Channel 9.

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She has just come from a photoshoot, where all the MAFS freaks were posing for pictures to promote the show. Apparently, Adrian threw a tantrum when the photographer started snapping pics of the other freaks instead of him. The gall! Adrian is a true starlet and he shall be treated as such!

In retaliation, Adrian stormed off to his trailer — only to realise there is no trailer!

The prima donna was furious. He barked at an assistant to call him a limousine. When a maxi taxi rolled up, it was the final straw.

Adrian stomped back into Trash Towers, packed his luggage and left.

Now, Awhina desperately calls him.

“Um … where are you?” she says.

Adrian mumbles something. At first we think the phone line is bad, but then we remember that’s just his voice.

“I went home,” he eventually manages to enunciate.

Adrian needs permanent subtitles. Picture: Channel 9.

Awhina cocks an eyebrow. “OK … are you coming back?”

“No I’m not,” Adrian sniffs, tossing a feather boa over one shoulder before taking a sip of champagne. “I’m pissed off that I’m not in the promo. It’s disrespectful. And I’m not gonna be treated like that, so I’m not gonna accept it. This is a shit go for me because I don’t deserve it. It’s not fair. And you don’t know what it feels like to be in my shoes. You don’t understand. I’m not coming back until they get me in the promo.”

Awhina’s startled. Is he here for love? Or is he here to get on the cover of TV Week magazine?

“I’m here WITH you. And if YOU’RE not here … then I’M not here,” she explains to her missing husband. “I feel sick to my core.”

Adrian issues a diva demand: secure me the magazine cover or I’m quitting.

“I’m not comin’ back until they get me in the promo,” he declares. “That’s the lowest of lows of lows of lows. And that’s where I stand.”

Then he hangs up on his wife.

Barbra Streisand wouldn’t accept it and neither shall Adrian.

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