Married At First Sight wife’s secret weekend with ex gets outed in text messages

A MAFS wife disappeared on a secret weekend — away from her husband and the cameras. Her excuse was a lie. James Weir recaps.

A Married At First Sight wife’s secret rendezvous with an ex is unveiled at Wednesday night’s drunken dinner party, with her lies bursting at the seams like Jack’s very tight blouse.

It’s an evening of betrayal, deception … and offensive gifts.

Most shocking of all? The unspoken confidentiality that’s implied by the “shush” emoji is brutally disregarded.

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At the centre of it all is Sara. Some things just aren’t lining up. The episode suddenly takes on the clipped tone of a hard-boiled detective paperback.

Where was she Friday night?

Dog sitting for a friend, she says. Her hands are steady and there’s a cold-hearted glint in her eye. You pigs can’t prove nothin’, she thinks.

Nice alibi. Seems watertight. But we had producers locate the dog for us to interrogate. Promised him a coupla Schmackos. Let him sit on the couch. Then we threatened to put Jack’s muzzle on him. Pup sang like a bird. Says he’s never seen this dame in his life.

And what about Saturday night – where were you then, Sara? Not at home with your husband, Tim?

Birthday dinner, she says.

Huh. Interesting. Let’s go to our first witness. It’s your best friend, Eden.

“I’m going to give you the opportunity now to tell Tim what you did last weekend, otherwise we will do it,” she tells Sara. “Because I’m not protecting you anymore.”

Eden hasn’t slept all week. She knows a secret she wishes she was never let in on. Now, she can either speak up, or be an accomplice in the crime.

It all started when Sara messaged her the other day, asking to borrow a cute outfit because she was about to meet up with someone: her ex-boyfriend. Then, she sent the “shush” emoji. It’s a web of lies that’s more tangled than Jayden’s hair after a really long nap.

“Tell Tim now, otherwise we will do it,” Eden warns Sara, “shush” emoji be damned.

Tim sits wide-eyed, unsure of what’s to come.

Sara’s surrounded. Still, she tries to sidestep her way out of trouble.

“Well … I ran into my ex,” she says.

RAN INTO? Actually, that’s not true, Ellen.

Tell the truth, Ellen.

“I met up with my ex,” Sara corrects herself. “He was here from Perth. He messaged me and … yeah … we met up.”

Getting creative with the artistic post-production editing, producers indulge in some sepia-toned flashback footage to when Sara cancelled dates with Tim along with the times she was secretive about letting people see her phone. Tim can’t believe how foolish he has been. Last weekend, he was home alone, thinking his wife was babysitting at a dog birthday party when, really, she was with her ex. He shoots up from the sofa and storms off into the mazelike hallways of the warehouse.

“She was cheating on me,” he says to himself.

Meanwhile, Sara has other things on her mind. She glares at the camera crew.

“Can I please have a glass of wine!” she demands.

Yes. Wine is the fuel that needs to be added to this fire.

“Disgusting!” one of the other wives yells as word begins to float around the dining table about Sara’s lies.

But Sara refuses to relinquish control of this narrative.

“OK, YES! I went out with my ex on the weekend,” she yells at the angry mob. “We had a few drinks together. Yes, I did ask Eden for something to wear. Yes, I wanted to look good for my ex. He’s dating someone. He’s been dating someone for six years. I didn’t do anything with my ex! All I did was have drinks!”

So he has been with his current girlfriend for six years? But … didn’t you tell Tim a few weeks ago that you’d slept with him a month before coming on the experiment?

“No! No! He … Ahh … they’d just broke up!”

Huh?

“They’re … still together. But they are … on and off again!”

The townsfolk hold their pitchforks in their air and chant.

“Liar!” someone screams.

“Tell the truth!” another hollers.

Sara flip-flops on the story.

“Yes, I did sleep with my ex while he had a partner. But I didn’t cheat on Tim!” she yells.

What hurts us the most is Jack is relishing the fact someone else is being villainised tonight.

“There’s no excuse,” he shakes his head.

Jackson, don’t for one second think we’ve forgotten that, just moments ago, you “apologised” for calling Tristan a “whale” by gifting him weight loss supplements along with a cheap key chain that you engraved with the phrase “YOU ARE ENOUGH”.

We don’t even have the words to deal with you right now. Instead, we’ll throw to Lauren, who never fails with her articulate insights.

“Jack’s sitting there with his nipples like a big, glazed Christmas ham,” she rolls her eyes.

He wreaks of cloves.

Anyway, Sara continues to defend herself.

“I didn’t cheat on Tim! I didn’t cheat!” she screams as everyone boos. “I lied to Tim … nothing happened … I came home at midnight. And … that’s it.”

But Tim doesn’t buy it.

“It’s pretty obvious Sara still has feelings for him and she’s still sleeping with him,” he insists.

By this point, the walls have closed in on Sara and there’s no escape. She stands and looms over the table, spitting fury.

“I have never, ever cheated on a partner and I can f**king attest to that!” she roars. “How many of you at this f**king table have cheated on a partner! Raise your f**king hand!”

And with that, she stomps out of the warehouse.

How can she make it up to Tim? She better hightail it down to Mr Minit to buy an engraved key ring.

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Originally published as Married At First Sight wife’s secret weekend with ex gets outed in text messages