Married at First Sight Australia boss Tara McWilliams has teased that the 2023 season will feature the worst behaviour yet, and yeah, we’re counting on it!
Past seasons have featured unforeseen OnlyFans beef, cheating scandals and wine-slinging drama. However, the past has nothing on the marriage experiment’s 10th instalment.
Of course, participants are inclined to blame their naughty antics on the “villain edit”, but Tara insists it ain’t a thing.
“I don’t think anyone is a villain,” she told Daily Mail Australia. “They’re not characters out of a storybook, they’re real people that sometimes behave poorly.
“It doesn’t make them bad people. I think you can put the best meeting on a show like this, and the intensity of the experience makes people behave in a way that even surprises them.”
She then dished that MAFS 2023 will “absolutely” have “some controversial people” — onset sources have even labelled one groom “worse than Bryce [Ruthven]“. Lord help us!
However, Tara is confident that the participants aren’t actually baddies at their core. They’re just “dealing with issues which are the root cause of their bad behaviour”.
‘Gaslighting’ will be a topic of discussion on Married at First Sight 2023
Speaking of Bryce — Tara confirmed that gaslighting is a terse topic of discussion on Married at First Sight 2023.
“Gaslighting gets tackled again, but other things about how people treat each other in relationships, which for us — we think we’ve seen it all — is shocking,” she told Variety Australia.
“If we’re being shocked still, then you know the content’s pretty ballsy,” she added.
“We have scandals again, but scandals that you haven’t seen. And that’s what I love about this, the reality Gods have really kind of smiled down on us.” Ah yes, joy out of other people’s pain and all that…
Gaslighting has been a mounting issue in relationships on the show in recent years.
In 2021, many fans of the show took issue with the way Bryce was treating Melissa Rawson, dubbing his behaviour as “gaslighting” and “abusive”.
After 50 complaints were made to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Nine’s decision to air “abusive” scenes became the focus of an investigation by the organisation.
However, in October, ACMA concluded that the episodes containing these scenes did not breach the Commercial Television Code of Practice.
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