MAFS Reunion: Awkward Tears and Side-Eyes!

It was the kind of painfully awkward TV moment you simply couldn't script.

Fresh off their heartbreaking split on Married At First Sight,

As the cast gathered at Sydney's Ovolo Hotel in Woolloomooloo to watch the explosive finale, all eyes weren't just on the screen — they were on Rachel and Steven, who did everything in their power to pretend the other didn't exist.

Seated next to each other, the former couple spent the night avoiding eye contact entirely, staring straight ahead and carefully keeping their distance despite being shoulder-to-shoulder.

At one particularly awkward moment, Rachel was seen shooting Steven a serious side-eye as emotional scenes from their relationship played out on screen.

Meanwhile, Steven appeared visibly overwhelmed by the situation, eventually getting up and walking out of the room in tears.

The 34-year-old groom left briefly to compose himself before returning to the dinner, still emotional but attempting to push through the remainder of the night.

Daily Mail later shared the toe-curling exchange to TikTok with the caption: 'POV: You're stuck next to your ex' — and viewers couldn't get enough, taking to the comments section to share their amusement.

'The eye roll is everything,' one person quipped.

'This is hilarious,' a second added and a third chimed in: 'Very mature'.

However, the former couple appeared to make up as the night went on and were later

There was plenty of heartbreak on Sunday's MAFS episode, with fan favourite couple Rachel and Steven revealing they had split.

And Rachel was reduced to tears at Daily Mail's MAFS Final Dinner Party in , as she watched heartbreaking scenes of herself revealing the breakup, while Steven sat just metres away.

The cast reunited at the Ovolo Hotel in Woolloomooloo to watch Sunday's episode, which left Rachel in tears.