Married At First Sight bride Awhina Rutene has spoken out after her groom Adrian Araouzou was spotted with his arm wrapped around another woman in Sydney over the weekend.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, the 30-year-old mother-of-one played it coy, offering a cheeky response that has fuelled speculation about the outcome of their ‘marriage’.
‘The public have been demanding that I dye my hair brown – who knows?’ she laughed.
‘Maybe I succumbed to Australia’s peer pressure and rendezvoused with my husband in Sydney. Maybe.’
One eagle-eyed fan spotted Adrian out and about in Sydney on Friday night with a mystery woman on his arm.
The couple looked very happy to be in each other’s company, strolling along with their arms wrapped around each other.
Married At First Sight bride Awhina Rutene has spoken out after her groom Adrian Araouzou was spotted with his arm wrapped around another woman in Sydney over the weekend
One eagle-eyed fan spotted Adrian out and about in Sydney on Friday night with a mystery woman on his arm
But in a shock twist, Adrian claimed it was a case of mistaken identity and the man on the mystery woman’s arm was in fact his twin brother James.
‘We are identical and our haircuts are exactly the same. He doesn’t have long hair anymore, nor do I. We literally both have the same haircut right now,’ Adrian insisted.
‘Leading into the show, we sort of knew that this would happen so we decided to get the same haircut because people wouldn’t know the difference, especially now.’
However, James has a sleeve tattoo on his right arm while Adrian’s ink sits on his left.
When pressed about this Adrian offered quite the cryptic answer.
‘I guess we’ll have to wait and find out, I don’t know,’ he said.
‘I mean, it might have been a girlfriend. It might have been my brother. Who knows?’
Adrian was left blindsided at his TV wedding reception when it was revealed that his bride Awhina was a mother to a six-year-old son.
Adrian was left blindsided at his TV wedding reception when it was revealed that his bride Awhina was a mother to a six-year-old son. Pictured arriving at their accommodation in Sydney
He told Daily Mail Australia he was completely shocked by the revelation, saying that Awhina could have mentioned the fact in her vows.
‘On the day, obviously it’s over,’ he said.
‘Did I have to find out from her mum? Why didn’t she mention it in her vows?’
Despite being blindsided by the news he said he would approach the situation with an open mind.
‘I thought about everything, I thought about every single thing from the good to the bad,’ he said.
‘If I fall in love with this girl, I fall in love with her son. If it doesn’t work out, then I lose two people that I love in life.’
He added that he knew there ‘was something there’ after the pair chatted for the entire duration of the couple’s seven-hour flight to their Fiji honeymoon.
‘We chatted the whole way up until we jumped off that plane to Fiji for the seven-hour flight,’ he recalled.
‘And we knew straight away, there’s definitely something here.’
Although, Adrian also cheekily teased this his and Awhina’s edit is set to get a lot more ‘popcorn-worthy’.
‘Stay tuned, it just gets better,’ he said.
‘Watch me, keep an eye out for me and Awhina, and be prepared for the drama, get your popcorn ready.’
Married At First Sight continues Sunday at 7pm on Channel Nine.
Adrian also cheekily teased this his and Awhina’s edit is set to get a lot more ‘popcorn-worthy’
