Married At First Sight couple Jacqui Burfoot and Ryan Donnelly have been very vocal about their poor match-up on the series in recent weeks.
However, it seems the pair’s disdain for each other may have been hammed up by producers, as they were spotted looking very cosy ahead of the controversial dinner party on Sunday night.
Following a week of Ryan, 36, refusing to tell Jacqui, 29, he finds her attractive, it came as a shock to see the pair getting close and even sharing a kiss in paparazzi photos before they entered this week’s dinner party.
Ryan acted the perfect gentleman in his gold embroidered suit as he opened the car door for his bride in scenes he filmed multiple times with producers.
Jacqui was all smiles as she slipped out of the backseat and into his arms, wearing a gold gown to match her groom for the occasion.
The pair looked far from the warring couple they were portrayed to be on TV as they embraced and packed on the PDA before entering the building.
Married At First Sight couple Jacqui Burfoot, 29, and Ryan Donnelly, 36, have been very vocal about their poor match-up on the series in recent weeks—but it seems producers may have hammed up their conflict
They were spotted looking very cosy ahead of the controversial dinner party on Sunday night
Following a week of Ryan refusing to tell Jacqui he finds her attractive, it came as a shock to see the pair getting close and even sharing a kiss in paparazzi photos before they entered this week’s dinner party
The emergence of the photos comes just days after Ryan landed himself in hot water over an offhand remark that left both the MAFS cast and viewers stunned.
During an intimacy workshop last week, Ryan joked Jacqui had ‘crazy eyes’, repeating a put-down another groom had made about her.
But it was his next comment about her being good at a particular sexual act that repulsed the other grooms, who confronted him about it at the dinner party.
Jacqui, having learned of his grubby comments, stormed away from the table.
The backlash from fans was swift, with many slamming Ryan’s remarks as ‘disrespectful’ and ‘degrading’.
The groom later admitted he regrets making such awful comments about his bride.
‘It’s probably one of my biggest blunders on the show,’ Ryan confessed in a tell-all interview with Daily Mail Australia this week.
‘There’s dropping your bride at the wedding, there’s being a so-called warrior and squatting this and that—but that was just crass and inconsiderate. It wasn’t gentlemanly at all.’
Ryan acted the perfect gentleman in his gold embroidered suit as he opened the car door for his bride in scenes he filmed multiple times with producers
Jacqui was all smiles as she slipped out of the backseat and into his arms, wearing a gold gown to match her groom for the occasion
The pair looked far from the warring couple they were portrayed to be on TV as they embraced and packed on the PDA before entering the building
The emergence comes after weeks of the pair being portrayed as the feuding couple, with Ryan making some shocking comments about his wife’s ‘crazy eyes’ last week
Despite his apology, Jacqui has had mixed reactions to the controversy, with insiders revealing that their roller-coaster relationship has seen plenty of heated clashes behind the scenes.
When asked whether Jacqui’s portrayal on the show has been fair, Ryan didn’t hold back.
‘That’s the million-dollar question. What do you think?’ he teased, before hinting that viewers aren’t getting the full story.
‘All I can say is that this marriage has been a wild ride. You can’t strap yourself in and start wailing two minutes in – you knew what you signed up for. Holding a mirror up to yourself isn’t easy, and I won’t say I disagree with what I’m seeing so far.’
He also suggested Jacqui had her own difficult moments, claiming sh
e was ‘pretty horrible at the wedding’ and that her moods take drastic turns throughout the experiment.
‘I got blindsided a few times, and a lot of things happened that I didn’t expect. It definitely makes you question where we stand as a couple,’ Ryan revealed.
Married At First Sight continues Sunday at 7.00pm on Channel Nine and 9Now.
