Love Triangle Season 3 has dropped three dramatic episodes already and it’s probably not surprising that former MAFS groom Mike Gunner was at the centre of one of the show’s biggest dramas so far, when his match Melinda dubbed him as a “washed up reality star” during an argument.
Mike and Melinda didn’t get off to the easiest start after an awkward beach date that saw Mike ask Melinda numerous times if she recognised him from anywhere, trying to suss out if his new match recognised him from his controversial MAFS days.
Melinda told Chattr that the whole beach date had her out of her comfort zone for many reasons. “The beach date just had just an awkward vibe about it. I can’t put my finger on what it was,” she said.
“I mean, he did ask so many times if I recognised him, that was throwing me off, and I think, you know, it wasn’t Mike’s first rodeo,” Melinda explained.
“He’s used to being on TV and everything like that. But for me, I was the fish out of water, like, ‘What’s a voxie? What do you mean? I was mic’d up [even] to go the toilet, all of those kind of things. So I felt very out of my comfort zone.
“But for him, you know, it was just a walk in the park, so that was kind of throwing me off a little bit as well. Then, I guess the icing on the cake was the off-camera incident that happened and that, although we tried to sort of make amends, it was just it was we were never going to come back from that.”
Love Triangle’s Melinda addresses off-camera fight with Mike: ‘It just blew up’
One of the more dramatic moments of Love Triangle so far sadly wasn’t filmed for us to see, with things turning sour not long after Melinda and Mike moved in together.
The couple had a fight off-camera after Mike went for a walk and came home to find a member of the production team sitting on Melinda’s bed.
Melinda addressed that moment with Chattr, explaining, “I was chatting with a member of production behind a closed door, and Mike came in and didn’t like what he saw. And, you know, things escalated, and he asked the staff member to leave.”
Melinda left and opted to stay in a hotel for the night, before coming back the next day to chat things out with Mike, telling the cameras that she’d rather “shit in my hands and clap than get to know him better”. They were unable to resolve things, with Mike telling Melinda mid-argument, “The people that are going to be watching this, they don’t all like me, but you know what? They trust me because I never tell bullshit,” to which Melinda retorted, “So, I really hate to say this but you’re nowhere near as relevant as you think you are. You are a 50-year-old washed-up reality TV star.”
Maybe most surprisingly after that mic drop, Melinda has been able to take a step back and see things from Mike’s perspective.
“I can see his side of it now that I’ve sort of stepped back from it, and my emotion’s gone, and I understand what he was trying to say,” she told us. “It was just, I think the execution in which we were both trying to explain the situation. It just blew up.”
Will Melinda and Mike be able to come back from this? We’ll have to wait until Sunday to find out!
New episodes of Love Triangle drop every Sunday on Stan.
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