It wasn’t love, and it didn’t even end up as a triangle either for former MAFS star Mike Gunner after he bid farewell to his first Love Triangle match, Melinda, in Sunday’s episode.
If you need a refresher, Mike and Melinda didn’t get off to the easiest start from the moment they met. On their first date, Mike asked Melinda numerous times if she recognised him from anywhere, trying to suss out if his new match recognised him from his controversial MAFS days.
Things then got worse after they moved in together, with Melinda googling Mike and finding out about his MAFS antics. The couple then had an off-camera fight after Mike came home to find a production team member sitting on Melinda’s bed, with her bedroom door closed, which led to him saying things like production members should be “seen and not heard”.
Melinda previously 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.”
The two couldn’t see eye-to-eye on the situation with Melinda slamming Mike as a “washed-up reality star”.
Melinda took accountability for her actions and words at the Dinner Party, but it wasn’t meant to be for the pair, with Mike unable to see things from her perspective or offer an apology for his behaviour. Eventually, Mike asked Melinda to pack her backs and go, and look we don’t think she needed telling twice.
Love Triangle’s Melinda on whether she’s spoken to Mike Gunner since their bitter falling out
Melinda told Chattr she hasn’t spoken to Mike since she left the show. “I’ll probably reach out once this is all over and offer another apology for my behaviour because I’m not overly proud of the things that I’ve said,” she added. “But whether that’s accepted or not is another thing.”
She also said it was probably for the best that she didn’t meet Mike’s other side of the triangle, Melissa.
When Chattr asked what she would’ve said to Melissa if they had all been under the same roof, Melinda was diplomatic.
“Look, that was part of the reason why I left as well, because I didn’t want my opinions skewing her views on Mike, or anything like that,” Melinda said. “That wouldn’t have been fair. And I think anyone who had walked into that house with Mike and me would have felt the tension. So yeah, I think it was best that I just left and let her come up with her own opinions on him.”
New episodes of Love Triangle drop every Sunday on Stan.
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