The Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 drama has continued off screen, after Bronte Schofield and Awhina Rutene’s twin Cleo Rutene found themselves in a heated feud over… *checks notes*… Adrian Araouzou.
After Bronte was papped hanging out at the Cottesloe Beach Club in Perth with Adrian and a few other MAFS 2025 grooms, Cleo accused Bronte of being too close with Adrian and “texting [him] the entire [experiment]”.
Adrian has dismissed any rumours that he is dating Bronte, saying that their relationship was purely “platonic”.
“Everyone’s coming out and talking about me and Bronte texting; I’m like every single person on that cast if they knew someone from the past season, [they spoke to them],” Adrian says. “Billy [Belcher] spoke to Jesse [Burford]… Dave [Hand] was speaking to [Jack Dunkley] and they were all getting advice.”
He says he was speaking to Bronte to get a heads-up, to see if there was anything he needed to know about production.
The groom did briefly discuss his relationship with Awhina, but it was because he was having issues with the bride apparently acting differently when the cameras were on.
“I said, ‘Awhina’s saying one thing off camera and one thing on camera’, and that was in like week two or three. So for me, that was confusing,” he explains.
Adrian also slammed Awhina’s twin Cleo for getting involved in the drama.
“My brother, yeah, he might have said a few things in defence of me in a comment or two online [at the start of the season] because they were new, but the fact that [Cleo’s] coming out and speaking more and more, she just uses me for clout and views and clicks,” Adrian says.
“I’m like to Awhina, stop your sister. My family stays out of your business, your family should stay out of my business, and I just don’t agree with that, and I feel like Awhina has sort of allowed that.”
Cleo speaks out about her feud with MAFS’ Bronte
After Cleo hit out at Bronte for making TikToks slating her to 100K followers, she wrote a lengthy comment on the MAFS Uncensored Instagram page.
“I’m actually done defending myself and my sister. It’s enough — I leave my house at 6.30am and get home at 7pm. I’m tired and I’m over all this MAFS crap,” she wrote.
“I shouldn’t even have to make a story to defend myself but when someone posts about me to 100K followers and my biggest concern which I told my sister with her going on the show was this ruining my career in some way,” she added.
“I’ve seen stories about people going on this show and then they lose their job. This was my concern — I’m done.”
Yikes. The girls are fighting and it’s messy! Hopefully Cleo’s comment puts this drama to bed for good.
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sunday at 7pm and Monday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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