Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025’s Adrian Araouzou shocked us all when he exited the show this week over a *checks notes*… promo shoot??? Yep, the groom apparently threw a tantrum when he was excluded from one of Channel Nine’s promo shoots, so he left his wife Awhina Rutene in the lurch.
However, it seems like audiences didn’t get the full story. So many of the MAFS cast have been going rogue this year on secret social media accounts, and Adrian has been busy leaving spicy comments about what really happened on his twin’s TikTok.
According to Adrian, this whole scenario was faked, and he was “told” to leave by production. Spicy!!!
“Never left for promos. Me and Awhina were solid. They have taken things out of context a number of times. But is what it is bro I choose to be there,” Adrian said.
“Production told me to leave because I didn’t agree with them. If I cared about a promo why would I leave, make that make sense?”
It seems like Adrian is claiming that he left the promo shoot and production got mad at him, and they’ve turned it into a big storyline. You have to admit, it has made for great TV!
“It’s a show… it’s all fake,” Adrian added. “Me and Awhina were solid as. Don’t rule us out.”
Is that also a little hint that Adrian and Awhina go the distance? It’s so hard to keep up with all this tea.
Awhina contradicts Adrian’s claims: ‘It was definitely a choice’
However, in an interview with Chattr, Awhina said that Adrian has a “victim mentality”. Ooft.
“Adrian is very reactive to his emotions and in the heat of things, he only sees his own reality, his own victim mentality. And at that time, [leaving] was definitely a choice,” she said. “But the choice stemmed from he was feeling hurt, and instead of leading with, ‘I’m hurt and feeling vulnerable’… it was quite triggering for him.”
Awhina added she wished that Adrian would have reached out to her instead to get the support that he needed.
“It could have been approached and handled so differently, but I felt like every time he felt hurt, I was always the one that was, you know, suffering for it,” she said.
There’s so many different perspectives floating around, it’s getting hard to keep up! Adrian, if you want to slide into our DM’s, we’d love to hear more tea.
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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