MAFS 2025’s Carina Mirable reveals the Dinner Party alcohol limit

The Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 Dinner Parties are always really rowdy, so you’d expect the contestants to be given a bunch of alcohol to help limber them up, right? Well, apparently that’s not the case at all. 

Carina Mirable, who is in a love bubble with Paul Antoine, has just lifted the lid on what really goes down behind the scenes. Apparently, if contestants are getting too tipsy, producers will “cut you off”. Ouch. 

It also pays to be the first to arrive at the cocktail party, because there’s a limited amount of alcohol and some people miss out. 

“The first ones that go into the cocktail party probably consume a little more [alcohol] than the last ones, because there’s a certain amount of alcohol there, and then the last ones get nothing,” she spilled. 

At the actual Dinner Parties, Carina reckons they’re given “one carafe between three couples with red and white wine, and that’s it”. 

Jacqui says the contestant’s social status is linked to the wine they drink

During an AMA (ask me anything) on her jewellery account, Jaqui Burfoot shed some more light on the alcohol situation at the MAFS Dinner Party.

“They’d always bring out two jugs of red and two of white, and everyone on our series loved red wine,” she explained.

“There was this mad race when everyone sat down at the dinner table to fight over the fucking red wine,” she continued.

The MAFS bride said that there was a “whole dynamic going on” between the cast members about who gets the red.

“If you missed out on red wine, it was like really shitty. It felt like bullying sometimes.”

A former crew member told Chattr producers “don’t encourage” contestants to drink, however, it is “a part of the evening”. 

“They’re fueled with drink. Although monitored, producers can’t control what people eat. And if the [brides] want to look slim for the night and decide they don’t want to eat and then drink three glasses of wine, there’s only so much control you can have on people,” the insider spilled.

“There’s a duty of care where you can’t show people too drunk on Aussie TV. Which is why you’ll never see anyone rolling around absolutely plastered on any show.”

The source also told us that while Dinner Parties are produced, what you see on TV is drama that naturally unfolds. 

“Dinner Parties are long and finish in the early hours. It’s a long set up getting everyone ready, pre-interviews, arriving onto set and getting them in before the actual dinner party starts,” they said. “But usually the cast are ready to say their piece at any given moment.”

Guess that’s why they cast such outlandish personalities, so that nobody is afraid to speak up at any point. Reality TV gold!