Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 delivered us one love story in amongst all of the chaos, and that was the story of friends-turned-lovers Rhi Disljenkovic and Jeff Gobbels.
By now, we’re all familiar with the backstory of Rhi and Jeff, who dated briefly in the past and were shocked to discover they’d be marrying each other on their MAFS wedding day after their short-lived romance had fizzled out a year prior.
However, Confessions Week and Intimacy Week brought the two out of the friend zone and into a fully-fledged relationship. They became the strongest couple on this season of MAFS, sealing the deal at Final Vows by declaring their love for each other.
Given they’re the only couple still together from this season, Rhi and Jeff have now been plagued with rumours that they’re engaged, expecting, or more realistically perhaps, going to participate in The Block, something the pair hasn’t ruled out.
“We saw the same rumour, we’re hoping it’s true!” Jeff said to Chattr. “We haven’t had any discussions yet, but it’ll be amazing if that happened.”
“I’m sure I could paint a room,” Rhi joked. “Look, I’m not very handy, Jeff is. I think it would be quite funny me going on The Block, but I’ve learned a lot of resilience being on MAFS, so I’d have enough resilience to make The Block work.”
MAFS’ Rhi and Jeff spill on unseen ‘awkward’ honeymoon: ‘Not even looking at each other’
While it’s been smooth sailing for the pair on-screen (despite the sporadic entanglement in wider group drama), Rhi and Jeff told Chattr there was ‘really awkward’ unseen footage from their honeymoon that got a laugh out of everyone during the reunion filming.
While some fans have speculated the two were actually together prior to starring in MAFS, Rhi was quick to shut that down.
“That’s a big lie,” she said. “I turned around and saw Jeff and I had no idea it was going to be him at the end of the aisle.”
“At the start of our relationship, we did have a lot of awkwardness,” Jeff said. “Like, the honeymoon stage was really awkward for us trying to turn that friendship into a romantic relationship and unfortunately the funny and awkward moments didn’t get shown.”
“They played a couple of moments back at the reunion and I remember everyone was in stitches,” Rhi shared. “I guess, it was times that were meant to be romantic, were just not. They brought out a platter of romantic-looking food, and were we in robes?”
“We were in robes,” Jeff confirmed. “They brought out chocolate-covered strawberries and champagne and it was supposed to be really romantic and we were just like, leaning over the plate eating these strawberries not even looking at each other.”
“It was just us crunching and being like, ‘yum this is good,'” Rhi said, as Jeff started laughing. “It just goes to show there was zero romance in the first three weeks.”
MAFS’ Rhi and Jeff on what to expect from the upcoming reunion
With Final Vows out of the way, MAFS fans are eagerly awaiting the 2025 reunion episodes, which are due to air on Sunday, April 6th, and Monday, April 7th.
Jeff labelled the reunion “intense”, saying, “It was a big couple of days. We did some very long hours. But yeah, when that all wrapped up, it was a nice feeling.”
With the reunion hinting that Sierah Swepstone was returning with a big bombshell, Rhi and Jeff admitted they weren’t entirely across whatever drama Sierah was going to throw Awhina Rutene and Adrian Araouzou‘s way.
“I was looking at Jamie asking questions, and Jamie was kind of filling me in at the same time,” Rhi said. “I didn’t even know [what was happening].” Jeff agreed, saying, “I didn’t even know that happened until I saw that trailer! Where they’re having that discussion, that’s not actually even at the dinner party. I had no idea what’s going on there.”
Well, get your popcorn ready folks, looks like all will be revealed next week!
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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