MAFS' Ryan's gross sex secret exposed by Jacqui

"It was definitely a red flag."
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MAFS 2025 Ryan Jacqui Sex Secret

It seems like Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 Jacqueline Burfoot is determined to expose her ex Ryan Donnelly. After revealing Ryan believes a woman’s body count should stay low on Instagram, she spoke to Chattr to give us the inside details.

According to Jacqui, Ryan told her that he had slept with “almost 200 people”. 

“[He thinks] the more sex he has, it means he’s more successful as a man. And then I asked him, ‘Well, how would you feel if I’d had sex with that many people?’. And he said, ‘Well, we wouldn’t be having this conversation’.”

Jacqui’s body count was “important” to Ryan, and the double standard is wild. 

“He said it was like a skeleton key. You know, ‘A man who can unlock any door is really powerful. But the same can’t be said of a woman’,” she recalled. 

She claimed that Ryan believes if a woman’s body count is high, it makes her less valuable. It’s giving Harrison Boon, and not in a good way.

MAFS 2025 Jacqui Ryan Couples Retreat
Jacqui and Ryan during the MAFS Couples Retreat. Image: Nine

Viewers won’t get to see this play out on screen, even though the bride did bring it up with producers on camera.

“To me, it was definitely a red flag… he had different standards for men and women,” Jacqui added. “It made me feel really gross, particularly because he was being really shady about it.

“I also felt like his beliefs were unreasonable.”

MAFS’ Jacqui reveals when she realised she didn’t like Ryan

Jacqui also spilled on Instagram that she realised she didn’t like Ryan after a joke he made during their honeymoon. 

“He made a joke about getting women pregnant,” she said. “He goes, ‘These biceps get women pregnant’, and I never let it go for the entire experiment.”

“He called Katie [Johnson] tragic and was making rude comments about Sierah [Swepstone’s] breasts, he was actually horrible,” she claimed. “His jokes continued, so I was really just trying to educate him about how to speak about women correctly the whole time.”

Yikes. It’s hard to believe that Jacqui and Ryan make it all the way to Final Vows!

Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.

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