Married at First Sight (MAFS) 2025, contestant Adrian Araouzou has addressed the viewer commentary surrounding his speech during an episode of the MAFS Funny podcast.
While comments about Adrian’s speech haven’t been made by costars or the experts on actual MAFS episodes, this hasn’t stopped the internet from making their own judgements while watching at home.
Adrian’s speech has been mocked by social media
During the MAFS 2025 season, countless videos were made, and comments were written about the way Adrian talks, and in particular, the way he mumbles.
“Thank god they put the captions on the TV because I have no idea, he mumbles,” TikTok user Chrissy50andcranky said in a video.
Adrian has taken the criticism in his stride and said that he isn’t bothered by people’s opinions about the way he talks.
Scrolling through the TikTok account that Adrian shares with his brother James reveals hundreds of comments mocking his way of speaking.
“Do you mind if we can hear you in English?” one person ridiculed, while another penned, “What is he saying? Someone translate, pls.”
MAFS’ Adrian discussed his ‘accent’ and slams the haters
During an appearance on the MAFS Funny podcast, Adrian made a joke that the host wasn’t that funny considering his podcast name. The host then joked that he should call it ‘MAFS Subtitles’ with Adrian on the episode, prompting Adrian to discuss the viewer comments.
“I’m from Sydney, and where I grew up is a multicultured community. I grew up around a lot of islanders, Aboriginals, Europeans and Australians, a bit of everything, and it’s just my accent, bro,” Adrian said.
Adrian admitted that he’s aware he mumbles sometimes but that the criticism from MAFS viewers about his speech doesn’t affect him.
“I do mumble, 100%,” Adrian admitted on the MAFS podcast.
“Sometimes I mumble, that’s just me, bro. At the end of the day, when anyone says, ‘You’ve got subtitles, bro,’ I’m still on the biggest show in Australia. What are you doing? You’re watching me and reading those subtitles.”
Adrian teased an upcoming podcast with his brother
A post that Adrian shared teasing a potential podcast with James raked in plenty of jibes about his speech.
“Can you just release a blog so we can read it instead? That way, we will be able to easily understand what you want to say.”
@___jamesyy6 Replying to @Jason for the boys to the boyszzz 🫱ðŸ¼ðŸ«²ðŸ¾ #fyp #mafsau ♬ original sound – Adrian & James
However, Adrian has some supporters in the mix as well.
“I don’t know why people ask for subtitles? It’s getting old. He is very easy to understand!” One person wrote.
“People need to stop bullying this dude regarding his speech. Seriously would you be ok with it happening to your kids etc. No one deserves that. The speech comments need to stop,” a second commented.
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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