The Grass Is Greener challenge we’ve all been waiting for is here. Yep, the Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 brides and grooms are given the opportunity to meet an “additional” match from the audition process. How fun (for us)!
Jacqui has accepted that she was trying to make a door out of a chair when it came to Ryan. And now she just needs to cuddle the chair. Yeah, it made just as much sense hearing it as it did writing it.
She goes to Ryan’s apartment and cries to him, telling him that she’s loved him since the day she met him.
Why is this not congruent with everything she’s posted on social media since the first week of this show?
He says he’s too old to deal with this, basically, and that it’s just a little too late (and somehow doesn’t break out in song).
Lesson learned: Googling how to show someone you accept them doesn’t always work.
The Grass is Greener challenge
I can’t help but think this challenge was the Love Triangle team’s idea to promote Season 3 in the leadup (on the show, they basically have two matches and see which they like better).
Rhi can’t imagine anyone better than Jeff, so she says she’ll be watching Stan all day instead, the very platform that Love Triangle is on. Fancy that! Jeff feels the same but does not mention Stan.
Beth and Teejay are obviously doing it because no one’s convincing me they like each other.
Beth’s match is an Irish PT who complains that the Aussie banter in the dating game isn’t up to scratch for him. He realised the chances of his match being Aussie were pretty damn high, right?
Anyway, Beth thinks he is into her in a way Teejay just isn’t. Teejay’s match is Tara, a redhead from Lake Macquarie who likes star signs and…. ethnicity?
When the pair reunite, Beth says Teejay’s banter is better than the PT’s. Sadly, Teejay’s feeling pretty neutral about Beth after his date with Tara.
Carina thinks it’s cheating to take up this opportunity — surprise, surprise — and that Paul wouldn’t be “idiotic” enough to meet the other match. Oh, honey.
Paul meets Hannah, a blonde woman who is treating this date like an interview.
While Paul is getting to know her, Carina is at home folding his underwear. I don’t even do that for my partner when he’s being a good boy.
When Paul’s match asks if he would move to Sydney, he says he would for “someone” which insinuates that he’s still single IMO.
“If you’re so happy, why are you here?” she asks. Paul then says, “Curious,” 25 times.
Carina finds out about Paul’s curiosity
When he returns home to Carina, he drops the bomb that he went on a date while mid-hug with his wife. She slowly pulls back as Paul tells her that physically, his date was “what the hell” and like “a Barbie”.
“Yuck,” he says of the experience.
EXCUSE ME PAUL. Was it not only mere weeks ago you were labelling your wife as a judgemental snob?
“I’m actually embarrassed,” Carina tells him. Watching the producer scramble in the hallway as Carina walks out is iconic television.
Paul keeps going on about how the date just made him realise how happy he is with Carina and wow, he’s really not getting it, is he?
Carina tells him that this is the last straw and that she’s done.
“You’re not here for the right reasons, fuck that.”
“Get your shit and leave. I’m done.”
Spicy! I actually hope this is legit. Sue me!
These MAFS 2025 recaps also appear on the Talking Schmidt Substack and have been reproduced here with permission.
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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