Another day, another drama when it comes to Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025. This time, a lot of drama is happening off-screen and it may come as no surprise that Jacqui Burfoot is front and centre once again.
Certain MAFS participants this season—like Jacqui, Adrian Araouzou, and Morena Farina—have gone rogue on Instagram and TikTok, using different accounts to share their version of the truth.
Jacqui recently posted an Instagram story calling out Rhi Disljenkovic and Jeff Gobbels, specifically labelling Rhi as “not a girls’ girl”. There’s been a bunch of drama between this trio, so let’s get into it.
Jacqui calls out Rhi’s ‘disgusting’ behaviour on MAFS
In Jacqui’s latest Instagram story, she touched on an upcoming storyline between Rhi and Veronica Cloherty, believed to be the couple swap where Rhi shares a bed with Eliot Donovan.
“Rhi is not a ‘girls’ girl’, her conduct was disgusting [and] lacks empathy. It gets worse though and [I] hope she is exposed for what she does to Veronica, and then me again,” Jacqui claimed.
“I didn’t like Rhi after I was attacked at the second dinner party about my sex life — she was always such a bitch to me, impatient, snappy and aggressive in her speech. I had tried to reach out to make peace with her and just get to know each other — she ignored me so I reached out to Jeff to explain what was going on behind closed doors so they would stop attacking me at dinner parties,” she added.
Awhina weighs in on Rhi and Jacqui’s feud
In an interview with Chattr, Awhina Rutene said while there’s “definitely tension” between Jacqui and Rhi, she doesn’t agree with what’s been said.
“Their reality will always be a bit distorted. Rhi is 100 per cent a girls’ girl, you know, she is a beautiful soul,” she told us.
“I think that Jacqui uses quite aggressive language, it might be a bump and she’ll say it’s a hill and I really applaud her for it. You know, she doesn’t follow the group… I don’t agree with a lot of the things she says, and that’s okay. We all have different perspectives.”
Jacqui has since hit back, telling Chattr she’d like to see “the evidence” of this.
“[Also], if she’s a girls’ girl, why did she blindside me at the dinner table about my sex life? Why not give me the heads up [rather than] come and attack me about it?” Jacqui said.
Points have been made! This feud is only going to get messier, I fear.
Jacqui reveals Jeff and Rhi’s MAFS texts
Jacqui conducted an Instagram AMA (Ask Me Anything) recently and let’s just say she didn’t hold back from speaking her side of the story when it came to things like her edit and her relationship with Ryan Donnelly,.
If you need a refresher, Jacqui got Rhi and Jeff offside after Jeff told Rhi that Jacqui had messaged him asking to catch up but didn’t want Rhi present. Yesterday, Jacqui leaked the text messages to Jeff in which she asked to speak to him one-on-one about Ryan, with Jeff replying, “Do you wanna quickly come chat to me and Rhi? Or just me?”
MAFS’ Jacqui accuses Rhi and Jeff of making ‘damaging statements’
Now, Jacqui has hinted that Jeff and Rhi used her for airtime, while also calling them out for “damaging” statements.
“Message to Rhi/Jeff: Please stop making damaging statements in media about a fake “shady” text you received from me that is evidentially false information,” Jacqui said on her Instagram story. “We can all see it was Jeff’s idea to catch up without Rhi. Perhaps you were doing it for airtime, sure, but it’s also crossed the line into territory of a civil crime called defamation. I reserve all my legal rights.”
Jacqui also went on to say she believes Rhi is getting a “good edit” after someone asked if anyone wasn’t as nice in real life as they seem on the show.
MAFS’ Rhi speaks out on chaotic intruder wedding moment with Jacqui
In an interview with Chattr (which was before Jacqui accused Rhi and Jeff of using her for airtime), Rhi said she didn’t think the whole message exchange between Jacqui and Jeff was leading towards any sort of “cheating scandal”.
“Jeff did reply to her and I did say catch up with her and see if she’s OK,” Rhi explained. “I thought it was really weird she’s messaging and as much as I wasn’t impressed with it, I thought maybe she’s going through a rough time.
“But then obviously seeing her at the wedding, I just thought, oh gosh… not that her intentions weren’t pure, I didn’t think there’d be a cheating scandal or anything, but it was her inconsistency it just made me realise it was all pretty left of centre. The girl code thing to do would be to have a chat with me and the fact she didn’t want me there, I just found it really odd for her to say, ‘can it be alone’.”
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
Want to CHATTR with us? Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok for more entertainment news.
