This year’s season of Married At First Sight (MAFS) is one of those ones where just as much drama happens off-screen as it does on-screen, and one of the people front and centre of it all is Jacqui Burfoot.
In last night’s episode, Jacqui had an epic meltdown at the intruder wedding after getting into another argument with her husband Ryan Donnelly. She also found herself in conflict with Rhi Disljenkovic after she messaged Rhi’s husband Jeff Gobbels, behind her back, wanting to catch up with him alone without Rhi present.
Now Jacqui has taken to her business Instagram page to leak the texts she and Jeff exchanged.
Rhi speaks out on Jacqui texting Jeff behind her back: “Really odd”
While Ryan seemed suspicious of Jacqui’s motives for messaging Jeff, Rhi previously told Chattr she never assumed Jacqui was making a romantic play for Jeff – she was just confused as to why Jacqui wanted to meet up with him alone.
“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 chat with me, and because she didn’t want me there, I just found it really odd,” Rhi said.
MAFS’ Jacqui leaks texts with Jeff Gobbels: “More a man-man thing”
Jacqui has uploaded her message exchange with Jeff to Instagram, with the two initially talking about a Stax event the cast were invited to.
Jacqui then texted Jeff saying she was struggling and in need of “off-camera” help, with Jeff replying, “Do you wanna quickly come chat to me and Rhi? Or just me?”
Jacqui replied, “I’m happy to chat to both of you, but it would be safer to keep it as just you,” citing her issues with Ryan as more of a “man-man” thing. She then asked if they can do a “friendly 1:1”, saying she didn’t want to influence Rhi’s opinion of Ryan and she’d rather keep it “off-camera”.
Jeff suggested that they get the house AP (associate producer) Kate involved, saying she could “sit there and listen” and that he’d be the one to talk to Jacqui. Jacqui then declined, saying she’d “go external”. Jeff replied, “Come to my room quickly, I’ll do it,” noting that Rhi would go to the “house AP room”. Jacqui stated on the Instagram story that Rhi stayed for the chat, and all three of them got “caught” by the house AP.
Speaking with Chattr, Rhi said the whole cast was confused by the relationship dynamic between Jacqui and Ryan.
“They are quite flip-floppy,” she said. “You’re forever confused trying to understand what’s going on; one minute they’re complaining about each other, then the next they’re hugging. Their relationship confused us all, all the time.”
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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