MAFS’ Jacqui Burfoot and Ryan Donnelly are currently at war on Instagram, using their business and/or burner accounts to hit back at each other about the current and impending homestays drama on Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025.
With the second half of homestays due to air tonight, which will see a less-than-impressed Jacqui arrive at Ryan’s lair and deem it like living with “the elderly”, Ryan has pre-emptively taken to Instagram to bizarrely call Jacqui out on using an Airbnb for her Manly homestay.
“This wasn’t Jacqui’s home,” he posted on his Instagram Story. “It was an Airbnb booked for the one night we filmed in Manly.
“Her actual place was a rental apartment with two other housemates. They couldn’t fit the camera crew in there, her bedroom was tiny, the housemates’ stuff was everywhere, and production would’ve had to ask them to leave and stay elsewhere for filming.”
MAFS’ Jacqui hits back at Ryan’s attempt to diminish her homestay
Now, Jacqui has taken to Instagram to indirectly reply to Ryan. Both of them used the same Daily Mail article link, which stated that Jacqui was caught out in an ’embarrassing’ lie about her homestays.
“[I’m] not embarrassed at all,” Jacqui said. “Production hire these for participants who have housemates to protect their privacy, it’s been happening for years. Like, with Eden Harper last year.”
“This is Ryan’s continuous attempts to humiliate and embarrass me publicly. It’s petty and pathetic.”
Speaking with Chattr, 2024 bride Eden cleared up that she knew nothing about production hiring Airbnbs, though that doesn’t mean they don’t do it – but that wasn’t her storyline.
“That wasn’t my experience,” she said. “I just suggested my parents’ apartment for home stays, and they agreed.”
In a since-deleted Instagram Story, Jacqui said Ryan is embarrassed about what went on during homestays and is “creating chaos to deflect from the original nerve hit” and said she has nothing to be ashamed of.
“I want him to be held accountable and stop deflecting,” Jacqui wrote.
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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