When you realise all 17 people in Adelaide are gossiping about you.
An innocent Married At First Sight wife becomes the target of a smear campaign on Tuesday night with “disgusting” gossip spreading across Adelaide’s glitzy social circles, and investigators have narrowed it down to two suspects: Mafs villain Bec, or Maggie Beer.
Meanwhile, this tittle-tattle has surpassed last night’s double dildo scandal, plunging it from main storyline status into a B-plot.
We never could’ve predicted it would go limp so quickly.
Joel and Juliette’s marriage has been ravaged by the dildo drumstick debacle. Juliette refuses to even be in the same space as her husband, which makes completing couples tasks difficult when one half of the couple is barricaded in the bedroom.
“I can hear you from here!” she screams through the door when Joel tries to read out their task instructions.
He suggests it might be easier if they communicate face-to-face.
“You aggravate me!” she snaps back.
Joel shouts out the list of games they’re scheduled to partake in. Juliette rejects them all.
Eye gazing? “Nup. Not gonna stare into your devil eyes.”
Two-minute hug? “Absolutely not. You don’t get the privilege to touch me right now.”
The only thing that extracts her from the bunker? The Hot Or Not photo ranking challenge, presumably so she can publicly humiliate her husband.
But she winds up surprising us. Instead of placing him last, she graciously ranks him fourth-worst, which is somehow restrained.
“Juliette has been hurting my feelings and telling me I’m unattractive,” Joel sighs to us.
A vengeful smirk then creeps across his face.
“So, we’ll see where she ranks. But she’s not first.”
He whacks his wife’s headshot somewhere in the middle of all the other wives. Juliette is immediately insulted.
“I can’t even stand being in the same room with him right now,” she fumes.
Joel cuts to the chase.
“I don’t think you treat me very well,” he declares.
Yeah, Juliette. Is this really about the dildo drumsticks? Or is there something else at play? Please, give us the general thrust.
“It’s because I have been feeling genuinely smothered from the extremes of your personality,” she spits. “I’m getting an extremely theatrical, performative side that makes me very reclusive. I’m getting a performance!”
Indeed, it seems Joel has been using all his time on this show as an audition to become the next wacky host of Deal or No Deal.
“You don’t see the star in me,” he sniffs to his wife.
It’s this choice of words that proves all of Juliette’s suspicions.
“See the star in you? Because it’s a performance! It’s a performance!” she screams.
She immediately packs her bags and leaves.
Joel is now alone in the Trash Tower suite. Centre stage. The headline star of the show.
Meanwhile, across the hall, Gia has returned after finding racy pics of Scott’s ex on his phone and angrily fleeing Trash Tower in a Kia Carnival at midnight.
“ … Literally a picture of her in lingerie. And they’re not normal photos,” she tells us. “They’re not pictures of him and her at a beach, having lunch. It’s her bending over in lingerie – next to him, on a couch. I don’t wanna see that!”
The only thing that lured her back? Scott declared he deleted 547 questionable photos from his iPhone.
And we absolutely believe him. We totally wouldn’t speculate that there’s any chance he could’ve, say, emailed the pics to himself before deleting them off his phone. That would be cynical. All 547 photos are gone forever! Not backed up anywhere on iCloud. Definitely not in a hidden folder called “Work Documents”.
While all this is going on, Alissa and David escape Trash Tower to meet some friends who are visiting from their hometown of Adelaide. Alissa’s friend Adriana comes armed with intel.
“There’s been a lot of chat in Adelaide about a girl named Bec,” she reveals.
Apparently, Bec has been conducting an active investigation into Alissa’s past, specifically her ex-boyfriend.
“I just wanna let you know: there’s a bit of chatter around Adelaide about Bec actually trying to dig shit up on Alissa. Like, it’s an active process. I think it’s disgusting.”
After what we’ve witnessed at the last two drunken dinner parties, we’re not surprised. This malicious behaviour sounds right on brand for Adelaide drama queen Bec.
… And Maggie Beer.
Married at First Sight screens Sundays to Wednesdays on Three and Three Now.