Married At First Sight bride Stephanie Marshall has posted the “bikini photo” she sent to Danny Hewitt for everyone to see.
The photo, along with the back-and-forth messages the pair sent to each other, was a main focal point of Sunday night’s reunion dinner party.
Bec Zacharia, who was married to Danny on Channel 9’s show, was furious when she found out the Queensland real estate agent was talking to her ex.
But Bec was even more irate when she found out Stephanie sent a photo of herself to Danny from a recent holiday.
Shortly after Sunday’s episode aired, Stephanie posted the “bikini photo in question”.
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The 32-year-old didn’t say anything further about the photo, but it could be an attempt to prove that it wasn’t as bad as Bec was making it out to be.
The photo showed her kneeling on a seat near the ocean, dressed in baggy red shorts and a bikini top.
Stephanie claimed the photo was sent to Danny after she told him she had recently been on a trip to Hamilton Island and he asked how it was.
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The photo was sent along with three other shots of the holiday, another of her jumping in the air, and two of the beautiful ocean.
Bec found out about the messages between Stephanie and Danny after she ran into the MAFS bride at the airport.
She asked Stephanie if she had spoken to anyone from the cast, and specifically asked about Danny, and the Queenslander was honest and said they had shared a few texts, voice notes, and photos.
She even showed Bec all the messages to explain that nothing bad was said.
But Bec seized on Stephanie saying it was “so good to hear your voice” to Danny, and ripped into her ex-husband for sending heart emojis to the real estate agent.
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Bec immediately pulled Stephanie aside at the pre-drinks before the dinner party and said the messages weren’t okay.
While the real estate agent apologised and said she didn’t mean anything by it, in a confessional video, Stephanie admitted she really didn’t think it was a big issue.
Bec also confronted Danny about the messages away from everyone else.
The conversation got heated as Bec said it was devastating to find out the two were messaging just a few days after she was dumped by Danny in the final vows.
Stephanie posted the bikini photo that sparked all the drama on social media. Source: Instagram/Stephanie Marshall
Despite speaking to both of them privately, Bec decided to bring the issue up in front of everyone at the dinner table.
She called the pair disloyal and backstabbers for chatting so soon after the experiment had ended, and while she was heartbroken.
The South Australian even lobbed a wild slur at them because of the messages that involved “scurvy”, “dog” and the C-word all wrapped up in one line.
Danny was stunned by Bec’s behaviour and said she “wasn’t wife material”.
MAFS bride Stephanie clears up confusion about the messages
Ahead of the episode, the 32-year-old went on The Ella Era podcast and called Bec’s behaviour towards her “disgusting”.
“My hands get a bit shaky thinking about it, because it’s so confronting,” she said.
“I would never conduct myself in such a way and I don’t deal with confrontation well.”
Stephanie added that she would have never messaged Danny if she knew it was going to cause this much drama with Bec.
She insisted she had no romantic feelings about Danny, and that she was only reaching out to him because they work in the same industry.
But she also claimed Danny was furious at her for showing Bec their messages together.
“It’s become this big thing. He now f**king hates me, thinking I’ve done all this for more air time. I’m like, ‘No man, I’m very happy sitting at the end of this dinner table with no heat on me’. I don’t want anything to do with this s**t anymore, like I just want to sell houses,” she said.
She also had a parting message for Bec.
“It’s just so f**king embarrassing. Get a life…go get a f**king job…oh wait, you can’t,” she said on the podcast, referring to Bec recently revealing she was sacked because of her behaviour on MAFS and that she was now “unemployable”.
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