Last night, Luke fled Trash Tower following a week of bullying from Mel. What tipped him over the edge? The revelation that she stalks her exes in the dark of night while eating Magnums from the servo.<\/p>\n
With no pesky husband stinking up the place, Mel has been diligently investigating him online and fallen down a social media rabbit hole where she has found his family trash talking her in the comments. Stalkers are gonna stalk \u2013 and haters are gonna hate.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast night I read some comments from Luke\u2019s friends and family that really hurt my feelings,\u201d she sniffles to us. \u201cThey were comments about my personality, they were comments about my character.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oh my gosh! Really? We\u2019re so surprised. Your personality is so warm and polite and not at all putrid!<\/p>\n
\u201cLuke\u2019s sisters left some comments saying I\u2019ve got a mad resting bitch face. That I\u2019m not genuine. That I don\u2019t deserve someone like Luke!\u201d<\/p>\n
She\u2019s saying all this like she\u2019s a sulky little girl in the principal\u2019s office, dobbing on an innocent kid who has finally bitten back after she has been torturing them for weeks.<\/p>\n
When Luke finally returns to Trash Tower, she confronts him.<\/p>\n
Mel will personally sever Luke\u2019s sister\u2019s NBN internet connection. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt really hurt me. The comments left by your friends and family about me on social media,\u201d she pouts.<\/p>\n
Luke is surprised. Not so much about his sisters trash talking Mel. He\u2019s more surprised that apparently no one has ever told her that her behaviour stinks.<\/p>\n
The patience and grace he has shown his wife over three weeks is wearing thin. Nothing\u2019s more annoying than a person who has a set of rules for themselves and a different set of rules for other people. Mel can treat everyone atrociously, but one wrong word about her and the earth will be scorched.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way you\u2019ve treated me in this whole experiment has been horrible,\u201d she gaslights her husband, seemingly forgetting that she\u2019s the one who has been dishing out the horrible treatment.<\/p>\n
We know one thing\u2019s for sure: if those are the comments the sisters made on a public forum like Facebook, just imagine the more insulting things they\u2019re spewing into the family WhatsApp chat.<\/p>\n
Fellow bride Brooke has also found the Facebook comments. The beauty queen is feeling empowered after scolding her husband yesterday for his fatphobic and misogynistic comments \u2013 and she grabs the chance to loudly defend Mel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a girl\u2019s girl!\u201d she chants.<\/p>\n
The family group chat will no doubt be on fire after tonight\u2019s episode. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m seeing Luke\u2019s sisters get involved and saying nasty things about Mel online. And I think that\u2019s petty to have your sisters comment rude things online about Mel. It doesn\u2019t sit well with me. I don\u2019t like people who tear girls down in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Huh. That\u2019s interesting. Because, just moments after boldly asserting these self-righteous claims, Brooke is at the pub, tearing girls down.<\/p>\n
As part of Revelations Week, the wives are sent off to get drunk and b**** about their partners.<\/p>\n
But when Alissa raves about her husband David and refuses to list a single red flag, Brooke rolls her eyes and starts heckling.<\/p>\n
\u201cHave ya f***** yet?\u201d she bellows. \u201cBulls***! I\u2019m calling bulls***!\u201d<\/p>\n
The token elderly bride is so embarrassed to be involved in this petty drama that she breaks the fourth wall and stares directly into the camera lens to express to us her exasperation.<\/p>\n
Brooke doubles down, joining forces with Gia to jeer and taunt.<\/p>\n
Nan doesn\u2019t know that, across town, pop is whinging to the boys about how she talks too much. <\/p>\n
\u201cGirls, shut the f*** up!\u201d Alissa shrieks while they keep interrupting her.<\/p>\n
Then Brooke lobs a bitter claim: \u201cI think it\u2019s a fake showmance!\u201d<\/p>\n
So much for that impassioned speech about not tearing women down.<\/p>\n
Maybe she\u2019s just defensive because her own marriage to the fatphobic groom isn\u2019t what she hoped for. Or maybe Miss Congeniality is actually just a Regina George.<\/p>\n
Then comes the moment for Mel to give her very one-sided (and not at all accurate) account of her marriage to Luke.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no green flags. None,\u201d she sulks to the other brides.<\/p>\n
\u201c[But] red flags? He has made my life a living hell. He\u2019s trying to be malicious to me at every chance he gets. He hates me so much that he\u2019s trying to find any reason to be mean.\u201d<\/p>\n
Huh. That\u2019s a very interesting tale you\u2019re weaving, Melissa. It\u2019s funny that, even though you\u2019re being trailed 24\/7 by a crew of five cameramen, none of them have seemed to capture any footage of your husband\u2019s alleged malicious acts. And it\u2019s weird that there\u2019s an abundance of tapes that show you yourself behaving poorly. We\u2019re totally not saying you\u2019re lying! We\u2019re merely observing that it\u2019s \u2026 peculiar.<\/p>\n
Brooke, a model, clearly knows her best angles. <\/p>\n
Mel rallies the mean girls and manipulates them into launching a military operation to destroy Luke.<\/p>\n
But not all the wives are blindly supporting Mel.<\/p>\n
When Stella says maybe we need to see Luke\u2019s side, Mel and her girl gang of Brooke and Gia turn on her.<\/p>\n
Brooke steps in as the spokeswoman again \u2013 offering a call to arms.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a girl\u2019s girl. I\u2019m a GIRL\u2019S. GIRL,\u201d she declares, basically accusing Stella of hating women.<\/p>\n
She presents her solid theory: Stella\u2019s a girl and Mel\u2019s a girl \u2013 and girls should always support girls no matter what the truth is.<\/p>\n
Me being applauded at work after presenting a slide show of metrics that I don\u2019t even understand. <\/p>\n
While all the other wives are now drunk on warm prosecco following an arvo of day drinking, Brooke is intoxicated with something else: the high that comes from being a self-appointed moral crusader.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople love me for me,\u201d she smiles. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m on fire!\u201d<\/p>\n
Producers naturally score the moment to haunting music from a horror movie.<\/p>\n
Married At First Sight Australia screens Sundays to Wednesdays on Three and Three Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, Luke fled Trash Tower following a week of bullying from Mel. What tipped him over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2246,19272,1443,74,1975,85,2108,14146,9174,156,21039,4636,11424,1888,1364,14054,91124,19652,9610,14733,111,139,69,34323,8138,1679,9095,27053,18916,544,93067,1961,437,112306,1842],"class_list":{"0":"post-290445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-2246","9":"tag-19272","10":"tag-about","11":"tag-after","12":"tag-at","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-book","15":"tag-burn","16":"tag-discover","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-episode","19":"tag-facebook","20":"tag-finds","21":"tag-first","22":"tag-her","23":"tag-james","24":"tag-lots","25":"tag-mafs","26":"tag-married","27":"tag-midnight","28":"tag-new-zealand","29":"tag-newzealand","30":"tag-nz","31":"tag-opinions","32":"tag-recap","33":"tag-recaps","34":"tag-secret","35":"tag-shocked","36":"tag-sight","37":"tag-some","38":"tag-stalking","39":"tag-this","40":"tag-tv","41":"tag-weir","42":"tag-wife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}