{"id":568248,"date":"2026-05-05T23:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568248\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:31:16","slug":"mafs-australias-scott-heartbroken-over-wife-gia-lying-about-flirtatious-alternate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568248\/","title":{"rendered":"MAFS Australia&#8217;s Scott &#8216;heartbroken&#8217; over wife Gia lying about flirtatious alternate&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish_date\">5 May 2026, 19:30<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Reacting to Gia&amp;squot;s date with James, Scott said:  \" i=\"\" quite=\"\" speechless=\"\" at=\"\" the=\"\" moment=\"\" to=\"\" be=\"\" honest=\"\" it=\"\" a=\"\" bit=\"\" heartbreaking.=\"\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"811168\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/811168.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Reacting to Gia&#8217;s date with James, Scott said:  &#8220;I&#8217;m quite speechless at the moment to be honest it&#8217;s a bit heartbreaking.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Picture:<br \/>\nNine<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?href=www.capitalfm.com%2Fnews%2Ftv-film%2Fmarried-at-first-sight%2Faustralia-mafs-scott-reaction-gia-alternative-match-date%2F&amp;app_id=184899318222048\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"gusto.tracking.social(&#039;facebook&#039;, &#039;share&#039;)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook share\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/facebook-share.png\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">MAFS Australia&#8217;s Scott was shown everything Gia said and did during the date with her alternate match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/married-at-first-sight\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MAFS Australia<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/married-at-first-sight\/mafs-australia-scott-mccristal-age-job-wife\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott<\/a> said there&#8217;s still &#8220;a lot more hurt coming&#8221; his way after he was shown how his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/married-at-first-sight\/australia-mafs-gia-fleur-age-job-daughter-husband\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gia<\/a> behaved during the experiment&#8217;s Final Task. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">This year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/married-at-first-sight\/mafs-australia-2026-cast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cast<\/a> weren&#8217;t given the chose to opt out of meeting their alternative match during the Final Task. The men and women were split up for the evening and surprised with the people that they could have been matched with. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">As soon as Scott realised what was happening he chose to leave, but elsewhere his wife Gia was more than happy to entertain her alternative match James. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Gia spoke about wanting to get James&#8217; number and when he said he&#8217;d wait for her, she said she&#8217;d be single soon because she&#8217;d be &#8220;done with the experiment in a week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">On live TV in Australia, Scott was shown everything Gia said and he said that was only the start of his heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gia talking to James on MAFS Australia\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"811166\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/811166.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Gia talking to James on MAFS Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Picture:<br \/>\nNine<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/today\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Today Extra<\/a>, Scott revealed to how he felt watching those scenes. He said: &#8220;It felt like a slap in the face because I thought we had mutual feelings. I&#8217;m quite speechless at the moment to be honest it&#8217;s a bit heartbreaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He hinted at what was shown in the upcoming episode, sharing: &#8220;\ufeffWe sit down and explain everything that happened. I told her and then she told me everything that happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">But he added: &#8220;I felt like she&#8217;d done the right thing at that point in time, until I saw what really happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Scott did not want to be on a date with someone else\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"811167\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/811167.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Scott did not want to be on a date with someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Picture:<br \/>\nNine<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Scott explained why he chose to not participate in the task, saying: &#8220;It&#8217;s a real life relationship. Everyone is going to have a different opinion but for me when I&#8217;m into someone and I see a future with them I don&#8217;t let anyone else have an opportunity because there&#8217;s no need for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He added: &#8220;I&#8217;m not looking at other opportunities, even if they could or couldn&#8217;t have been my partner. It&#8217;s invalid. I don&#8217;t know them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Looking ahead at the episode that shows him watching Gia&#8217;s date, he said: &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot more hurt coming my way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.com\/news\/tv-film\/married-at-first-sight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MAFS <\/a>news here:Listen live to Capital, and catch up on any shows you missed, on <a href=\"https:\/\/app.af.globalplayer.com\/Br0x\/CaptoGP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global Player.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5 May 2026, 19:30 Reacting to Gia&#8217;s date with James, Scott said: &#8220;I&#8217;m quite speechless at the moment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}