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MAFS After The Dinner Party S01E07 STAN H 264
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00:00You are the Daily Mail!
00:02Hey, you're a puppeteer then!
00:03Mama!
00:05You're not coming for my husband!
00:08Dinner is served.
00:10Welcome to MAPS!
00:11After the dinner party, I'm Jules, here with Laura and Brittany.
00:15And just when we thought things couldn't get any worse,
00:18cue the final dinner party.
00:20If you thought that was wild,
00:21just wait until you see what we've got planned.
00:24Receipts that were never meant to be seen,
00:26another calculated move revealed,
00:28bulk unseen footage that explains it all,
00:31and a guest that is here
00:32that we never thought we would see on this couch.
00:35Well, get ready, because tonight
00:37the truth is all coming out.
00:39Scott's here following his tragic break-up,
00:41his tears are dried, and, well,
00:43he's not holding back.
00:44Plus, we have a very special guest,
00:47James. Gia's alternate match
00:49is going to join us tonight, and he is armed
00:50with receipts that are absolutely going to blow your socks off.
00:53Stella and Phillip are going to join us
00:55to spill all the behind-the-scenes gossip
00:56that you don't want to miss.
00:58Then, drumroll please.
01:01Pinch yourself!
01:03Because, seven attempts later,
01:06Gia is finally in the building!
01:08Yeah, you heard right.
01:10Gia's officially here.
01:12Well, actually, whether or not she makes it
01:13those final steps to the couch,
01:15if she knows what we know, she may not.
01:18I will believe it when I see it.
01:19I want to make sure everyone locks down the bathrooms too,
01:21because we know she loves to make a beeline.
01:22She does love a runner.
01:23So, yeah, good luck to us, hey?
01:25Well, that dinner party had everything tonight.
01:27We've seen drama within the group before,
01:29but tonight couples cracked,
01:31and one even fell apart for good.
01:33But amongst the chaos, one couple remained unshakable.
01:36And that's Stella and Phillip.
01:38Let's bring them out.
01:47Here they are!
01:48Hello!
01:48Hey!
01:49Welcome to the couch.
01:51Thank you for having us.
01:53Welcome back.
01:54You guys are the shining beacon of light in this whole thing at the moment.
01:57Congratulations on the key exchange.
01:59How does that feel?
02:01It feels amazing.
02:02Like, this is everything that I wanted,
02:03and it was just going all in and going, you know what?
02:05This is it. Like, let's go.
02:06It really was a double whammy,
02:07because Stella not only gave you the key to her house,
02:10but the key to her heart.
02:12No!
02:13We are rooting for you guys,
02:15and all of Australia is rooting for you guys,
02:17but this dinner party that's just happened was pretty intense,
02:20and I think something that we saw from you guys,
02:22which we haven't really seen a lot,
02:23is that you had a lot to say,
02:25and you really kind of called people into line.
02:27Why do you feel, in this instance,
02:30that you had to speak up?
02:31We always had something to say,
02:33but no one was listening.
02:35There's too much chaos going on.
02:37I'm like, I want to have a game.
02:38No one was listening.
02:39You know, everyone just called to shush for me.
02:41So I'm like, you know, whatever.
02:42One thing we saw tonight,
02:43which I absolutely loved,
02:44is when you put your foot in it,
02:45and you said,
02:46Danny, congratulations!
02:48Was that the most awkward thing ever?
02:50But you're in love!
02:51You told Becky you're in love!
02:53And then she goes,
02:54what was...
02:54That was hilarious.
02:55What?
02:56So what was going on?
02:57You know, when you see and hear things,
02:59and they're just like,
03:00in which world it matches?
03:02And instead of having rumours going back and forth,
03:05I'm always like,
03:06just have a chat about it.
03:07Well, about that falling in love comment,
03:09we have some unseen footage
03:11of what both Becky and Danny were saying
03:13at the dinner party,
03:14that didn't quite make the cut.
03:16So we're going to have a look.
03:17Oh my God!
03:18Cue the popcorn!
03:18Let's go!
03:19Let's go!
03:21Since that commitment ceremony,
03:23Heather stepped up is changing.
03:24Because after that commitment ceremony,
03:26I've run away for a little while,
03:29and then coming back into the conversation,
03:31I just said to him,
03:31I don't know if I can do this.
03:32Mmm!
03:33He begged me.
03:34He begged me.
03:35He was falling in love with me.
03:37That's so nice.
03:38Yeah.
03:39That's so nice.
03:40He said it twice now.
03:41In two days.
03:43Wow.
03:43Tomorrow?
03:44Well, there you go.
03:46That's progress.
03:46All I wanted was him to drop his guard down.
03:49Let me in.
03:51And, you know, so, yeah.
03:53Okay.
03:54I'm just really glad that we've kind of been
03:55pretty open and honest throughout the couch sessions
03:57and stuff because if it wasn't for the expert's help,
04:00I don't think we would be here.
04:01He came in.
04:02There you go.
04:03I thought there was someone coming in.
04:05Did you say it?
04:07Oh, he's a tripper.
04:09You can talk about it.
04:10We had a promissage.
04:11We're on a boat fight next.
04:12I think my feelings are increasing.
04:13Did you tell you a fetch, man?
04:14Yeah.
04:15Yeah.
04:16When little girls talk, it gets, you know.
04:19Hey, you should see us.
04:20No, not like that.
04:21I'm saying, like, let's get out.
04:24When you look at that back,
04:25who do you think is telling the truth?
04:27Do you think that he actually said it to Bec?
04:29Yeah, yeah.
04:30Like, I think he did.
04:30Yeah.
04:31Like, yeah, I think he did.
04:32And she took it in a certain way and she was convinced.
04:34Have you ever been suspicious of their relationship
04:36and the strength of it?
04:38Yeah.
04:40Danny tried to fall in love with Bec.
04:43It's just every time there was something, you know,
04:46Bec was being back.
04:47Yeah, for sure.
04:48And it was just like, whoa.
04:49And it's just two steps forward, three steps back.
04:53Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say.
04:54The thing is that Danny's like two days out from the ceremony
04:56and he's saying, my feelings are increasing.
04:58Like, that's what he said he said, verbatim.
05:00Like, he...
05:01Sales minister.
05:02Exactly.
05:03What's it been like watching it back?
05:05Because it's one thing to live it
05:06and it's another thing to sit back on your couch at home
05:08and watch it.
05:08Because you make so many discoveries about other couples.
05:11What's it been like watching Scott and Gia's relationship back?
05:15Look, I didn't know the kind of mental ringer
05:18Scotty was getting put around.
05:20Like, he was just...
05:20The goalposts were always getting moved and, you know,
05:23he was always trying to just meet Gia on, you know,
05:26on her terms with absolutely everything
05:28and we didn't know it was that chaotic.
05:29I feel so bad for Scotty.
05:30And he just always wanted to believe, like, blindly, you know?
05:32But yeah.
05:33I do think, though, that if he was honest about it,
05:35the relationship would have unravelled a lot faster.
05:37Absolutely.
05:38And so, like, not speaking up is what allowed it
05:40to get to this point so far in the experiment.
05:43He protected her so much.
05:44Well, the cracks started to show for Scott and Gia
05:46the last couple of weeks.
05:47We've seen that.
05:48But tonight we saw it absolutely implode.
05:50The relationship is very obviously completely done and dusted.
05:54I was holding on for dear life the whole time.
05:56I think Australia was like, are they going to make it?
05:58I thought he was going to go back for a second again.
06:00I know.
06:01Everyone was yelling at the screen,
06:02Scott, no!
06:03Yes, yes.
06:04Well, Scott's here tonight, so let's get him out.
06:06Yes!
06:15Hey!
06:16Hello!
06:19What a bromance!
06:21Oh, thanks.
06:22How are you?
06:23Hello, how are you?
06:24I'm good.
06:24I'm good.
06:25Come, get in the sandwich.
06:26Hey, Scott.
06:28Welcome.
06:29Air hug.
06:30I've got my family here.
06:31Yes.
06:32I mean, the whole country wants to hug you.
06:34Team Scott.
06:35I think everyone was just hearts broken for you.
06:38And, like, we've obviously known that there have been cracks
06:40for a while, but seeing how the dinner party played
06:44out, it was, that was really, really emotional.
06:46And how does it feel for you now?
06:48Um, it feels good, obviously, to get some clarity, obviously.
06:52But at the same time, watching it brings up a bit of emotions.
06:55Absolutely.
06:55You said that you would come onto the couch,
06:57but you didn't want Gia on here with you.
06:59We're not doing that to you.
07:00But she is here.
07:01And she is watching the conversations that we're having.
07:04That's fine.
07:05Why didn't you want to sit on the couch and do it alongside her?
07:09Just, no matter what I do or say,
07:11she's going to try and make an excuse for it.
07:13So nothing will come good out of it.
07:15Yeah.
07:15Like, I've moved past this now.
07:16I want to move on with my life.
07:17And having that energy next to me will make me feel like crap.
07:20Absolutely.
07:20So I don't need that.
07:21We never in a million years could have predicted
07:23that it would turn out exactly the way that it has turned out.
07:26Was it as bad as it looked or was it worse?
07:28Yeah, it was pretty bad.
07:29Like, every commitment ceremony, every dinner party,
07:32every time I got home, I'm out.
07:34I'm breaking up with you.
07:35Just repeat.
07:36And I don't know what it was.
07:37Like, watching it, I'm like, what was I doing?
07:38But at the same time, the emotional manipulation behind her,
07:41she's so good at it.
07:42It made me feel like she was always in the right.
07:44Before we dig into it too deep,
07:46we've got some footage of your final week on the show.
07:49Let's take a look.
07:50Love a good footage.
07:51I don't want you to be upset.
07:54Okay.
07:55What I'm going to talk about is feelings where I...
07:59Take a breath.
08:00I feel like I can't speak my voice when I have a concern.
08:03It's a weakness of mine.
08:06This is your opportunity to ask yourself,
08:09is the grass greener on the other side?
08:12Wow, I can't do this.
08:13I don't want to do this.
08:15I instantly felt sick.
08:16And thanks for coming out here,
08:17but I'm in a good relationship right now.
08:21I'm probably just going to go.
08:23Where are you going?
08:25Gia.
08:26Stop.
08:27I just want to go home.
08:28To see my child and my mum and get the fuck out of here
08:30and be out of this fake reality.
08:31I want to go home.
08:34I can't be here anymore.
08:35I would like you to come with me.
08:38It's not happening,
08:39because I just wanted to finish with you and I didn't.
08:41Okay.
08:42All the best, Scott.
08:43I know.
08:44I just don't think I deserve to get a phone call
08:46giving me an alternate to just leave this experiment.
08:49Oh, fuck's sake.
08:55I'm just speechless.
08:58Yo!
08:59Hey, what's happening, girls?
09:00Just looking for the beautiful Gia.
09:01You make a good amount of money?
09:02Enough.
09:03Because I only date men that pay for money.
09:05I kind of want to be like a trophy wife.
09:08I can wait another year for that.
09:09For what?
09:10I'm literally done in a week.
09:12That is disgusting.
09:15I just got fucked.
09:17For three months.
09:18I just got fucked.
09:20She just used me.
09:24Jill was meant to go home to Melbourne when she left me.
09:28Turns out she wasn't even there.
09:29She was in Sydney the whole time saying that her daughter was upset,
09:32crying with her when all of it was a lie.
09:35She never even flew back to Melbourne.
09:39Oh!
09:42My heart just immediately dropped.
09:44I didn't want to look at her.
09:45I feel sick.
09:47Dear Scott, I came back tonight to not leave and to show you that I'm here to bare my soul,
09:52not for the cameras but for you.
09:57It's my time to talk.
10:00I'm not sure what it is that you're looking for, Jill, but I can tell you're not the one for
10:04me.
10:05We are a different calibre of people.
10:11Sorry, but I'm done.
10:13Scott!
10:14I'm done.
10:16At the end of the day, it was a show mass.
10:20All he does is use me for my body.
10:22Come on.
10:23Stop.
10:23Stop right there.
10:23He'll have sex with me.
10:24Stop right there.
10:26Can you cut the shit?
10:27Can you shush?
10:29You guys don't know everything.
10:33I can see you're getting upset.
10:35How do you feel watching yourself?
10:36That's okay.
10:37But in that such a vulnerable situation.
10:40You give up so much of your time for someone.
10:42It's not just TV.
10:44I actually gave it a go.
10:46People may say it's fake.
10:47It's not.
10:48It's not.
10:48That's why it's just three full months every day, 24-7 trying to make a relationship work.
10:55Yeah.
10:55And then when you see things like that.
10:58Can I ask Scott?
10:59Because I know that there's been lots of conversations around it where you said that you weren't ready to tell
11:04Gia that you were in love with her.
11:05Your reaction was so big and it was the reaction of someone who I would say was in love with
11:11someone.
11:11Do you look back on that and in the time think I actually did love her?
11:16I think parts of it, but there's so many more things I need to see in a woman before I
11:21could say I love them.
11:21How did you feel when you were watching those things Gia said like, I want someone that pays for everything.
11:27I want someone that does everything.
11:28I want to be a kept woman.
11:31Were those conversations she was having with you as well?
11:33Did you know that about her?
11:34No, like I did say at the start of the experiment, I want to be a man to provide her,
11:37but not exactly in that sort of way.
11:39Like just as if she's a gold digger.
11:42Like I didn't really want that.
11:43Can I ask how you feel genuinely about Gia's feelings towards you?
11:46Because it was a very tumultuous ride.
11:48Like sometimes I thought, oh, she really feels this.
11:50I don't agree with a lot of things she's doing and saying, but I believed her connection and feelings for
11:55you were real.
11:55And then she would flip and do something where I thought, oh, hang on.
11:58Did I get sucked into that?
12:00Did you feel it was real at times?
12:01At times, definitely.
12:02I don't think, you know, she was pretending.
12:05I think she genuinely was there, like had her best interest at heart for me.
12:08But also too, there was a bit of an act in terms of forcing me to tell her I love
12:11her.
12:12You know, look at her right now.
12:13She's already in love within a second.
12:16Like, yeah, I don't know.
12:18It's so sorry.
12:19No, no, no.
12:20There's just like such a massive wave because one day she's so close to me when we go out together
12:26and you feel that connection strong.
12:28But then the next minute she'll turn on me.
12:30What did you think tonight at the dinner party when she was emotive and then the moment you stormed off,
12:37she went on the attack very quickly?
12:39It just gives me more clarity.
12:41Yeah.
12:41That show she doesn't love me.
12:43Look at her body language.
12:44Look at Bec.
12:45Look at her winking at her.
12:46Look at the game plan they made.
12:47Like, that scene for me was one of the most explosive scenes that I had seen on Married at First
12:52Sight.
12:52The scene in the bathroom where Bec and Jira conniving on, you know what you've got to do.
12:57Australia's watching.
12:58You've got to out victim him and make sure you cry.
13:01Gia says, yes, I'll make sure I cry.
13:02I felt sick.
13:03Like, I just, I didn't know there's people like that out there.
13:06He's just showing the calculation.
13:09It's crazy, man.
13:09Shit's wild.
13:10Yeah, manipulation.
13:11Where I'm confused in the sense of, what, did she love me?
13:14The biggest thing was to victim him?
13:17Like, what?
13:18I don't excuse any of the behaviour.
13:19I think it's very clear that it was all horrible.
13:22But I do think that there was emotions and feelings there as well.
13:26Definitely.
13:26I don't think you can fabricate that.
13:27No, no, 100%.
13:28Scott, why did you write the letter?
13:31Why?
13:31Yeah.
13:32And it was, I needed to say something, because I've been quiet.
13:35And I just, I had to have my ending.
13:38Like, I need my closure.
13:39Yeah.
13:40To let her know it's done.
13:41Yeah.
13:42That's it.
13:42Gia said that your relationship was a showmance.
13:45Was it?
13:45Was it real?
13:47It was definitely real.
13:48If she's saying it's a showmance, she said she loved me.
13:52Mm.
13:52I spent so many weekends with her.
13:54I took her daughter out for her birthday.
13:55She was on my shoulders.
13:56Oh, wow.
13:56I was FaceTiming her mum and her daughter.
13:58If I had these special family moments, without cameras, is that showmance, is it?
14:03Mm.
14:04Come on.
14:04There is so much, obviously, going on behind closed doors that we don't get to see between
14:08you and Gia.
14:09Here's some behind the scenes audio of you talking to a producer right after the call with Gia,
14:14and it's where we really saw you open up.
14:19It's like, you know what it is?
14:21She's fucking hurt me too many times in this experiment.
14:24And I keep holding on, and I think it's just too many times.
14:27Like, fuck, I've had some bombs on me that none of you guys know about her.
14:31That what?
14:32Oh, what she's done to me, and she...
14:35Like, pretty much, I'm, like, the most useless motherfucker you can ever come across.
14:39Pretty much I am.
14:40Like, crumbs, I'm not, like, if you're secure, I'm not a man, I'm a bitch.
14:43Everything.
14:44Just everything.
14:44When she smiles, everything she can think of is if I'm a fucking piece of shit.
14:49And then apologises and cries on my shoulder, because I know she doesn't mean it.
14:52And that's why I forgive her, because I know she doesn't mean it.
14:53She does it because she smiles.
14:55Because I'm in love with her.
14:56So she reacts.
14:57She responds the wrong way.
14:59And then she even sits on the couch.
15:00I say this because when I'm hurt, I'm going to make the other person feel like shit too.
15:04And that, she's done the whole experiment.
15:08Pretty much of it.
15:10This will be her out of the world too.
15:12You can't.
15:12That's it.
15:13That's her.
15:15Oh man, I didn't even know what to do like that.
15:17Yeah.
15:18Scott.
15:18It's hard to watch.
15:19Wow.
15:20That's a lot.
15:20Is that part of the reason that you didn't leave with Gia?
15:24Yeah.
15:25Like, we didn't know that.
15:27We didn't know that that was going on or that you felt like that.
15:29I'm a personal guy.
15:30I care things to myself.
15:31Gia was wanting to leave the experiment, but for a little while there you were going to leave with her.
15:36What happened for you?
15:38So something in my gut said, do not leave.
15:40There's something you need to see.
15:41Yeah.
15:42And which is what?
15:43The video.
15:44What?
15:45That was it.
15:46Keeping her options open to someone.
15:47What was the absolute breaking point?
15:49Honestly, probably when I watched that video and then just went down here from there real fast.
15:56I only date men with money and you know, you can find me on mass after the show.
15:59I'm done in a week.
15:59If you have the audacity to do that on national television, I can only imagine what you're doing behind closed
16:04doors.
16:05Scott, have you spoken to Gia since, like since you parted ways after the dinner party?
16:09Have you spoken?
16:10I was at home and I get a phone call.
16:12Hey, I'm at the Gold Coast.
16:13Yeah.
16:14And?
16:15She moved there.
16:16She moved there?
16:17Yes.
16:18What?
16:18Tried to find herself?
16:19I didn't even know and said, can we get a coffee?
16:22I'm like, what?
16:23I rejected her on it and then she went off at me and said, I moved here for you.
16:27Yada, yada, yada.
16:29When originally she said no, but the moment I rejected her, she went off again.
16:32And then within a week, within two weeks, she moved back to Melbourne.
16:35So do you think she loved you?
16:37Yeah.
16:38Must have.
16:39Yeah, she loved him.
16:40Scott, it did seem like the final test video was where you hit the point of no return.
16:44However, you weren't the only couple who faced hurdles during this task.
16:48Let's remind ourselves of what went down.
16:52Oh no.
16:53What is going on here?
16:55Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
16:57I feel like I'm going to pass out.
16:59None of us are here to cheat.
17:00We talk to the girls about our relationships and then just tell them about our wives and
17:04get some feedback.
17:05It's a business meeting.
17:07It's a business meeting.
17:09James?
17:09Can I borrow your mic last place?
17:10I don't want to do this at all.
17:12Yeah, yeah.
17:13Instagram screener.
17:15I'm in a good relationship.
17:16I just feel like I'm hooked right now.
17:18You know, it's lovely to meet you, but I don't feel like I can't engage.
17:21I'm going to just exit.
17:22Okay.
17:26I actually don't care.
17:27Do you have any tattoos?
17:27I can't show you where though.
17:29Do you want to chop your pants?
17:30Yeah.
17:31I'm here for my girl Stella.
17:33I'm here.
17:34Sit down, Antoni.
17:35Put your hand up if you're circumcised.
17:38Oh dear God.
17:39You're literally my perfect woman.
17:41In the real world, yes I would date you.
17:44Do you make a good amount of money?
17:46Enough.
17:46If I was single, yeah, I'd eat that up.
17:48She has met her husband now.
17:49She doesn't need to go back to him.
17:50She should come home with me.
17:51I'm done in a week.
17:52I'm literally done.
17:53Can I have that pen please?
17:55You're getting his number.
17:56James, give it to me and I'll give it to her when she needs it later on.
17:59She will.
18:03Oh.
18:05It's insane watching how differently the men and women handle that situation.
18:09Like polar opposites.
18:11Do you think the women were flirting?
18:13Drop your pants.
18:13Everything they were saying, Alyssa, Bec, Gia, obviously Rachel carried herself well,
18:19yourself, you know, if a couple of them were, but most of them.
18:22How was that experience described to you by Gia?
18:27Like how she came home and said to me everything that a guy wanted to hear.
18:32This guy's all over me.
18:33I told him to get off me.
18:34Like all the things that you want to hear, right?
18:37Obviously what she told me was the complete opposite to what I witnessed
18:39and that's my turning point.
18:40Well, Scott, it seems that Gia didn't tell you the full story.
18:44There are many twists and turns.
18:46So James, Gia's alternate match is here to shed some light on the details
18:51that none of us knew about.
18:54No way.
18:57Hey.
19:05Hello.
19:06Oh, you can have her, bro.
19:08What?
19:08Oh, it's like that way.
19:11Definitely.
19:11Yeah.
19:11Hello.
19:12Well, this might be awkward.
19:14It's not awkward because you can have her.
19:16You lived with the experience.
19:18Yeah.
19:18You were there in the flesh.
19:19You've now watched it back.
19:21Yeah.
19:21I'm dying to hear your thoughts.
19:22Do you feel like the girls and Gia were flirting?
19:26Yeah, I was getting a vibe back from her, so.
19:28So what was the vibe you were getting back?
19:29That she's ready to mingle?
19:30She was flirtatious, yeah, straight away.
19:32So I was talking to her, giving her some riz like I would.
19:35So James, after you've had this interaction with Gia and you were leaving.
19:39Yep.
19:39Were you thinking, wham bam, thank you ma'am, like I'm in.
19:41I have a solid chance with this girl.
19:43If it goes in, but I was going to follow up and follow through with my side.
19:47Yeah.
19:47So I sent a message on Instagram.
19:49Got a message back saying sorry I'm happily married and a photo of Scott with his top
19:53off with his finger up, so.
19:54You swapped details and she said I'm free in a week.
19:57So that must have been confusing to you as well because you've gotten the sort of A-OK
20:01and then she's like, hey, back off.
20:03Of course, but look, it's like sales, right?
20:05You get ten notes before you get a yes, so you have to be persistent.
20:09I don't know.
20:10Did you continue with the persistence at that point?
20:12Yeah, I followed up, asked how his date was because I knew that they were doing something
20:16similar, so I got a phone call, about four or five phone calls the next day.
20:19So, OK.
20:21James, you've given the team copies of your receipts, which they have cross-checked with
20:26the timestamps on footage and Gia's travel itinerary to build a picture of what exactly
20:30went down on the final date day.
20:32Scott, at 1.20pm Gia left your final date to go back to the apartment and leave the experiment.
20:40Now, 30 minutes later at 1.55pm Gia rang you with an ultimatum.
20:45You either leave or it's done.
20:48James, according to your screenshots, Gia did call you three times that day.
20:52Now, you missed her call at 3.06pm, but she calls you straight after that again at 3.07pm.
20:58This time, you do answer.
21:00Then at 3.19pm she calls you for a third time and you speak on the phone again.
21:05Gia doesn't know this bloke.
21:06Yeah, you're not friends.
21:08Why is she calling him that many times straight after she leaves me?
21:10She needs someone else.
21:11She's already got another boyfriend for God's sake.
21:13Look at how quick this is.
21:14She needs something.
21:15Was the content of the call, even though it was brief, was it flirty banter?
21:20Not really.
21:21It was more anger of, I'm leaving.
21:23Like, I think she actually did mention Scott didn't want to leave with her.
21:27So, I'm leaving.
21:28I'm going here.
21:28I'm doing this.
21:29She's called you multiple times.
21:31There would have been a conversation about something else.
21:33Really?
21:34Fuck yeah.
21:35You're not just calling up having a yarn.
21:37I've obviously set a good first impression.
21:39She wanted to ring me.
21:40So, I can't help it if she rung me.
21:42James, you're the one who gave us those text messages.
21:45You're the one who gave us the receipts.
21:47Yeah.
21:47Gia was sharing bikini photos with you.
21:50She was, like, you said it wasn't flirty, but I don't send bikini photos to anyone that I'm not flirty
21:54with.
21:54Oh, the text messages were flirty.
21:55Conversations afterwards were flirty.
21:57It weren't flirty immediately.
21:58That scene of Gia and Scott on the street having the breakdown in their relationship that was so public.
22:05She called you an hour after that.
22:07Yeah.
22:07One hour.
22:07It's crazy.
22:10And then she came to the dinner party and tried to get Scott back and tried to rekindle that relationship.
22:15Oh, look.
22:16If it was my missus, I would be very upset.
22:20It's not behaviour I would tolerate or want.
22:23I didn't know that she was still in a relationship with Scott though.
22:26Still going through the process.
22:27So if I did, I wouldn't have carried on with the conversation.
22:30Scott, when you find out this type of information about something, it just shows the level of lies.
22:36And it clearly still affects you.
22:37Because it's ridiculous.
22:39Like, I have never met someone so bad like this.
22:42It doesn't stop.
22:43I never knew this was going to happen.
22:44I didn't know he was going to come here.
22:45Didn't know she called him.
22:46I gave him the finger, popped him off, and then I didn't know this was happening after.
22:50I'm, like, frustrated because I put so much time and effort into someone who's calling me showmance.
22:57Take a look at yourself.
22:58She will never take accountability for her own action because she thinks she's fine.
23:02Well, James, thank you, mate.
23:04You dropped some pretty explosive receipts there.
23:06Can't wait to see what Gia has to say.
23:08Phillip and Stella, excited for your final vows.
23:12And Scotty, good luck, buddy.
23:14It's been pretty hard watching your journey, but we hope you find someone you can be your best self with.
23:20Okay, well, don't go anywhere.
23:21Gia has not done a runner yet, and she is still in the building and is about to join us
23:25here on this very couch.
23:27Scott's had his time on the couch over and over, getting his voice out there.
23:31But I've got a lot to say, so I think it's my turn to speak now.
23:34It's been seven weeks, six no-shows, and more complex negotiations than a NATO peace agreement.
23:41Gia is here.
23:43And honestly, out of all the weeks to choose to come, she chose this one,
23:46which is the week that she has the most to answer to.
23:48And, I mean, I for one think it's quite puzzling.
23:50She has been watching Scott's interview as it played out.
23:54I hear that she's pretty fired up, and she's ready to come out and hear and tell us what she
23:58thinks of it all.
23:58Gia fired up.
23:59I mean, that's all we've seen the whole show, right?
24:01Yeah.
24:01That's something different.
24:02Alright, well, look, let's not waste any time, not another second.
24:05Let's bring Gia out.
24:11Ave Maria.
24:18Ave Maria.
24:20Hi.
24:21Hi.
24:21I'm here.
24:23You're here.
24:24I'm here.
24:25You made it.
24:26It's like meeting Santa.
24:28I know.
24:29Santa's real.
24:30So, Gia, we know you've been watching.
24:31Why have you decided to come on now?
24:33Um, you know, you guys have spoken about me every now and then, and I'm like, I've just
24:38got to take ownership and be accountable and show up.
24:40Like, at the end of the day, I can't grow unless I face the music, really.
24:45Okay.
24:45So, when you say accountability, you've just watched that conversation with Scott.
24:50Yeah.
24:51How do you feel about that?
24:53Um, it was really difficult because, you know, I was in love with him.
24:57Watching it now, I'm like, oh, he was falling for me.
25:00Like, I was self-sabotaging and running away and I maybe missed that.
25:04And so, I'm like, I want him to know that it was real for me as well.
25:07It was real.
25:07I do believe that there were feelings there.
25:09Like, I see those moments.
25:11But Scott had a lot to say in the interview, as you saw.
25:13Yeah.
25:14I guess calling a bit of BS on the whole relationship.
25:16He said he doesn't believe anything you said.
25:18Yeah.
25:18He was saying that it was a showmance for you and that you would berate him a lot behind
25:23closed doors.
25:24I don't think it was to the degree that he's saying what I said.
25:27But we've even seen you say these things like last week, saying that he's dumb, illiterate.
25:32There's also things that he would say that, you know, made me feel a certain way.
25:36But I haven't spoken on any of that and I don't really want to shit talk him.
25:40Um, I, I don't know if I believe that.
25:44And I say this because, say, sit here and say, oh, well, he did things, but I don't
25:49want to tell you what it was.
25:50Well, can we pull up some Mike moments of Scott where he was talking about the other
25:53women of the experiment and telling me that he hates my hair curly and he doesn't
25:56want my hair up and that I look a bit fat?
25:58Can we show any of that?
26:00He said you looked fat.
26:01He said you looked fat.
26:02Yeah.
26:02I would love something shown of him to look bad for once because I feel like...
26:07But why did you never bring that up in the experiment?
26:09You cannot sit here and say, I didn't want to make him look bad.
26:12Because you said probably the worst thing that you could say about a guy, which was
26:15that they used you for sex.
26:17Right.
26:17So you would, you did go there.
26:19So if he had said those things, why didn't you bring them up then?
26:22So, I didn't want to, I just didn't want to.
26:23You know, I felt like he already was so mad about so many other things.
26:26He wasn't falling in love with me.
26:27I'm not, I'm not, I'm like, I'm not going to throw more shit on this.
26:29You know?
26:29I guess it's hard because in all the footage, he speaks really well about you.
26:34It's actually you that's not speaking well about him.
26:37Yep.
26:38Like, it just doesn't make sense.
26:40Okay.
26:41So, but can you see, can you understand why from the outset it just doesn't make sense?
26:46It, yeah.
26:47I mean, it doesn't make sense.
26:48I wish you could see more, but you couldn't.
26:51I mean, I don't know, I don't know what else to say.
26:52Like, I guess what we're trying to ascertain is, is when you're saying like, you know,
26:56why don't you show those videos?
26:57We actually don't have them.
26:59They do not exist to us.
27:00So are you potentially trying to find things to justify the behaviour that we've seen?
27:07No.
27:08If there's no footage of it, there's no footage of it.
27:10I don't know what else I can say.
27:11Do you feel as though we're not seeing the real Scott then?
27:14I, I think you're seeing the real Scott.
27:16I just think there's some moments that I wish was shown more.
27:20Like, I don't know how else to put it.
27:22Like.
27:22Talk to us about though, that moving.
27:25Like, got your daughter, you moved to the Gold Coast.
27:27You moved within a very close proximity to where Scott was.
27:30What was your intention?
27:32Well, like 30 minutes from Scott, the Gold Coast is small.
27:35Throughout the experiment, I told my daughter we'd move back to the Gold Coast.
27:38Her dad lives on the Gold Coast.
27:39And then, yeah, it was just too hard.
27:41I relied on my mum and my family too much.
27:44And they're like, you need to be in Melbourne.
27:44So we can help you.
27:46That's fair.
27:47And I get that.
27:47Like.
27:47Yeah.
27:48But at that time, did you also try and rekindle things with Scott?
27:51I definitely did.
27:51Yeah, 100%.
27:52But then, you just told us, you said, I wish you could all see how he treated me
27:56and what he said to me, what he said behind closed doors and the extra footage.
27:59Pull it up.
28:00If he was so bad, why did you want to go and rekindle?
28:04I'm not saying he was so bad.
28:05He's not a bad person.
28:06I don't think he was horrible.
28:08I still wanted to be with him.
28:09I was still in love with him.
28:11But yeah, I mean, he said a couple of things here and there that were bad.
28:14I don't think he was as bad as me.
28:16I'm not saying that.
28:16I'm not saying he's just as bad.
28:18Definitely not.
28:19Let's go back to Melbourne.
28:20When you went back, you went to Melbourne.
28:22Yeah.
28:23Sorry, went to Melbourne, lied, came back.
28:25What was the purpose of you coming back?
28:28I don't know if I can say that production wanted me to come back for the dinner party
28:32to confront Scott.
28:33Did you want to come back?
28:34No.
28:35You didn't want to come back at all?
28:37No.
28:37How does production make you come back if you don't want to?
28:40Well, it's not make me.
28:41It's the only opportunity I could see Scott, though.
28:44I'd reached out, called, texted, didn't hear anything from Scott.
28:46Basically, I thought, I don't know what else to do.
28:48I'm still in Sydney.
28:49The dinner party's tomorrow night.
28:50I'm like, fuck it, I'll go to the dinner party.
28:52You just said to us the production made you.
28:54Was that bullshit just then?
28:55Did you just lie to us?
28:57No, you can be honest.
28:59I'm genuinely trying to understand this.
29:01Yeah.
29:01So, production took you to the airport.
29:04Yep.
29:04They booked you a flight.
29:06They took you to the airport.
29:07You got dropped off.
29:08Yep.
29:08They sent you off to Melbourne.
29:10Yep.
29:10You got your bags off that flight.
29:11Yep.
29:12You stayed in Sydney.
29:14Yep.
29:14You didn't go home and see your daughter, who you said that that was the reason why you
29:17wanted to go home.
29:18Yep.
29:18But now you're saying production made you go to the final dinner party.
29:21Production doesn't sound like they made you do any of that.
29:23No, they thought I was going to be in Melbourne.
29:25Obviously, then I turned around and stayed in Sydney.
29:27And...
29:28So then, how did they make you go to the final dinner party?
29:30Well, because they knew I was in Sydney because I went to the apartment.
29:32So, regardless, you're going to...
29:34You're in a car and you're going to the dinner party.
29:38Why?
29:40To confront Scott and I wanted another chance.
29:42Confront him or get another chance?
29:44Because they're two different things.
29:46Well, I either wanted closure or another chance.
29:48I didn't know how it was going to pan out because, you know, I had Bec telling me,
29:51oh, he's at the gym with Danny and, you know, there's probably a shot there.
29:55And so, I'm thinking, okay, I'm going to write a letter.
29:56I'm going to do this.
29:57So, if you had one...
29:58I mean, your wish, you could have had that pan out any way you want.
30:01Was it to get back with him?
30:02Yep.
30:03Okay.
30:03100% at that time.
30:05Talk me through the scene that we saw in the bathroom where you are talking to Bec
30:10and you obviously think you're off camera, but you're very much mic'd up.
30:13Yeah.
30:13And you have a game plan of out-victiming Scott.
30:17Well...
30:17You have to out-victim him.
30:18You have to make yourself seem like you're more hurt than he is.
30:22Anyone who was there would know I was.
30:24I mean, I was...
30:26I wish you would play some footage of that, of how I was, but anyway.
30:30But someone who's a victim doesn't have to out-victim someone.
30:32You never have to say that.
30:33You don't have to, hey, can you cry?
30:35Can you do this?
30:35No, but Bec was...
30:36There was a strategy to it.
30:37Bec was telling me that I should...
30:39And it wasn't in the way of, like, be a victim to make the group like you.
30:43It was, like, be a victim so that he would see that.
30:45But it also said be a victim, so Australia...
30:47I mean, Australia was put in there as well.
30:49Well, I didn't say that.
30:49Look, I think in that situation you were both as bad as each other,
30:52but Bec literally said the best thing you can do is also cry.
30:55And you said, oh, babe, don't worry.
30:56I'll be crying.
30:57No, I was going to cry.
30:58I was crying all day.
30:59I mean...
30:59That's not how it came across.
31:00It came across as a conversation that was very manipulative.
31:03Like, okay.
31:05Yeah.
31:05Shit.
31:06They know that I lied about it.
31:08What am I going to do here?
31:08I'm going to have to outplay him.
31:10Yeah.
31:10You know, the conversation was even, right now, everyone is poor Scott.
31:13We need to turn that to poor Gia.
31:15Yeah.
31:15So that doesn't play like somebody that is, like, thinks that they lost the love of their life.
31:19That's fine.
31:20That's your perception.
31:21He was.
31:21And I did love him, so...
31:23It's just interesting, though, the moment you realised that the letter didn't land and you couldn't win him back,
31:31he walked away, and then you cut sick, saying he was using you for sex and it was a showmance.
31:38Yep.
31:38You can understand why we're confused.
31:41So tell us about why you would do that.
31:44I, you know, use it as a defence mechanism when I'm hurt and I don't feel like, you know, I'm
31:50protecting myself.
31:51I'm like, okay, well, he doesn't want me now, so just unleash.
31:54I've got nothing to lose.
31:54He doesn't want me.
31:55Who cares?
31:56Like...
31:56Do you look back now and knowing how much Scott did actually feel for you and this thing that you,
32:01you guys got,
32:02you got stuck on, like, you got stuck on the fact that he wouldn't say I love you.
32:05How do you feel about that now?
32:06Do you regret all of this?
32:08Yeah.
32:09Yeah.
32:10I just, just think I was self-sabotaging and I was projecting and I'm trying to...
32:14I was insecure and I'm, I'm trying to make him, you know, say he loves me back.
32:18Yeah, there was a lot with that, um, the test, right?
32:21The final test that was, we all saw the grass is greener.
32:24Yep.
32:24Do you look at that now and think you were flirting?
32:29I denied that I did to Scott.
32:31I'll admit that.
32:32I was trying to soften the blow and act like it wasn't as bad as it was.
32:36But watching it, I'm like, yeah, it was, it was pretty bad.
32:38Why?
32:38Why were you flirting like that?
32:40I feel like I'd reached a point in my relationship where I, I, I was spiralling way too hard.
32:45I didn't feel that he felt the same about me.
32:48And I was just like, this person was giving me so much heavy attention.
32:51I was like, all right.
32:53You said to James and the grass is greener, I'll see you in a week.
32:57Like I'm out in a week.
32:58Yep.
32:58Did you see him in a week?
33:00Absolutely not.
33:00Has anything happened?
33:01Anything eventuated?
33:02He sent me a DM and it was like, I'll see you when, when you're done with Scott or whatever.
33:06And I just gave Scott my phone.
33:07I was like, oh my God, reply to this idiot.
33:09We ended up blocking him.
33:10So he tried to, he tried to like slide back into your DMs and reignite something and you just put
33:14it to bed.
33:14You were like, no.
33:15Yeah, because, oh God.
33:16Like, no.
33:17Looking at it now, I'm like, yuck.
33:18Like.
33:18Gia, I'm going to stop you there.
33:19We spoke to James earlier and we actually know that you were having more contact with him.
33:29When I had left Scott and I was on the Gold Coast.
33:31Actually, on the final date when you stormed off from Scott.
33:36Yeah.
33:36We know that you called James and spoke to him that day.
33:40Why did you just lie to us?
33:43Well, Scott and I were done.
33:45When I was with Scott, I wasn't.
33:47No.
33:47You said you blocked him and you weren't done.
33:50No, I unblocked him.
33:50100%.
33:51Okay.
33:51So you've unblocked him now.
33:53Well, I don't talk to him now, obviously.
33:55But it was a day after.
33:55So you've had a date with him at the final test.
33:59Yeah.
33:59And then the next date, you've got the final date.
34:02Yeah.
34:02And so you've blocked him for a single night.
34:04In other words, you've blocked him in front of Scott.
34:07Yeah.
34:07And now the next day, you're in with Scott.
34:10We're going to the airport.
34:12Scott goes, no, we're two days out.
34:14Let's see this through.
34:15I want to hold your hands and I want to express my commitment to you.
34:20Yeah.
34:20And then instead of you saying, I'll stay with you, Scott.
34:23You unblock James and you call him three times.
34:27What are you talking about?
34:28What was your reason?
34:30I called him because we had just had the final date.
34:32Scott didn't leave with me.
34:33So this was like two, three days later.
34:34No, it was one hour later you called James.
34:37Was it?
34:38Okay.
34:38We had the grass is greener.
34:39Then the very next day is the final date.
34:41Well, I don't remember with filming what day exactly it was.
34:43But I know you might not remember, but you've had a one hour breakup.
34:47Like you've literally just had an argument on the street.
34:48Why call him?
34:49Not your mum, not your best friend, not Chris.
34:52I did call mum first because mum and my daughter flew to Sydney.
34:54So I called them and said go to the airport.
34:56But you still called James.
34:57Like a random guy that you didn't know.
34:59Yeah.
34:59I rang him on Instagram.
35:00He didn't have my number.
35:01Rang him on Instagram.
35:02And I said to him, this guy said he was going to leave with me.
35:05He's not leaving with me.
35:06Like, what do I do?
35:07I asked him literally as a, like a male friend advice.
35:10But why James?
35:10You don't know him.
35:11So why would you call him?
35:12Because he was giving me good advice.
35:12It just doesn't check out that you have had this breakup with someone that you love.
35:17And you actually wanted him to chase you.
35:19Yeah.
35:19Then you call this random stranger you met the day before that was there to be set up with
35:23you that you flirted with and said I'll be available in a week.
35:25Only to then, fakey 180 at the airport, get your luggage back off.
35:29Not tell anyone and go back to fight for Scott.
35:31Throw Scott back under the bus.
35:33Yeah.
35:34And then storm out.
35:35I'm exhausted.
35:35And then rekindle it with James.
35:38Make it make sense, James.
35:39I was like, fuck it.
35:40I wanted to feel wanted.
35:42I was so rejected by Scott.
35:44You have no idea.
35:44I was begging him.
35:45That's the truth.
35:46Yeah.
35:46I was begging him.
35:48Like, it's actually fucked.
35:50I was begging him to just even sleep with me.
35:52I needed something from him and I wasn't getting anything.
35:54Like, I wasn't.
35:55And at that time, this person was giving me attention and I took the attention.
36:00I think...
36:01That's the truth.
36:02I understand.
36:03And I think, you know, look, I say this as someone who in a very past life used to
36:09monkey branch, if I got rejected here, I would have something else to back up.
36:13Yeah.
36:13Like, I know what that feeling's like.
36:14I've done that.
36:15And so I actually...
36:17I can recognise it when I see it.
36:19And I don't think it's because you were really into James even necessarily, but it filled
36:23a hole.
36:23Not at all.
36:24Where do you think that insecurity comes from?
36:26Oh, God.
36:27That's so horrible.
36:28I don't want to talk about that.
36:29I'm sorry.
36:30Are you okay?
36:31Yeah.
36:31It's just...
36:32I don't want to excuse any of this.
36:33Like, I'm taking on what you guys are saying, but like, you know, there's always more to
36:37a story.
36:38Like, there's reasons.
36:39I didn't just wake up and decide to act like this.
36:43There's always reasons.
36:43You know?
36:43I do think that you guys got into an extremely toxic cycle.
36:48Like...
36:48And I don't think you had big feelings for James.
36:51I think it was a...
36:52No.
36:52I'm lonely.
36:53I'm hurting.
36:54So I'm going to get my attention from somewhere else.
36:56Yeah.
36:57I do think that that's what you did.
36:58However, I guess the reason why we're holding you so much to account on this is because
37:03the story changes as soon as we share a little bit more information.
37:06You said you blocked him.
37:08Then when we say we know more, then we...
37:09The story stretches a little bit further.
37:11I think you guys just really wanted me here to grill me and just call me a liar.
37:15And it's just like...
37:15We didn't.
37:16We just want to understand.
37:17I don't know what else to say, guys.
37:17Like, I fucked up.
37:19You've got to remember, this was last year.
37:20I'm trying to move on from this.
37:22It's like, I don't...
37:23You know?
37:23I don't want to be that person anymore.
37:25I don't.
37:25Otherwise, I'll have another relationship that doesn't work and another friendship that
37:29doesn't work or whatever.
37:30Like, I have to work on things.
37:32Yeah.
37:33I'm glad you guys have pushed me to this because it's made me realise, like, I can't do this
37:39kind of shit.
37:39It's just...
37:40And again, I'm raising a daughter.
37:42Like, I need to be better.
37:44You were given, in my opinion, a great groom.
37:50Mm-hm.
37:51You were given someone who was amazing all the way through to the end, right?
37:55Mm.
37:56So, my question is, why do you think he couldn't say, I love you?
38:00I think it was the outside noise and all the drama I was involved in and that behaviour
38:04that I was displaying that was the reason why he couldn't fall in love with me.
38:07I think it was just, I really needed to focus on Scott and not all of that shit.
38:12And I just, I couldn't.
38:13It was some of the worst behaviour, Gia, I have seen on TV in Australia, between you
38:18and Bec, and I hate it.
38:19I was almost rooting for you from the start, thinking, okay, she's just had a moment.
38:23She'll move past it.
38:25But we were three months in and you just never moved past it.
38:27Yeah.
38:28When you watch this back, how do you feel?
38:31Because you were like that to the very end.
38:33I literally can't watch it.
38:35It's too confronting.
38:36Like, I'm extremely embarrassed.
38:38I'm, yeah, I mean, it's shown me sides of myself that I need to grow on and improve
38:43on.
38:43Definitely, I watch it now and I'm like, I can't, you know, facilitate normal friendships
38:49acting this way or, like, having a good relationship this way.
38:52Like, it's, some of the things that I've done, I've done, I realise that's not okay.
38:57And I'm in therapy working on all that now, but, yeah, I mean, it's embarrassing.
39:02I don't know what else to say.
39:03Like, I'm humiliated.
39:05I don't think I act like that all the time.
39:07I mean, I'm also a mum.
39:09I also, like, like to think I'm somewhat of a good person.
39:13I'm not just a horrible person every single day of my life.
39:16I wish more of the good was shown, but, you know, it is what it is.
39:19All I can do is grow from the show.
39:21I do have another little bone to pick.
39:23Nick, I really love this show as an audience member.
39:27And you effed up with the spoilers.
39:30You revealed that you were seeing someone else way before you and Scott were pretty-
39:34Well, it got leaked.
39:34It got leaked.
39:35Oh.
39:35It did not get leaked.
39:36I love it.
39:37Daily Mail.
39:38You are the Daily Mail.
39:40You're puppeteering them.
39:42Yeah, you got paid.
39:43Didn't you get paid for that?
39:44No, we didn't get paid.
39:45Okay.
39:46So you did it for free?
39:47Do you know why we didn't get paid?
39:47Yeah, do you know why we were going to get paid?
39:49I'll tell you.
39:49So you were going to do it anyway.
39:50You can't say, oh, we got papped.
39:52You just admitted.
39:52You were setting it up to-
39:53Well, no, the thing is we were so worried every week that it was going to be leaked.
39:57Cut the shit.
39:57The reason you did it is because you had a guy that you loved on TV who was having second
40:04thoughts about you because you'd just been creating so much drama and you felt vulnerable
40:09and so you tried to get ahead of it by saying, hey, I've got someone better.
40:14No.
40:15And you optically wanted to look like you had already moved on.
40:18No.
40:19What?
40:19It just really pisses me off how people are going on about it being a PR thing.
40:24Of course.
40:24No, I just am in love with my boyfriend and I was like, fuck it.
40:27Let's leak it.
40:27I don't want to keep pretending I'm with Scott.
40:29That was literally it.
40:30So you did leak it?
40:30You just admitted it.
40:31Yeah.
40:31Well, I took the photos knowing they were going to be leaked.
40:34Didn't know they were going to be leaked that early.
40:36No, I knew that they came.
40:36So apologize to Australia for absolutely spoiling a show we love.
40:41Apologize, please.
40:42Where's the camera?
40:43Any camera.
40:43Here.
40:43That one.
40:44Number one.
40:44I'm sorry, Australia, for ruining the, for spoiling the show and the ending of Scott
40:49and I.
40:49I'm sorry.
40:50Is there anyone else you want to apologize to while you're down there?
40:52Um.
40:53Scott, maybe?
40:54Yeah.
40:54I am sorry to you, Scott.
40:56I genuinely feel bad.
40:57I feel like I did break and hurt this man.
40:59I hope he finds happiness.
41:00I, I, he's got a beautiful heart and he'll make someone really happy one day.
41:04Well, beyond Scott, your relationship with Bec was really what defined your time in the experiment.
41:09You guys just hated each other the entire time.
41:12Yeah.
41:12This week your besties.
41:14What happened?
41:15I don't know.
41:16I've, I've no answer for that.
41:17I think both of us wanted to relate to each other in some way when we were going through shit
41:21with our relationship.
41:21All we've seen is truly how horrible the two of you have been to each other.
41:26Yeah.
41:26So surely when the cameras aren't rolling, even if you have to be in the same room as each other,
41:30even if you do catch up with other people, surely that hatred is still there or that dislike for each
41:34other is still there.
41:35Like you don't just switch into, oh, okay, now the camera's off.
41:38We can be friends, babe.
41:39Like what's going on?
41:40We were hanging out a little bit off camera.
41:42And so I didn't know half the time before friends or if we weren't friends or what.
41:46So it was just a messy situation.
41:48It wasn't a friendship.
41:49What about now?
41:51Definitely not.
41:52Do you trust her?
41:53Did you trust her?
41:54No.
41:54Nah.
41:55I mean, you did put your trust in Bec at the dinner party and it backfired explosively.
42:00Yeah.
42:01But that might not have been the case for Bec.
42:03So I want you to take a look at this unseen footage that she gave after the dinner party.
42:09Everyone was like, why are you friends with her?
42:10Why are you friends with her?
42:11What are you doing?
42:12My husband was like, what's going on?
42:13She's not your friend.
42:14She's not your friend.
42:15I don't want to sit at a dinner party and have issues with people.
42:18I want to see Jira and Scott have it out with each other.
42:23The only person that was going to get her here was the only friend she had.
42:26Was me.
42:29Is that me?
42:29Oh my God.
42:30Yeah, she fucked me over.
42:31I know you look like dicks.
42:33I see her.
42:35Oh my God.
42:36I feel sick.
42:38Who would have thought?
42:41Absolutely.
42:41What do you think I've kept the...
42:43Who would have thought?
42:44Who would have thought?
42:45I'm framing them and selling them.
42:47Jeez.
42:48It's all been rainbows and lollipops the whole time.
42:51And then you run away.
42:53No, no, no.
42:53You come back and show what your relationship really was.
42:55Because I've worked on my relationship.
42:57You've worked on your relationship.
42:58But you've come for mine.
43:00You've come for yours.
43:01You've come for everyone else's.
43:02Let's see what the reality of the situation is.
43:05The only way to get her there was me.
43:07Mic drop.
43:09Mic drop.
43:11Bitch.
43:13That's how we started and that's how we're gonna end, isn't it?
43:18Oh my God, I feel sick.
43:19Yeah, that's so savage.
43:21How do you feel watching that?
43:24Well, I feel like an idiot.
43:31I genuinely thought she was my friend at that point.
43:33That's fucked.
43:34It is.
43:35Like I wish I didn't...
43:36Like outside of the show I continued to try and be her friend.
43:39She was at my birthday, like you guys know that.
43:41That's fucked.
43:43That's fucked.
43:44But in that moment you believed that you were friends?
43:47Yeah.
43:48At that point in time I did, yeah.
43:50But you still said you didn't trust her as well, was it?
43:52Yeah, I didn't fully trust her.
43:54But, you know, we had so many conversations off-camera
43:57with the whole Scott thing.
43:59Like she acted like she had my back and was telling me
44:02it would be a good thing to write the letter and that it would work
44:04and that I'd get through to him.
44:05I really believed her would at that time.
44:08But did you really believe Beck though?
44:09You might have believed that you could have gotten through to Scott.
44:12At the time, yeah.
44:12Yeah.
44:12Surely, surely, of all of the things that she was doing and saying
44:16and the way the drama was unfolding.
44:19Oh my God, that is so fucked.
44:20Like I don't understand how you could get to the end of this experiment
44:23and think, you know whose advice I'm going to trust?
44:26Bex.
44:27You're smarter than that.
44:27Bex the person who I'm going to put my trust and confidence in.
44:31Like it doesn't make sense.
44:32I don't know, I don't know what I was thinking.
44:34Scott and I would have so many conversations where he'd be like,
44:36I'm trying to protect you.
44:37She's not your friend.
44:38She's not this.
44:38And I'm like, oh, stop telling me what to do.
44:40Stop telling me who to be friends with.
44:42And I'm like, oh my God.
44:43I'm like, he knew this all along.
44:45Again, because I wasn't focused on my relationship and Scott,
44:49I wasn't able to take that on board.
44:51I was focused on all the other girls and the drama.
44:53Look, I think that the biggest thing to take home and take away from this
44:56is like it is a very good thing that you and Bex are not still
45:00in this frenemies friendship because that behaviour is so deeply toxic
45:05but you were also very much in self-sabotage mode.
45:08Like I think, and it's one thing, I know you've admitted it,
45:10you can see that in yourself and I think that's something that you,
45:14I didn't think I would say this but I do think you should be proud of that.
45:17When you look back on it and you go, oh, I recognise what I was doing now.
45:20Like I was self-sabotaging.
45:22And you've done it with every single relationship you've had in this show.
45:26Gia, in your audition you said you loved drama.
45:29You certainly brought it.
45:31You brought it and got plenty of it.
45:33But secondly, you're still very young.
45:36You've got a whole life ahead of you and this has given you
45:38some phenomenal life lessons.
45:41It's made you more aware of some of your blind spots.
45:43You've shared them with us today and lo and behold,
45:46at the end you said I do not trust Bec and all along I should have trusted Scott.
45:51Yeah.
45:51And that is a pretty amazing bit of discovery.
45:55So was it as bad as you thought sitting with us?
45:59No, I appreciate you guys and I appreciate the feedback
46:02and it's actually helpful I think moving forward.
46:05Now I can recognise more and seeing that I need to work on who I can trust
46:09and stop trying to look for drama and look for problems.
46:12Like there wasn't any problems with Scott, I was looking for them.
46:14But just to reiterate what Jules just said,
46:17it's never too late to start fresh to realise that you've learned things,
46:20to put them into play, be a better person, be a different person
46:22and be the person that you want your daughter to see as well.
46:25Yeah.
46:25And thank you for coming on and taking that accountability.
46:28And look, we know that you are in a new relationship
46:30and we genuinely, we mean it.
46:32We do hope that you get everything out of this relationship
46:34that you have always wanted.
46:36Yeah.
46:36And take the lessons from this whole thing
46:38and are able to implement them in your new relationship.
46:40Yep, yep.
46:41I'm trying to.
46:42Thank you so much.
46:43Well, we're entering the final phase of the experiment.
46:45Final vows.
46:47And if this doesn't bring a tear to your eye,
46:48well, nothing's ever going to.
46:52I came into this experiment looking for love.
46:55I definitely found what I've come here for.
46:58Here we go.
47:06I know this might be hard to hear.
47:09Hi.
47:14I know what my heart wants.
47:21There I am.
47:25It's been a devastating time for the Maffs family
47:27after losing Mel Schilling,
47:29who fought so bravely against cancer.
47:32But over a decade,
47:33she sat next to her colleague
47:35and more importantly, her friend, John Aiken,
47:37as they both guided couples through the joys
47:39and the struggles of finding love.
47:41To honour Mel and her memory,
47:44John is here tonight.
47:45John, welcome back.
47:47How are you going?
47:49Well, I won't lie.
47:50It's been a very, very difficult time.
47:52I mean, she's been incredibly important to the show.
47:57You know, she was the heart of the whole thing.
48:00What did this family mean to her?
48:03Well, I mean, she was there with me from series two
48:07and so she saw it grow into this juggernaut.
48:11And we didn't really know how to deal with it, Mel and I,
48:15when it started to explode other than to lean on one another.
48:20And it became our lives, really.
48:22And every time I would come in to see her,
48:24she'd squeal, jump up and come over and give me a tight hug.
48:28And we would dance.
48:31We would crack jokes and we'd have a lot of fun.
48:37She loved love.
48:38So she was right into the experiment.
48:40Wanted every single couple to get over the line.
48:43I can get impatient, whereas she was always hopeful.
48:46And that was Mel.
48:48You know, she was very compassionate.
48:50And so when she, you know, tragically passed,
48:54you know, there was so much love that came towards her
49:01and, you know, just an outpouring of just admiration for her.
49:06She left a huge, I guess, legacy, you know,
49:11and I, you know, maths, it's not going to be the same without her.
49:15I feel like you guys are here to impart your knowledge
49:17on all the participants.
49:18What's something that Mel taught you over your time together?
49:22I think Mel taught me to be more compassionate and patient.
49:29because, you know, sometimes the participants get under my skin
49:33and I can be very blunt with them.
49:36Yeah.
49:37She had a lot of compassion, which I really adored.
49:42And, yeah, I think she left a huge impact on me.
49:48Sounds like she was lucky to have you too, John.
49:50The outpouring of love for Mel since her passing
49:53is a testament to how much she was loved by everyone.
49:56In many ways she was the heart of this experiment
49:58and her impact goes far beyond what we have seen on the screens.
50:02So let's take a look at all of the love
50:04spread around the country and the world for Mel.
50:06We have some sad news to bring you tonight about one of our own.
50:10A love member of this morning family.
50:12Mel Schilling.
50:13Mel Schilling.
50:13Mel Schilling.
50:14Mel Schilling, who you'll know from married at first sight.
50:17Mel Schilling is being remembered tonight.
50:19The psychologist passing away after a lengthy, courageous
50:22and public battle with cancer.
50:24She was just a ray of sunshine.
50:26She wanted to raise awareness.
50:28She was open.
50:29She was honest.
50:29She always made you feel good.
50:31Yeah.
50:32You'd speak to her and she was just, she was a real light.
50:35Tell us all about the sunshine and lollipops.
50:38One of the things about Mel is that she lights up a room.
50:41Oh!
50:44You know, she was my partner in crime through all of this.
50:49I couldn't have done it without her.
50:52It won't be the same.
50:54She would be, you know, saying that you've got to keep moving forward,
50:58keep fighting, lean on people that are really close to you
51:02and tell them that you love them.
51:04You get one shot and my friend Mel took her shot and lived it.
51:13With all the sparkle and all the light.
51:18And it was incandescent, that light.
51:20It has reached so many around the world.
51:24And I feel so blessed that I was able to stand so close to her light.
51:29Oh!
51:30Too much excitement!
51:32And I will carry her in my heart forever.
51:35Well, the person I'm thinking of for Jules is Cameron.
51:38Yeah, there's this sparkle that she had
51:40and I think that's how she led her life.
51:42She loved love.
51:44I think that's why we became such good friends.
51:47She loved her job and she loved helping people.
51:50She was pretty special.
51:52Absolute couple swagger, the two of them.
51:55She was a rock for everyone.
51:57I would be proud to be a fraction of a woman.
51:59Can you see yourself falling in love with Rhys?
52:02Thank you for what you've done for us as a couple.
52:05If it wasn't for her guidance, we wouldn't be here today where we are.
52:08I will never forget the kindness that she afforded onto me during the experiment.
52:13But I also will never forget just how much her smile lit up her room.
52:16We'll forever be so thankful for the guidance and the love that she gave us both.
52:21Every day I look at my daughter, I think of what we've been through,
52:25the advice that Mel gave us and that will continue on forever.
52:29She always had these smiling eyes that you could always look to in any situation.
52:34We now have a family and that is due in part to Mel.
52:38Her thoughts and believing in us.
52:40The type of person that she was and it's just something we'll forever be grateful for.
52:45Beautiful Mel.
52:46I feel so honoured that I got to meet you.
52:49Always so kind, so radiant on and off screen.
52:52We're going to miss you so much.
52:54You just left feeling so happy and energised
52:57because she was just this lovely, warm, kind, energetic, intelligent pocket rocket of a person.
53:04I have to say we have loved having you as part of this experience.
53:08Your future is so incredibly bright.
53:10I really want to thank Mel for her advice.
53:13It's these uncomfortable chats that need to happen.
53:15Yeah, thank you.
53:16When you do come up against challenges, tackle it together.
53:20Stay curious, ask those questions and allow each other to keep getting closer.
53:26Because that's where the magic happens.
53:37Yeah, that sort of sums her up.
53:39Just beautiful inside and out.
53:42Yeah.
53:43Yeah.
53:44A beautiful tribute, John.
53:45Thanks for coming in my friend.
53:47That was difficult.
53:48Yeah, I can imagine.
53:49Well, that is us for tonight.
53:51The most explosive series of maths is coming to an end.
53:55Final Vows airs tomorrow night.
53:58Everything is on the line and every couple has a massive decision to make.
54:02Then next Sunday and Monday night are the reunion episodes.
54:06Who lasts the distance and who doesn't?
54:09And who still has an axe to grind?
54:11You can catch it all on nine and nine now.
54:14And don't you worry, guys.
54:15We aren't done yet.
54:16We'll be back for the next two Mondays where we've got two new epic specials for you.
54:20First, we will get all of the goss after the reunion and then the following Monday with everything that has
54:26happened after the experiment.
54:27See you next week, right here on Stan.
54:30Bye.
54:31Bye.
54:31Bye.
54:32All right, buddy.
54:32Bye.
54:33Bye.
54:35Bye.
54:35Bye.
54:36Bye.
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