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MAFS After The Dinner Party S01E07 STAN H 264
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05:05Y es otro tema que se senta en casa de la cama y a verla.
05:08Porque tú hiciste muchas discoveras sobre otros couples.
05:11¿Cuál ha sido así que veía watching Scott y Gia?
05:14Yo no sabía que la mental ringer Scottie estaba sintiendo.
05:20Se los golpes son siempre se movían y, ¿verdad?
05:23Y, ¿verdad?
05:23Solamente se enfrentaba Gia con todo el mundo.
05:28Y no sabía que iba tan caótico.
05:29Yo me siento tan mal para Scottie.
05:30Y él siempre quería decirte, ¿eh?
05:32Casi yo, si pensaba que si era honesto.
05:34No, no, no, no.
06:04No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
06:34Team Scott.
06:35I think everyone was just hearts broken for you.
06:38And we've obviously known that there have been cracks for a while.
06:41But seeing how the dinner party played out, that was really, really emotional.
06:46How does it feel for you now?
06:49It 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, but 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.
07:05And why didn't you want to sit on the couch and do it alongside her?
07:10Just, no matter what I do or say, she's going to try and make an excuse for it.
07:13So nothing will come good out of it.
07:14Like, 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.
07:20So I don't need that.
07:21We never in a million years could have predicted that it would turn out exactly the way that
07:25it 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, every time I got home, I'm out.
07:34I'm breaking up with you.
07:35Just repeat.
07:35And 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, she'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, we'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'm concerned.
08:04It's a weakness of mine.
08:06This is your opportunity to ask yourself, is 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.
08:19I just...
08:20Right now.
08:21I'm probably just going to go.
08:23Where are you going?
08:24Gia.
08:26Stop.
08:27I just want to go home.
08:28To see my child and my mum and get the fuck out of here and be out of this fake
08:31reality.
08:31I want to go home.
08:33I can't be here anymore.
08:35I would like you to come with me.
08:37It's not happening.
08:39Because I just wanted to finish with you and I didn't.
08:41Okay.
08:42All the best, Scott.
08:43Come on.
08:44I just don't think I deserve to get a phone call giving me an alternate to just leave this experiment.
08:49Oh, fuck's sake.
08:55I'm just speechless.
08:58Hey, what's happening, girls?
09:00I'm just 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.
09:11That's good.
09:13That is disgusting.
09:15I just got fucked for three months.
09:18I just got fucked.
09:20She just used me.
09:24Gia 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, crying with her when
09:34all of it was a lie.
09:35She never even flew back to Melbourne.
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 bear 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, Gia, but I can tell you're not the one
10:04for me.
10:05We are a different caliber of people.
10:11Sorry, but I'm done.
10:12I'm fucking up.
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.
10:23He'll have sex with me, but he'll never fall in love with me.
10:25Stop right there.
10:26Can you cut the shit?
10:27I thought, can 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.
10:48Like, that's why it's just three full months every day, 24-7, trying to make a relationship
10:54work.
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, you know, that you
11:03weren't ready to tell Gia that you were in love with her.
11:05Your reaction was so big.
11:08And it was the reaction of someone who I would say was in love with someone.
11:11Like, do 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
11:21say I love them.
11:21How did you feel when you were watching those things Gia said, like, I want someone that
11:26pays 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.
11:35Like, I did say at the start of the experiment, you know, I want to be a man to provide
11:37her,
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.
11:42Can 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
11:54feelings for you were real.
11:55And then she would flip and do something where I thought, oh, hang on, did I get sucked into
11:59that?
12:00Did you feel it was real at all?
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 I love her,
12:12you
12:12know, 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
12:26together and 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
12:36stormed off, she went on the attack very quickly?
12:39It just gives me more clarity.
12:41That show, she doesn't love me.
12:43Look at her body language.
12:44Look at Beck.
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
12:51at First Sight.
12:52The scene in the bathroom where Beck and Jira are conniving on, you know what you've got
12:57to do, Australia's watching, you've got to out-victim him and make sure you cry.
13:01Jia 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.
13:06It'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 or is she trying to...
13:15The biggest thing was to out-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.
13:26I 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.
13:39No, it's fine.
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.
13:52I spent so many weekends with her.
13:54I took her daughter out for her birthday.
13:55She was on my shows.
13:56I was FaceTiming her mum and her daughter.
13:58If I had these special family moments without cameras, is that showmance, is it?
14:04Come on.
14:04There is so much, obviously, going on behind closed doors that we don't get to see between you 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.
14:19Like, 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.
14:26Because, like, fuck, I've had some bombs on me that none of you guys know about it.
14:31That what?
14:32Or what she's done.
14:33Sentiment shit.
14:35But, like, 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, just everything, when she smiles, everything she's going to think of as if I'm a fucking piece of shit.
14:49And then apologises and cries on my shoulder.
14:51Because I know she doesn't mean it.
14:52And that's why I forgive her.
14:52Because I know she doesn't mean it.
14:53She does it.
14:54She 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.
15:05And that, she's done the whole experiment.
15:08Responsible.
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 I did all that.
15:17Yeah.
15:18Scott.
15:18It's hard to watch.
15:19Wow, that'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.
15:31I can't think so myself.
15:32Gia was going to leave the experiment, but for a little while there, you were going to leave with her.
15:36What happened for you?
15:37So something in my gut said, do not leave, there's something you need to see.
15:41Yeah.
15:42And which is what?
15:43The video of her.
15:44What?
15:45That was it.
15:46Keeping her options open to someone.
15:48What was the absolute breaking point?
15:50Honestly, probably when I watched that video.
15:52Hmm.
15:53And 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've 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.
16:25And then she went off at me and said, I moved here for you.
16:27Yada, yada, yada.
16:28Yeah.
16:28When originally she said no.
16:30Yeah.
16:30But 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.
16:39She loved him.
16:40It 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.
16:56Oh, my God.
16:57Oh, my God.
16:57I feel like I'm going to pass out.
16:59None of us are here to cheat.
17:01We 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 worry if I'm a close friend?
17:10I don't want to do this at all.
17:12Yeah, yeah.
17:13It's the grass greener.
17:15I'm in a good relationship.
17:16I just feel like I'm late right now.
17:17You know, it's lovely to meet you, but I don't feel like I can't engage.
17:21I'm going to just exit.
17:22Yes.
17:26I actually don't care.
17:27Do you have any tattoos?
17:28I can't show you where, though.
17:29You want to drop 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?
17:46You know.
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.
17:58She will.
18:04Oh.
18:05It's insane watching how differently the men and women handled that situation.
18:09Like, polar opposites.
18:11Do you think the women were flirting?
18:13Drop your pants.
18:13Everything they were saying, Alyssa, Beck, 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 complete opposite to what I witnessed, and that's my turning point.
18:41Well, 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 that none of us knew about.
18:54No way.
18:55Oh, here we go.
18:56Oh, here we go.
19:04Yeah.
19:04Hey!
19:05Hello.
19:06Oh, you can have it, bro.
19:08What?
19:09Oh, it's like that way.
19:11Yeah.
19:12Well, this might be awkward.
19:14It's not awkward, because you can have it.
19:16If you lived with the experience, you were there in the flesh, you'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?
19:30Well, she was flirtatious, yeah, straight away.
19:32So, I was talking to her, giving some riz, like I would.
19:35Yeah.
19:36James, after you've had this interaction with Gia, and you were leaving, were you thinking,
19:40wham, bam, bam, thank you, ma'am, like I'm in, I 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, so I sent
19:47a message on Instagram, got a message back saying, sorry, I'm happily married, and a
19:52photo with Scott with his top off with his finger up, so.
19:55You swapped details, and she said, I'm free in a week, so that must have been confusing
19:58to you as well, because you've gotten the sort of A-OK, and then she's like, hey, back
20:02off.
20:03Of course, but look, it's like sales, right?
20:05You get 10 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.
20:34At 1.20pm, Gia left your final date to go back to the apartment and leave the
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.
21:07Yep.
21:07You're not friends.
21:07Why 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 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.
21:23I think she actually did mention Scott didn't want to leave with her, so I'm leaving, I'm
21:28going here, I'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, so 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
21:53I'm not flirty with.
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
22:03was so public, she called you an hour after that.
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
22:13that relationship.
22:14Oh, look, if 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, still going through the
22:27process.
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
22:35lies, and 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.
22:43Oh, I 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.
22:52Because 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.
23:08Philip 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
23:19best self with.
23:19Okay, 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
23:25us here on this very couch.
23:27Scott's had his time on the couch over and over, getting his voice out there, but I've
23:31got a lot to say, so I think it's my turn to speak now.
23:35It'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, which is the
23:47week 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
23:58she thinks of it all.
23:58Gia fired up.
23:59I mean, that's all we've seen the whole show, right?
24:01That's something different.
24:02All right, well, look, let's not waste any time, not another second.
24:05Let's bring Gia out.
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?
24:34You know, you guys have spoken about me every now and then, and I'm like, I've just got
24:38to 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.
25:18He 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.
25:37I 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 want
25:49to tell you what it was.
25:50Well, can we pull up some Mike moments of Scott where he was talking about the other women
25:53of the experiment and telling me that he hates my hair curly and he doesn't want my hair
25:57up 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 because you said probably
26:13the worst thing that you could say about a guy, which was that 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 there?
26:22I didn't want to.
26:23I just didn't want to.
26:23I 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.
26:29I 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.
26:41But 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.
26:51I don't know what else to say.
26:52I guess what we're trying to ascertain is, is when you're saying like, you know, why don't
26:56you 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 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.
27:22Talk to us about, though, that moving.
27:25Like, got your daughter.
27:26You 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 so we can help you.
27:46That's fair.
27:46And I get that.
27:47But 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 and what
27:56he 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, though.
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 to confront
28:32Scott.
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?
28:40It'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.
28:51I'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?
28:56I'm trying to talk a way around it.
28:58I'm genuinely trying to understand this.
29:01So, production took you to the airport.
29:04They booked you a flight.
29:05They took you to the airport.
29:07You got dropped off.
29:08They sent you off to Melbourne.
29:10You got your bags off that flight.
29:12You stayed in Sydney.
29:14You didn't go home and see your daughter, who you said that that was the reason why you wanted to
29:17go home.
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.
29:23They thought I was going to be in Melbourne, obviously.
29:25Then I turned around and stayed in Sydney.
29:27So, then how did they make you go to the final dinner party?
29:30Because they knew I was in Sydney because I went to the apartment.
29:32So, regardless, you're in a car and you're going to the dinner party.
29:38Why?
29:39To confront Scott.
29:41I 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 Beck 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, I mean, your wish, you could have had that pan out any way you want.
30:01Was it to get back with him?
30:03Yeah.
30:03Okay.
30:04100% at that time.
30:05Talk me through the scene that we saw in the bathroom where you are talking to Beck
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?
30:34Can you do this?
30:35Like, there was a strategy to it.
30:37No, but Beck 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.
30:49Look, I think in that situation you were both as bad as each other,
30:52but Beck literally said the best thing you can do is also cry.
30:55And you said, oh, babe, don't worry, I'll be crying.
30:57No, I was going to cry.
30:58I was crying all day.
30:59But that's not how it came across.
31:00It came across as a conversation that was very manipulative.
31:03Like, OK, shit, they know that I lied about it.
31:08What am I going to do here?
31:08I'm going to have to outplay him.
31:10You know, the conversation was even, right now, everyone is poor Scott.
31:13We need to turn that to poor Gia.
31:15So that doesn't play like somebody that is, like,
31:18thinks 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,
31:25the moment you realised that the letter didn't land
31:30and you couldn't win him back,
31:31he walked away and then you cut sick,
31:35saying he was using you for sex and it was a showmance.
31:38Yeah.
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
31:48and I don't feel like, you know, I'm protecting myself.
31:51I'm like, OK, 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
32:00and this thing that you guys got stuck on,
32:03like, you got stuck on the fact that he wouldn't say,
32:04I love you, how do you feel about that now?
32:06Do you regret all of this?
32:08Yeah, yeah.
32:10I just think I was self-sabotaging and I was projecting
32:13and I'm trying to...
32:14I was insecure and I'm trying to make him, you know,
32:17say he loves me back.
32:18Yeah, there was a lot with that, the test, right,
32:21the final test that was...
32:22We all saw the grass is greener.
32:24Yeah.
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 pretty bad.
32:38Why?
32:38Why were you flirting like that?
32:40I feel like I'd reached a point in my relationship
32:42where 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
32:51and I was like, all right.
32:53You said to James and the grass is greener,
32:56I'll see you in a week, like, I'm out in a week.
32:58Did you see him in a week?
32:59No, absolutely not.
33:00Has anything happened?
33:01Anything eventuated?
33:02He sent me a DM and it was like,
33:04I'll see you 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, like, slide back into your DMs and reignite something
33:13and you just put it to bed.
33:14You were like, no.
33:15Yeah, because, oh, God, like, no.
33:17Looking at it now, I'm like, yuck.
33:18Gia, I'm going to stop you there.
33:20We spoke to James earlier
33:21and 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,
33:36we 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.
33:47You said you blocked him and you weren't done.
33:50No, I unblocked him, 100%.
33:51OK, so 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.
34:05In 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, you unblock James and you call
34:26him three times.
34:27What are you talking about?
34:28What was your reason?
34:29I 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?
34:38OK.
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.
34:55So I called them and said go to the airport.
34:56Yeah, definitely called him.
34:57So why?
34:57You still called a random guy that you didn't know.
34:59I rang him on Instagram.
35:00He didn't have my number.
35:01Rang him on Instagram and 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 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 and you
35:17actually 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
35:23with you that you flirted with and said, I'll be available in a week, only to then faking
35:27180 at the airport, get your luggage back off, not tell anyone and go back to fight for
35:31Scott, throw Scott back under the bus and then storm out and 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.
35:46Yeah, I was begging him.
35:48I was like, 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 like, and at that time, this person was giving me attention and I took the
35:59attention.
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 monkey
36:09branch.
36:09If I got rejected here, I would have something else to back up.
36:13Like, I know what that feeling's like.
36:14I've done that.
36:15And so I actually, I can recognize 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, I 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, you know?
36:43I do think that you guys got into an extremely toxic cycle.
36:47Like, and I, I don't think you had big feelings for James.
36:51I think it was a, I'm lonely, I'm hurting.
36:54So I'm going to get my attention from someone somewhere else.
36:56I 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, you, the 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, we didn't.
37:16I don't know what else to say, guys.
37:17Like, I fucked up.
37:19You got to remember, this was last year.
37:20I'm trying to move on from this.
37:22It's like, I don't, you know, I don't want to be that person anymore.
37:25I don't.
37:26Otherwise, I'll have another relationship that doesn't work.
37:27Like, another friendship that doesn'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, and again, I'm raising a daughter.
37:42Like, I need to be better.
37:44You were given, in my opinion, a great groom.
37:50You were given someone who was amazing all the way through to the end, right?
37:55Mm.
37:55So, 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.
38:24She'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.
38:39Yeah, I mean, it's shown me sides of myself that I need to grow on and improve on.
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 realise that's not okay.
38:57And I'm in therapy working on all that now.
38:59But, 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.
39:18But, 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.
39:24I really love this show as an audience member.
39:26And you effed up with the spoilers.
39:30You revealed that you were seeing someone else way before you and Scott were pretty...
39:33Well, it got leaked.
39:34It got leaked.
39:35Oh!
39:35It did not get leaked.
39:37I'll leak.
39:37Daily Mail.
39:37You got papped on purpose.
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?
39:47Yeah, 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 you 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.
40:07And you felt vulnerable.
40:10And 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.
40:18And this really pisses me off.
40:21How people are going on about it being a PR thing.
40:24Of course it was.
40:24No, I just am in love with my boyfriend.
40:26And 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.
40:36So 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, Scott, maybe.
40:54Yeah, I 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.
41:01He'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
41:08experiment.
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
41:21shit with our relationship.
41:22All we've seen is truly how horrible the two of you have been to each other.
41:25So surely when the cameras aren't rolling, even if you have to be in the same room as
41:29each other, even if you do catch up with other people, surely that hatred is still there
41:33or that dislike for each other 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?
41:54So, nah.
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.
42:19I 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?
42:30Fucking God.
42:30Yeah, she fucked me over.
42:31And now you look like dicks.
42:32I see her.
42:35Oh, my God.
42:36I feel sick.
42:38They're on her husband.
42:39Board of thought.
42:41Absolutely.
42:41What do you think I've kept the letters?
42:43Board of thought.
42:44Board of 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 going to end, isn't it?
43:18Oh, my God.
43:19That's 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 continue to try and be her friend.
43:39She was at my birthday.
43:40Like, you guys know that.
43:41That's fucked.
43:43That's fucked.
43:44So, 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 with the whole Scott thing.
43:59Like, she acted like she had my back and was telling me it would be a good thing to write
44:03the letter and that it would work and 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.
44:12Yeah.
44:12Surely, surely, of all of the things that she was doing and saying and the way the drama
44:18was unfolding.
44:19Oh, my God, that is so fucked.
44:19Like, I don't understand how you could get to the end of this experiment and think, you
44:24know 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.
44:32I don't know what I was thinking.
44:34Scott and I would have so many conversations where he'd be like, I'm trying to protect
44:37you.
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 he'll 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, I 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 is, like, it
44:56is a very good thing that you and Bex are not still in this frenemies friendship because
45:02that 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, you can see that in yourself.
45:12And I think that's something that you, I didn't think I would say this, but I do think you
45:16should 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 love drama.
45:29You certainly brought it.
45:31You brought it and got plenty of it.
45:34But secondly, you're still very young.
45:36You've got a whole life ahead of you.
45:37And this has given you some phenomenal life lessons.
45:40It's made you more aware of some of your blind spots.
45:43You've shared them with us today.
45:45And lo and behold, at the end, you said, I do not trust Bex.
45:49And all along, I should have trusted Scott.
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.
46:01And I appreciate the feedback.
46:02And it's actually helpful, I think, moving forward.
46:05Now I can recognise more.
46:06And 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.
46:14I was looking for them.
46:15But just to reiterate what Jules just said,
46:17it's never too late to start fresh,
46:18to realise that you've learned things,
46:20to put them into play, be a better person,
46:22be a different person,
46:22and be the person that you want your daughter to see as well.
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.
46:36And take the lessons from this whole thing
46:38and are able to implement them in your new relationship.
46:40Yep, yep, I'm trying to.
46:42Thank you so much.
46:43Well, we're entering the final phase of the experiment.
46:45Final vows.
46:46And 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
47:39through the joys and 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.
47:51It's been a very, very difficult time.
47:53I 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,
48:17other 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,
48:26and come over and give me a tight hug.
48:28And we would dance.
48:31We would crack jokes.
48:34And we'd have a lot of fun.
48:37She loved love.
48:38So she was right into the experiment.
48:41Wanted every single couple to get over the line.
48:43I can get impatient, whereas she was always hopeful.
48:46And that was Mel.
48:47You 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
48:59and, you know, just an outpouring of just admiration for her.
49:06She left a huge, I guess, legacy.
49:10You know, and I, you know,
49:13maths, it's not going to be the same without her.
49:15I feel like you guys are here to impart your knowledge
49:17and 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.
49:59And 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
50:20after a lengthy, courageous and 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.
50:30She always made you feel good.
50:31Yeah.
50:32You'd speak to her and she was just...
50:34She was a real light.
50:34Tell 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
50:56you've got to keep moving forward,
50:58keep fighting,
51:00lean on people that are really close to you
51:02and tell them that you love them.
51:04You get one shot
51:06and my friend Mel
51:09took her shot
51:10and lived it
51:13with all the sparkle
51:15and 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
51:25that I was able to stand so close to her light.
51:28Oh!
51:30Too much excitement!
51:32And I will
51:33carry her in my heart forever.
51:35Well, the person I'm thinking of for Jules
51:37is 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
51:48and she loved helping people.
51:50She was pretty special.
51:52Absolute couple swagger,
51:54the two of them.
51:55She was a rock for everyone.
51:57I would be proud
51:58to be a fraction of a woman.
51:59Can you see yourself
52:00falling in love with Rene?
52:02Thank you for what you've done for us
52:04as a couple.
52:05If it wasn't for her guidance,
52:06we wouldn't be here today
52:07where we are.
52:08I will never forget the kindness
52:10that she afforded onto me
52:12during the experiment
52:13but I also will never forget
52:14just how much her smile lit up her room.
52:16We'll forever be so thankful
52:18for the guidance
52:19and the love that she gave us both.
52:21Every day I look at my daughter,
52:22I think of what we've been through,
52:25the advice that Mel gave us
52:27and that will continue on forever.
52:29She always had these smiling eyes
52:31that you could always look to
52:33in any situation.
52:34We now have a family
52:35and that is due in part to Mel
52:38and the type of person
52:40that she was
52:42and it's just something
52:43we'll forever be grateful for.
52:45Beautiful Mel.
52:46I feel so honoured
52:47that I got to meet you.
52:49Always so kind,
52:50so radiant,
52:51on and off screen.
52:52We're going to miss you so much.
52:54You just left feeling so happy
52:56and energised
52:57because she was just this
52:58lovely, warm, kind,
53:01energetic, intelligent,
53:02pocket rocket of a person.
53:04I have to say,
53:05we have loved having you
53:06as part of this experience.
53:08Your future
53:08is so incredibly bright.
53:11I really want to thank Mel
53:12for her advice.
53:13It's these uncomfortable chats
53:14that need to happen.
53:16Yeah, thank you.
53:16When you do come up
53:17against challenges,
53:19tackle it together.
53:20Stay curious,
53:22ask those questions
53:23and allow each other
53:24to keep getting closer
53:25because that's where
53:27the magic happens.
53:38Yeah, that sort of sums her up.
53:40Just beautiful,
53:41inside 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
53:53of maths is coming to an end.
53:55Final Vows airs tomorrow night.
53:58Everything is on the line
53:59and every couple
54:00has a massive decision to make.
54:02Then next Sunday
54:04and Monday night
54:05are the reunion episodes.
54:06Who lasts the distance
54:08and who doesn't?
54:09And who still has an axe to grind?
54:11You can catch it
54:12all on 9 and 9 now.
54:14And don't you worry, guys,
54:15we aren't done yet.
54:16We'll be back
54:17for the next two Mondays
54:18where we've got two
54:19new epic specials for you.
54:20First, we will get
54:21all of the goss
54:22after the reunion
54:23and then the following Monday
54:24with everything
54:25that has happened
54:26after the experiment.
54:27See you next week
54:28right here on Stan.
54:30Bye.
54:31Bye.
54:31Come on, buddy.
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