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No drama at tonight's dinner party? We'll see… 😏 #9Married pic.twitter.com/l2tUYbvncG

— MarriedAtFirstSight (@MarriedAU) 19 March 2017

Tonight is the final dinner party, but the show continues on Monday and Tuesday and next Sunday.

If you are watching this episode on catch-up TV, be sure to first read Daisy’s “precap” (published below):
We come to the home stretch of this season’s MAFS, and as we anticipate the revelations of which couples found everlasting or even semi-lasting love, revelations also emerge of skeletons from smutty cyber closets. As we watch tv to discover if Alene loves Simon, if Michelle has cleared up her confusion over her feelings for Jesse, if Nadia will give up her promising career as an air hostess to be a race-track groupie, and if Susan will get a good house cleaner and decorator out to the pony ranch; tidbits of juicy gossip, and photos of tidbits are finding their way onto the internet.
It’s now that we get to the part that some have anticipated, and others have sneak-peeked. Our questions will be answered. Will Simon move to Sydney for hen-pecking Arlene? I think he might. Will Susan get those cobwebs from Sean’s kitchen ceiling, and install air-conditioning? I hope so.

Will Michelle confess that she never liked Jesse but wanted her mug on tv? I doubt it? Will Sharon realize she is a mean girl, and Nick really is a bogan who drinks too much and pukes on his girl friend? No and then yes.

Perhaps Nadia has a secret penchant for controlling men with a superiority complex. But it’s more likely MAFS was a great opportunity for her to expand her media work. Maybe Andy will find his voice, and when he finally speaks, he will shout, “F**K OFF!!!!
And when, oh when will the sexperts quit their charade of being legitimate psychologists who have the capacity to use science to match couples? Well, we know that as long as MAFS continues to rate well and tantalize lounge room voyeurs, that won’t be happening. I predict that even though the show ends this week, the juicy, off camera details will continue to provide entertainment fodder for another few weeks.
And let us not forget, but give a final salute to the MAFS love casualties. Sue has probably married a Fijian, yoga teaching minister, while John is probably still working his way through speed dating all the 40 something women who contacted him post show.
Johnathan has probably already lost Scarlett’s number, and Stripper guy has probably seen a rise in his work load. Scarlett is probably on page two of that novel she has been writing. Star couple of the season, Cheryl and Andrew Jones, who have already gone separate ways, are evidently suffering very different fates. Cheryl has had to explain naughty photos to Mr McYou-didn’t Dress Properly McDaddy. And Andrew still can’t even step outside to collect milk without getting eggs thrown at him.
I hope you have enjoyed the scandals, the love, the faux love, and found it all worth the crap we have had to listen to coming from the real psychologists. It’s been real. And now, get cracking on your applications for next year’s MAFS and get ready to “move for love”. Happy viewing.

If you’ve missed Married at First Sight, read Daisy’s catchup, below, and her predictions for what lies ahead (thank you, Daisy!).

So MAFS viewers, it’s probably not long now to the end, when it will be revealed who makes that final stay/go choice. Then I will jump on google to see who lasted beyond that.
I doubt Alene will let Simon go without ten sessions at Relationships Australia. No wonder she got Simon to cut his hair. Her hen-pecking couldn’t get through the curls. Last week Simon had to jump through more hoops, such as shopping at Ikea, constructing a dining set, getting grilled by Alene’s girlfriends, cooking with his in-laws then getting poked and prodded awake.
Vanessa and Andy are a bit boring. There are no sparks there, individually or as a couple. They haven’t been a slow burn as the sexperts say, and barely even a dinner warmer. They might last after the show but we aren’t seeing signs of it.

Susan and Sean have been madly, deeply in love since first clapping eyes on each other, but it’s unlikely they will overcome the differences in location and life-style. Susan loves the beach, cafés, friends and family but Sean needs to work the farm right across the opposite side of the country. In spite of it being a doomed relationship, Susan and Sean have been making the most of this time to gaze into each others’ eyes, and bill and coo sweet words.

Susan wasn’t fairing so well in the girl group though and made the mistake of stepping up to apologise to the queen bee twins. Two queen bees are scarier than one. Anyhow, her backhanded apology earned her a dressing down and a back-handed apology acceptance. It’s OK though because Sharon said she is only aggressive because she “feels so much”. That’s her excuse and we might all use it now. Anyway Susan won’t be invited to their baby showers.
I am waiting for stuck up Sharon to notice Nick actually is a bogan. Even when she saw him wearing her hair extension mullet, she didn’t see it.

I started with a friendly attitude toward the girls from Manji, but they seem like mean girls, even without the whips. The twins both have condescending attitudes and behaviour towards Nick and Jessie.
Jonesy outed Cheryl with his “Gotcha” when she couldn’t bring herself to kiss him. But it didn’t stop him from putting himself through the nightmare visit with Cheryl’s bastard dad.

I am sure Cheryl’s dad was bunging on, but I bet he didn’t have to dig deep for the role. McBastard Dad lambasted Jonesy for his casual attire, in spite of Cheryl wearing shorts and thongs herself.

BTW I was team Cheryl when Jonesy rocked up 9 minutes late and THEN wanted to shower and change. The popular “Hey Jonesy’s here” Jonesy leaves Cheryl but still goes to the dinner, where he secretly hands Sharon and Nick the news that Cheryl was a bitch and he has been sick over it. This gives Sharon a good sense of righteous indignation and ammunition against Cheryl, which she wasn’t allowed to use because Jonesy swore them to secrecy. The sexperts were team Chezza there.
Anthony and Nadia are a fascinating pair. Nadia recognises Ant is an arrogant know-all but says “it’s a decision to make it work”. Betcha anything this is a career decision. Anthony gets a glimpse of how Nadia “rolls” when she lays on the beach sunbaking when they have guests coming for dinner.

(Team Ant on that one. I cooked all week last week for an arvo tea party on Sunday). Ant sees Nadia’s flaky side but thinks he can fix it. Like a good controlling, narcissist he will manage his arm candy wife. Nadia clearly doesn’t like Ant and there is a “no you don’t buster” beneath her charmingly sweet amusement. At dinner Anthony brags about his uncanny sense of direction and throws in his little belittling remark at Nadia. It will be one of many if she stays with him. Which she won’t.
Well that was just my little recap summary. I will leave you with the trivia fact that MAFS has been rating really well so we can expect it to be made again next year. That means they will soon be calling for cast, so if any of you singles out there want a hubby, wife or just a chance to get on telly and would like to be matched with someone completely unsuitable, get your applications ready. 😉

And it’s over to Married at First Sight correspondent Daisy for her weekly MAFS ramble (thank you, Daisy):
Well the week didn’t start of with a bang. In fact I get the impression there is no banging at all, as it all seems very platonic. Perhaps Susan and Sean might have consummated the marriage….before they became “just friends”. Yup. Sean has now been friend zoned.

Last night was another recommitment ceremony, where spouses opt to stay or leave. And as before, the phoney sexperts psychobabbled on while producers contrived with ‘cast’ to have us in suspense, thinking some were going to leave. But no, all opted to stay. Am I the only one now thinking that everyone of these people (perhaps with the exception of Susan and Sean) are only on this to grab an opportunity to be on telly.

There is no way Nadia, for instance, likes Anthony. She acts like he has herpes. He’s clearly a controlling bastard, who says, “I’ll answer that for her”, and is rude to people, but she is staying. Since she is a “model” (probably Woolies catalogue because isn’t Top Model type), I think she is wanting to move into the TV celebrity arena. But then again, since Anthony wants to be the provider, and she likes that proposal, that might make them work. I doubt it really though because he already said, her lacking direction in her life might be a problem.
Sharon likes Nick, but that seems platonic, although Nick is mustard keen. My prediction is Sharon won’t tolerate any childish bad boy behaviour, so if he can keep his inner Beevis and Butthead under control, Nick might be able to hang on to Sharon for a little while. Michelle on the other hand, hardly seems to be able to refrain from curling up her top lip or crinkling her nose at Jesse, like he is some sort of stinky piece of rotting meat. Does that guy not have any radar? She not only isn’t in to you Jesse, she looks like she would have to ask someone else clean you off her shoe.

Nagging Alene and reticent Simon are blazing along nicely. I’m not sure if Simon is just joking with all of his “Yes Dear” jokes, or if he truly finds the bossy mothering and the pestering appealing. Alene reminds me of bossy Turkan from an early Big Brother series. It might be a Lebanese culture thing. “I will marry you and become your mother”. But knowing how much Simon hates being pressured and backed into a corner, everyone; Alene, sexperts, Simon’s best friend, is making sure Simon feels like a trapped rabbit. A shorn, trapped rabbit. I am quite liking Simon, who clearly wants to say, “Piss off and stop pestering”. And kind of did last night. “I’m not saying I love her and you can’t make me. So there”.

By now I think all the couples, especially Anthony can say, “I told you so”, about Cheryl and Andrew. What’s all the, “I definitely feel an attraction, but I can’t kiss him” BS? Am I the only one who has enjoyed some serious first date snog out? Maybe even at the back of the church after Friday night youth group with a two-year older 16-year-old boy who looked like tall Mike from the Monkees and was my first kiss? I think he had learned it in France.
Anyhow, Cheryl has obvious disdain for Jonesy, but is willing to bullsh*t on for another couple of weeks at least. Ah, the sacrifices you must make for fame. Not sure what we aren’t seeing off camera because Jonesy decided to stay and play that awful dance partner Cheryl must tolerate for the ballroom dancing comp because she can’t find anyone else and judges won’t allow her to dance with a mop.
And that leaves our quiet achievers Vanessa and Andy. They are plodding along like a couple of librarians. Well maybe Vanessa would talk too much to be a librarian, but there are no fireworks happening between these two. Although producers hint at an explosion for tonight. Or is that implosion in Andy’s case, since he is an introvert. Clearly there hasn’t been too much drama between these two, as they have been receiving the least air time, but producers managed to incite or provoke a fight for our viewing pleasure tonight.
I will conclude my ramble by saying, the sexperts look like real dicks and surely would never get any real work after this. They make the most inane statements; like Lisa Curry telling Nat to name rocks and throw them in the river. But that’s another show. 😚
Au revoir, bridesmaids. I learned that from the French kisser. 😉