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Exclusive: From group chats to 'ring leaders', the MAFS 2026 brides confess everything to know about the Reunion drama
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EXCLUSIVE: Relationship drama was one thing at the Married At First Reunion, but the drama between the women and so called lack of "sisterhood" during the experiment had to be called out by the experts one last time.
The words "foul", "shocking" and "disgusting" were thrown as the group watched back the most confronting moments of the season.
See the video above.
Want the official inside scoop on MAFS, unfiltered and unseen? Watch After The Dinner Party here.
It was a hard watch for Gia and Bec. (Nine)
But the drama wasn't over. During Sunday night's Reunion Dinner Party Bec sprayed insults at fellow bride Stephanie over "bikini" texts she sent to ex-husband Danny.
So, let's get to the bottom of this season's drama, shall we?
Between text message chains, "girl gangs" and the "ring leaders" of the group, we went straight to the source (a.k.a the brides) to spill everything.
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The brides see their own bad behaviour in 'mean girls' compilation
"It's trash behaviour. I will never conduct myself in that way. It's just not how I roll," Steph told nine.com.au as she looked back on this year's behaviour.
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The bride named Gia and Bec as the two main drivers of all the drama.
"It's actually gross and to be honest with you, when I do hear the guys say 'it's hard to a fall in love with you when you're behaving that way' about their wives, they're not f--king wrong.
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"It's f--king unattractive. I find it unattractive and I'm not even trying to fall in love with you, so sorry."
Bec has apologised time and again for her behaviour, acknowledging "there's no sisterhood this season with the women at all".
"At the very beginning there was a group of us, Brook, Mel, Gia, Rebecca and myself and we were like this girl gang," she explained.
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"I think Gia was the ringleader of it all, people would probably say me but I don't think so," Bec admitted.
Gia said otherwise.
"Bec and I were probably the biggest instigators of drama throughout the experiment," she admitted. "I think her and I kind of fed off each other and obviously Brook would chime in and eventually Juliette came into the experiment and she had things to say...
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"All of us girls were pretty b--chy and catty and looking back there's a lot of things I wish I didn't do. I'm not proud of that behaviour. "
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Rachel agreed that Gia and Bec were the "protagonists" of the drama.
"You also have Brook and Juliette, unfortunately I also have to call about Rebecca and Mel," she explained. "They were a part of that posse and didn't call it out so you're blindly following.
"I wasn't part of those text message chains, well, even if I was I would have been like, hey what are you doing?"
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Bec felt how they acted is not how they would have reacted in the real world.
"I did have to take a step back and look at myself," she admitted.
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Alissa, who was at the receiving end of the drama, said there were "bullies in the room" but one bride stood out to her.
"Gia... she just has a way of being involved in all the drama, she loves to create drama and unfortunately she needs a wake up call."
Want the official inside scoop on MAFS, unfiltered and unseen? Watch After The Dinner Party here. Episodes stream weekly, immediately following the explosive Married at First Sight Dinner Party episode on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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