Ryan accuses Jacqui of bonding with another groom during MAFS Australia 2025

Beware: this article contains spoilers for MAFS Australia

So, it’s basically the worst-kept secret of MAFS Australia that Jacqui Burfoot and Clint Rice are now in a relationship. She’s already moved into his mansion in Tasmania and is constantly making Cameo videos with his very fluffy dogs. Aw. Ryan has finally addressed this… and is now dragging Jacqui for bonding with Clint during filming for MAFS Australia.

For context, we don’t know exactly when Jacqui and Clint got together. MAFS Australia 2025 was filmed over the summer of 2024, and Jacqui and Clint seem to have been dating in February 2025.

Ryan told the Daily Mail Australia that he realised there was something between them when Jacqui confessed to phoning Clint late at night while they were still “married” on MAFS. He said: “She admitted to me one night, she’s like, ‘After one night when I was really upset, I actually called Clint at 3am.’ They had a conversation over the phone about her being so upset with the experiment, with me, with Rhi, with everything.”

Apparently he thought something was up with Jacqui and Clint long before their relationship became official. He said: “My suspicions ended up being confirmed. After that, I was like, ‘You’ve made a joke of our time here.’ Literally. I could’ve taken the whole bitter, jaded side and been like, ‘Oh, you were messaging him while we were still together.’ Which is true.”

Ryan also yet more scathing comments about Jacqui’s behaviour during the show. He said: “Her motivation was to be the main character, I think.”

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He continued: “I think she wanted to pick at something, pull at a thread until the whole thing unravelled. That’s why I looked a bit guarded. I had to say to myself, ‘Alright, she’s got more masks than a Halloween ball. Which one is she gonna wake up with today?'”

Ryan called his time on MAFS Australia, “‘a casserole of nonsense”. He said: “You just dip the ladle in and it’s too hot, too cold. It’s insane.”

I’m not actually sure what he means by that.

Jacqui has been granted an interim restraining order against Ryan. The order is to stop Ryan from making comments on social media which are allegedly harmful to Jacqui, and are impacting her career as a lawyer. Jacqui has also filed a police report against Ryan for posting “sensitive, private and sexual” content of her on social media.

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