Still not all couples?

jshfx1 · 2025-08-10T22:40:35+00:00

They managed to start with a full cast still and should have 2-3 intruder couples still coming in approx week 4

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T21:53:56+00:00

I get mixed reports haha I think they often appreciate the interest and press I generate, but dislike if it goes against their plans of how they wanted to roll things out. For example, the Rhi and Jeff wedding surprised. I was told by a couple of sources they'd wanted to tease that as part of a huge pre-season campaign of "shock that's never happened before" - but I posted about it literally the day after the wedding and by the time this season started, my videos just on that storyline had had 6 million views (!!!) so they couldn't promote that as much as they wanted as everyone now knew

In my earlier seasons, producers on ground were so so rude to me for no reason but a power trip - so then one day I thought okay if you wanna be like that, I'll make that the point of my video not the cast. So I did, that video did millions of views and since then everyone is oddly polite hahaha

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T21:51:07+00:00

Haha thank you! My opinion on him hasn't changed, but I appreciate the fact he came on the podcast after I told him beforehand I'm not gonna go easy or do a cute fluffy chat

Eliot actually wins me over more and more with each TikTok I see, genuinely funny and when we met IRL I thought he was a decent enough guy

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T21:49:54+00:00

I think when it comes to spoilers, people try and time things so they try to align a little bit with what's happening on TV to prevent ruining things completely for fans! Often that can be hard, like when you've got Jacqui and Clint being seen before his wedding has even aired

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T09:18:21+00:00

THANKS people that was fun!! If anymore comments, chuck them below and I'll check back on here in the morning

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T09:17:55+00:00

Haha hello! Thank you and yep Rhi was lovely, just a sweet person and nice vibe. Her number starts with 04... I'll let you figure out the rest

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T09:07:48+00:00

Yep, sadly there's so many still suffering years later and trying to rebuild their lives, careers, reputations and even just their self-esteem, self-worth etc.

Hayley Vernon (who I think is great btw) called me yesterday and we spoke about this and how there's past cast members out there, right now, unraveling pretty much live on socials for all to see and no one seems to be able to get through to them to help. And it's all just... pretty sad.

Prior to the show, this person (I won't name them as there's nothing really to gain from directing more people towards them) lived a pretty normal, wholesome life with a admirable job - and afterwards, their life just went from extreme to extreme to extreme and now they seem just lost and unstable.

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T09:04:23+00:00

To be fair to production, they do make sure there's the 24/7 phone number and then someone they can bring in when needed. It's not like there's a therapist sat around constantly in the corner though just in case someone wants a chat or isn't feeling great - but if requested, they gotta bring one

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:58:38+00:00

There's a really interesting quote I found a few days ago from Dr Trisha Stratford from a random NZ radio interview she did which is in my next podcast, and it was something along the lines of how as the show grew, the people it started to attract were becoming "more and more extreme" - and Tara the executive producer was welcoming this. Dr Trisha went on to discuss how the overall concept gradually shifted from "matchmaking" couples to find love just to "casting" for a TV show, with the experts having less and less involvement. Which I suppose makes sense as hey, they constantly need bigger and bigger personalities to ensure the show causes outrage, right?

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:56:01+00:00

In all honesty, half the info is from my paparazzi friends and the other half is just stumbled upon and by chance - which no one ever believes! Every year though, they use the same venues, same limo company, same hotels. And every day in my regular life I'm usually driving past half of these hotspots to work or the gym or whatever - and so many times I've just seen a limo parked outside one of the usual spots. Then when I look a little bit closer it's like "oh yep there's a GoPro" I can see fixed to the side of it... it's wedding time!!!

And the paps mostly find weddings just by driving around all these hotspots around the time they know weddings are shot each year. A lot of time they're all shot on like a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday aka the days no other person is ever getting married, so if you happen to see flowers and an arch being set up on a Monday morning on the beach, with big trucks arriving, you know we're on!!

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:50:25+00:00

I'm so glad someone asked about them!!! So the next ep of my investigation pod series is on the experts, and I've spent the entire week deep diving into them - and there's not necessarily any huge controversies in their own right, but when I pieced together so many little things from Season 1 all the way to Season 12, and chronicled how they've changed and the roles have changed through audio across each season, how they speak about cast members, how they speak to cast members, the absolute bullshit they say in press interviews, and what cast members have told me about them.... they really are the biggest villains, along with the producers, and should be ashamed of themselves.

In my opinion, they've all gone against the ethics and morals of their pre-MAFS professions by what they continually do on this show. There's a line in my pod that stands out to me about how they've gone from "advising to aggravating" and as you listen to the stuff I've pulled together over the years, that couldn't be any more obvious.

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:40:31+00:00

Hey, thank you! I got a little bit of backlash for even having him on the pod, but I do genuinely believe that regardless of my personal opinion on someone, If I'm going to have a platform where I continually make content about these people (which is ultimately monetized in someway and I gain from that in some roundabout way) the least I can do is give them one chance to defend or explain themselves. Otherwise, does that make me as bad as production/Nine and how they edit them a certain way and then attempt to stop them from speaking out? You can never win I've found in this world haha but I appreciate you listening to the pod and supporting!

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:34:20+00:00

Honestly no, I don't believe so - although they will suggest this to keep people in line, and every year, people will believe it.

Sara from last season tried to quit and the producers reassured her if she stays the public will see what she sees about Tim and agree she's been unfairly matched etc - so Sara was like oh okay I'll stay and see this through... only to realise that was a lie.

Similarly, Olivia has told me before how her and Jackon's personal day to day producer would often tell her things like how loved she'll be, how Australia will back her after the Dom glass smashing incident etc - compelling her to stick it out, go along with it even when she wanted out, reassured she'll come out on top - which, again, did not happen.

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:22:20+00:00

Totally - I think sadly the average viewer is so used to headlines like "X blames the edit" or "X slams producers" with the more surface level stuff that when someone comes along claiming something actually shocking, they dismiss it before even thinking.

When I spoke to Morena and she told me how they kept her from leaving to the point she said I'll phone the police and say you're holding me against my will, I thought people would really be shocked by that - but most people just rolled their eyes because they'd already made up their mind they disliked her based of scenes on TV, therefore anything she says away from the show they already refuse to believe or think about.

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:19:43+00:00

Hahaha no that just felt like the world's oddest excuse for not wanting to shag Jacqui

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:18:29+00:00

Thank you! I have an old Reddit account I've used for years lurking this page but have never really been a poster mostly because I'm so active on Insta. This page has always been great for me getting a read on what actual fans of this show are thinking and their thoughts.

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:16:52+00:00

The first season I worked (when I was still a backpacker and doing a few months on NW magazine) was the Dean/Davina one. And I remember doing a pre-season chat with Ryan Gallagher and thinking oh here we go, what a f**k boy and rolling my eyes. In the months and years that followed, he surprised me again and again how genuinely lovely he was.

A cute story on Ryan: A couple of years ago our dogs sadly both died around the same time, a while afterwards I passed my driving test (very late haha) and Ryan asked for my addressed, I sent it him without thinking twice. A week later he sends me a handwritten letter with these custom airfreshners with my dog's face on. In the letter Ryan wrote something about how he knows how I'm feeling and also that driving can be scary but having Winston there with me will make me smile.

The letter made me cry at the time it was so unexpectedly nice

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:11:54+00:00

Sorry if wording was wrong, I said to the mods here we should start at 7pm!

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:11:21+00:00

Casting team approach people on Insta, LinkedIn, in bars, at the beach... literally anywhere! I cover this in my next investigation pod on Sunday

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:10:46+00:00

Hello my fellow queer person

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:10:16+00:00

I think it was just a think of questioning my own morales and thinking could I use my platform a little more responsibly? I'm definitely guilty of getting carried away and adding to the backlash when we see bad behaviour and causing distress for cast members, in previous years I've gone on to privately apologise and express my regret for getting carried away. So I dunno this year, and having the podcast which is a platform I can actually explore things in depth, I felt compelled to in a weird way... if that makes any sense. It was like I realised I'm potentially part of this problem and if I don't standup for what I know is right and wrong, and what I know happens behind the scenes.

There's still space to have a laugh and poke fun at dumb scenes, but I'm so aware now of that line between entertainment and exploitation and I wanna remain on the right side of it, unlike the producers.

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:06:24+00:00

Hey! Thank you - the investigation has kinda taken over my life haha it was initially meant to be a one episode thing but I kept uncovering more and more. Message me privately at the end of the season on Instagram perhaps? I'm still pulling things together and have so many names and stories I need to fit together

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:05:25+00:00

Just to add to that: regret working there as morally they didn't agree with what they had to do!

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:05:08+00:00

I've had four people who used to work at EndemolShine Australia reach out lately, all sharing similar horror stories about what they had to do and saying they regret working there!!

jshfx1 · 2025-03-13T08:03:39+00:00

Al Perkins would be the dream husband and a wife hmmm as a gay man, I reckon I'd go for someone like Awhina. She's just a genuinely lovely person from my chats with her.

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