Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the math Swhenny podcast with
Speaker 1: me Joshua Fox, aka the guy behind the Maths twenty page.
Speaker 1: We're now into the second week of season twelve and
Speaker 1: things are getting messy. In today's podcast, I'm focusing on
Speaker 1: Marena and Tony, this year's token oled, a couple who
Speaker 1: we watch get married during tonight's episode. And despite Tony's
Speaker 1: rogue be cousin being a literal flop and trying to
Speaker 1: ruin things by saying she's too old, these two actually
Speaker 1: seem like a genuine match and these hope they're like,
Speaker 1: take a listen to this.
Speaker 2: I am super happy. I love the way he engaged
Speaker 2: with everyone. He's just divine rule gentlemen. Cheers, cheers, cheers
Speaker 2: you So I can't wait to get to know him.
Speaker 1: So now is the whole of Australia asks themselves or
Speaker 1: do we finally have the love story we've been waiting
Speaker 1: for this year? Here? I am just saying, uh, well
Speaker 1: about that before I continue. Obviously, there's about to be
Speaker 1: heaps of spoilers, so it's your choice if you continue
Speaker 1: to listen. If you do listen and then don't like
Speaker 1: the spoiler, don't then message me saying you ruined it
Speaker 1: and spoil it. Yeah, it's a spoiler. That's the point
Speaker 1: of a spoiler, to spoil what's coming up. Sorry, a
Speaker 1: bit of a ramp there came out of nowhere. I
Speaker 1: apologize for that. Anyway, I've gone full DIY detective and
Speaker 1: all of the evidence I'm about to present to you
Speaker 1: may be circumstantial at best, but when we put it
Speaker 1: all together, it's safe to say that no, not only
Speaker 1: are they not together anymore, but they potentially even fucking
Speaker 1: hate each other, which takes me to evidence number one.
Speaker 1: The Instagram story. Over the holidays, Morena went and a
Speaker 1: little vacation with the two kids. Who can I say,
Speaker 1: we're actually so cute uring the wedding episode with the
Speaker 1: speech and after arriving at the result, they were staying
Speaker 1: at in Cans. Sounds so austraightly want to say that
Speaker 1: Cans anyway, Yeah, once they arrived there, I was sent
Speaker 1: this Instagram story that Morena shared, you know, just being
Speaker 1: excited about the trip. Take and listen to this.
Speaker 2: We have a rap performance resort. Have a look how
Speaker 2: amazing these places? Treble b thank you so much. I
Speaker 2: will ever'd be grateful I think me and my kids
Speaker 2: are gonna love this bond, especially I'm stared on them
Speaker 2: for two months. Amazing, amazing, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Now you're probably thinking, wait, Josh, how does that suggest
Speaker 1: her and TONI are over? Well? Did you hear how
Speaker 1: she said like she missed out on them two months
Speaker 1: in a kind of negative way. I'm miss staring on
Speaker 1: them for two months, those two months she's referred to
Speaker 1: when she was away filming, and it's like she's not
Speaker 1: looking back on that positively anyway. That got me curious,
Speaker 1: and then it brought me to evidence number two, the
Speaker 1: paparazzi pictures. So on September thirteenth, twenty twenty four, about
Speaker 1: a month and a half after filming her wedding to Tony,
Speaker 1: Yahoo Lifestyle ran a set of pat pictures of Marena
Speaker 1: seemingly being kicked off the show. She was sat on
Speaker 1: a bench near the building the shows filmed out, looking sad.
Speaker 1: She was surrounded by a suit cases. He was knowing that,
Speaker 1: and she just seemed over the whole experience. To just
Speaker 1: go straight to the source, I reached out to the
Speaker 1: photographer who took those pictures, Ben McDonald, who runs Australia's
Speaker 1: big as photo agency and matrix and media group. And
Speaker 1: he's also the founder of new websites so Sydney, which
Speaker 1: a lot of you will see, and is posting like
Speaker 1: pap pictures behind the scenes of Maths on the daily
Speaker 1: because he was there on the daily and took thousands
Speaker 1: of pictures. So take a listen to what he told me.
Speaker 3: So I've been covering Maths since about season three, so
Speaker 3: that makes what about that nine years or so, and
Speaker 3: in all that time, I've not seen anything like this.
Speaker 4: Typically when someone leaves the experiment, the producers like to
Speaker 4: kind of keep it on the lowdown. They don't want
Speaker 4: us to know necessarily who's in and out of the experiment.
Speaker 4: So what we typically see is just a car or a
Speaker 4: taxi of uber coming out of a car park, and
Speaker 4: you might not necessarily know who's in the car, but
Speaker 4: that's pretty much all you see. You just have an
Speaker 4: idea that up they're out. They didn't sho up to
Speaker 4: the dinner party or the next dinner party, and that's
Speaker 4: how they'd control it. So it was really kind of
Speaker 4: unusual to see a contestant, in this case Marina, coming
Speaker 4: out of the hotel by themselves and organizing their own
Speaker 4: departure and their own pickup, and it was really unceremonious.
Speaker 4: And the thing about it, it's almost like they're being
Speaker 4: thrown to the wolves, you know, like they've just been
Speaker 4: thrown out on the curb with no assistance from producer
Speaker 4: to coordinate their exit, to keep them away from the paths.
Speaker 4: And so, yeah, that was her, That's what happened with her.
Speaker 4: She just walked out the door, out the front of
Speaker 4: the hotel with about five or six bags, and she
Speaker 4: sat down on the bench seat just outside the door.
Speaker 4: And we were just coming back from getting a coffee
Speaker 4: around the corner when I've seen this going down. So
Speaker 4: there she is coming out of the hotel, sits down
Speaker 4: on the bench seat, and of course we've gone over
Speaker 4: to see what's going on, you know, and start started
Speaker 4: chatting to her. But she was kind of guarded, you know,
Speaker 4: she didn't give too much away, but it was clear
Speaker 4: that she was pretty annoyed about something, and she made
Speaker 4: a lot of remarks about Tony not wanting it because
Speaker 4: because she's too old. And then a friend of hers
Speaker 4: rocks up in a little hatchback and they tried to
Speaker 4: stick all those bags into that hatchpack and it was
Speaker 4: it was like playing tetris. We kind of felt bad
Speaker 4: for us, so we ended up giving her hand packing
Speaker 4: the all those suitcases in that little car and.
Speaker 3: Off she went.
Speaker 4: And that was art, but it was just it was
Speaker 4: just really odd and I hadn't seen anything like that
Speaker 4: in the whole time I'd been doing this, So I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if she just started getting on someone, grading
Speaker 4: on someone's nerves, the producers had had enough of her,
Speaker 4: or she just cracked it and went I'm out of here.
Speaker 4: But yeah, kind of odd because she just like she
Speaker 4: didn't get any help.
Speaker 1: Evidence. Number three Dean Wells. You guys may remember Dean
Speaker 1: from the whole Dean and Divina storyline back and so
Speaker 1: season five in twenty eighteen, which feels like a literal
Speaker 1: lifetime ago.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Randomly, last week he gave an interview to Sky News
Speaker 1: talking about Morena, which firstly, is really odd because why
Speaker 1: is sky News even covering married at First Sight when
Speaker 1: these literal wars and actual news to be reporting on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the headline they ran with was Matt's villain,
Speaker 1: Morena plunges this year's season into chaos. And then here's
Speaker 1: what it said like inside the article. Speaking exclusively to
Speaker 1: sky news dot com, do Au Wells, who appeared in
Speaker 1: season five in twenty eighteen, said Marenna's no holds bad
Speaker 1: personality and desire to be her authentic self put her
Speaker 1: at odds with producers. Well said, Marenna called out the
Speaker 1: producers on camera for what she perceived to be manipulation
Speaker 1: tactics to make the show more dramatic. Early today, I
Speaker 1: asked Dino to send me a little voice note just
Speaker 1: elaborating on this and also asking what the fuck happened,
Speaker 1: and he basically said all the drama started when Morena
Speaker 1: found out that Tony was still legally married to his ex.
Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
Speaker 5: From what I understand, and Marenna.
Speaker 6: Is not happy with the situation where she's been matched
Speaker 6: with a married man, and apparently she stands up and
Speaker 6: goes off with the producers and just has a go
Speaker 6: at him and calls them out and calls and produces
Speaker 6: out by name the head producer who's Tara. Marena jumps
Speaker 6: up and has a big go at her and then
Speaker 6: storms out.
Speaker 5: From what I understand, I don't know. I wasn't there.
Speaker 6: I can't confirm, but that's what I've heard and I
Speaker 6: have met Marena.
Speaker 5: I think she's an awesome person. She's a legend.
Speaker 6: She's a feisty, strong woman who seems like she's been
Speaker 6: fucked around by the mass producers and she's you know,
Speaker 6: standing up for herself and fighting back, so good honor.
Speaker 6: I think she's a legend. And you know, I can't
Speaker 6: wait to see how they put this in the show.
Speaker 6: I don't know what's gonna happen with the edit.
Speaker 5: Who knows what.
Speaker 6: They're gonna show because I know they don't like showing
Speaker 6: behind the scenes stuff on the show, and especially if
Speaker 6: it involves the producers and bad me. I think the producers,
Speaker 6: So who knows what they're going to show. But I
Speaker 6: know for a fact Marena stood up to the producers
Speaker 6: pushed back on him and told them, you know, this
Speaker 6: is not fair what you've done to me.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's going to be interesting and MAT's love
Speaker 5: to us.
Speaker 6: She's a champion, she's an amazing person. She's a really bold,
Speaker 6: big personality, and I think she's going to do really
Speaker 6: well on the show and after the show, So yeah,
Speaker 6: she'd be interesting.
Speaker 1: Side note, can I just say, I'm actually obsessed with
Speaker 1: this and just the idea of her being like, excuse me, no,
Speaker 1: won't be doing that, won't be saying that. No, we're
Speaker 1: not filming that scene. And now evidence number four, some
Speaker 1: intel I got from another source connected to the show.
Speaker 1: I'm told that despite everything I've just said, Morena and
Speaker 1: Tony still had like a very long and dramatic on
Speaker 1: and off kind of thing. And we're on the show
Speaker 1: for most of the season. And although it seems obvious
Speaker 1: that well it ends with her leaving and they break up,
Speaker 1: some people now are kind of suggesting they could still
Speaker 1: be hoped for them, like present day wants, they just
Speaker 1: are settled and the whirl wind surrounding the show ends.
Speaker 1: So I suppose we'll wait and see, although to be honest,
Speaker 1: this info sounds more like someone scrambling to give fans
Speaker 1: hope and keep them watching and just feeding me lies.
Speaker 1: Maybe all that being said, though, I think she is
Speaker 1: going to be one of my favorites this year because
Speaker 1: she sounds kind of wild. Quickly moving on now, though
Speaker 1: we also met Ryan and Jackie during Sunday's episode. He's
Speaker 1: a self proclaimed wanker. Oh sorry, Warrior I should know
Speaker 1: that since she said it about a billion times and
Speaker 1: she's a well this is her describing herself to Ryan
Speaker 1: during their wedding vows.
Speaker 5: So yeah, now a bit about me.
Speaker 7: I'm highly educated, intelligent, hardworking. I'm a corporate professional.
Speaker 2: I'm sporty.
Speaker 7: I love tennis, hiking, running, I can serve ski, mountain bike,
Speaker 7: run around in it.
Speaker 2: We're caught.
Speaker 1: I'm also form a model down a few moments later,
Speaker 1: and an ex cheerleader.
Speaker 7: But hey, we're all going to die and no one's
Speaker 7: going to remember us, so let's just make the most
Speaker 7: of what we've been handed and shoot for the sun together.
Speaker 1: Well done.
Speaker 8: That was amazing.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That was amazing. Are you sure about that, mate? Anyway,
Speaker 1: their wedding was fucking chaotic, to say the least, featuring
Speaker 1: this bizarre moment.
Speaker 7: Ryan, what kind of dog do you have?
Speaker 5: I have a kilpy cross staffing. She's not a little
Speaker 5: girl like.
Speaker 8: She's quite athletic and wild board or whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 8: I found.
Speaker 5: There after a year of searching.
Speaker 8: I was just looking for my dog because I had
Speaker 8: my house and yeah, like it needs to be.
Speaker 7: The I didn't really like Ryan's choice of dog. That's
Speaker 7: kind of a concern. I don't really like Stashie's like
Speaker 7: I would always prefer to go for a dog whose
Speaker 7: instincts are to go out and hunt for itself, like
Speaker 7: hunt rabbits and stuff, which is why I like cockaspaniels
Speaker 7: and hunter dogs. I need him to impress me. And
Speaker 7: owning Stashie it's just really unimpressive.
Speaker 1: It's a huge red flag. And then, as if the
Speaker 1: dog thing wasn't weird enough, later on, Ryan the Warrior
Speaker 1: accidentally dropped his bride during the first dance and it
Speaker 1: led to them then having this little meltdown on sad
Speaker 1: Chat with a producer. Hi, Hi, feel a.
Speaker 5: Bit unwell to us? Do you want you out? I
Speaker 5: dropped my bright.
Speaker 8: I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, I understand what you meant, Mike.
Speaker 7: You actually feel in confused.
Speaker 8: I need to have a discussion with production preserving that
Speaker 8: woman is dignity because that was not right. That was
Speaker 8: a miscalculation, and I don't feel that she needs to
Speaker 8: be ridiculed like that.
Speaker 5: I don't want those reactions to.
Speaker 8: Be a subject of national ridicule. People will laugh and
Speaker 8: what alah, whether they stick in can even keep her
Speaker 8: op blah, blah. All I can do is a question
Speaker 8: that not make it to a national broadcast, because I'll
Speaker 8: go the first and grow in the history of this
Speaker 8: show to drop them.
Speaker 1: As if the producers were ever just going to go,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we won't use that, mate. No worries are good,
Speaker 1: Like why do these people go in these shows and
Speaker 1: think like they matter and producers are going to listen
Speaker 1: and try to help them the team there, I'm making
Speaker 1: a show to entertain people, and like every failure and
Speaker 1: fuck up you have during filming is literally what they want.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna cut it, They're gonna fucking amplify it.
Speaker 1: If you're wondering how things are gonna pan out for
Speaker 1: these two, I think mess is the best word to
Speaker 1: describe them. Some people are saying they're the new Harrison
Speaker 1: and Bronti, others are saying they're just as bad as
Speaker 1: each other, and pretty much everyone he's saying they're unmissible TV.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I suppose excited to see this shit show unfold.
Speaker 1: To end this podcast episode now though here is Ryan
Speaker 1: singing that song about horses everyone in Australia seems to
Speaker 1: be obsessed with, which me as a British person has
Speaker 1: never quite understood.
Speaker 9: That's the way it's gonna be, little darn you, riding
Speaker 9: on the horses. Yeah, way up to the sky, little
Speaker 9: jarn in. And if you far pickure big cup.
Speaker 1: If you fall, I'll pick you up, pick you up. Well,
Speaker 1: it wasn't wrong about that, was he, although it was
Speaker 1: less fall and more dropped anyway, see yup,