Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2026 bride Gia Fleur has addressed her “horrible” behaviour during Wednesday night’s explosive Dinner Party — which viewers have described as the wildest moment in the history of the reality show.
ICYMI, the episode saw Gia team up with her bestie Brook Crompton and frenemy Bec Zacharia to attack fellow brides Stella Mickunaite and Alissa Fay across the dinner table. They labelled Alissa a “ratchet idiot”, a “lame bitch” and a “loser”, and Gia told Stella to “go back in [her] kennel”.
MAFS’ Gia Fleur owns up to her bad behaviour
Following the episode, Gia told PEDESTRIAN.TV she found it “really difficult” to watch back as she didn’t realise how badly she had behaved.
“I was very confronted seeing the episode play out,” she said. “I mean, obviously, I remember what happened that day, and I wasn’t looking forward to this dinner party — this dinner party was the worst dinner party of the whole season. But watching it back, I was just filled with a lot of embarrassment and just felt really bad for my behaviour.”
While Gia and Brook denied being “bullies” at the Dinner Party — instead referring to themselves as “real bitches” — the mum-of-one has changed her tune and agreed with viewers that her behaviour “very much was bullying”.
“I think Brook and I definitely came across as bullies. We took it way too far, and the things that we were saying, like, ‘Oh, we’re not mean girls, we’re just real girls’ or whatever. No, we were mean girls,” she admitted.
“Looking at it now, I’m embarrassed, because I was bullied in high school, and the last thing I want to do is be like that. And unfortunately, that’s how I was.”
Why were Gia and Brook so mean to Alissa and Stella?
Not only were viewers outraged by Gia and Brook’s comments towards Alissa and Stella in the episode, but they were also very confused by the lack of context. The feud seemingly came out of nowhere, with any previous explanatory actions removed from the edit.
Although Gia emphasised that her behaviour is inexcusable, she told P.TV there was somewhat of an explanation behind the hostility that wasn’t shown on screens.
“In regard to Stella, she was a bit flirty with my husband, and I don’t take to that well. She was fixing his collar one day, calling him husband material, saying he has the nicest ass,” she claimed.
“She was talking about getting her boobs done, and she’s like, ‘Oh, Scott can pay for it’, and I was like, I just don’t like this. This is just rubbing me the wrong way. When I’m in a relationship, I can be a bit jealous, and I just didn’t like how she was. I didn’t speak like that to any of the husbands.”
She also claimed that Stella once called Gia a dog because of her arm tattoo, which is why she felt it was appropriate at the time to tell Stella to go back in her kennel. PEDESTRIAN.TV has reached out to Stella for comment.
As for Alissa, Gia confessed it was “a different story”, and her spitefulness was purely because Bec had told her they knew each other in Adelaide and didn’t get along.
“I was a new friend of Bec’s, and I wanted to make her like me, so basically, I just jumped on the bandwagon of hating Alissa to please Bec and yeah, that was really wrong,” she said.
“I should have just given Alissa a chance and gotten to know her without listening to what somebody else’s opinion was. But yeah, Bec didn’t like her and knew her from Adelaide, and that’s pretty much why I just started not liking Alissa.”
Is Gia getting the ‘villain edit’?
Time and time again, MAFS participants have blamed their bad behaviour on the show’s producers or claimed that they’ve simply received a “bad edit”. Gia revealed that “a lot of things happened behind the scenes” and claimed the producers definitely influenced her behaviour at the Dinner Party, but ultimately, she knows that she only has herself to blame.
“Of course, when you’re drinking alcohol and you’re pushed in another direction and you want to get home and you’re exhausted and you’re tired, you might say things that you’re not proud of and that you don’t want to say,” she remarked.
“But at the end of the day, I can’t blame production. I know I said earlier that production is probably to blame, but it isn’t. Brook and I said what we said.”
Gia said she’s hopeful her ‘edit’ will soon turn around and viewers will see more of her relationship with Scott McCristal, but she acknowledged it’s not up to her what makes it to air.
“There are a lot of things that don’t get shown, like there’s some context missing, but at the end of the day, maybe if you are the villain, that’s the cards you’re dealt, and they can’t show too much else, because then it goes against that story,” she reflected.
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