They even had their bags packed

Five MAFS Australia 2025 couples made it to the final vows, but did you know some of them wanted to quit earlier in the experiment? Three of the brides have opened up about wanting to walk out – but they reluctantly chose to stay on the reality TV show, or claim they were forced to.

Jacqui

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In a social media post, Jacqui said she packed her bags after voting to stay at one of the commitment ceremonies. She realised she had made a big mistake, but the producers didn’t want her to leave.

“I packed my bags that night and tried to leave, but was stopped by production. They refused to let me leave and said I had to stay as per the rules of the experiment,” she said.

“They told me Ryan was feeling crushed and it was my chance to make him feel included and accepted as a human. So guess that was my final job. I didn’t see any future with him. I wanted to leave amicably as but no more. Tomorrow I take the date option to meet someone new!!!”

It came after her turbulent relationship with Ryan reached boiling point. The pair went back and forth throughout the experiment before ultimately deciding to go their separate ways at the Final Vows.

Jamie

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Jamie was also ready to quit after Dave’s behaviour during feedback week. After the partner swap, he came back and shockingly told Jamie he didn’t actually have feelings for her at all.

“I felt like my whole world imploded during feedback week. I came back to a man who was very different… It caused a lot of trust issues and anxiety where they didn’t need to be,” she told Daily Mail Australia.

“I 1,000 per cent wanted to leave. I threw my stuff out the day of the commitment ceremony. I felt unsafe. I’d been vulnerable, intimate, I’d shared real emotions with this man – and suddenly it felt like I’d been deceived.”

Jamie decided to stay in the end, but she “never felt like she got the relationship back” after feedback week. “My skin broke out, my hair was falling out. I was sick during final vows. It was like the universe was screaming at me – this is not it,” the bride said.

Morena

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After failing to hit it off with her match Tony, Morena also claimed she wanted to walk out of the experiment but was forced to stay by the producers “against her will”.

“I was held against my will,” she said on the MAFS Funny podcast before explaining that she hit breaking point before her final commitment ceremony, which she wasn’t actually going to attend.

“The last commitment ceremony, I didn’t go. I was in my room. They [the producers] were on the phone. Oh my God, I had all this attention that I haven’t had for the whole show. And they end up convincing me,” she said.

“But before they convinced me, I said to them something that they didn’t like. I said to them, I’m going to call OOO. You’re holding me against my will. This stops. This stops today. So viewers, you’ve got to understand that this is four weeks, four weeks, four weeks of torture.”

The Tab reached out to Channel Nine and E4 for comment on Morena’s claims at the time.

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