Bronte Schofield and Harrison Boon have been the couple to watch this season on Married At First Sight Australia.
Not because they're particularly all that in love, or amusing, or surprising – but because we were never really sure if they actually liked each other.
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This is why it's probably not that shocking when we tell you that the pair didn't make it to the final vows – instead calling it quits during the final dinner party. But if you loved the drama from them, don't fret, because they will be back for the final commitment ceremony.
During their wedding ceremony, Harrison told the cameras that Bronte had "legitimately" blown him away.
"She’s absolutely stunning, I just felt all the air leave my body."
But it only went downhill from there when a friend of Bronte's (who was previously on The Bachelors) informed the bride that her new husband had been with another lady the night before. In fact, he'd been with her while packing his bags for Married At First Sight.
Bronte chose to accept it, but things took an even worse turn when the pair went on their honeymoon in the Hunter Valley where they got intimate.
"[Sex] was so rushed and there were no emotions in it," the bride admitted. "Basically, I know his favourite sex position before I know his favourite colour."
The arrival of an 'Honesty Box' also forced Harrison to confront his new wife about their sexual compatibility. When asked if they had any, he told her, "Ummmm… look. Not at the moment."
Their lack of chemistry set the tone for the entirety of their relationship but at the final commitment ceremony, both of them chose to... stay.
"When things are good, they're really good. But when things are bad, they're really bad," Bronte explained.
But at the final dinner party, the bride exploded at Harrison, telling him she was "done".
"Harrison, we're done," she said. "We're over and I honestly never want to see you again."
So, after that conclusion, we want to know what exactly these maybe-kinda-never-lovebirds have been up to since filming wrapped.
Harrison debuts his new girlfriend on the evening of his "divorce party".
So it turns out Harrison has moved on quickly from Bronte.
The former groom is apparently dating a new gal called Gina and wandering the streets hand in hand with her while the final dinner party aired on national television.
According to sources, "Harrison and Gina met a few months ago after his split from Bronte, and they've been inseparable ever since."
"They've kept their relationship under wraps until now, but with Harrison's TV marriage officially over, they're thrilled to be able to go public," the insider added.
Harrison's mother calls Bronte's sister a "foul-mouthed little girl".
Harrison's mother, Noni Boon, has called Bronte's sister, Kirra Schofield, an "alcohol-fuelled" troublemaker with "no life experience" after Tuesday's episode.
On Wednesday night, Noni went to her Instagram stories to write: "Let's have a show of hands for who would sit there and let a little girl with no life experience interfere, insult, and cross every relationship boundary imaginable?"
She added, "I applaud [Harrison] for walking away. I would have done the same."
In another slide, Noni asked how Bronte could have allowed her sister to "insult" Harrison.
"Great supportive wife allows this to happen? Oh, that's right, that was the 'plan' all along," she wrote. It appears she is referencing a leaked voice memo from Bronte where the bride admitted she was planning to string Harrison along before dumping him.
In another post, Noni said she "saw" her son "being verbally abused by a foul-mouthed little girl fuelling herself with alcohol. The smartest thing to do is walk away when you are being attacked. Situations like that need to be diffused."
She continued: "Alcohol-fuelled aggression is not a good example for how to handle confrontation. Anybody championing this behaviour is dragging society down and encouraging toxic relationships."
Bronte defends her decision to stay with Harrison for as long as she did.
Following Bronte's blow-up at Harrison during Wednesday night's episode, the bride took to Instagram in a lengthy post to address all the hate she had been receiving.
Likely approved by a producer, the reality star wrote: "‘Fake’, ‘Naive’ and ‘Stupid’ are just a few of the things I have been labelled since being a part of this experiment.
"I wanted this to work for so many reasons, reasons that no one will ever know or understand," she said. "In reality, people’s opinions of me, are none of my business."
Bronte went on to address what she had "lost sight" of.
"I have learnt that people know your worth, they just hope you don’t, because the minute you realise your worth, you learn the difference between what you’re getting and what you deserve," she wrote. "The vortex of this experiment brought me back to a younger B, a B who would not understand that forcing someone to see her world, is not love, it is ego.
“I wanted H to see me for who I know I am, a strong, independent, kind, caring, charismatic, funny, loving woman. Instead of showing him that, I lost myself in the process of hoping to get chosen."
To finish off, Bronte said she realised she needed to "choose" herself.
"I swore I would never let a man treat me like that again, until I was facing it head-on, without my family, without support and on the other side of the country," she said. "No one can understand how that feels until you are in it."
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Harrison allegedly fat-shamed Bronte.
According to the So Dramatic! podcast, an insider said that Harrison made multiple comments about Bronte's size.
"You’re not as snatched as you were", "You’re not as shredded as you were at the wedding", "You’ve gotten used to married life", "You’ve let yourself go", and "You’re fluffy now", were just some of the things the groom allegedly told her on multiple occasions.
Harrison and Bronte apparently had made a pact to stay until final vows.
According to So Dramatic!, Harrison "was adamant that [he and Bronte] were going to Final Vows".
"He said to Bronte, 'We have to go. We made a pact'," the insider claimed.
But Bronte allegedly told Harrison she'd never agreed to any pact.
"Bronte was like, 'No we didn’t. I didn’t sign up for a fake marriage. I didn’t come here for a pact. I’m not being inauthentic,'" the source said.
According to the publication, Harrison then "begged" Bronte to stay so they could “redeem his image“, but she knew he only wanted to stay longer so that “he could blame her for it nor working and saying she doesn’t want to move to Sydney”.
Apparently, Bronte had already been made to stay "on the show longer than she wanted to, against the detriment of her mental health."
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