Something is happening between Gab and Nasser, and there are only two possibilities.
- The random apartment Gab has rented is haunted and the ghosts are opening doors, breaking beds, ruining marriages, etc.
- A ghost has possessed Nasser and now he throws more tantrums than usual and drives really slow on his scooter.
Honestly, if there’s one thing this season is missing, it’s a paranormal story line. And Nasser has given us one.
But in all seriousness, he's decided he doesn't want to be with Gab and lying about a ghost seems... immature.
During lunch with Gab's twin sister Kerri, Nasser calmly explains, "The place we're staying at now is possessed. I have a bad vibe." He says he can't possibly be expected to stay in that apartment, given the dangerousness of the ghosts, etc, and starts yelling in public when Gab tries to reason with him.
Kerri is skeptical, mostly because ghosts aren't real, but also because Nasser is a 50-year-old man who is scared to sleep over at someone else's house.
When Gab asks her sister what she thinks of Nasser, Kerri very clearly says.... no. Gab feels relieved because she was kinda sick of being screamed at about ghosts in public.
Meanwhile, Ashley and Troy have found a fair in the Gold Coast, because the only time they get along is when they're doing activities specifically designed for children.
Ashley decides she wants Troy to win a stuffed toy for her and we all know this is going to end badly for everyone but mostly Troy. He tries a ring toss game and misses every single throw before claiming it was rigged, which it most definitely was not.
"I need something with true skill," he explains. "Like the basketball one, I'd smash it."
Oh.
The producers have found a basketball ring game, and yeah, Troy misses every throw. It's at this point we realise the doofus music when Troy is on screen isn't clear enough, and decide to write to Channel 9 and tell them to make it approximately six times more dopey, pls.
Ashley wins her own toy and instead of being happy that at least one person in this relationship is moderately coordinated, Troy complains that the rings weren't NBA standard and omg pls don't pretend that would have made a difference you're embarrassing yourself.
"Too bad they don't have a tennis game here," Troy says and no, that's not too bad. That's very lucky.
STOP NOW.
Because, yes, Telv and Sarah did have sex, and yes, it was quite nice thanks for asking.
But now they're literally doing stuff for homeless people and it makes us feel bad because up until this point we had literally forgotten about charity/kindness/being good to others.
They're packing supplies for people in need, and Telv says that when he was growing up, he was one of those people, because his mum was a victim of domestic violence.
He starts explaining what it was like to not have a roof over your head and then he's GODDAMN CRYING AND WE CAN'T FKN DO THIS. IT WASN'T PART OF THE DEAL. THIS SHOW IS MEANT TO BE ABOUT TEXTIN' SCANDALS AND BAD AUSSIE RAPPERS AND OCCASIONALLY GHOSTS. NOT FEELINGS.
Oh thank God Justin and Carly are having a conversation about their relationship which is ridiculous, especially considering all Justin's done during this homestay is tried to convince Carly to get an ice-cream machine for her kitchen even though she a) doesn't want one, and b) we're not entirely sure he actually sells them.
He's worried that if he shows her any form of affection/physical contact she'll get the wrong signals, as though Carly is an illogical human being who thinks the man who last week randomly decided to go to Milan is actually madly in love with her.
Basically, Justin doesn't want to lead Carly on, which is probably something he should've thought about before he decided to marry her on national television but whatevs.
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At one point, Justin is eating Thai food in Carly's kitchen and casually says he's going to buy the Thai restaurant and franchise it.
Justin, no.
You've already ruined ice cream, we shan't let you ruin Thai food. Some things are sacred.
In Perth, Tracey is forcing Dean to come clean about his textin' scandal for the 647th time.
But when he tells Tracey's parents that, yeah, he'd been married to their daughter for roughly two weeks when he started to cheat, Tracey's mum nods and says, "these things are bound to happen".
...
We profoundly disagree.
Dean feels relieved and also wonders if he should ask Tracey's mum for her number.
That's when... it happens.
It's Tracey. She's dressed in exercise gear. But there's something urban about it. Dean is also looking more like his alter-ego Visionz than usual.
Then Tracey shares the plan.
She's taking Dean to a hip hop dancing class and no this is the single worst idea we have ever heard.
No person should try hip hop dancing for the first time in their thirties, and they should most definitely not try it with a person they are trying to impress. That's just bizarre.
The hip hop teacher is attractive and surprisingly quite a talented hip hop dancer. For Dean and Tracey, it's all fun and games until they're asked to do a hip hop dancing battle in front of the person they've been dating for four weeks but also all of Australia.
We want to die and that is not an exaggeration.
Then, Tracey decides to do a rap for Dean, because she never got the chance to reply when he rapped for her. But she did. We were there. We heard it. We wrote about it in our diaries recap later that night. So for reasons that make no sense, we're forced to endure another rap from a person who can't rap, which we simply refuse to cover in any meaningful way.
PAUSE Nasser has returned to Gab's haunted apartment and asks her to tell him what they're doing today because he probably won't be doing it.
Wot.
She tells him she wanted to introduce him to her friends and he essentially says, "there's no shops around here and I don't like the vibe" and leaves.
That night, Gab has to explain to her friends, all of whom are grown women, that her fake husband couldn't be here because he's scared of ghosts and her apartment, which they are standing in, is possessed.
Gab's friends joke about how silly it is to believe in ghosts and how they should give the ghost a name and everyone's laughing which seems exactly how most scary movies start.
Speaking of scary movies, Troy and Ashley have gone to visit Ashley's parents. Ashley's mum asks about their best and worst moments, and obviously Troy's best moment was swimming with dolphins yesterday, because he found his people, realised where he belongs, etc.
But then he has to tell that goddamn story about Ashley overhearing him telling a goddamn producer about something to do with goddamn sex, and it takes him in excess of six hours to communicate which is frustrating but also boring.
Ashley gets mad, which is out of character.
Outside, Ashley's dad, who has inexplicably left the room and also his own house, is talking to the cameras about how Troy might be nervous, and maybe that's why he's acting so weird (it's... not). But the camera man has to interrupt him because in the background, Troy and Ashley are having a fight about how Troy didn't tell the story honestly and also took three days to tell it. Ashley storms out which, while justified, also seems to be entirely ineffective at this point.
If you look very closely at Troy's face, you can tell that he's thinking, "you know who wouldn't be yelling at me? The dolphin from yesterday" and... he has a point.
UNTIL TOMORROW NIGHT.
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Top Comments
Nasser is a disgrace. He does not belong on the show. Psychologists ought to screen contestants thoroughly before allowing them to participate lest they hurt someone (in this case Gab). Nasser is obviously misogynistic and has NPD with psychopathic tendencies. He adored Gab, then distanced himself and now he will discard her. The way he has talked about her is disgusting and typical of his personality. I think he is gay (I never had a woman in my house in 50 years or I've never slept at anyone's house ever)... He is deceitful. Davina is another sociopath that did not need to be on the show. Dean had the good sense to understand it and did not continue with her folly.
I am an old man, I am retired, and I shouldn't admit to watching MAFS.
I hate stereotypes but I think we are all guilty of classifying people. I usually don't read blogs or listen to podcasts from young women. I tend to think of them as "Davinas".
But you two are both intelligent and entertaining young women. And I have a twin sister so I know the pain that both of you are going through :)
The only person who knows that I watch MAFS is my sister. We talk about it every week. I watched the first two episodes thinking that I wouldn't waste my time anymore butI was hooked. I know that anyone who applies to be on this program has some issues that should be addressed, but this group, in the main, comprise the most dysfunctional people I have ever seen.
I never liked Nassar from the start. I'm not sure what it was about him but tonight convinced me that I was right. Nassar doesn't like ghosts, and Dean doesn't like psychics. If Dean wrote a rap about motor cycles the two would be a match made in heaven. And a motor cycle is really just a skate board with a lawn mower motor.
At last, tonight, Gab stood up for herself. Nassar didn't like that. Good on Gab.
I know there is a lot of editing. The production crew can, and I'm sure do, edit a lot of stuff out. What is much more difficult is editing stuff in. Dean may have said something that approached human and it was taken out. But everything we have seen and heard shows that he is a man with no scruples, no honour and no integrity. I have heard that infants enjoy their infancy so why can't adults enjoy their adultery. Dean has taken that to heart.
I don't like rap, but I know that some people do and it is, supposedly, a legitimate genre of music. I have fallen off skateboards as many people have. But if I was 40 years of age and I wanted to impress a woman I think I might try something with a little more sophistication. Dean, old mate, there comes a time in every man's life, as painful as it might be, that we have to grow up.
I feel a little sorry for Troy. Not a lot, just a little. Ashley's sister was right when she asked if Ashley had been nice to Troy. She asked what Ashley had contributed to the relationship. But Troy has two annoying habits. One is his laugh. It's not just annoying but he laughs at the most inappropriate times. His other annoying habit is that he talks to much. But as you can see I do that too, so I call it endearing.
And I will say in Troy's defence that while Ashley didn't mention sex she did, at one stage, hint that there might be something more for Troy. She wasn't explicit and I think that Troy read it wrong. Troy's piece to the camera, and who knows what was asked of him that we didn't hear, was a reaction to that. Ashley went ballistic. Did Troy try to explain to her later? We don't know that either. Troy is annoying, I'm sure that "Annoying" is his middle name. But Ashley is demanding, she never admits that perhaps she might be part of the problem. And Troy was right, I think, when he said that she never gives him any sign of encouragement. Why does she still say that she is staying?
I feel sorry for Blair and Sean. Perhaps that's because I like women in quirky hats. I think their chances together would have been better if they had met outside of MAFS. And if not then I don't think that Blair would have been so hurt. Blair seemed like a nice woman, from the little we saw of her, but she wasn't Sean's type. Such is life.
As for the other Sean. He may not have been attracted to Jo. And I think I would have wondered what was going on if my bride wore thongs to the wedding. But it wouldn't have been an instant deal breaker. Sean was what is technically called a p***k. The day he cooked lunch for her but wouldn't eat with her was abhorrent. I have lived a long time and have had to eat lunch with people who aren't my friends. It's an hour out of my life. Do it and move on. Not Sean. Jo was bubbly and friendly but Sean never gave her a chance. I rate him worse than Dean, and that is saying something.
I should say something about Ryan and Davina. Just like I didn't like Nassar when I first saw him I also didn't like Davina. Ryan didn't affect me one way or the other until I saw him spit out an oyster. How can anyone not like oysters? It's a travesty. But Davina's reaction was worse. And just like Dean, there are probably things about Davina that have been edited out. When I see women like Davina I am so pleased that I listened to some of the advive I received from my parent.
The Deans and Davinas of this world need to realise that one of the signs of adulthood is that you acknowledge your mistakes, apologise, seek forgiveness and try to make retribution. Not Dean, he raps, and to Tracy's shame it seems to be working. And not Davina. She made no mistake in her eyes. Ryan on the other hand came out smelling of roses. We never really get to know these people but from what we have seen he is probably a good guy and I wish him well.
Finally, at last you say, and I repeat, finally. Justin and Carly. Carly is an attractive woman. Perhaps I am biased because I am a bloke. All she wants is a little affection so she can see if it goes anywhere. And that, to me, sounds fair enough. Unless Justin feels absolutley nothing for her. And if that is the case then he should have said "LEAVE" at the last Commitment Ceremony. No one really knows why people applied for this program. Davina, I'm sure, wanted to increase her exposure on television. I think that Ryan did want to find someone to be the mother of his kids.
Nevertheless, I am a man who is about 30 years older than Justin. I hope his hormones are still more active than mine. If I was thrown into his position I would at least explore the possibilities of affection and intimacy with an attractive and seemingly intelligent woman. Intimacy doesn't necessarrily mean sex. But holy bloody hell, they are married! OK, a fake marriage. Why did he enter this if he wasn't willing to explore something? Unless he finds her so unattractive, so unappealing, that he doesn't want to continue? If that is the case he should have said he would leave. I think the reason is that just like he doesn't have a boat, he doesn't have any guts. Justin might be a millionaire, but that doesn't mean as much as it used to. But he doesn't have the assets that really count.
Sorry this was so long.
Richard