Married At First Sight bride Jacqui Burfoot has broken her silence after viewers accused her of ‘fake crying’ on the dating experiment.
The NSW-based consultant, 29, shared a video to social media on Monday in which she claimed that footage of her with tears in her eyes had been removed in the editing suite.
‘Often if I am crying, I will be doing so for like five minutes. But they are editing it, so they have the start and end of me crying,’ Jacqui told fans.
‘But they cut out the actual crying in the middle, where the tears come out. You can often see I am crying because I end up with mascara on my face. That’s just the editing, they just do the start and end, not the middle.’
Jacqui added she had filmed footage on her phone of her weeping and would consider releasing it as proof the tears were genuine.
She also revealed why she had worn a blue dress, rather than a traditional gown, to her fake wedding ceremony to her TV husband Ryan Donnelly.
A fan asked her if she made the choice because it was ‘bad luck’ to wear an authentic wedding gown to a pretend ceremony and Jacqui confirmed this was the case by responding with ‘100%’.
It comes after Jacqui sobbed during Sunday’s episode of Married At First Sight as she despaired over her ‘hopeless’ romance with groom Ryan Donnelly.
But viewers were not impressed by the display, with several finding the breakdown, during which she did not appear to shed any tears, to be ‘fake’.
The distressed bride wailed and dabbed at her face with a tissue, leaving many fans on social media amused.
‘Here Jacqui, have a tissue for no reason at all….’ joked one person while another said, ‘Got her acting skills from TEMU’.
‘She should stop worrying about Ryan’s gym etiquette and make an eye duct appointment pronto’ someone else said.
‘Jacqui went from crying to happy quick didn’t she! It’s like she was never upset!’ another wrote.
‘Noooooo. Not that fake crying again!!!! I can’t deal….’ complained someone else while yet another commented, ‘Oh no Jacqui is fake crying again’.
The drama began when Ryan was called out by the experts during Sunday’s episode after Jacqui revealed his bizarre sex rule.
Ryan and Jacqui took to the couch during the latest Commitment Ceremony to discuss their progress so far in the experiment.
However, one revelation in the sex department not only elicited laughs from the group, but a telling off by one expert in particular.
The bride revealed to the experts that Ryan refuses to have sex before a gym session to ‘preserve his testosterone’, a statement that saw the other participants burst out in laughter and expert John Aiken put his face into his hands.
‘I actually really respected it. It shows discipline and that he’s got self-control,’ she went on to admit.
She added: ‘He obviously values his lifestyle and fitness and body very highly which is actually a huge priority for me.’
However, Jacqui then shocked her partner by bursting into tears as she told Ryan she often felt ‘hopeless’ when it came to some of their lifestyle differences.
Despite the tears, the pair quickly made up and decided to stay on in the experiment.