Jacqui Burfoot 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 platform X amused.
‘Here Jacqui, have a tissue for no reason at all….’ joked one person while another said, ‘Jacqui got her acting skills from TEMU’.
‘Jacqui should stop worrying about Ryan’s gym etiquette & make an eye duct appointment pronto’ someone else said.
‘Jacqui went from Crying to Happy quick didn’t she…it’s almost like she was never upset!’ one more 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’.
‘Jacqui has the WORST fake cry in the world’ said another while someone else chimed in, ‘Crocodile tears by Jacqui’.
The drama began when Ryan was called out by the experts on Sunday night’s episode of Married at First Sight after Jacqui revealed his bizarre sex rule.
Ryan, 36, and Jacqui, 29, 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,’ she went on to admit.
‘It shows discipline in a man and it shows that he’s got self-control.’
She added: ‘He obviously values his lifestyle and fitness and body very highly which is actually a huge priority for me.’
‘Not at the expense of your needs,’ he comforted her.
‘Yeah, but it was at the expense of my needs,’ she said as she and Ryan began giggling.
However, as Jacqui and her partner laughed it off, expert Alessandra Rampolla didn’t see the humour in the situation at all.
‘I have a question on this whole morning situation,’ she said to Ryan.
After a dramatic silence, she asked: ‘Why were you not just pleasuring her?’
Ryan, looking confused, replied: ‘Um, I’m not sure. In what situation, sorry?’
‘In the morning situation that you wanted to maintain your testosterone in your body, you can totally do that and still pleasure her.
‘So what’s up with modern man? Where did he go?’ she sensationally asked, the other participants taken aback by the expert’s apparent sting.
Obviously flustered, Ryan attempted to soothe the situation over, affirming that there needs to be ‘balance’ between his and Jacqui’s needs, even if they’re not ‘identical’.
‘We are all making light because it is funny,’ Alessandra said, but the expert went on to slam the groom for not reaching a compromise, adding that they both he and Jacquie could be ‘satisfied’.
‘There’s no reason for her to be not satisfied just because you haven’t been to the gym,’ she reiterated.
Jacqui jumped in, revealing that it wasn’t about the sex at the time but rather Ryan’s inability to be flexible.
‘There’s not willingness to compromise,’ she said.
‘Which is my point,’ Alessandra chimed in.
However, Ryan seemed to disagree with the matter, saying: ‘But there has been compromise. There has been from both sides.’
Jacqui suddenly burst into wailing, hysterical sobs, shocking Ryan.
‘What’s wrong?’ he asked her, alarmed.
‘I just feel like it’s hopeless. Like we never really tried’ she wept to which Ryan assured her, ‘It’s not hopeless.’
‘It is!’ she wailed on, with Ryan replying, ‘It’s not, babe. It’s not.’
‘I feel like I’m met with so much resistance and it’s just so hard for me to just push through’ the bride carried on.
‘I feel like I’m wading through where the current’s just coming back at me with the relationship’ she added.
Despite the tears, the pair quickly made up and decided to stay on in the experiment.
‘Genuinely mean it when I say, I love spending time with you. I want it to be the best it can’ Ryan assured his bride.