MAFS cast divided after Ryan Donnelly's explicit remark about Jacqui Burfoot: 'Disrespectful'

Things are officially getting spicy on Married At First Sight with ‘Intimacy Week’ set to be derailed by a rogue comment Ryan Donnelly makes to expert Alessandra Rampolla. The 36-year-old project manager makes the remark at a ‘sex workshop’ in front of the other grooms about his wife Jacqui Burfoot.

The pair's relationship has been marked by drama so far, with Jacqui bursting into tears at their wedding when Ryan didn't take the lead down the aisle and didn't pick up on her hints for him to lend her his jacket and expressing her frustration that he doesn't seem to appreciate how hot and successful she is. Meanwhile, Ryan asked expert John Aiken why he and the other experts had essentially "ignored" what he had asked for in a partner, citing that he wanted someone he could cook with while his bride hates cooking.

Despite the couple opting to stay after Sunday's Commitment Ceremony, it looks as though things are about to take a turn.

What did Ryan say about Jacqui on MAFS?

A dramatic preview at the end of Monday’s episode showed the group of couples reacting in horror at something Ryan said before the female cast members later find out and are equally speechless.

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Yahoo Lifestyle understands Ryan’s comment was a disrespectful remark claiming that despite Jacqui’s “crazy eyes” she is still good at performing a particular sexual act on him.

A show insider tells us: “Nobody could believe what he said, and Dave made his disgust at the remark known. Following that single comment, the grooms were then divided for the rest of the season, with Dave and Billy continually calling Ryan and others out for how they speak to and about women.”

The source added that making this week’s drama even more shocking is the fact that the whole cast found out about Ryan’s remark before Jacqui – leaving her heartbroken.

“Jacqui was still feeling quite insecure after Ryan placed her third in the photo ranking challenge and then finding this out, she just exploded,” the source added.

Are MAFS' Jacqui Burfoot and Ryan Donnelly still together?

While viewers have begun predicting whether the pair will stay on the show much longer, it appears Ryan has ruined his own storyline by revealing his relationship status. The 36-year-old project manager is the latest participant to confirm his TV marriage doesn’t last and he’s already publicly moving on.

A fan of the show has revealed to Yahoo Lifestyle that she met the self-proclaimed warrior at a rave at The Ivy in Sydney on December 27 and they spent the evening flirting.

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Ryan then reached out to her on Instagram in the early hours of the morning, which she believes confirms that his relationship with Jacqui doesn’t last.

“Ryan walked up to me, started chatting to me and we were dancing,” she details. “He then added me on Instagram and slid into my DMs later on at like 3am, but it wasn’t from his main account, it was a burner account. We were talking but it just fizzled out then a few weeks later I found out he was on MAFS.

“That night he offered to buy me drinks and stuff and he was commenting on my Instagram Story [afterwards], so I don’t think he’s with Jacqui anymore because of how he was behaving.”

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