Jacqui, a person on the TV show Married At First Sight Australia, did something unusual during Homestays week. She took her husband Ryan to a place in Sydney’s Manly area and told him it was her home. This part of the show is where couples test their compatibility by living together before making a final decision.
However, when people watched it, they noticed something unusual—there were no personal items in the apartment. So they started wondering if it was her home.
Now, Jacqui has admitted the place wasn’t hers. She said it was an Airbnb and she didn’t want to bring cameras to her real house because she was worried about her safety.
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For anyone curious, this was taken at my actual Manly apartment. As a single lady, security and privacy is important to me and my friends. I didn’t feel comfortable opening my home up to all of Australia. Just so you know the ‘apartments’ the couples live in are actually also decorated hotel rooms. Homestays is about getting to know someone in their usual neighbourhood doing usual activities. If you care about the actual homes you should watch a show like The Block, not MAFS lol.
Responding on Instagram, Jacqui shared a video of herself from her actual home and wrote
Jacqui also showed some other pictures that were taken at her real home. But even though she explained why she used an Airbnb, someone told Daily Mail Australia that the real reason was that her house was “too small” to film in.
On the episode, the voice on the show says the place is “Jacqui’s home,” but it was really just a two-story house in the Manly area that costs $200 a night, and the producers set it up for filming.
Jacqui’s actual living situation was deemed ‘too small’ and impractical for filming. She had roommates living at her house and it was in a messy state, and she didn’t feel comfortable with it. Ryan and Jacqui were instructed not to make any mention that it was a fake house and just to pretend that it was actually Jacqui’s. In a comment to PEDESTRIAN.TV, Jacqui said she was “not embarrassed at all” by the situation. Production hires these for participants who have housemates to protect their privacy, she added. “It’s been happening for years. Like with Eden Harper last year. Production are in control of filming locations and sets — the content is the focus and they try to create things as accurately as possible.
A production insider told the publication
Source: Capitalfilm