Over one million Australian households each night choose to tune into the absolute car crash that is Married at First Sight and just like a car crash you shouldn’t look but you just can’t help yourself.
We all know how the show works: A group of “experts” (who’s form is about as good as mine was during the last Spring Carnival) pair up some complete strangers who will meet on their wedding day and be “Married” well, pretend to be Married for the benefit of ratin…I mean, the experiment.
The show follows the progress of those “couples” and night after night we tune in and bag them out on our respective social media platform – especially on Twitter #MAFS
You can’t deny that whenever you’ve gone to a wedding of a couple that seems uncomfortable you wish you could run a book on how long the marriage is going to last.
Fortunately, being a bookie ourselves and these relationships being fake and on national television, we’re running a market on how many couples will last the distance in season 7 of Australia’s most controversial experiment and biggest dumpster fire – Married at First Sight.
While all the couples are in the process of getting “married” right now and we are mostly passing judgement on the friends and family of the brides and grooms, history and the form guide of the show will give us a good indication as to how many will go the distance (for the time the show is actually on-air that is)
Last years trainwreck of a season saw four couples remain by the end of the series which is a reasonable strike rate, but outside of the show only two actually remain together – Cam & Jules who got their actual wedding paid for by A Current Affair and K-Mart Kardshian Martha and Micheal living a life of being on Instagram.
The lunch-cutters Dan and Jess famously broke up on spin-off show Talking Married after the final episode aired last season in one of the all-time great moments on Australian Television
While not all of the participants have been “married” yet there’s already an indication of a mix of good blokes, a woman who’s actually on the show for love, insta models, cashed-up bogans, dead set flogs and those who want to be on television for the sake of being on television.
For what it’s worth some will try and got the distance for the sake of it to remain on-air and bringing in the wreckage for our entertainment and a reasonably priced favourite in this market.
The cat is already out of the bag with Hayley the reformed bodybuilder who got “married” in last night’s episode admitted that she is no longer with her “husband” Dave the truckie with the bible-bashing parents.
Early indications already suggest that single-mum and pimple popper Poppy will call it quits to spend time with her kids; with the Over/Under market for how many times she mentioned she had kids was -35.5
In the lead-up to this series, there were rumours circulating that production had to be stopped due to some issues with the participants and anyone who thinks the show is all about love is delusional.
There’s no way Channel 9 and the producers of the show will want donuts by the series end, so about one or two couples going the distance seems about right.
Let’s hope it’s Elizabeth from last years series who’s one of them.
A true MAFS comeback story, if that is such a thing.
Wondered why Elizabeth Sobinoff was a no-show at last night's dinner party? There was a reason for it… #MAFS https://t.co/raqBVu44Mr
— WSFM 101.7 (@WSFM1017) February 4, 2020
Could this series of MAFS go all Honey Badger and have no love at the end what-so-ever.
Just imagine the look on John Aiken and the other “experts” faces when the final episode reveals that perhaps marrying the only two lesbians on the show because they both happened to be attracted to the same-sex or the reformed narcotics addict with a cop might not just work?
Even if Dr Trish tries getting participants to sniff clothes and it can’t work out happily ever after, then what can?
For what it’s worth, it would be an incredibly satisfying result and a decent price to see none of these couples go the distance, but there’s no way the show would allow this to be the ending.
Is John OK? #MAFS #MAFSAU pic.twitter.com/fou5YkkjHN
— PUNKEE (@itspunkee) February 3, 2020
If more than half the couples are all loved up and going the distance on this show than My Kitchen Rules is a chance to actually get some viewers.
Unless your name is either Manu or Pete Evans (who bets with our rival – PaeloBet) don’t bet on it.
People watch MAFS for the journey that results in the car crash, not the destination.
Couples will drop like flies towards the end and the price should be at $88 not $8.
Betting on 11+ couples to last till the very end is best expressed by this collage of expert Mel.
My emotional journey throughout tonight's Dean and Davina mess can be told through these facial expressions provided by Mel Schilling.#MAFS pic.twitter.com/paPr8RrwMr
— James Weir (@hellojamesweir) February 18, 2018
While you’re at it – why don’t you put it in a multi and back the Gold Coast Suns to win the AFL Grand Final?
- The MAFS market is All in betting, others may be added. The market settled on the result at the end of the last episode- catch-ups and specials do not count. The program may be Pre-recorded. The result may be known in advance. Singles only.