Married At First Sight couple Jacqui Burfoot and Clint Rice hung up on Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie in a shocking moment on live radio Tuesday morning.
The pair were doing an interview with the show about their recent engagement after five months of dating post-filming, but things took a turn when host Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald levelled them with questions about the series.
The radio host, 48, took a no-holds-barred approach as he decided to ‘represent’ groom Ryan Donnelly and interrogate Jacqui, 30, on her treatment of him during their ‘marriage’, but the bride was having none of it.
‘Clint wasn’t the first [groom] you approached on the show. You were obviously married to Ryan, but you did approach Jeff and asked if you could catch up with Jeff which got Rhi really upset,’ Fitzy began.
‘I’m going to stop you. We came on this to speak about our engagement and happy times. We’re getting a lot of backlash and we’re not in a position to talk about the show right now,’ Jacqui quickly fired back.
‘We’re trying to leave that in the past and just move on from it,’ she added, but Fitzy wouldn’t let up as he then brought up her test date in the Final Challenge where she exchanged numbers with her back-up groom.
Married At First Sight couple Jacqui Burfoot, 30, and Clint Rice, 44, hung up on Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie in a shocking moment on live radio Tuesday morning
‘These are the questions because your temptation date was the same Jacqui,’ Fitzy said.
‘We answered those questions on TikTok. Out of respect we were promised this would be a happy interview… You can go on my TikTok if you’d like answers to those questions,’ Jacqui said.
‘I want to represent Ryan here,’ Fitzy then said, which set Jacqui off.
What ensued was garbled arguments as Jacqui and Fitzy spoke over the top of each other before Clint, 44, jumped in with: ‘We’re going to head off. We’ve got lots of media today.’
But co-host Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli managed to keep the controversial couple on the line as he began to ask them details about their engagement and position himself as their ally in the interview.
‘Good cop, bad cop. Alright, good cop, thanks for your question,’ Fitzy later jumped in again. ‘Bad cop—why would you keep Ryan on the show for so long if you’re pointing out his negative traits the whole time, Jacqui?’
‘Guys, we’re going to head off,’ Clint responded as Fitzy claimed Nova listeners ‘want to know an answer for this’.
‘We came on here to talk about our engagement and the happy side of what we’re going through right now,’ Clint continued.
The pair were doing an interview with the show about their recent engagement after five months of dating post-filming, but things took a turn when host Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald, 48, levelled them with questions about the series
The radio host took a no-holds-barred approach as he decided to ‘represent’ groom Ryan Donnelly and interrogate Jacqui on her treatment of him during their ‘marriage’, but the bride was having none of it
‘As you can see, we cop a lot of backlash online and we’re not here to entertain that anymore. We’re going to do positive media today.’
Jacqui agreed with her new fiancé, adding: ‘We’re not going to tolerate hate or harassment or any of that anymore and we’re not going to encourage it.’
Fitzy then chose to let up on his line of questioning and instead asked the pair to detail how long they had been together and how much time Jacqui had spent in Tasmania with Clint before they decided to make things official.
But it wasn’t long before Fitzy took another crack at them with: ‘Before you go, I was disappointed with the way you went out with a bang in your Final Vows, Jacqui. I thought the way you spoke to Ryan—you spoke down to him.’
‘This is the third strike. We’re off guys,’ Clint immediately said before he and Jacqui ended the call.
Jacqui later took to her Instagram Stories to inform her followers she had cut an interview short just hours earlier, calling Fitzy and Wippa ‘rude, toxic and jealous’.
‘This morning we had very rude presenters harass us again. We warned them we will not tolerate any hate—good vibes only—the world has way too much of that already,’ she wrote.
‘We hung up and blocked them after giving them three strikes. Normalise blocking rude, toxic or jealous people who want to try to drag you down. That negativity has no place in our lives.
‘If people want the answers, they can find them for themselves. Surround yourself with positivity and people who want to celebrate your joy and happiness with you.’
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