As a woman in her late 20s, the mean girls I deal with today have generally moved past throwing mindless insults to your face.
Instead, it’s passive aggressive comments (which really just screams insecurity), excluding you on the case of ‘whoopsies’, whispering cruel falsities behind your back, and of course, the classic victim complex.
Don’t get me wrong, there are times where people throw around pop-culture terms that they don’t understand just to insult you. However, Brook on Married At First Sight Australia appears to just be using classic mean girl tactics – and my jaw was on the floor.
Her husband Chris and the other participants believed Brook had exited the experiment, when the self-proclaimed “girls girl” crashed the Dinner Party.
Despite joining the experiment in the hopes of finding love, Brook certainly didn’t return for her husband. Instead, she had a lot of “unfinished business.”
“I’m not gonna let my b****es fight some other b****es by themselves,” she shouted.
The-27-year-old seems like she was looking for a fight, particularly with two people: Stella and Alissa. This feud began during the Red Flag/Green Flag game, where labels like “fake” and “show-mance” were thrown around.
Obviously her last hoorah before exiting MAFS, Brook quickly seized her opportunity to confront Stella.
“I just want to know Stella, what is your problem with me? Why at that commitment ceremony, out of everyone, did you come at me? I did nothing to you,” she said. “You need to have a clue and realise I’m standing up for myself. I see someone like you, ‘I’m so deep, I’m so deep’, I don’t think you’re deep, I just think you’re f*****g dumb.”
Stella calmly responded, “I will not talk with you, if you don’t listen. It’s just so disrespectful… You’re very abrasive. What you did all night [was] barking at other women.”
“Barking babe, that’s lovely. Why don’t you go back in your kennel, babe?” Gia pipped in.
This is just inching a little too close to that, “Can you muzzle your woman” comment from Jack in 2024.
But really, was hurling insults at other women worth jumping on a plane back to Sydney from the Gold Coast? Apparently so, because Brook and her brides, Gia and Bec, weren’t even close to being done.
“Hey babe, while you’re at it, get the stripper boots off babe! Get the stripper boots off,” Brook yelled at Stella. “Like, you know what, if you’re gonna buy stripper boots, buy 100 per cent lamb don’t buy faux-leather… Seriously, where’d you get them from? Tar-Jay (Target).”
Now, this is the same person who was appalled by her husband’s comments about a girl’s physical appearance in his audition video… Even relationship expert John Aiken called it “ironic.”
Also, when did calling someone ‘babe’ as an insult come back into trend?
Anyways, Brook’s other feudmate was handed to her on a silver platter as Alissia called out, “That’s not nice.” Oh so maturely, Brook responded, “Alissa, shut up! Shut up Alissa, you ratchet idiot!”
I don’t know where this “girls girl” wandered off to, but she certainly wasn’t in the room. Insults like “fake”, “loser”, “f*****g lame b***h” quickly made the rounds, even mocking Alissa’s voice.
“I’m done with your bullying. I’m done. This is enough… I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, leave me alone,” Alissa said, visibly shaken by the argument. “This is just disgusting behaviour. I don’t want to be sitting at a table with that going on.”
Despite literally pleading to be left alone, Brook began shouting Alissa’s name over the dinner table! Thankfully, she didn’t respond.
As we’ve seen tonight, it is so easy to hurl mindless insults, with little care for the person on the receiving end. I’ve watched some explosive moments on MAFS, but this by far takes the cake.
But there is something to be applauded in Alissa and Stella’s response.
And, whether Brook leaves on Sunday or not, this feud is not ending anytime soon…
Brook responds to the MAFS Dinner Party episode:
The day after the chaotic Dinner Party episode aired on Nine, Woman’s Day released an interview with Brook, who claimed there was more to the story than what played out on screen.
“Look, I completely cop to my behaviour. There was no excuse for how I behaved,” she reflected.
“But you have to understand what it’s like being in that environment. You’ve got people egging you on, producers egging you on. I was told I wasn’t allowed to talk to Stella one on one, I could only do it in a group setting. Even before I came back, producers were like, ‘Don’t come back for Chris – we know you don’t like him’.
“On the night of the dinner party, before I walked in, I was in a car for like four hours. I drank two bottles of champagne. You get drunk on the drama, we were all feeling it. But I really did come across as a cow. I was a cow. I completely admit it.”
Brook then claimed, “Stella was saying things behind my back.”
“An executive even pulled me aside to say, ‘Stella was lying about you and we all know it, so go for her with the girls around you’,” she claimed. “Production said ‘Jump, and I said ‘how high?’. Am I an idiot for listening? Yes!”
What have Stella and Alissa said about the MAFS Dinner Party?
During the interview with Woman’s Day, Brook said “we’re all so fine now” after she apologised during the commitment ceremony and sent a text to Stella.
Both Stella and Alissa discussed the Dinner Party drama while appearing on Stan’s MAFS: After The Dinner Party. Stella shared, “The apologies came in, it doesn’t matter.”
Alissa claimed she received an apology five weeks later, before reading out a text message she claimed was from Brook.
“I’m sorry its taken me a while to reach out,” Alissa began. “I’ve taken a lot of time to switch off and think about everything but I really want to apologise again for what happened at the last dinner party I was at.
“I was going through a lot mentally at the time, and unfortunately let the experiment get the better of me. An executive actually did come to me and push that I should go for you and Stella that night, and keep stirring s*** up, and I really regret not trusting myself and listening to senior people and the other people that knew you prior.
“I don’t expect you to reply, but I just want you to know where I’m at.”
