Harrison’s Gone Rogue And Given A Tell-All Interview About ‘MAFS’
Harrison Boon has made quite the mark on this season of Married at First Sight, easily coming across as the biggest villain on the 2023 season.
Since he first appeared on our screens, Harrison has been embroiled in drama: from the accusation on his wedding day that he promised a girl on the outside he’d come back to her post-MAFS, to his constant gaslighting of wife Bronte, and his penchant for getting involved in all of the other couples’ dramas.
When he’s not getting his hands dirty throwing what he deems as “truth bombs” at other couples and leaving them to deal with the fallout, he’s leaving us all with whiplash with his on-off again relationship with Bronte. Did he dump her over text? Are they back together? Are they just putting on a facade like most of the other couples think they are? Who even knows anymore!
Harrison has popped up to chat with the Kyle & Jackie O Show (I know, imagine those two men in a room together) and dished about his time on Married At First Sight in a very interesting chat.
Here’s what we learned from Harrison’s tell-all Married at First Sight interview.
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On being the 2023 MAFS villain and serial gaslighter:
“I think all the cast at one point or another were like, yeah you’re the villain this year, dude. All you have to do to make a gaslighter is edit out my arguments. I think there’s some truth in the edit. But there’s conversations that are so choppy, I think ‘how did they get away with this?'”
On the Jesse and Claire sitch:
After dropping at last week’s dinner party that Claire was only still on MAFS to redeem her character after she cheated on Jesse with Adam, Harrison is sticking to his guns as to why he decided to drop that bomb.
During the interview, he said Claire and Bronte went and got matching tattoos one day in Manly and Claire told Bronte her plans about Jesse and the hopes to redeem her image. The full story allegedly came out to Harrison when Bronte told him after girls’ night on the couples retreat.
“After the couples retreat, because Claire and Melinda ganged up on Bronte on the girls’ night, that’s when Bronte told me about Claire, because she knew I’d just hammer that. So it was like, Bronte was getting back at Claire using me as proxy,” Harrison said.
On the chat that wasn’t shown with Jesse:
“I had a 45 minute conversation with Jesse about his relationship on boys’ night. He said ‘I think we’re getting along, but that’s not what I’m here for, I want a relationship.’ They only kissed twice on camera. If Jesse had said — well he did say — I really like Claire, [but if he said] she really likes me, I would’ve left it alone.
But Jesse said ‘mate, I don’t think she likes me, we’re just killing time’ and when Bronte told me that stuff after the girls’ night, I thought someone has to tell him. Everyone said I just deflected, but I sat there for a long time at that dinner party while everyone attacked my relationship, and Claire had the largest mouth and she was sitting in a glass house throwing stones so I let her come at me for 10-15 minutes and then I thought ‘enough’s enough’.”
On some people getting the “golden edit”:
“I think everyone that’s got the villain edit is somewhat fair, I’ll cop that. People who are getting a good — for example, Claire — I’ve got nothing against her, but Claire being portrayed as this super sweet victim from the whole thing, is so far removed. No one thought Claire was a victim.”
On the ~emotional~ commitment ceremony where he faced the experts alone:
“I never cried on the show. When I’m emotional, I will find it hard to get my words out. I’m upset they made a mockery out of that [commitment ceremony].
Bronte was on a chair, crying her eyes out, asking me to take her home in an ambulance, and I was trying to comfort her and I had a producer shove me into the commitment ceremony. So I’m a little shaken up, and when I sat down in front of the experts, it just hit me.”
On whether he and Bronte made a pact to stay on Married at First Sight until the end:
“She tried at the honeymoon. She said ‘we could just get through this’ and I said, ‘Bronte that’s not what I’m here for’. And she gave me the example of Brent and Tamara from another season… I know Brent has been in Bronte’s DMs by the way.”
On what he’s learned from watching the show back:
“I have been watching the show, I am looking internally, I’m watching things back and think ‘Oh I shouldn’t have done that’. Like when Bronte and I get in an argument, I do not listen. I do not listen to other people. I wait for my opportunity to drop those truth bombs or I’m listening for weaknesses in their argument instead of what they’re saying.”
On his rollercoaster relationship with Bronte:
“I’ll do a tell-all one day — our relationship could’ve been its own show. There’s so much I struggled with that has to deal with Bronte’s side of things. At the [last] commitment ceremony, she apologised for lying about our relationship, she apologised for lying to me, any ownership and accountability from her, they cut it all out.”
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On why he dumped Bronte over text:
“I was just over it, I was exhausted [after the retreat].
I wanted to have the talk like, ‘I’m falling for you, you’re falling for me, what does our relationship look like, where are we going, are you going to move to Sydney?’ So I said, ‘what does the future look like to you?’ And in that conversation, Bronte was giving me answers like ‘I just want to get you to Perth, I want you to see where I grew up’ and ‘I’m not done in this experiment yet’ and there was no real answers.
When I asked the questions, she gave bullshit answers. And she said ‘that’s it, I want to leave, I want to go home’ and I was like, ‘you’re just going to call it off?!’ I can’t trust this girl. I packed my shit and moved into another room and I texted her saying ‘I can’t trust you, this is over’ and she made it sound like she got broken up with.”
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