Married At First Sight fans were left stunned over Brook Crompton’s explosive outburst as she targeted the other brides at the second dinner party of the season.
Brook sensationally left the experiment off-camera on Tuesday, February 17, but made an unexpected return midway through the dinner party on Wednesday, February 18.
However, it quickly became clear she wasn’t looking to rekindle things with her groom, Chris Nield, but wanted to tackle her “unfinished business” with the other brides.
“I’m not going to let my b****es fight some b****es by themselves,” she told the table, referring to Gia Fleur’s ongoing feud with Alissa Fay.
Now, she has reflected on it all in an interview with our sister publication Woman’s Day.
“Look, I completely cop to my behaviour. There was no excuse for how I behaved,” she said.
“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.”
She continued to say that she had two bottles of champagne on the night of the dinner party.
New Idea had already revealed that an explosive feud between the brides would take centre stage this season, and it appeared that the lines were being drawn at the dinner party.
“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,” she continued.
When asked why she kept going after Stella and Alissa, Brook claimed that there was more that wasn’t shown.
She also said she was told that Stella was saying things behind her 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 told the publication.
“Production said, ‘Jump, and I said ‘how high?’. Am I an idiot for listening? Yes!”
Even though she said she apologised to Stella and claimed that she accepted it, the Lithuanian bride told the MAFS: After The Dinner Party, that it was a poor apology.
What happened with Brook at the dinner party?
After Brook and Gia came into conflict with Alissa and Stella Mickunaite at the Girls’ Day and Commitment Ceremony, the tension hit a breaking point at the dinner party.
“There’s a lot of fake b****es,” Brook said to the camera, before quizzing Stella on why she had a “problem” with her.
“You came for me when I’d done nothing to you, you called me out when I’d done nothing to you, making me out to look like a bad person, when I didn’t understand why you did,” Brook fumed as Stella sat silently.
Julia Vogl fumed that she was giving “mean girl energy”, while Brook accused Stella of “playing the victim card” as the table watched on in shock.
Brook brutally called Stella “f**king dumb” before mimicking her, with Mel slamming her for “spitting venom” as the experts watched the drama over video.
Defending herself, Stella called Brook out for rolling her eyes at her, asking, “Can we converse as people?”
Stella then accused Brook of “barking” at the other brides, with Gia chiming in, saying, “Barking, babe, that’s lovely, why don’t you get back in your kennel, babe?”
“I think you’re a very rude b****,” Brook outrageously told Stella.
Stella tried to speak to Brook one-on-one, and when she refused, Stella told her to “shut the f*** up then” and briefly walked out of the dinner party.
Brook then criticised Stella’s clothing, prompting Alissa to tell her to stop being unkind, leading to Brook branding her as an “idiot” in shocking scenes.
John Aiken accused Brook of “mocking” the other women and suggested that she was hypocritical for getting upset over Chris’s “judgmental” audition tape comments after her own actions.
“Babe, this is actually really nasty,” Alissa told Brook, before the bride cruelly mocked her voice.
Gia and Bec Zaharia also got involved and took aim at Alissa, with the grooms all sharing their shock over how heated the argument got.
Alissa attempted to shut down the drama and told the group to leave her alone, branding them as “bullies”.
“Sorry, it’s not bullying, end of,” Brook raged.
Alissa was left in floods of tears over their “disgusting” behaviour, and proceeded to ignore Brook as she continued to direct jibes towards her.
Why is Brook feuding with the brides?
The tension first erupted when Brook called out the brides’ “fakeness” during the Girls’ Day.
On Wednesday, February 11, the brides and grooms were separated to discuss their “red” and “green” flags with their partners in a new twist during Revelations Week.
And it wasn’t long before things got extremely tense between the brides, with fans left stunned over Brook and Gia Fleur’s shocking outbursts during the meeting.
Brook has kept relatively quiet so far while Gia and Bec Zaharia have been feuding, but she entered the drama with full force as she accused the other brides of being “fake”.
With Gia laughing along with her, she interrupted the other women’s stories, particularly branding Stella Mickunaite and Alissa Fay’s relationships as “bulls***”.
The other brides were left completely stunned, with Stella branding her as “icy” while Rebecca Zukowski described her as ‘disrespectful”.
“Brook surprised me, just the way she was speaking, just pretty disrespectful. At that point, I was like ‘yeah, I don’t know about you’,” Rebecca admitted.
“She’s very icy, maybe a lack of empathy in her,” Stella added.
The drama kicked off when Brook appeared to take issue with Alissa speaking, repeatedly cutting her off.
“Do we want to be here all day because Alissa will finish then?” Brook said.
“I was watching Alissa talk, I’m like zip it,” she added to the camera.
As Alissa tried to offer her fellow bride Stella advice, Brook then mumbled, “Alissa is the expert” to Gia.
She went on to brand Stella’s positive review of her partner, Filip Gregov, as “bulls***” before taking aim at Alissa and David Momoh.
“I think it’s a fake showmance,” Brook said, with Gia agreeing.
Brook was branded as “bitchy” by her fellow brides, who were left in shock by her and Gia’s very opinionated outbursts directed at their fellow brides.
Brook also had plenty to say about her groom, Chris Nield, who has been accused of “fatphobia” for his audition tape comments.
“You’ve all met Chris; he’s a handful. He loves to have a whine, he loves to have a complaint, and I will say to him, ‘stop f**king complaining, stop being a f**king diva’. I will put him in his place,” Brook said of their relationship.
New Idea had already revealed that the women would be split into two groups in a feud that would divide the cast.
Gia and Bec are said to be the duo at the centre of the fiery clash, and it appears that Brook will be firmly on Gia’s side based on her recent antics.
“Gia and Bec’s dynamic becomes the defining feud,” an insider told us.
“It’s not just about who stays together. It’s about who turns on who.”
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