Married At First Sight’s Cyrell Paule added more fuel to the elbowgate fire this morning when she opened up about Martha Kalifatidis’ awkward clash with David “Kochie” Koch at this year’s TV Week Logie Awards.
Speaking to KIIS FM’s Kyle & Jackie O Show, the fiery reality TV star said she believes her co-star intentionally bumped the Channel Seven breakfast show host in the hope of getting her face in front of the camera.
WATCH: Cyrell believes Martha DID elbow David Koch at the Logies
Although Kyle Sandilands didn’t ask for Cyrell’s take on the matter, she injected her opinion anyway, claiming: “You know what, I don’t even know Kochie but I know her as a person and I believe him straight away.”
“Anything with [camera] lenses and that girl would be running up,” she quipped.
Cyrell’s boyfriend, Love Island star Eden Dally also weighed in on the controversy, taking a not so subtle swipe at the makeup artist for calling Kochie as a “bully”.
“Why would he make that up? The word that’s thrown around way too much these days is being a “bully”‘, he said, adding, “We’re so sensitive now as a society.”
Last month, Martha— who’s still dating her MAFS ‘husband’ Michael Brunelli— made headlines when Kochie called the MAFS star out for allegedly elbowing him in the ribs while posing on the red carpet.
“I’ve still got bruises in the ribs from the Married At First Sight woman who elbowed me on the way through on the red carpet,” Kochie said.
“Someone is saying Martha in my ear. I could not pick her out of a line-up, but my god she got you in the ribs,” Samantha Armytage added to which newsreader Natalie Barr replied, “she’s got an attitude”.
“Do not get between Martha and the camera,” Channel Seven sports reporter Mark Beretta said. “Especially when you’ve only got 15 minutes of fame,” Sam teased as the panel erupted in laughter.
WATCH: SUNRISE HOSTS LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON MARTHA
After slamming the reality star on national television, Martha took to Instagram and later uploaded a YouTube video refuting Kochie’s claims, bashing the Channel Seven reporter for “bullying”.
“Today, Kochie refused to apologise for lying about the elbowing incident and he thinks that I don’t deserve an apology and he just thinks that because I was on a reality TV show, and I am reality TV star, that I don’t deserve to get an apology from him, perhaps I am beneath him,” she said. “But I am a person and I have feelings. Sam [Armytage] and Koch have caused me so much stress and anxiety these past few days, I feel like it is just so unnecessary.
WATCH: MARTHA CALLS OUT KOCHIE AND SAMANTHA FOR “BULLYING”
“[Sports reporter] Mark Beretta is claiming today that I also elbowed him and he has a bruise now.So now I have not one, but two high-profile media personalities, who I have never met, claiming that I physically assaulted them. I have been falsely accused of assaulting two grown men. They have continued to laugh at and mock me every morning on their show.”
Kochie later responded to Martha’s video, apologising for putting “myself in a dangerous position between her and a photographer”. He declined to show reporters the bruise on his chest which he said developed as a result of Martha’s actions.
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