Intruder bride Juliette is facing backlash today after her explosive behaviour at MAFS’s fourth dinner party of the season. In a race to clear her name, the bride has allegedly claimed the never-before-seen-before ‘edit’ excuse. Who saw that coming!?
WHO spoke to her intruder groom Joel about her unnecessary teddy-bear tirade and whether we can believe anything Juliette has to say.
According to Joel, the “red flags” that we saw exposed last night were the true markers of her character.
Joel claims that the dinner party showed “the real Juliette”
Despite comments from Juliette and friends online that the producers had done some meddling to spin the villain-arc against her (because the MAFS producers neverrrrr do that!!), Joel has snapped back in an interview with WHO.
“I’ve seen Juliet in an interview this morning, and apparently she’s blaming production or producers or this or that,” he told WHO. “Which is in true Juliette fashion.”
“The worst of Juliette is all on camera. That’s concerning, to be honest. But yeah, look, the red flags are appearing very, very early on.”
While Joel admits that Juliette’s behaviour was shown on air for “editorial reasons”, he does agree that “shock value always wins.”
Get this man a producer contract!
Nevertheless, while Juliette may have been thrown by Joel from the start, with claims from her friends online that “she was annoyed he wasn’t taking any of it seriously”, it still doesn’t feel like much of a justification for the vicious behaviour she unleashed.
According to this teddy-loving groom, what we saw at the dinner party was “the real Juliette.”
“That is who she is,” he said. “No one fakes bad behaviour. They only fake good behaviour.”
Speaking to WHO, Joel said that while Juliette appeared to be “cute, funny and nice” during the vows at their wedding, it was supposedly all “fake.”
“They didn’t want to foreshadow that Juliette was going to turn into a demon,” he said frankly. “But yeah. Hello, demon Juliet. Thanks for showing us off to the world.”
Ironic, and on theme for the pair, given her constant comments about how Joel “gives devil.”
Joel says Juliette never takes “accountability”
By blaming the “edit” (à la almost every MAFS contestant-turned-villain before her… Brook are you there?), and skirting around an apology at Stan’s After the Dinner Party exclusive last night, fans are seeing zero accountability from the bride.
Joel speaks to WHO about this lack of acknowledgement, claiming that she “plays the victim.”
“She blames everyone else and doesn’t take any accountability,” he said. “Because she’s the victim, even when she’s the perpetrator.”
For Joel, he saw this as Juliette projecting something deeper.
“The thing about Juliet is that every word that comes out of her mouth is a projection and a confession, right?” he told WHO.
“She accuses others of what she is.”
Self-worth and relationship coach Cosmina Naum also spoke to WHO to unpack this behaviour.
“Staying and humiliating isn’t strength,” she said. “It’s insecurity disguised as superiority.”
Joel was not going to “match” her behaviour
While a hailstorm of criticism fell down on Joel during the dinner party, he was adamant about not wanting to “match” her “bad behaviour.”
Joel said his “approach was to remain calm, composed and respectful and not lower myself”.
“That’s what my mother’s always taught me,” he said. “And I’ve learned a lot of harsh lessons in my life that reacting and overreacting and snapping and being aggressive, it never works in your favour ever. So I’ve learned through hardship, really, to be different.”
Shout out to Joel’s mum!
While he was certainly copping some heat at the start of his arrival about being a “mummy’s boy” and owning a “teddy”, it looks like Juliette could take a page or two from this drummer boy’s playbook.
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