MAFS' Carina defends Adrian and Sierah amid 'cheating scandal'

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14-02-2025

Married At First Sight's Carina Mirabile has defended Adrian Araouzou and Sierah Swepstone following Wednesday night's episode and argued that it doesn't appear they did anything wrong. The duo, who are rumoured to be involved in this season's 'cheating scandal', copped backlash on social media when they sat next to each other at the dinner party and were filmed secretly playing footsies under the table.
Speaking with Yahoo Lifestyle following the episode, Carina admits she is surprised that Adrian and Sierah's interaction has been interpreted as 'cheating'. In fact, she believes they were just friends and the camera didn't actually capture anything suspicious under the table.
'I never had any indication that there was more than a friendship between Adrian and Sierah and that little footsie thing last night, that was the first time I've seen it,' she says.
'Was it really footsies? I don't think it was. I went back and re-watched it, I had to rewind, and I was like, wait what? What is going on? That zoom-in was not close enough, I need to see some more evidence.'
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Carina went on to explain that the entire cast became friends while filming the show because it was a 'pressure cooker environment'.
'I think maybe it was a friendship to them and they were both able to feel comfortable to converse with one another on a banter level,' she adds.
Adrian has since broken his silence about the 'footsie scandal' with Sierah and asserted that nothing was going on between them at the dinner party.
'If touching feet is cheating then I definitely would have cheated on Awhina [Rutene] with Ryan [Donnelly], Jacqui [Burfoot], Jeff [Gobbels] and Rhi [Disljenkovic] because they were sitting across from me – and Tony [Mojanovski] at one point,' he told 9Entertainment.
'If you're sitting at a table and you stretch your legs you end up accidentally touching people's feet. For me watching that back, I was so unaware that her feet even bumped my feet.
He added: 'On my mum's life I didn't know she bumped my feet. There was nothing more to it.'
Daily Mail reported last week that Adrian and Sierah formed an 'unexpected bond' after a night out during their first weekend in Sydney and 'stayed up late getting to know each other'.
Their close bond eventuated in an 'alleged indiscretion at a dinner party' - which we now know was the 'footsie scandal' - and their respective partners were left feeling 'humiliated' and 'betrayed' when it emerged at the commitment ceremony.
The publication also claims that Sierah and Adrian had an 'intimate dinner date' a few days later behind their partner's backs, and Billy felt 'completely blindsided' when the truth eventually emerged.
An insider tells Yahoo Lifestyle that while Adrian and Sierah maintain nothing inappropriate happened between them, she is later accused of trying to continually pursue him after their initial flirtation.
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'The most devastating thing for Billy was the fact Sierah was the first girl he's ever opened up to about his family and father leaving,' they add. 'It's hard for him to be that vulnerable but he really wanted to let all his walls down and give their marriage everything.'