Are Married At First Sight's Jacqui Burfoot and Clint Rice happy together? A body language expert casts doubts on controversial couple's relationship

Daily Mail​

22-05-2025

A body language expert has weighed in on a Married At First Sight couple's relationship, claiming that they appear to physically show 'a wholly mismatched pairing '.
Jacqui Burfoot, 29, who was paired with Ryan Donnelly on the show, and Clint Rice, 44, who was paired with Lauren Hall, made headlines at the MAFS reunion as they announced their relationship to the world.
Now, the couple are loved-up, engaged and living together in Tasmania, seemingly happy as ever as they start their life together.
However, a celebrity body language expert has been quick to cast doubts on the couple's relationship, sharing a number of opinions on their physical responses towards each other.
Inbaal Honigman, whose observations have featured in publications such as Elle and People, analysed a recent Instagram post by Jacqui of the couple's first few months out of the experiment.
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'6 months of post-mafs life, hiking, biking and drinking Pinot around Tassie & New Zealand!' Jacqui captioned the post.
However, despite all the smiles, kisses and sweet moments captured in the snaps, Inbaal claims the couple's awkwardness is 'notable'.
'It is a struggle to find a single photo where they appear at ease with each other,' he told Casino.org's JJ Lee.
Critiquing the cover picture, Inbaal noted Jacqui's raised shoulder, hand placement and the uncomfortable nonverbal cue, which he says 'shows a wholly mismatched pairing'.
Inbaal went on to say that in many of the photos, Clint's smile appears 'forced'.
'The one photo where Clint's smile is happy and genuine is when he poses alone with one of the doggies,' he said.
Another picture, which showed the couple sitting side-by-side, was called out by Inbaal.
'Between the two TV stars there is a pile of protective gear in the form of: their four hands, their arms their lack of eye contact, the arms of two wooden chairs, and a vast gulf of their apparent incompatibility,' he wrote.
Jacqui was a polarising figure on the twelfth season of Married At First Sight Australia, receiving a 'villain edit' on the screen while simultaneously speaking out against the happenings of the show on social media.
From being labelled 'wacky Jacqui' by her fellow contestants to being torn apart for her emotional outbursts regarding her TV husband Ryan, the 29-year-old lawyer didn't have an easy ride on the show.
Now, her father Doog Burfoot has lifted the lid on what really happens behind the scenes of the Aussie reality show, claiming that what you see on the screen is a heavily edited version of events.
Doog, who lives in Queenstown, spoke to New Zealand Herald's Stephanie Holmes in April about the inner workings of the show and the editing that makes the popular series exciting television.
The proud dad revealed that the character invented on the screen is a far cry from the real Jacqui.
'She is unrecognisable to us and a product of gross editing that uses 'frankenbiting' - splicing different answers to different questions, showing the bad one percent to create, in Jacqui's case, the 'crazy' narrative,' he told the publication.
As an example, Doog went on to speak about a comment made by Jacqui in her introductory video, saying that there was 'no one' on her level.
The controversial moment, which cast Jacqui in a vain light for the rest of the season, was actually made in a monologue by the TV bride, who was explaining other people's work ethics at one of her former jobs.