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Cosmopolitan
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
A timeline of MAFSAU's Jacqui & Clint's life since leaving the show, from a whirlwind proposal to cast feuds
Season 12 of Married At First Sight has officially ended Down Under and on E4, but we're still not quite over everything that happened on the show, and after. This season was wild, from all the feuds, to the wild dinner parties, and couple swaps, including the biggest shocker of them all - Clint and Jacqui's engagement. Speaking of Jacqui and Clint... The couple have been super active since filming for the show ended. Jacqui now lives at Clint's Tasmanian home, and they've been defending their relationship left, right and centre. Read on for a detailed timeline on what they've been up to since the show ended. Shortly after filming wrapped on season 12, Jacqui and Clint got together. Ryan claimed that they'd been speaking from before the show ended and brought this up at the reunion. In an interview with Daily Mail Australia, he said: "She admitted to me one night, she's like, 'After one night when I was really upset, I actually called Clint at 3am'. They had a conversation over the phone about her being so upset with the experiment, with me, with Rhi, with everything." He continued: "My suspicions ended up being confirmed. After that, I was like, 'You've made a joke of our time here.' Literally," he added. "I could've taken the whole bitter, jaded side and been like, 'Oh, you were messaging him while we were still together.' Which is true." Nevertheless, a producer told Yahoo! that Clint and Jacqui "grew close towards the end of filming but didn't get together until after the season wrapped". Jacqui relocated to Tasmania in early February and has since moved in with Clint at his stunning home in Riverside, accompanied by their two Samoyeds Jacqui can often be seen making social media content from the palatial property, which has its own tennis court. In March 2025, Jacqui revealed that she'd left her corporate job at a high-end law firm in New South Wales, saying that people's opinion of her on the show had left her stressed to work "for at least two years." "I essentially left my job after I tried to go back to work because I was mentally distressed and couldn't work. I've been unable to continue my career… I've been left to fend on my own, basically," she told Sky. The same month, Clint made a dig at Ryan. In a video posted to his social media account, the 44-year-old was seen strolling around his Tasmanian estate. He then looked proudly at his $200,000 Porsche Macan and captioned the clip: "POV: He wanted to be great." Clint was making a reference to a moment in season 12 when Jacqui asked Ryan why he didn't want to be "great". Since leaving the show, the couple have been very vocal. As well as the their ongoing issues with Ryan, Jacqui's had some back and forth with Awhina Rutene, after Awhina said that her husband Adrian Araouzou would have been "better matched" with Jacqui. The couple are also said to have fallen out with Katie Johnstone, who is friends with former MAFS star and The Honesty Box host Lucinda Light. Lucinda shared her support for Ryan on her Instagram, and Jacqui and Clint both contacted her to tell her why she shouldn't do that, amid Jacqui's ongoing legal battle with Ryan. Lucinda removed the post, but according to Katie, their response "triggered a clap back, dragging Lu down, pulling me into it". Katie added that she didn't understand where their beef had come from because she reached out to the couple after their engagement and told them to visit her. She added: "She's [Jacqui] accusing me of tax fraud and theft, and that's just such a crazy thing to do given that I had to liquidate because of Covid. I lost everything during Covid. "The superannuation I'm paying off, which I've almost paid off by the way, is on a payment plan so there's no fraud there, it's insanity." Clint proposed to Jacqui during a viewing party for Married At First Sight Australia in Sydney. The event was attended by approximately 150 fans and fellow cast members. "I know we signed up for MAFS to get married and find a life-long partner. So I've got one question for you," Clint said, before popping the question. Jacqui accepted the proposal with a heartfelt "Yes!" The ring? Clint presented Jacqui with a custom-made 5.08-carat oval diamond solitaire ring set in platinum and 18ct yellow gold, valued at approximately $30,000 (£22,000). Later that month, Jacqui responded to rumours she's expecting a baby. "No, we are not expecting and I am not pregnant!' she wrote in the caption over the top of her fan message. "The media have been inaccurate on a lot and I don't have time to see it all, but they should really fact check on these things when it comes to this because I know it's a sensitive topic for a lot. "Come to me for the facts about my body, and Clint and I for our relationship news." In May, Jacqui and Clint revealed that they want to start a family. During an Instagram Story Q&A session with fans, the couple were asked about their wedding plans. Jacqui then revealed that they're hoping to tie the knot next year and are already talking babies. "We haven't set a wedding date yet, but we're hoping it will be between January and March next year,' she said as the couple sat on their couch together in Clint's lavish Tasmanian home," she said in the video. "We're actually ready for kids and babies. Personally, I want to get married before I get pregnant. I don't want to be dealing with the drama of being pregnant and having a wedding dress be altered throughout my pregnancy. We're very keen to get married ASAP." In a recent interview, Clint revealed that he fancied Jacqui before he married Lauren Hall on MAFSAU. As he was a late entrant to the show, Clint got to see the other relationships that had already formed and Jacqui caught his eye straight away. Speaking to Yahoo Lifestyle, he said: "Being an intruder going into the show, my audition was still happening when the original couples were actually already married. So I saw a few spoilers of who were the brides and grooms were and I did look through them. "And right even then, Jacqui caught my attention. I obviously was going to get married to someone else I didn't know so I was fully focused on my relationship in the experiment. But to be honest, when I saw the line up before I went in there, that was when Jacqui first got my attention for sure." Jacqui said she got "really good vibes" when she first met Clint, and loved that he was the complete opposite to all the other guys in the experiment. "It was like this, this guy's cool. Like I was surrounded by people who are very extra and extroverted and outspoken. And Clint came into the experiment like modest, humble, like down to earth and had a very cool, collected, calm aura about him," she added. Cute! Married At First Sight Australia is available to stream on
Forbes
09-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How Forbes Picks The Best Places To Retire And How To Find Your Ideal Spot
The Villages, a fast-growing active retirement haven in central Florida north of Orlando, is one of Forbes' Best Places To Retire In and Kathy Granacki are doing retirement their way. In their early 50s they decided to leave Bend, Oregon. For years, they had lived and worked on a 10-acre spread there, operating a dog kennel and grooming facility. They sold the property at Bend's sky-high prices and moved (along with their three white Samoyed show dogs, Howdy, Gator and Rumor) to a boat, a spacious 64-foot-long Grand Banks trawler. Then, they began slowly working their way up and down the East Coast, asking themselves whether a port-of-call or someplace near it might be the ideal place to retire. Last year, after three years at sea, they settled on The Villages, a fast-growing active retirement haven in central Florida north of Orlando, midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico (or as the Trump Administration calls it, the Gulf of America). 'We decided to sell the boat and go back to land,' says Ken. Their new home is a three-bedroom, three-bath, one-story house with 3,500 square feet—more living space than the boat, and for that matter, the facility they left behind in Oregon. Also left behind: the Beaver State's colder weather and stiff personal income tax. (Florida doesn't have an income tax.) 'Here, every week is six Saturdays and a Sunday,' exults Ken, now 57, a year older than his wife. Samoyeds (from front) Rumor, Gator and Howdy accompanied Ken and Kathy Granacki on their nautical search for their best retirement place. Courtesy Ken Granacki The Granackis' water-based search produced a solid result. The Villages, with a population of 155,000, is the only Florida community to win a spot on Forbes' new list of 25 Best Places To Retire In 2025, which identifies locales providing high quality retirement living at an affordable price. The cost of living in The Villages is 2% below the national average and the median house there is $404,000, right at the national median. Rising property insurance premiums have caused consternation in hurricane-and-flood-prone Florida, but The Villages sits comfortably away from the areas with the greatest potential for storm tidal flooding, so premiums remain tolerable. That Ken Granacki hit the seas to check out retirement venues fit with his heritage. He grew up in Bellingham, Washington, a port city north of Seattle near the Canadian border on Puget Sound, where boats are everywhere. His wife of 16 years is from Grants Pass, Oregon. After a lifetime in the Pacific Northwest, 'We wanted to go someplace warm, with no gray winters,' he says, but with the same emphasis on outdoor activities as Bend. Their four kids from previous marriages were grown and out of the house. Before setting out on their aquatic odyssey, they ruled out some places. Arizona, they decided, was too dry. They previously had a get-away place in the Atlantic Ocean town of Boynton Beach, Fla., but found the folks there a little too impersonal. On their journey they checked out and rejected places like Brunswick, Ga., ('It's seen its better days,' says Ken) and North Carolina's Outer Banks ('too remote; we wanted to be closer to stuff'). They also realized they wanted a place with what Ken calls 'an up-and-coming economy,' in case he wanted to buy investment property or even have a second career as a real estate agent 'if I get bored with golf and pickleball.' The Villages fits that economic profile in spades; it sits in the Orlando metropolitan area, ranked in the top 6% on the Milken Institute's new economic list of 'Best Performing Cities' in the U.S. The couple learned about The Villages, which started a half-century ago as a mobile home park, from online videos they watched on the boat. While having boat maintenance work done in Jacksonville, they rented a car, drove to The Villages, and were hooked. Eventually, they rented a house there for six months before buying. 'We feel like we live in a retirement Disneyland here,' Ken gushes. To start your own search, take a look at Forbes 25 picks here; they're spread across 19 states in all four domestic time zones—a recognition that many folks want to retire near family. To make its selection, Forbes compiled data on more than 950 places with populations above 10,000, in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The main factors we took into account involve money, especially median home prices and overall cost of living, both compared to national measures. Also reviewed are state taxes, including marginal tax rates, income tax exemptions for Social Security benefits and other retirement income, and the existence of state estate or inheritance taxes. On the theory that a good local economy helps retirees looking for part-time work or later selling a home, we use job and economic growth prospects from the Milken Institute's latest 'Best Performing Cities' report. Quality of life is also important, so we look at a number of non-economic indicators, ruling out cities with far too high rates of serious crime compared to national averages or way too few primary care doctors per capita. We also take into consideration factors that promote an active retirement, including air quality and ratings for walkability (how easy it is to shop and get to places on foot) and bikeability (whether dedicated lanes and other measures make it easy to bike around town). While the data underlying the list is quantitative, final picks are qualitative, reflecting our judgment. For the sixth year, we weighed each area's vulnerability to climate change and natural disaster risk, primarily using the National Risk Index for Natural Hazards published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This calculates for every county, including municipalities in Puerto Rico, a vulnerability measure encompassing 18 natural hazards, including flooding, hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes and wind. We automatically exclude places assigned a 'very high' risk rating. Our full write-up for each of our picks includes extra information points that don't influence our final choices but might affect yours. These include county-wide results in the 2024 presidential election. Sources for our data include: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, FEMA, the Tax Foundation, the Milken Institute, individual state tax departments, the National Association of Realtors, the League of American Bicyclists and state or local election agencies.
