Recap | Married at First Sight Season 12 Episode 11 – the latest episode recap on TV Central from Channel 9. Watch the show on 9Now.
Intimacy Week is getting everyone hot and bothered, but buckle up because there is Carolina Reaper-level spice on the way tonight!
Yesterday it was the bride’s turn to get a little sexy with an ‘ultimate fantasy night’ task from Alessandra, but tonight it will be the grooms facing a red-hot intimacy workshop.
What could go wrong?
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In a surprise to no one, Carina and Paul are waking up very happy after the bride decided to explore her dominant side for Alessandra’s task. We just hope Paul showered off his nipple chocolate.
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Rhi and Jeff are good too after their less messy date night of sushi and dancing, and Jamie and Dave joke about splitting their bed in two.
Just like Tony during Morena’s fantasy night, that certainly paints a picture.
Speaking of Tony’s art, it’s led to a positive breakthrough for him and Morena – but she still “needs more”.
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As does Sierah, who is disappointed that Billy fumbling his way through her fantasy night massage did not lead to even more touching, as she’d hoped.
Oh, and Jacqui and Ryan are still stewing over last night’s fight! In fact, they fight about the fight.
Awhina and Adrian begin their day with a fight too. She feels like she’s giving 100 per cent while he can’t even empty the bin.
He leaves for the workshop in a huff… without the rubbish. It’s not a very sexy start!
Alessandra asks for a recap on everyone’s saucy nights and proud Tony gets a big round of applause for his art skills.
When it’s Ryan’s turn to debrief, he explains how he complimented Jacqui on her appearance and intelligence, although he doesn’t mention his reliance on “mmmm” and “yummy”.
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He says Jacqui’s comments about the Photo Ranking then got his back up, and says “the real crazy eyes came out”.
Uh oh.
“It didn’t go the way either one of us wanted,” he continues. “But I gotta say…”
And what he said next, he definitely did not ‘gotta say’.
”She gives awesome…” he continues, before saying something so vulgar I don’t think I’ll ever recover.
The other lads cannot believe what he’s saying but Ryan just KEEPS. ON. TALKING.
“You just want to go shake him up, ‘Ryan, just stop! Stop!'” Billy reacts.
Yeeeep. That’s a mighty big hole he’s dug himself.
Afterwards, the grooms run home to tell their wives after Ryan’s inappropriate comments.
They are shook by his use of “crazy eyes”, but that’s not all.
”These boys have got balls! They wouldn’t last a minute with me, I would annihilate them,” Jamie reacts.
Dave is annoyed with himself for not calling Ryan out on it in the moment, but a Dinner Party is just around the corner!
Tony arrives home from the workshop on a high after his paint and sip skills earned him a pat on the back from Alessandra.
“I’m excited to tell you about my day,” he tells Morena.
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“Tony, this book is just like, amazing. You open it up and for that moment of the day, it gives you an affirmation,” she replies.
OK… so today’s affirmation is not ‘I choose to listen intently’.
A deflated Tony excuses himself to make a coffee while Morena reads more affirmations.
“Sometimes you’ve just got to stop, let me have my say,” he tells her, leaving the room.
Morena is seeing red.
“You don’t get to walk off [and] tell me to stop talking. I asked for an alpha man, I didn’t ask for a child,” she seethes.
Oh! We briefly remember there are other Intimacy Tasks to be done.
Jamie and Dave have to gossip about their sex lives and Jamie tells a very graphic zoo story, while Rhi and Jeff stare into each other’s eyes and kiss for an awkward length of time.
Sadly, there is no genital cupping. RIP cupping, you are sorely missed.
Eventually, Morena puts down her affirmations book and Tony returns to the room so they can pick back up where they left off.
So where were they? Oh yeah, fighting.
”Sometimes just let me tell you how I feel. It was my day today, we went to Alessandra,” Tony explains. “I do apologise, yes, for getting up and walking off but sometimes just let me have a conversation with you.”
Morena responds to say that she won’t be responding, however she does then respond some more.
“I hope you’re really happy. This was all unnecessary. I was actually enjoying reading the book, I wasn’t hurting anyone,” she argues.
She says she’s not going to tell “a grown man of 53” how to fix this.
“Telling her again to stop talking, I had that for three decades, Tony,” she continues.
“But I’ve worked on myself for seven years, from the day I left my ex, I’ve worked on myself inside and out.”
He asks her to sit down so they can talk more casually, but she says he told her not to talk, so even after a lot of talking since, “I don’t want to talk”. 
“I talk from my heart, I don’t talk from my rear end,” she concludes, with an unnaturally large sip from her Stanley Cup.
Tony is upset that he’s making her upset, but suggests he needs some time off.
Suddenly, the book is back with another barely-applicable affirmation: “If they make you feel like your love is too much, then tell them it is. It’s too much for them,” Morena recites.
Tony then decides to skip town, driving home to Wollongong to collect his thoughts away from further inspirational quotes.
In their apartment, Morena takes a fiery selfie video about how she cannot understand how Tony would rather hang out with his dog than her.
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She jokingly bids Tony goodnight as she gets into bed and I simply have to respect that level of pettiness.
Tomorrow night, it’s time to put on your Dinner Party best!
With the group chomping at the bit to confront Ryan, and Tony arriving fresh from a Wollongong fishing charter, there is going to be A LOT to unpack.
Bring your appetite, we’ll see you at 7:30pm! 
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Recap | Married at First Sight Season 12 Episode 11
