Backlash won't break me

THE FEISTY TV BRIDE TELLS WHO WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT FOR HER TO SPEAK OUT

Alpha female Melinda Willis, 33, has been at the front and centre of some serious drama on this season of Married at First Sight. That includes locking horns with controversial groom Harrison Boon at a recent dinner party, who Melinda describes as “a walking red flag”.

After he managed to convince the table that there was no truth to earlier claims he had a girlfriend on the outside, Melinda wasn’t convinced and, not being one to suffer fools gladly, told him so outright. “Players like him often choose genuine, nice, good-hearted girls like his bride Bronte,” Melinda tells WHO. “Because they’re so nice, guys can walk all over them. I felt like that’s what I was seeing happen with Bronte.”

Melinda adds that Harrison’s behaviour towards new friend Bronte “triggered” her and she felt compelled to challenge him. “Energy’s something that people don’t see when they’re watching it on TV. The way he was talking, I was sitting there thinking, ‘I don’t believe you.’ The sad thing was, Bronte’s such a pure heart that she’s just kind of lapping all his excuses up.”