Young and ready for love: Meet the MAFS 2024 Intruder couple, Ridge & Jade

Ridge and Jade are gearing up to be one of the more interesting pairings on Married At First Sight Australia 2024.

Ready to farewell his party-boy lifestyle, psychiatric nurse Ridge, 27, hopes the MAFS experts has found him a love like his parents and refuses to “settle for anything less.”

For Ridge, appearances are of major importance for his desired partner.

“I’m not going to get hard for a personality,” he said. “I don’t want her to tell me how good looking I am, I tell myself that everyday I don’t need two people to tell me that.”

Meanwhile, 26-year-old executive assistant Jade has struggled to navigate the dating world as a mother to an eight-year-old daughter.

“She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I expected to marry V’s dad, but when she was a month or two old he cheated on me with my best friend,” he revealed.

One of the many reasons why we are curious to see how Ridge and Jade will progress in the experiment is his personal language, particularly the overuse of “dece,” short for ‘decent’…Jade will have to uncover if Ridge is a jokester, or if her fears that he is just immature are correct.

On their wedding day, Ridge revealed he wasn’t fazed “one bit” by Jade having a daughter. “At the end of the day I came here to look for something that’s going to last a lifetime and it’s still early but its good energy, good vibes. I’ve always seen myself as a dad. I want to give this everything and do my best by her in this experiment.”

Ridge couldn’t wait to meet her daughter V, and a few weeks into the experiment those dreams came true.

“It made me really happy seeing the way he is with her,” Jade said to the relationship experts.

However, Jade’s insecurities may have gotten the better of her during Homestay Week after asking her husband about living together outside of the experiment. For the young single mum who has been hurt in the past, she admits it is a “scary” feeling coming to terms with the idea of “falling for Ridge.”

“I’ll get to see what real life is like with you outside before I make the call on moving, I reckon six months long distance. But there’s no rush babe – were not in a rush are we?” Ridge said.

To which, Jade responded: “I feel like I would get probably more insecure, which I know is stupid as well, but you need to want to move here.”

While it is no secret that Ridge has a wild side, he did reveal he is “fighting” for Jade and wants to make their relationship work. However, the concerns that Ridge may not be mature enough continue to linger.

And yes, the intruder couple is still together in the outside world! The pair have made the decision to continue their relationship outside of the experiment during final vows with Ridge revealing he has plans on moving up to Jade in less than three months!

Mid-experiment, videos of the pair holidaying in Bali were shared to their personal Instagram accounts in late February 2024.

But Ridge’s maturity has been pulled into question once more when Jade recently revealed he had messaged an ex – but claimed nothing “physical” occurred.

“Ridge is such a nice person like, he’s so caring to everyone so sometimes he can do the wrong thing and message exes without realising that it would upset me,” Jade said on The Pulse with Seany B & Emma G.. “Certain things probably he disclosed that he shouldn’t have.”

“I think the line is very blurred with it. For me, I feel like it was a line that was crossed that I wasn’t happy with, just because I didn’t know about the interaction.”