Olivia Frazer may have entered Married At First Sight‘s ninth season as a soft-spoken wallflower, but in recent episodes, she’s proved there’s a feisty side behind her sweet demeanor.
The 28-year-old and her on-screen husband Jackson Lonie became instant fan favourites due to their drama-free and arguably adorable relationship.
But after defending “villain” Andrew Davis, butting heads with Domenica Callarco and admitting she once cut up her bridesmaid’s dress before her best friend’s wedding, it seems Olivia is no longer holding back.
The teaching student went toe-to-toe with fellow bride Domenica during the couples’ getaway, which resulted in a screaming match and smashed wine glasses.
Olivia and Jackson have been one of the most stable couples on the experiment.
(Image: Nine)The fight was somewhat of a follow up to their spat at the fourth commitment ceremony, where Olivia accused Domenica of picking on Carolina Santos over her treatment of husband Dion Giannarelli.
“You just have to pick on somebody,” Olivia said, before Dom hit back: “I can’t sit there and watch a person be that horrendous.”
During the girls’ dinner at the couples’ retreat, Olivia reignited their feud by announcing to the group: “Jackson and I had a thought, if you two went at it it would be like a great white shark and a crocodile. So, I think that’s playing out right now I’m really excited.”
In the dramatic scenes that followed, Olivia told Domenica that she needs to choose her words carefully and stop swearing. Meanwhile, Domenica asked the others “is she serious?” before Olivia yelled at Dom that she was sick of hearing her voice and hearing her yell.
Tensions boiled over at the couples’ retreat.
(Image: Nine)Domenica then burst into tears and stood up, yelling: “I really hate being told to choose my words wisely. Guess what? I’ll choose my words, because they’re my words,” before smashing a wine glass on the table to the shock of the other brides.
The following night, Olivia and Jackson’s seemingly-perfect relationship began to show its first signs of strain when the plumber encouraged his wife to make peace with Domenica.
During Domenica’s apology to the group, Olivia made several snide remarks under her breath about Domenica, which prompted Jackson to realise there was a side to his wife he’d never seen before.
Jackson told Olivia that her comments, which included “can someone pass me some cyanide”, didn’t sit well with him.
“You saying that right now, I’m feeling so vulnerable and so attacked. I need unconditional support,” Olivia said to her partner.
“That’s not the person that you are,” Jackson responded, before she snapped back: “It is the type of person that I am because I said it.”
Olivia declared that she was on the verge of a panic attack and ran to the bathroom where she continued to cry to Jackson, who tried to calm her down.
But it seems this isn’t the first time Olivia’s more gutsy side has come out. Earlier in the episode, the 28-year-old shocked viewers by revealing that she once cut up a bridesmaid dress she was set to wear to her friend’s wedding.
“I was a bridesmaid for a dear friend. She picked out these awful brown bridesmaids dresses,” Olivia explained in what appeared to be her audition tape.
“When I’d owned the dress for six months she asked me if I liked them and I was like, “I don’t, I hate them, they’re disgusting”.”
Olivia went on to reveal her friend got annoyed and “fired” her from being a bridesmaid, before asking for the dress back.
“I can be bitchy. People think I’m just a sweetheart I can be awful at times.”
(Image: Instagram)“I cut it up and sent it to her in five pieces with the kitchen scissors just chop, chop, chop,” Olivia recalled, before admitting she has a mean streak.
“I can be bitchy. People think I’m just a sweetheart I can be awful at times,” she said.
Photos obtained by Daily Mail prove Olivia did in fact cut the dress up into five pieces, with a friend close revealing more details into how the reality star and the anonymous pal’s 20-year friendship went south.
“They’ve been friends since kindergarten and were really close right up until the friend was getting married,” the source told the publication.
“Olivia was going through a bad breakup at the time, and this friend had no time for anyone or anything but her wedding.
Olivia hit back at claims she was “bullying” Domenica, and said she was “just calling out BS.”
(Image: Instagram)“You would try and talk to her about something, and she would be like, ”so you haven’t sent an RSVP yet for the wedding,” it was full on.”
The insider went on to claim that Olivia’s group of friends thought her dress-cutting was “savage but just so brilliant”.”
Now To Love has reached out to Olivia for comment on the matter.
The explosive fight may have happened during filming back in October, but five months on there is definitely no love lost between Olivia and Domenica.
Chatting to the Mike E & Emma radio show after the episode aired, Olivia hit back at claims she was “bullying” Domenica, and said she was “just calling out BS.”
Olivia and Domenica have continued their feud in recent radio interviews.
(Image: Nine)“To be honest she should have been removed from the show, like last night’s glass smash was dangerous it was absolutely disgusting behaviour,” she continued.
Olivia went on to say she doesn’t currently have access to her Instagram account due to Channel Nine’s social media policy, but if she did, she would block Dominca straight away.
“I would completely block her. I think if there was any direct contact between us I would be absolutely appalling. It would be nothing but inappropriate,” she said.
Meanwhile in Domenica’s media interviews, the makeup artist admitted she “110 per cent” regrets smashing the wine glass on the table.
“That’s never my intention. I never wanted to do that. It was it was really like I had reached my boiling point. And I think everyone does have their, you know, their breaking point, and that was mine,” she told NOVA’s Fitzy and Wippa.
Olivia recently opened up about her father passing away from cancer in 2020.
(Image: Instagram)Domenica said the heated couples’ retreat argument was the “catalyst” for what will play out on the rest of the season.
“In terms of between Olivia and I, the group dynamic is really going to change from here on out. I think people will not only take sides,” she said.
“I just really think that a lot of people in the experiment didn’t have backbones. I personally think the fact that no one else spoke up to Carolina [at the commitment ceremony], that what she was saying was disgusting, that really blows my mind.”
Olivia first showed viewers her self-confessed “bitchy side” when she and Jackson called out former costar Holly Greenstein over her and Andrew Davis’ marriage woes.
“I don’t think Holly’s behaviour has been 100 per cent adult,” Olivia said at the second dinner party, where Holly and Andrew arrived separately following days of tension.
Olivia shocked fans by revealing she cut up her bridesmaid dress prior to a friend’s wedding.
(Image: Nine)Olivia was living in the UK when her dad first got sick, but she revealed to Nine that it was a “no-brainer” to immediately come home and become his fulltime carer.
“I don’t think there was ever really a discussion, it was just as a family unit it was what needed to be done,” she revealed.
Despite most of her 20s being spent caring for her terminally ill father, who had bowel and prostate cancer, Olivia said she has no regrets.
“It was precious, precious time and I’m so glad I spent like every second that I could with Dad,” she said.
Jackson and Olivia’s seemingly-perfect relationship showed signs of strain following her fight with Domenica.
(Image: Nine)At the following commitment ceremony, Olivia then called out Holly for “rolling her eyes”, a move which quickly prompted viewers to denounce her and Jackson as fan favourites.
Undoubtedly what has been the biggest drama of the season came just a week after Olivia opened up about the tragic passing of her father, whom she lost to cancer in June 2020.
Olivia said she took a huge leap of faith applying for MAFS, but it seems her romance with Jackson goes the distance, making it worthwhile move.
“After Dad passed away I was by myself, my brother moved out, my mum moved out, so it was just me at home with the dogs. So I was like, why not?” she said.
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