MONEY OR THE FAME? Josh Fox from MAFSFunny has set his investigative sights on John ‘Money Bags’ Aiken
BY: Kartya Vucetic
We always expect a little bit of drama and chaos from each season of Married At First Sight. But it’s safe to assume that this Season 12 has been an outright clusterfuck from the get go. Now, with police investigations happening into Paul Antoine, and SafeWork NSW investigations into Channel 9 and Endemol Shine Australia, some people are finally calling it. Enough is enough.
Perhaps the loudest voice in the sea of those calling for change is Josh Fox…
He’s the man behind the popular MAFSFunny Instagram account, and now charting podcast. Fox has been calling out bullshit left, right and centre since the start of filming. As of two weeks ago, he also launched a personal investigation into the show, which has become Australia’s most popular reality TV series.
The MAFSFunny podcast is definitely worth a tune into. And you can start all the way back here with his discussion on the show’s Executive Producers. But last night, Fox published a new episode whereby he set his targets even higher than before: on John Aiken himself.
“The Married At First Sight experts are the real villains of this show. Everything that they do is just designed to destroy the couples, they need to be held accountable,” Fox tells his followers in a social clip preceding the podcast episode.
You can catch the 90-second highlights reel on Fox’ social post, but his podcast episode is where he strikes gold. And by gold, we mean a full and unedited recording of him confronting John Aiken in a cafe and carpark in Double Bay on Friday.
“Do you ever feel ethically and morally compromised with what you do on the show?” Fox asks him, referencing a comment made by former MAFS expert Trisha Stratford back in 2021, after she stepped down from the role.
Trisha Statford during her stint on MAFS | Image: Channel 9
Aiken immediately denies to answer any questions, and things get pretty nasty, pretty quickly…
John Aiken starts to repeatedly ask back to Fox: “What else have you got for me, Josh?” All to which Fox throws out a few firing rounds of legitimate questions that frankly, most of Australia are already thinking.
Admittedly, the resounding sentiment from the episode feels icky. John Aiken, who has become a staple on millions of our television screens each night, is sat in a Double Bay celebrity hotspot cafe taking shelter, filming Fox. All the while, the journalist yells out to him the biggest question of all: “Is it the money or the fame?”
John Aiken has become a staple on our TVs | Image: Channel 9
Since the confrontation, Fox has reportedly been issued a “cease and desist” legal letter from Channel 9 for his accused “harassment of John Aiken”. Nevertheless, we’ve been promised a continued investigation by the creator, and will have to wait until this Sunday for the next episode. Until then, it’s best you catch up to speed with the entire episode, which you can listen to below.
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