I’ve seen plenty of Dinner Party blow-ups during my years reporting on MAFS.
And one thing I’ve realised is that there is a significant difference between losing your temper in the heat of the moment and plotting a character assassination before you even walk through the warehouse doors.
Over the past week, shocked viewers have been debating whether the ‘mean girl’ behaviour directed at Alissa Fay at Dinner Party #2 – now widely considered the worst in the show’s history – was alcohol-fuelled chaos or the result of crafty editing.

But now, newly leaked group chat messages – which Channel Nine and production company EndemolShine never wanted to see the light of day – strongly suggest something far more calculated was going on.
Screenshots from a private WhatsApp chat between several brides – including Bec Zacharia, Gia Fleur and Brook Crompton – show a damning conversation that took place days before Dinner Party #2 was filmed.
The exchange all but confirms that the explosive confrontation was planned ahead of time.

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In one message, Bec declares she is going to ‘go so f**king hard on Alissa and her fake relationship.’ Another bride responds: ‘Go babe we agree and got you.’

In another, Bec refers to Alissa as a ‘rat’ for telling MAFS producers that a reporter had contacted her, before making deeply offensive remarks about her character.
Elsewhere in the conversation, insults fly about Alissa being allegedly fake, unrelatable and opportunistic.
Later, one of the group members dismissively refers to a MAFS couple as ‘Christian influencer wannabes’ and another says it’s ‘obvious’ they are ‘dying to be’ famous – understood to be in reference to Alissa and husband David Momoh.
The timing of these messages is important.
While they predate Dinner Party #2 and suggest a campaign against Alissa, she would not learn of the texts until weeks later – a discovery that will feature on the show.
For Alissa, the reveal makes her reconsider the weeks of relentless insults and accusations of faking her relationship that she endured at successive Dinner Parties.
It also raises the unavoidable question: was that confrontation at Dinner Party