Married At First Sight husband Andrew Jones has deleted his Instagram account amid online backlash for his treatment of reality TV wife Cheryl Maitland.
The 38-year-old posted a cryptic message to Instagram on Monday night ahead of the social media shutdown, telling fans “all will be revealed in time”.
Andrew seemingly confirmed he was in hiding to NW magazine, telling them he had been dodging fans to avoid being recognised.
“I haven’t left the house,” he said.
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The account was deleted after Tuesday night’s controversial episode aired, but was restored on Wednesday morning, this time set to private.
On Monday he posted an image of Gilligan’s Island characters The Captain and Gilligan with the words “We got to get off the island.”
He captioned the image: “All will be revealed in time… Not a good place to be.”
The message appeared to be in response to the onslaught of social media criticism Andrew received after he insulted Cheryl's intelligence and pretended to grope her breasts while on a "boy's night" with fellow grooms that aired on Sunday.
The fury was compounded when he again denied any wrongdoing to the 25-year-old in Tuesday night's episode and instead told her "You're full of sh*t".
Outraged viewers called out the behaviour on Twitter:
NW also reported that Andrew’s fellow castmates are "worried about his safety".
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I'm just most disappointed about the fact that the "experts" let Andrew lie to Cheryls face and say 'you're full of shit' missing an AWESOME opportunity to say to Andrew 'full of shit? Let's just roll the tape!"
Now that would have been good telly.
First it was Donald Trump with his "Locker Room Banter" and now it's Andrew and cohort with" Boy's Night Banter". Why is this excuse offered up, and apparently accepted, as an appropriate forum to belittle, degrade and objectify women?? Anyone with any clues I'd love to hear it.
I recognise this excuse as YEARS even decades probably even centuries old. I first heard it at age 7 or 8, when my male cousin pushed me over and kicked mud at me, I told his mum (my Auntie) and got the whole "boys will be boys XD" bullshit and he got told 'don't hit girls'
How can a woman say that? Do you not want dicipline your kid or something? People make excuses for boys when they're young, if someone told me 'girls will be girls' and excused my shitty behaviour I'd use that as my weapon so to speak or my inner justification to do things.
Hopefully the next generation will be different if we teach our kids differently.
So basically I think they're told this from a young age that boys can do disgusting, mean and nasty shit to girls, just cos of the "Boiz, Amiright" attitude.