Carolina Santos is on a warpath of leaked messages after she was asked to be involved in Domenica Calarco‘s new show with Nine. The screenshots dropped just hours after she also leaked phone calls with MAFS producers about her on-screen husband Dion Giannnarelli. Messy.
Carolina shared a screenshot of an email appearing to be from Nine on her Instagram Story on Monday.
The network is running an “exclusive” MAFS followup series hosted by Dom, where she FaceTimes fellow contestants from her season and asks them “how their life has changed” since being on the show.
Carolina, along with other a bunch of others from her season, was asked if she was interested in a “lighthearted” and “casual” conversation of around two to five minutes. She’s, uh, made it very clear that she’s not.
“Mmm nah thanks,” she wrote on her Story.
“I’m not desperate for an extra 5min (sic).”
She then went on to shade Dom and wrote: “When [is it] ever lighthearted with this person?”
“Conclusion: had to block this chick after she kept talking to herself [in] my DMs,” she continued.
“And MAFS think I would want to have a FaceTime catch up with her?”
Carolina then reshared DMs Dom had sent her on her Story to prove her point. Yikes.
Considering Carolina really copped it on the recent MAFS season after she hooked up with Daniel Holmes behind Dion’s back, I imagine she probably has a lot to say about what her life has been like since. Except, spicy leaked phone calls (with what appears to be producers) she leaked appeared to prove she wanted to be upfront with Dion that whole time.
Carolina shared a series of audio recordings to her Instagram Stories on Monday which she claimed are conversations she had with unnamed producers from the production company behind MAFS, Endemol Shine.
She also gave an explanation as to why she came forward with this information more than four months after the show ended.
She said that even though MAFS finished airing and is “fading” in Australia, it consistently airs in new countries like the US and the UK.
“We get new hate all over again,” Carolina explained. She said it had been “affecting” her for “a really long time”.
“I feel like I’ve been taking the blame for something I did not do. I wanted to tell him. I wanted to be honest. I just wasn’t allowed to,” she said.
With the initial audio recording she shared, Carolina wrote:
“I’ve been quiet for a long time but for my health and well being I don’t want to keep this in any longer.
“I tried with multiple producers prior to this conversation with one of the head producers about wanting to be upfront and honest with Dion and asking to deal with the situation as I would on the outside.
“As you can hear if it was up to me things would not have been done the way it did. I’m glad I’m finally sharing my truth.”
In the recording, the person, who appears to be a producer, asked Carolina if she was basing her request — which seemed to be her desire to tell Dion — on what happened during Jessika Power‘s series.
On that MAFS season, Jessika cheated on her TV husband Mick Gould with another MAFS husband, Dan Webb. After revealing their affair, Jessika and Dan were allowed to stay on the show as a new couple.
“She had someone to even talk about it with,” Carolina responded to the producer. “I literally have to keep it to myself the whole entire time.”
“We’re not allowed to speak to people outside of the experiment. I’m not allowed to speak to people in the experiment,” Carolina continued.
“I literally have no one to even say, ‘Hey, this is what’s happening; what do you think? Like, what advice [do] you give me?’”
She told the person in the recording it was “really frustrating”.
“On top of that, there’s obviously Dion. That’s not how the way I would’ve handled things on the outside.”
She said that on the voxi interview after Daniel had invited her for a chat, producers asked her if she was going to tell Dion.
“I’m like, ‘Yeah,’ and they’re like, ‘No, you don’t want to tell Dion,’” Carolina claimed in her Instagram Story. “And I’m like, ‘Oh, OK, well I won’t tell him then.”
While it’s not clear when this conversation was recorded, Carolina said in the recording: “I want to tell him now. How long more am I going to drag this along for?”
Carolina then said it’s not reality TV if it’s not showing what she would really do in real life. She said that if producers were going to go against what she would do in reality, then to at least run it past her so she could prepare for the hate that came her way.
Carolina claimed measures were taken so she couldn’t tell Dion, aside from the phone conversations and producer interviews.
She said Dion had moved out of their apartment after sharing it with her for just four days. She didn’t know what apartment he moved to and claimed she wasn’t allowed to “go knock on everyone’s doors whenever we want to” as there was someone in the corridors making sure they wouldn’t interact with other cast without cameras and production approval.
That must’ve been what Dom got when she visited Olivia, I guess. But ah, that’s irrelevant.
“I wasn’t allowed to tell him, even if I wanted to,” Carolina said.
In another phone recording, Carolina told another person who appears to be a MAFS producer that she would like to not “blind Dion completely.”
“I would like to invite him over or go over to his place. Just say like, ‘Look, I’m really sorry but I knew from the get-go that you weren’t really for me and this kind of happened and I see a chance of finding love there and that’s why I came here, so I’m going for it’,” Carolina explained.
“I would like to tell him one-on-one and I would actually love if that happened today.”
In this recording, the person Carolina complained to said it was not up to him. Obviously irritated, Carolina responded that she’d been bringing it up for over a week.
In case you missed it, Dion was completely blindsided by the relevation at a commitment ceremony, where Daniel Holmes and Carolina Santos walked in hand-in-hand.
Fucking. Hell.
Carolina and Daniel continued dating after they left the experiment but last month announced they had split up.
While the first lot of audio recordings will expire from Carolina’s Instagram Stories soon, you can listen to the tea via So Dramatic! here.
We — like a lot of viewers around Australia — had some opinions of Carolina during MAFS. Some were related to the way she handled the love-triangle situation (if you can even call it that) and some were not related to that at all.
One of the biggest gripes during the whole debacle surrounded the fact that Carolina had been cheated on by an ex in her past, and that it appeared she was doing the same thing to Dion behind his back.
But this really sheds some light on it all, doesn’t it? With the new MAFS season on its way, I’ll definitely be questioning what goes down next time around.
