Joshua Fox

It's what every radio show does when they book the cast on.

Like, we all want to keep the conversations going.

But the issue for Nine was...

They were the ones kind of causing the backlash for these people in the first place with how, like, the show had been put together, how things had been edited, perhaps out of context.

And, like, Nine always knew what was coming and who was going to be hated when.

Like, they basically have, like, a calendar and a storyboard of, okay, this week this person's going to be despised.

This week this person should probably leave the country.

So to then, like, be putting these people back in the firing line live...

in the minutes after like something huge has happened on screens and like those cast members are like reliving whatever while their phones are blowing up with hate comments and death threats and reactions like...

That is a lot to put these people through.

Because you've got to remember, I know they're Maths cast members, but they film this show.

They then go home and wait six months for it to air.

Often in that six months, they think, oh, it wasn't that bad.

I'm not going to be that hated.

Like, surely it won't be edited too bad against me.

Obviously, they're all very naive because it then is.

So then to relive that in the moment is one thing, but then to be put on the spotlight live seconds afterwards by the network who have caused that, like...

I get it.

It feels a bit like, are you pushing these people too far?

And the final straw for Talking Married was in 2019 in their last episode of the season, which ran alongside the cast reunion of that year's season.