Is it getting hot in here or is Love Triangle serving up full-blown inferno energy in Episode 3?

Honestly, someone pass the fire extinguisher — because things between ex-MAFS groom Mike Gunner and his new love match Melinda just exploded harder than Mike’s spray tan circa 2019.

In case you missed it: Mike Gunner — yes, that Mike — has traded his electrician’s belt for another shot at reality TV redemption.

The 50-year-old former Married At First Sight groom has joined the third season of Stan‘s steamy dating experiment Love Triangle, but let’s just say his comeback isn’t quite the redemption arc he was banking on.

From the moment he walked in, Mike looked like a man hoping nobody clocked his reality resume. Spoiler alert: we all did. And so did his match, 41-year-old Melinda — a queen who clearly doesn’t suffer from fools or faux celebrity status.

The drama kicked off the morning of the very first Couple’s Party, but by then the real party — the drama one — had already popped off the night before.

Honestly, someone pass the fire extinguisher — because things between ex-MAFS groom Mike Gunner and his new love match Melinda just exploded harder than Mike’s spray tan circa 2019

 From the moment he walked in, Mike looked like a man praying nobody clocked his reality resume. Spoiler alert: we all did. And so did his match, 41-year-old Melinda — a queen who clearly doesn’t suffer from fools or faux celebrity status

‘What happened last night? Well… it was a sh*t show,’ Melinda deadpans to producers, sipping tea so scalding it probably melted her lip gloss.

Here’s what went down: Mike walked in on a producer sitting on Melinda’s bed. Late at night. Door closed. Now, was it innocent? Absolutely. Was Mike spiralling into a jealous fit faster than you can say ‘roll the tapes’? Also yes.

‘There was a guy in your bedroom who should not have been there,’ Mike huffs, still clutching his pride like it’s 2019 again and he’s giving relationship advice no one asked for.

Melinda, staying calm but clearly over it, tries to explain the crew member was just doing a welfare check. But Mike isn’t buying it — and Melinda? She’s done. Like send the Uber done.

‘I’d rather sh*t in my hands and clap than get to know him better,’ she tells producers. Honestly? Shakespeare could never.

In the morning, Melinda makes the noble attempt to clear the air — but the moment Mike starts getting defensive and saying he’s always honest on camera because the ‘audience trusts him,’ she drops the reality TV nuke.

‘So, I really hate to say this,’ she begins, pausing with the precision of a woman who knows she’s about to end a man’s whole career, ‘but you’re nowhere near as relevant as you think you are. You are a 50-year-old washed up reality TV star.’

BOOM.

 Here’s what went down: Mike walked in on a producer sitting on Melinda’s bed. Late at night. Door closed. Now, was it innocent? Absolutely. Was Mike spiralling into a jealous fit faster than you can say ‘roll the tapes’? Also yes

Somewhere, his MAFS bride ex Heidi Latcham just cackled from her marble bathtub.

Mike, ever the optimist, suggests they try and keep things civil for the party. Sweetie, this isn’t a Bunnings sausage sizzle — civility left the chat the minute Melinda said ‘washed up.’

So as the Couple’s Party looms, the real question isn’t ‘will they make it work?’ It’s ‘how long before Melinda drops her next one-liner and turns this series into her personal roast comedy hour?’

Mike might’ve hoped for a comeback but what he got was a televised takedown. And we’re not mad about it.