The guy everyone loves to hate shows his softer side to Woman’s Day.
He bullied, berated and badgered her on The Amazing Race Australia – but now Chris Pselletes has only one thing to say to his hapless girlfriend and co-contestant Anastasia Drimousis: “Sorry!”. The engineer, who stunned audiences with his brazen display of chauvinism, admits watching himself on TV has been disturbing. “Why do you argue with me all the time?” he yells. “Are you kidding? Wake up to yourself! Is this normal? You’re not thinking straight. You need discipline… you’ve never had any!”
But while engineer Chris’s sexist and aggressive behaviour toward Anastasia, a nutrition student at Sydney University, has seen him become reality TV’s latest villain, he says he’s now changed his ways. “I’m disgusted with my behaviour. I’m ashamed of myself,” says Chris, 23. “I saw some footage of me on the show and I scared myself.” Seeing his “verbally abusive” attacks has been a sobering experience for Chris, who says the hardest part of facing up to his failures has been dealing with the effect it is having on the woman he loves.
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“I’m the psycho, I’m the big mouth. She’s done nothing wrong,” says Chris. “Anastasia, regardless of what people may think right now, means the world to me. I have verbally abused her and I am very apologetic. I am trying to change.” The series has seen Chris and Anastasia, who live separately in Sydney, become infamous for their explosive arguments. “I don’t appreciate being called an idiot,” Anastasia protested in one fight. “Don’t act like one and you won’t be called one,” Chris snapped back.
Later when Anastasia complained, “You don’t need to call me an idiot,” Chris’s replied, “You weren’t shutting up.” Chris’s harsh words have earned an equally harsh response from viewers. Since the show began airing, many have called for 21-year-old Anastasia to leave her boyfriend of three years – despite the pair’s plans to marry.
Why are contraversial couple Richard and Joey so surprised about the criticism they copped on the show? The pair reveals all in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale June 13, 2011.
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