The MAFS Australia participants Eliot Donovan and Jamie Marinos seem to be spending every waking moment together. But what’s actually going on between them? They’ve made so many flirty TikToks that it’s hard to tell if they’re just messing about as friends, or if they’re really confessing their undying love for each other. Here’s everything Jamie and Eliot have said about their ever-changing relationship status after MAFS Australia, to help you make sense of it all.
Eliot keeps (jokingly) calling her his ‘wife’
In one TikTok, he joked that she was his “house wife”. In another, he alluded to them “hooking up”. Some of their videos are pretty, ahem, intimate. Eliot has posted pics of him in bed with Jamie, and a video of him speaking to her from the shower (and really not wearing very much).
He also pretended to propose to her… as one does. While revisiting the wedding location of her MAFS wedding to Dave at Australian Fashion Week, Jamie joked to the Daily Mail, “I was hoping Eliot might propose.”
Eliot said he should “pull a Jacqui and Clint”. He then mimed asking Jamie to marry him, and added, “this will get some clicks.”
Like Jamie, Eliot has avoided putting any labels on the relationship. In an Instagram Q&A, he dramatically announced, “So, Jamie and I are…” then pretended to cut the feed.
Jamie hinted she was dating other people as well
Jamie did initially deny dating Eliot, but hinted something might happen in the future. Back in April, she told Today: “Look, we actually are good friends and we were really good friends on the show and he’s so funny!”
She hinted she wouldn’t hate it if they did become romantically involved. “I mean, not the worst thing that can happen? He’s only human, guys. We would make the funniest TikToks, and we’d break the internet and I’m so for that!”
When the interview wished her luck with her dating life, Jamie replied, “Here’s to hoping, and who knows – it might just be another husband on the show!”
More recently, Jamie has hinted they are romantically involved. In an interview with 9Entertainment, Jamie avoided putting any kind of label on their relationship. She said: “I hang out heaps with Eliot. He’s become a very good, very close person to my life so I’m really appreciative of Eliot.
“I understand everyone wants an answer but we’re in the real world now, so it’s not like we’re going to be official or announce something tomorrow. I’m enjoying getting to know Eliot, I’m getting to know different people. I’m just being open.”
Carina said they were ‘in a love bubble’
Carina has hung out loads with Jamie since MAFS Australia wrapped, so I trust that she knows what’s going on. She definitely seemed to think they were in some sort of ill-defined relationship. Carina told 9Entertainment: “I think Jamie is in her love bubble at the moment with her and Eliot. I think it’s still early stages for them but they’re definitely in their little happy bubble and enjoying each other’s time together and really just getting to know one another.
“She’s just super happy and her old self again. There’s a spark in her and they get along really well. I’m happy for them, she’s deserving of it and he’s deserving of it. If that’s what makes them happy, then so it should be.”
