Married at First Sight Australia bride Jamie Marinos has set the record straight, after sparking romance rumours with a sports star.
The 2025 MAFS bride made a red carpet appearance at the Dally M Awards with former basketball player turned AFL star Richmond player, Mate Colina, on October 1.
The annual event, held by the National Rugby League, celebrates the most outstanding players from the premiership season.
Her red carpet appearance with the sportsman quickly sparked a string of dating rumours, which Jamie only fuelled with a string of cheeky posts.
However, Jamie has set the record straight in a new chat with Mamamia, insisting they are just friends, but they had “a lot of fun”.
“I’m grateful to have experienced something a little bit different,” Jamie said.
“Mate and I, we are friends — there’s no romantic relationship there,” she continued. “We had mutual friends, and he asked me to attend with him, and so I thought, why not? That’s a fun Tuesday night.”
After also sparking romance rumours with her MAFS co-star Eliot Donovan, Jamie then confirmed her relationship status.
“I am currently chronically single,” she explained.
“At the moment, I’m actually enjoying this peaceful era. I obviously went on Married at First Sight to find a husband, and I do still want to settle down and have children, absolutely.
“But I think things are falling into place one step at a time, and I’m kind of happy at the pace it’s going. It’s allowing me to continue to work on myself in the meantime.”
Even though they’re just friends, Jamie certainly teased her followers about her relationship status!
The rumours started when Jamie shared photographs from the night with Mate on her Instagram Stories, where she tagged the player, who has a private account.
She also cheekily shared a screenshot of texts exchanged with her dad, which featured a “prank” engagement photo with the player.
“Safe to say dad was not happy about this prank,” she joked.
In the text thread, she shared an AI-generated photo of her flaunting a ring on her finger, while Mate embraced her.
When her dad asked who he was, she joked that he was her fiancé.
Her father asked when this happened, and she said that day, he wanted her to call him right away.
“I’m just at my engagement party,” she texted back. “Call you after x.”
Before she confirmed that she’s single, the speculation put the dating rumours with her MAFS co-star, Eliot, to rest.
Previously, the pair shared cheeky and cosy photos with one another, hinting at their relationship, while insisting they were just friends.
“Eliot and I are friends,” she told Mamamia. “We did explore something more, however, I think we both were quite self-aware when we realised what wasn’t working, and what was working was a friendship — what wasn’t working was anything more.”
Since MAFS finished airing earlier this year, Jamie has been focused on healing.
She also told Mamamia that she no longer speaks to her former TV husband, Dave Hand. While they started off strong, their relationship crumbled.
She’s been focusing on establishing a career with her post-MAFS platform.
She is the host of Lynx’s live dating show Scented Love, where singles go on blind dates in front of an audience.
She also made her Hollywood red-carpet debut in London in July, for the premiere of The Naked Gun.
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