Love Island Australia 2025’s Lacey Butlin was eliminated early on in the season in a shock dumping shortly after Mateo Francisco entered the villa.

However, the unlikely duo have since struck up a connection, posting multiple videos together that strongly hint that they’re a couple.

On Sunday, January 4, Lacey shared a video of her and Mateo grinding on each other and captioned it “He’s the calm, I’m the chaos”.

She followed it up with another video a day later of the two dancing and captioned it “Me & U”.

Fans jumped into the comments, unsurprisingly speculating about a potential relationship between the two former Islanders, so we went straight to the source and asked Lacey herself.

“Mateo and I are just friends…. For now,” she told Chattr.

Fans weigh in on a relationship between Mateo and Lacey

Mateo and Lacey were only in the Love Island Australia villa for a short time, and she was involved with Kye while Mateo was exploring a relationship with Tamara.

Neither connection worked out, but it meant that despite briefly coupling up, they never really had the chance to see whether there was something between them during the show.

But, since their possible soft launch on TikTok, fans have flocked to Lacey’s comment section shipping her and Mateo as a couple.

Lacey and Mateo in a Love Island challenge. Image: Nine.
“I hope they’re together,” one person wrote, with another commenting: “I think you look so good together.”

“I think there’s some chemistry in the air,” a third user wrote, with another one speculating that the two reality stars are “hitting for sure”.

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