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Mika Abdalla is skating into a new chapter.
The Off Campus star and Jake Short—to whom she became engaged in 2025—have broken up, her rep confirmed.
“Due to recent interest in Mika’s personal life,” Abdalla’s rep told Us Weekly, “it would feel remiss to not address that her and Jake are no longer together.”
The statement continued, “They continue to support each other and remain on friendly terms, and kindly ask for privacy and respect.”
Abdalla, 26, and Short, 29, costarred in the 2022 movie Sex Appeal—in which they play friends turned lovers—before they began dating off screen.
Their romance would subtly appear in regular Instagram dumps on both their feeds, and in May 2025, Short’s manager Brian Medavoy shared an Instagram post in which he confirmed his client and Abdalla had gotten engaged.
“An awesome day yesterday celebrating the next chapter for my longtime client, Jake Short and his fiancé Mika Abdalla,” Medavoy captioned the carousel of images from the garden party. “From set to real life – watching your journey has been a joy. Here’s to forever."
Neither Short nor Abdalla have addressed their split publicly. The last time Short appeared on Abdalla’s Instagram grid was in November.
While Abdalla had appeared in many projects over the years—in addition to Sex Appeal, she also appeared in season one of The Pitt—it was her role as Allie Hayes in the Amazon Prime Video’s series Off Campus that skyrocketed her into a new stratosphere of fame.
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Based on Elle Kennedy’s novels, the first season of the series—which also stars Ella Bright, Belmont Cameli, Antonio Cipriano and Jalen Thomas Brooks—quickly became a phenomenon, with many fans gushing over Abdalla’s onscreen chemistry with costar Stephen Kalyn, who plays Dean DiLaurentis.
In fact, they were such a fan-favorite pairing that Amazon announced Abdalla and Kalyn—who is engaged to his longtime love Victoria Lovatsis IRL—would lead season two of the series.
"All eight scripts are written and we have a very exciting plan for the season," showrunner Louisa Levy confirmed to Variety in May. "I don't want to say anything yet—but I think book fans will be very excited."
As for where the rest of Abdalla’s costars stand in their love lives, read on for more.
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Ella Bright
The New York-born, London-bred actress, who plays studious songwriter Hannah in Off Campus, appears to be single right now. But as a star of one of the buzziest shows on TV, she's ready for whatever happens next.
"None of this was in my plan at all,” Bright told Vanity Fair of her series' viral success. “It flipped my life upside down in the best way I could have ever dreamed about. Things are coming true for me that…I never thought could happen.”
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Belmont Cameli
As BMOC hockey player Graham, Cameli has to prove to Hannah that he's all-star relationship material.
But in real life, the Illinois native has been teamed up with TV writer Raina Morris since at least March 2025, when Cameli subtly included her mid-photo carousel on Instagram.
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Mika Abdalla
Abdalla—who as Hannah's BFF Allie melted the heart of Stephen Kalyn's Dean—was previously engaged IRL to her Sex Appeal costar Jake Short, however their breakup was confirmed in April 2026.
“Due to recent interest in Mika’s personal life,” Abdalla’s rep told Us Weekly, “it would feel remiss to not address that her and Jake are no longer together. They continue to support each other and remain on friendly terms, and kindly ask for privacy and respect.”
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Stephen Kalyn
While Dean has had commitment issues, Kalyn's fiancée Victoria Lovatsis has been by his side since 2012.
In March 2024, Lovatsis flashed a diamond ring on her Instagram Stories—and it was on her finger at the Off Campus premiere in May, an event that Kalyn may have never even been at if not for her.
"My fiancée read the books a long time ago, and her favorite character was Dean,” the actor told Elite Daily. “So when they announced this show, she told me I had to audition. She said, ‘There’s no other option: You have to be Dean.’”
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Antonio Cipriano
Garrett's thoughtful best friend John Logan is not one of the many campus lotharios. Nor is the Broadway alum who plays him, Cipriano having been in a relationship with actress Justine Verheul since 2023.
She marked "one year loving my favorite person in the world" in August 2024, and for the Cipriano's 25th birthday in May 2025, she wrote, "Happiest of birthdays to my life partner, travel buddy, and best friend. Celebrating you is so easy. so amazed by you everyday."
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Jalen Thomas Brooks
This John Tucker is sweet and sensitive, and—not unlike Brooks' unaffectedly cool nurse Mateo on The Pitt—is ready for a romantic plotline down the road, when the Off Campus series gets to the Briar forward's love life.
And the same goes for Brooks, who appears to be romantically unattached IRL for now.
"I love a good slow burn," the L.A. native told The Hollywood Reporter "and the things that are set up for Tucker, of him becoming this gentle giant, I think fans are going to love."
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Josh Heuston
The Australian actor won't be in season two of Off Campus, as Hannah realized that her crush Justin was not the guy for her.
But maybe Justin is just taking a gap year, since, as series creator Louisa Levy told TV Guide, "We never got a chance to meet Stella, who is the person he ends up with in the book. So maybe we’ll find a way to fold him into a future season.”
Heuston doesn’t appear to be coupled up off-camera, either, though he's looking forward to that chapter.
“At some point, I definitely just want the kids and the white picket fence and that sort of lifestyle,” Heuston told Esquire Australia in 2025. “But that feels quite far off right now. Who knows, though? In this life, I’ve found that things can change quickly.”
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