Olivia Frazer and Jackson Lonie were smitten when they first met on Married At First Sight Australia, but are they still together now? The answer may have been yes for a while, but like many other MAFS couples, they’ve gone their separate ways.
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The pair were seen showing up to the MAFS Reunion hand-in-hand and while Jackson hadn’t said “I love you” yet, he did reveal he had moved in with Olivia on the Central Coast at the time of filming in January.
They were later snapped in some very #natural photos, kissing on the beach, in March.
What’s more, since the show wrapped they were seen shopping for engagement rings in April.
The controversial bride was snapped grinning at her on-screen husband with a massive diamond ring on her finger, supposedly worth more than $100,000, in photos shared by the Daily Mail.
But it looks like any talk of an engagement has been shelved for this divisive duo, after footage emerged in May of Jackson locking lips with another woman at a club, igniting a huge cheating scandal.
So where do Jackson and Olivia stand now? Let’s take a look back at their journey on MAFS and how they’ve made things work… for now.
Ahead of their wedding ceremony, the experts said Jackson and Olivia share similar values and have the potential for “an incredible love story” on MAFS.
“When you look at these two, I think this experiment is really designed for them,” John Aiken told his fellow experts, Mel Schilling and Alessandra Rampolla.
“They come into it with some baggage but they are 100% committed. They want the fairytale, they want to fall in love, and I think there’s a really great fit between them.”
While their wedding day was sure to include a few nervous jitters – and plenty of questions from the mother of the bride – Olivia and Jackson definitely appeared to have that fairytale connection. Of course, the couple have faced their own hurdles in the experiment.
Olivia’s dramatic face-off with fellow bride Domenica Calarco has led to problems in her marriage, with Jackson accusing her of being “mean” after the glass altercation.
Along with adding fuel to the fire in her false re-telling of how Domenica smashed glass, Olivia continued on to make snide remarks the following day while Dom tried to apologise to the group.
“It’s hard because the apology has been done, and the thing that hurt me a lot was sitting here listening to the snide comments. You did do it a few times,” Jackson told Olivia. “I don’t like snide comments… you’re not being picked apart. It just took me aback.”
Olivia then became involved in a nude photo scandal that saw naked images of Domenica circulated without her consent.
In interviews about the scandal, Olivia and Jackson have appeared to be a united front as they say there was “editing” involved and that they stand by their actions. But, in his Final Vows, the groom did admit Olivia’s mean side was playing on his mind.
“There have been some moments that really made me think about us moving forward,” Jackson told Olivia in their Final Vows ceremony.
“The way you have responded at times to challenges in the experiment, and some of the snide comments that you have made along the way don’t sit well with me.
“I need to be brutally honest with you. Seeing you under the pressure in this experiment has not always brought out the best in you. And it leaves me worried that your tendency to hold grudges might end up with you holding a grudge against one of my friends. I don’t ever want to be in the situation where I have to choose between you and a friend.”
Despite his qualms, Jackson obviously told Olivia he wanted to stay with her beyond the experiment.
“I want to make you feel special every day, just like you deserve,” he said. “Although I am not at the ‘I love you’ stage yet, I want you to know I am definitely on my way there.
“And when I do finally say it, you will know that it is sincere, and in that moment I will love you with my whole heart. I am excited to see what the rest of our lives have in store for us.”
Meanwhile, Olivia did drop the L word during her vows.
“Jackson you have built me up. And made me feel worthy and adored every day I’ve known you,” she said. “I feel as though I have been accused by others, of being a vindictive grudge-holder, with an agenda for revenge, and you could potentially be put off me because of it.
“I’ve been attacked and pushed to breaking point, but never once by you,” she said, before saying she loved him.
In an interview with WHO, Olivia reveals she was shocked by how quickly she formed a connection with Jackson.
“I was so… I was just so surprised,” the 27-year-old bride says. “It was never about looks or anything like that for me, it was always going to be about personality, but actually seeing him it was like ‘oh my goodness everything is clicking.’ I wasn’t prepared for it to be so good and so easy straight off the bat.
“It was just really – Jackson said it best – but it was so good, so early on,” she continues. “We literally woke up the morning after the wedding, driving in the car on the way to our honeymoon, and it was like being in the car with my boyfriend. We didn’t have to force it, it just felt so natural. It just felt like the first day of the rest of our lives.”
Olivia also revealed that being with Jackson has been so different to her past relationships, especially after he made the comment about bringing his “toolkit” to help fix what she called her “broken” self-esteem.
“The difference between the hens night and being paired with Jackson, there was such a 180 with my body issues,” Olivia reveals. “It went from being the only thing I could think about, to something I didn’t think about for the rest of the time on the experiment. I was like, Jackson thinks I’m hot that’s all that matters.
“Going from how it was before with guys, who would want to hang out with me at home and not in public, it always felt like who I was dating would be embarrassed to be seen with me… and now I get to be with Jackson, who is outrageously proud to be my husband on national television, it’s just the most loved I’ve ever felt by a man in my entire life.”
Though, we’re not sure if Olivia feels the same after Jackson was caught kissing another woman in May.
WATCH: MAFS’ Jackson Lonie caught kissing another woman
Jackson was on a night out in Melbourne when he was filmed with his arms around a brunette woman, kissing her passionately. The clip was then shared online and blew up.
The woman involved confirmed the kiss was mutual, telling the Daily Mail: “The kiss was innocent, a two way street. It wasn’t anything more than that. Jackson seems like a nice guy and I have nothing bad to say on his behalf.”
But Olivia wasn’t impressed, telling the outlet “We’re still together… I have told him to have a big think about what he wants.”
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Despite public outrage aimed at Jackson over the kiss, fellow MAFS bride Domencia insists the whole scandal was a carefully orchestrated publicity stunt.
Taking to Facebook, she wrote “Max Markson publicity stunt right here”, referring to Jackson and Olivia’s talent agent.
While the couple did stay together a bit longer, they confirmed their official split in August 2022.
They announced the news jointly, claiming the break-up was amicable.
“I understand people like to think that I got ‘dumped’ but it wasn’t like that at all,” Olivia wrote a month after announcing the split.
She continued: “We’re adults. We had an adult conversation about how the relationship wasn’t working for either of us and we both came to the resolution that splitting up was the only thing left to do.
“There’s no ‘juicy’ story. There’s no truth to the ‘haha he dumped you’ comments people say. It was a peaceful, joint decision.”
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