Bachelor In Paradise star Keira Maguire reveals new romance with Love Island star
Bachelor in Paradise contestant Keira Maguire says she has found love with a star from a rival reality television show, with the pair finding common ground on how “polarising” they both are.
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It is a love match made in reality TV heaven – Keira Maguire and Matt Zukowski.
The Bachelor In Paradise star has confirmed her budding romance with Love Island’s Zukowski with the pair going public by posting loved-up images to social media.
“We are both very polarising people,” Maguire said, laughing as she joked: “Obviously I have found someone who is as into themself as much as I am. It is actually good because it is a common ground.”
The pair met at The Osborne Rooftop & Bar in South Yarra, Melbourne, earlier this year and have been “official” since May.
Neither knew who the other was when they caught each other’s attention at the bar.
There is a nine year age gap between the pair with Maguire, 34, and Zukowski 25, which was an early reservation for her.
“He wanted to talk to me over Instagram and I don’t like small chat,” she recalled. “So I was like, ‘here is my number, if you want to catch up, let me know’. Then he texted me to go to coffee.”
“I think we both knew when we met each other that we were like pretty much together. We both went into the relationship not wanting to be in a relationship and next thing we are hanging out every single day.”
Of Maguire, Zukowski said: ‘I love her smile and how she makes me laugh. She is the only woman that actually makes me laugh. And I love her body.”
The couple live separately but have been staying together with stage four lockdown restrictions in place in Melbourne due to coronavirus.
They have also met each other’s families and holidayed together with Maguire’s siblings in the snow recently.
“Waking up next to him every day is my favourite thing,” she said. “I hate when he has to leave and go to work.”
Announcing the relationship on Instagram, Maguire wrote: “Went on the wrong show … but doesn’t matter, I found you.”
There has been speculation about the coupling for several months after paparazzi images of them grabbing a coffee were published.
Maguire posted the image as her departure episode of Bachelor In Paradise aired. The show was filmed at the end of last year with the new couple keeping their relationship under wraps over recent months.
Zukowski also shared an image to Instagram of the couple at what looks like a date at a pub with a love heart emoji.
Hundreds of friends congratulated the pair, including MasterChef’s Khan Hong, fashion designer Jason Grech and former Bachelor In Paradise’s Kiki Morris, who wrote: “Freeedom.”
Both Zukowski and Maguire found love on their reality shows but subsequently broke up. She was with Bachelorette’s Jarrod Woodgate while Zukowski dated Cartier Surjan on Love Island.
