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As we approach the tell-all finale of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?, couples Michael Ilesanmi & Angela Deen and Jasmine Pineda & Gino Palazzolo look to be at their breaking point. Both couples faced unique challenges once their immigrant half finally arrived in the United States and looked to attain permanent residency, leading to accusations of toxicity, infidelity, and even fraud.
As filming for season eight wrapped up some time ago, many viewers will be wondering if the two couples are even still married, as these revelations are often kept private until the season ends, to avoid spoilers. This week, the internet has been rife with speculation that Jasmine and Michael have moved on…..with each other?!
Here’s what we know about the rumor, and if there’s any truth to the speculation.
Jasmine and Michael’s chaotic Happily Ever After season
By the time filming for Happily Ever After season eight commenced at the end of 2023, both Jasmine and Michael seemed like their respective marriages to Gino and Angela were heading for Splitsville in time for the new year.
Much of Jasmine and Gino’s season eight arc revolved around Jasmine’s participation in a local beauty pageant – a project of particular interest for Jasmine, as she could not work or make any financial decisions upon her arrival in the U.S. due to visa restrictions. The pageant highlighted everything wrong with the foundation of the couple’s relationship, including Gino’s lack of support and wandering eye when it came to other women, only intensifying the frequent fights between the two.
By the end of season eight, Angela was finally able to take her husband of four years home to her family in the U.S., but the two were on pretty bad terms. After his arrival, Angela hired a private investigator to trace Michael’s suspicious activity in Nigeria, including his group chats for Nigerian men keen to come to America, as well as a mysterious over-50s life insurance policy Michael had been researching. On top of past infidelity on Michael’s part, the trust between the two seemed irreparably broken.
Why do people think Jasmine and Michael are dating?
In an interview with Access Hollywood, Jasmine discussed meeting Michael at the tell-all, as the cast were living under one roof, in an experimental twist ahead of the in-studio segment of the reunion episode. Jasmine described herself as “very happy” to finally meet Michael, who finally arrived in the United States in December of 2023, almost four years after marrying Angela in Nigeria.
The 37-year-old did admit, however, that she was scared to interact with Michael too much in the house, fearing the wrath of a “very jealous” Angela, who she said she was “scared” of. Michael himself is also thought to be single, after an alleged split between him and Angela after he briefly went missing shortly into his arrival in Angela’s home state of Georgia.
Various reality TV publications began reporting on a possible romantic connection between Jasmine and Michael as the tell-all episodes began airing, which would come as a big shock to fans, as it is certainly a rarity for 90 Day couples to begin dating a person other than the one from the relationship that they debuted on the show with.
Adding fuel to the fire, Jasmine posted a selfie of her with Michael on her shared account with Gino, captioned, “People care about you Michael ❤️”. The image appears to be taken at the tell-all, where the two met in person for the first time.
“I risked my life to take that picture btw 😇,” Jasmine wrote on her personal account, commenting on a post resharing the image. The comment appears to be a sly dig at Angela, who was shown forbidding Michael to interact with his fellow cast members during the taping of the tell-all.
As Jasmine and Michael’s respective relationships with Gino and Angela are so well-known to fans for their seemingly endless ups and downs, the two getting together – with their exes in tow – would unleash a whole new level of chaos.
This sort of chaos could very much bubbling, by the looks of things, as Angela posted some disgusting, derogatory remarks about Jasmine when a 90 Day Fiancé update account on Instagram reshared the image. “She a piece s**tttt [sic]” Angela commented, before posting laughing emojis in response to one user who made a transphobic remark, calling Jasmine a “biological male”.
Are the Michael and Jasmine dating rumors actually true? Michael and Jasmine have refuted it, but Angela thinks otherwise
Michael and Angela have long been thought to have separated – or at least are not on good terms – after Michael went missing from their shared home in February of 2024, and was later found by police, who said the Nigerian had run away in fear of his American spouse. Similarly, Jasmine and Gino reportedly broke up in December 2023.
Screen Rant reported that Jasmine was previously linked to an American man named Matt, who she allegedly met at her gym after breaking up with Gino, but Jasmine has never commented on the speculation. In August 2024, Angela filed an annulment of her marriage to Michael, meaning the couple are officially no longer together.
Michael attempted to set the record straight regarding the Jasmine rumors on Instagram Live, saying that they have “nothing together,” and that the selfie was taken many months ago at the tell-all. “That’s it,” the Nigerian concluded. Jasmine shared a video of Michael’s statement on her Instagram Stories. “Well said,” the Panama native wrote. “We’re just friends 🥰”
However, not everyone bought this response. Angela, who refuted her private investigator’s conclusions that Michael was not scamming her on the tell-all, similarly had trouble believing Michael and Jasmine weren’t an item.
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Angela reposted the image on her TikTok account, writing “BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER” in the in-video caption. “LMAO LMAO UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN, Angela continued in the post caption.”
“OH HI GINO YOU SURE LOOKING GOOD WITHOUT Mrs Kleenex box bahaha #QUEENOFME [sic],” she added, referring to Jasmine.
Angela chose an audio implying there was more for her to share about the pair in the future, picking a sound in which a voiceover says “One day, I will tell you my story, but trust me, you’ll ask me how I’ve been maintaining the smile on my face this entire time.”