The cast of Off Campus spent a season building chemistry on screen, and now two of its leads appear to have carried it into their own lives. Mika Abdalla and Josh Heuston, who met while shooting the Prime Video hockey drama, are quietly an item, according to a source who spoke to Us Weekly. Neither actor has said anything publicly, but the timing and the sightings have done plenty of talking for them.
The two became close during the first season of the series, which premiered in May. Adapted from Elle Kennedy's popular book series, the show follows an elite college ice hockey team and its tangled web of romances. Abdalla, who is 26, plays Allie. Heuston, 29, played Justin, a character caught in a love triangle with Hannah and Garrett.
From the set to the streets of Paris
Fans started connecting the dots when the pair kept turning up side by side throughout the promotional run for the show. The speculation hardened in late June, when the two were photographed together in Paris. Images that spread online showed them shopping and sharing a few unmistakably close moments, the kind of subtle public affection that tends to confirm a rumor without anyone having to issue a statement.
For followers of the show, the development reads almost like a plot they already knew. On screen the cast trades in crushes and complications, and the idea that two of its actors found something real in the middle of all that has only fueled the interest.
A fresh start after a long engagement
Abdalla arrives at the new romance not long after closing a significant chapter. Earlier in June she announced that she was no longer engaged to actor Jake Short, whom she first met on the set of the 2021 film Sex Appeal. Her representative said the two had ended things and remain on friendly terms, the sort of clean break that leaves room for what comes next.
Less than a month later, she and Heuston stepped out in Paris, a quick turn that did not go unnoticed by fans tracking the change. Whether the relationship was a slow build during filming or a spark that caught afterward, the public version of it began almost as soon as her previous one wrapped.
What it means for the show
There is a bittersweet footnote for viewers hoping to watch the pair together again. Heuston is not set to return for the second season of Off Campus, which will instead center on Abdalla's Allie and a character named Dean. So while the cameras move on without him, the off screen story the two of them have started looks like the one fans will keep watching.
For now the couple is letting the photographs speak. No confirmation, no denial, just two actors who met on a hockey drama and appear to have written themselves a quieter scene away from the rink.
