While she and Short had never confirmed their engagement, his manager Brian Medavoy broke the news on Instagram in May 2025, when he wrote: “An awesome day yesterday celebrating the next chapter for my longtime client, Jake Short and his fiancee Mika Abdalla.
“From set to real life – watching your journey has been a joy. Here’s to forever.”
Jake Short’s manager first revealed their engagement in May 2025. Photo / Getty Images
Abdalla and Short met on the set of teen comedy Sex Appeal in 2021, and started dating after portraying couple Avery and Larson on screen.
Speaking on the American High podcast in 2024 about how the romance started, Abdalla said: “I came over just to say hi, and we ended up talking, not about the script, just talking and getting to know each other for hours.
“I was like, wait, this guy is actually really cool and sweet and great.”
Abdalla has become something of a household name thanks to the huge, worldwide success of Off Campus.
While the first season focuses on the romance between Ella Bright’s Hannah and Belmont Cameli’s Garrett, the second will be about Abdalla’s character Allie’s relationship with Dean Di Laurentis, played by Stephen Kalyn.
Speaking about the upcoming episodes to Us Weekly, pAbdalla previously said: “Even though we do tease Dean and Allie a lot earlier than people expect, you are still left wanting a lot more.
“And that’s something I’m really excited about. You just want to see more.”
Off Campus is based on the books by Elle Kennedy, and Abdalla said she was excited to get stuck into the character even further in the second season.
“I’m just really looking forward to digging deeper into who Allie and Dean are. They both kind of have these fronts, these personas that are hard to kind of crack through. They are kind of stereotypes of themselves, if that makes sense.
“But in the books, there’s so much beneath the surface of Dean and there’s so much beneath the surface of Allie.”